MAMAMOO Hwasa Complete Profile, Facts, and TMI

Hwasa Profile

Birth Name: 안혜진 (Ahn Hyejin)
Stage Name: Hwasa
Nationality: South Korean
Date of Birth: 1995.07.23
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Chinese Zodiac: Pig
Height: 160.1 cm (5’2”)
Weight: 44 kg (97 lbs)
Blood Type: A
Personal Social Media: Instagram

Hwasa Facts & TMI

Hwasa’s hometown is Jeonju, Jeollanam-do.
She has been a schoolmate with Wheein since middle school.
Her family consists of mother, father (Ahn Chanyeob), and two older sisters.
Hwasa is Catholic.
Her baptismal name is Maria.
Hwasa is MAMAMOO’s vocalist, rapper, and maknae.
Her official color is yellow.
Even before her debut, she already received many collaboration offers from several singers because of her excellent skills (she was featured in Solbi, Phantom, and Standing Egg’s songs).
Hyuna, who is a fan of MAMAMOO, suggested a collaboration stage with Hwasa for her song “Ice Ice”.
On May 14, 2017, Hwasa appeared on ‘King of Mask Singer’ as a contestant and won the first round, singing Bigbang’s ‘Bang Bang Bang’ in the duet competition. She won by five votes against the runner-up of ‘Unpretty Rapstar 2’ Yezi.
She actively participates as lyricist and composer in every MAMAMOO’s albums, as well as her solo releases.
She has a mole on her left cheek.
Hwasa has an uncommonly glamorous figure for Asian, not only in Korea, but also many overseas fans are enthusiastic about Hwasa’s body.
Her glamorous figure earned her the nickname ‘Queen Hwasa’.
Hwasa is the only member of MAMAMOO who doesn’t have dimples.
She is famous for being kind and sincere toward fans.
Among her nicknames are Jinie, HyeGi (Hyejin + Agi, agi means ‘baby’ in English), Ahn Dajeong (dajeong means ‘sweet’ in English), AhnYoncé, Mukbang God, Cleopatra, Maria, etc.
Hwasa is famous for her ‘eating show’.
She is not picky about food.
Her stage on the year-end music festivals are always legendary and became the talk of the town, to name a few are ‘Twit’ stage and her collaboration stage with JYP singing ‘Don’t Leave Me’ on ‘2019 MAMA’.
Hwasa became a regular cast on many variety shows such as ‘Hyena on the Keyboard’, ‘I Live Alone’ and joining project group Refund Sister for the variety show ‘Hangout with Yoo’.
Hwasa has become the blue chip of the advertisement industry, she worked together with various brands such as LG Electronics, North Face, Coca-Cola, L’Oreal, Lotte Group, Adidas and Tommy Jeans.
She also appeared in more than 10 magazine pictorials throughout her career.
Hwasa released her first solo single ‘Twit’ on February 13, 2019. The song earned 1st on ‘MBC Music Core’.
In 2020 she released her first mini-album titled ‘Maria’, the single from the album ‘Maria’ won 5 times on ‘Inkigayo’, ‘Music Bank’ and ‘Music Core’.
Hwasa became one of the most successful female solo singers in Korea during 2019~2020 winning many year-end awards such as Best Solo Artist from ‘2020 Golden Disk Awards’, Digital Artist of The Year from ‘2020 Gaon Chart Music Awards’. Best Dance Performance Solo from ‘2020 Mnet Asia Music Awards’, Artist of The Year from ‘2020 The Fact Music Awards’, Digital Chart Bonsang Award from ‘2021 Golden Disk Awards’, etc.
Hwasa also won several awards for her participation in variety shows such as Variety Hot Issue Awards from ‘2018 KBS Entertainment’, Rookie Of The Year Variety Category from ‘2018 MBC Entertainment Awards’, and Top Excellence Award from ‘2020 MBC Entertainment Awards’, etc.
Hwasa is left-handed.
She revealed in an episode of ‘I Live Alone’ that she is a fan of Leslie Cheung.
She said that she almost got fired for making RBW CEO Kim Dohoon angry while she was a trainee.
She likes eating spicy foods.
Her favorite food is pizza.
She really liked her social studies teacher when she was in middle school, so she studied really hard and did well on the test. She also wrote a letter and gave the letter to him.
She said that she enjoyed wearing Korean traditional costumes when she was a kid.
She uses the emoticon ^ㅅ.^ to symbolize herself.
During her debut, a banner was hung to celebrate her debut in the hometown of Hwasa’s father.
She covered the OST “We All Lie” from the drama Sky Castle, making it to the top of Naver TV.
She is using a Samsung Galaxy S20 phone (as of 2020).
When asked, “What kind of life would you have lived if you hadn’t lived as MAMAMOO?” she answered, “I think I would be living freely.” My mother wanted me to be a monk when I was young.”
The first time she received a Christmas gift, she really believed it was from Santa Claus, so she hugged the gift to sleep without even unwrapping it.
She can swim, but she can only swim in backstroke.
Hwasa is a fan of BIGBANG, and her favorite member is Taeyang.
Her MBTI personality type is ENFP.
She hates mint chocolate.
She said that she almost got voice phishing.
Her ideal type is a simple man.
Around June 2016 Hwasa got her first tattoo, the word ‘resonance’, it’s a friendship tattoo she made with Wheein on her ankles; she got another tattoo ‘paradise is where you are’; a ‘Maria’ tattoo on the back of her neck; a ‘caddo’ tattoo; a smiley tattoo; and a tattoo of the word ‘statice’.
As she often appears on variety shows, she has a lot of celebrity friends, among them are LOVELYZ’ Kei, Hyuna, After School’s Nana, Kisum, Loco, Julien Kang, SNSD’s Tiffany, BOL4, Chungha, April’s Jinsol, Cyndi Lauper, Park Narae, Han Hyejin, Lee Hyori, Uhm Junghwa, Jessi, Lee Youngji, L’unarsolar’s Eseo, Momoland’s Hyebin, Sir Minseok, and TWICE members.
Her shoe size is 235 mm.
Hwasa belongs to Soonheung Ahn’s clan.