{"id":150918,"date":"2025-10-22T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=150918"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:12:49","slug":"the-singing-voice-of-rumi-in-kpop-demon-hunters-ejae-opens-up-about-her-12-years-as-an-sm-entertainment-trainee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/the-singing-voice-of-rumi-in-kpop-demon-hunters-ejae-opens-up-about-her-12-years-as-an-sm-entertainment-trainee\/","title":{"rendered":"The singing voice of Rumi in KPop Demon Hunters, EJAE, opens up about her 12 years as an SM Entertainment trainee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before she became the singing voice of <strong>Rumi<\/strong> in Netflix\u2019s<strong> K-Pop Demon Hunters<\/strong> soundtrack, <strong>EJAE<\/strong> spent 12 years chasing her dream of becoming a K-pop idol. On the October 20th, 2025 episode of <strong>You Quiz on the Block<\/strong>, she opened up about her painful time as a trainee at SM Entertainment, revealing the tears, heartbreak, and eventual triumph in her career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uV3kvD3wcwM?si=um0WjMs9M2PQXP7I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/uV3kvD3wcwM?si=um0WjMs9M2PQXP7I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EJAE trained during the peak era of Super Junior, Girls\u2019 Generation, SHINee, and f(x), giving her youth to pursue her dream of debuting as a K-pop idol. When her contract ended, she said she cried the entire way home in a taxi, realizing that sometimes even the hardest work does not guarantee success. For a month, she barely left her bed, feeling lost and resentful toward the K-pop world she once loved.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cFor a month, I kept crying and just slept. I had deep emotional wounds related to idols and K-pop. I resented the industry a lot.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>But her story took a turn! Determined not to abandon music, EJAE began creating her own beats in caf\u00e9s until closing time. Her persistence paid off when she composed massive hits like<strong> Red Velvet\u2019s \u201cPsycho\u201d<\/strong> and<strong> aespa\u2019s \u201cDrama\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cArmageddon.\u201d<\/strong> Most notably, she became the singing voice behind KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 Rumi, smashing global charts around the world with \u201cGolden,\u201d one of the biggest hits of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before she became the singing voice of Rumi in Netflix\u2019s K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack, EJAE spent 12 years chasing her dream of becoming a K-pop idol. On the October 20th, 2025 episode of You Quiz on the Block, she opened up about her painful time as a trainee at SM Entertainment, revealing the tears, heartbreak, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":150921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-150918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}