AB6IX Lee Daehwi Complete Profile, Facts, and TMI

Lee Daehwi Profile

Birth Name: 이대휘 (Lee Daehwi)
Stage Name: Lee Daehwi
Nationality: South Korean
Date of Birth: 2001.01.29
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Chinese Zodiac: Snake
Height: 173 cm (5’67”)
Weight: 53 kg (116.8 lbs)
Blood Type: A
Personal Social Media: N/A

Lee Daehwi Facts & TMI

Lee Daehwi was born in Seoul.
He is an only child.
His father passed away from illness several years ago.
He is a Christian.
Daehwi is the lead vocalist and main producer of AB6IX.
He competed in the survival program ‘Produce 101 Season 2’
Daehwi ranked 3rd in the final round and debuted in the project group Wanna One as the lead vocalist.
He was the first center in ‘Produce 101 Season 2’.
Before the official broadcast of ‘Produce 101 Season 2’ he gained attention as vocal trainer JeA (of Brown Eyed Girls) chose him as her one-pick.
He is known as one of the most talented idols in the industry with balanced skills in dancing, singing, and ability in composing/ writing/ arranging songs.
He was born in Seoul, moved to Japan for two years when he was 8, then lived in the US for 6 years before moving back to Korea when he was in 2nd year of middle school.
He has lived in Tokyo and Osaka.
His Japanese name is Daiki.
He attended Kenkoku Elementary School in Japan.
He lived in LA for 6 years and used the English name David.
Daehwi is bilingual, able to speak fluent Korean and English. Besides the two languages, he can also speak basic Spanish and Japanese.
He began his trainee life after joining JYP Entertainment through the agency’s US global audition.
He sang ‘You Raise Me Up’ by Josh Groban for his audition at JYP.
All AB6IX members were former trainees of JYP Entertainment, Daehwi and Woojin even performed together in the 2015 JYP Mini Showcase as pre-debut “Boys Team”.
Daehwi has many connections with many JYP artists or former trainees as he’s been in the agency for quite a long time. He is friends with VICTON’s Jung Subin; I.O.I’s Jeon Somi; GOT7’s Jackson; Day6’s YoungK; Stray Kids’ Bangchan, Seungmin, Hyunjin; and IZ*ONE Lee Chaeyeon.
He sang Somo’s ‘Ride’ for his audition at Brand New Music.
Pre-debut Woojin, Daehwi, and Donghyun appeared in fellow Brand New Music artist MCGree’s MV for ‘Dangerous’.
He signed an artist exclusive contract with Brand New Music on July 20, 2017.
In 2016, he experienced being the backup dancer for fellow Brand New Artists Kanto and SanE.
Daehwi chose Somo’s ‘I Do It All for You’ and Beenzino’s ‘Dali, Van, Picasso’ for his ‘Produce 101 Season 2’ audition songs.
He composed many songs for Wanna One, AB6IX and other artists such as ‘Sandglass’ (for Wanna One); ‘Good Day’, ‘Hoping That You’d Love Me’, ‘Dawn’ for MXM; ‘See You Again’, ‘Dream for You’, ‘One Day’ for Produce Series; ‘Candle’ for Lee Daehwi, Park Woojin; ‘Slow’ for Yoon Jisung; ‘Young 20’ for Park Jihoon; ‘It’s Ok Not To Be Ok’ for As One ft. Lee Daehwi; and almost all of AB6IX songs.
Daehwi made his acting debut through SBS drama ‘Mon Chou Chou Global House’.
He appeared in a lot of variety shows such as Mnet ‘Visiting Tutor’ (as tutuor, 2018); MBC ‘King of Mask Singer’ (as contestant, 2018); Mnet ‘Not the Same Person You Used to Know’ (as protagonist, 2019); tvn ‘Super Hearer’ (as hearer, 2019); KBS2 ‘Top 10 Student’ (as panel, 2020).
Daehwi and model Han Hyunmin co-hosted Mnet ‘MCountdown’ for 2 years from April 4th, 2019 to February 4th, 2021.
Aside from being the MC for ‘MCountdown’ Daehwi has hosted several shows since his debut such as ‘2020 Idol Star Athletics Championships’ and ‘Idol Radio’.
Daehwi wrote and composed Brand New Boys’ audition song ‘Hollywood’ that was performed as an audition song at ‘Produce 101 Season 2’.
Daehwi often lets fans hear the songs he composed, even for a short time.
He said that if he didn’t become an idol, he would be a composer.
He learned dancing when he was 15.
Daehwi has apparent uneven eyes, monolid on the left eye and double eyelid on the right eye.
He has moles under his lips and two moles on his earlobes.
He has a dimple on his right cheek.
Fans think that Daehwi resembles otters, puppies, penguins, and rabbits.
Daehwis widely known as an idol who is good at giving fanservice.
He has a lot of aegyo.
He has a bright and active personality, he also loves hanging out with people around the Gangnam area.
Daehwi’s MBTI personality type is ESFJ.
He is a very down-to-earth person, even when ‘Produce 101’ hit big, he was still going around without a mask in the street.
According to Wanna One members, Daehwi is rarely seen crying.
He is quite a quick-witted person.
He has a habit of quickly blinking his eyes when he is embarrassed or flustered.
He loves cooking and eating.
He dislikes eggplants and cabbages.
He is not a fan of the mint choco flavor.
Although generally, he is not really good at sports, Daehwi is good at basketball.
He loves watching horror.
He can’t play games.
Among his nicknames are Center Boy, Human Nayana, LovelyHwi, Otter, Fairy, Sal-Hwi (Sally + Daehwi), Vitamin, Little Second Maknae, Maknae, Ppiyo, Rihanna (for being lookalike with the singer), Excited Hwi, Hwiderella, Spoiler Fairy, Fanta Fairy, Merman, etc.
He changed his signature around 2 weeks after debuting.
He graduated from School of Performing Arts Seoul (SOPA).
Through an interview with GQ Korea, he shared that after watching Wonder Girls’ ‘Tell Me’ and BIGBANG’s ‘Last Farewell’ stages, they made him dreamed to be a singer.
He is a fan of Sunmi and TWICE.
He loves wearing fan gifts.
Daehwi is popular among children.
He loves listening to old songs.
He is close to JYP Entertainment artists, especially Stray Kids members.
Daehwi is close friends with ASTRO’s Yoon Sanha, Golden Child’s Bomin, and THE BOYZ’s Eric and Sunwoo.
Daehwi alongside ASTRO’s Yoon Sanha, Golden Child’s Bomin, and Stray Kids’ Hyunjin formed a special group called 00s who performed in KBS Music Bank Year End Concert 2019 Mid-Year Concert 2020.
He is the only AB6IX member to be an only child.
He is currently attending Global Cyber University.
His motto is “Let’s find out why we were born”.
His hobbies are internet shopping, watching movies, and hanging out.
His special skills are music composing, songwriting, beat making, and playing the piano.
His favorite foods are spicy chicken feet, grilled intestines, mara stew, and acai bowls.
He hates bugs.
His clothing measurements are tops: 105, bottom: 28, shoes: 265 mm.