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Andy

Status: Former ARrC memberYears active: 2025–2026

Profile

Stage name	Andy
Born	April 19, 2007
Roles	Vocalist and performer
Group	ARrC
Group debut	2025-2026
Agency	See official profile

Official socials

• ARrC official YouTubeDaily+78Total views10.8M
• ARrC official Instagram
• ARrC profile

Andy joined a group whose lineup was already moving, then had to prove he was a person:not a replacement-shaped blank. The PROJECT 7 finalist brought Los Angeles, Kansai Japanese, guitar, gymnastics and a very specific kind of survival-show stamina into ARrC’s second chapter.

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Profile

Before ARrC: Los Angeles, Seoul and the trainee room he came back to

Andy was born in Los Angeles and moved to South Korea at fifteen to train. He spent roughly two years in the system, attended Gwangnam High School and had already shared a KCON stage with CRAVITY for “Adrenaline” in 2022. That appearance did not make him an idol; it gave him an early taste of the job before a debut team had his name on it.

He trained around future ARrC members but was not selected for the original August 2024 lineup. That detail matters later. When he returned, he was not being introduced to seven strangers under fluorescent rehearsal-room lighting. He was walking back into relationships that already had history:and into a fandom still processing somebody else’s exit.

PROJECT 7 was not a decorative résumé line

Andy competed on JTBC’s PROJECT 7 in 2024 and finished nineteenth in the finale. Survival shows make people talk about rank as if the number explains the performer. It does not. His run gave viewers the useful file: bright energy offstage, enough stage confidence to survive rearranged teams and evaluations, and the ability to keep functioning while strangers turned every mistake into a voting argument.

He did not win a place in the show’s final group. A month later, that visibility became relevant for a different door.

The eight-day lineup whiplash

The announcement was fast enough to make the internet suspicious, but “fast announcement” is not the same as “stranger hired in eight days.” Andy had trained with the members before debut. At the nu kidz: out the box showcase, he said the first moments felt awkward, then the old familiarity returned because he had lived and trained with some of them before.

He also did not inherit Ziwoo’s biography or exact vocal function. Andy entered as a lead vocalist and lead rapper. The lineup changed; the job was rebalanced.

The ARrC music chapter

Andy did not receive a magical solo spotlight in every track. His value was color and flexibility: a lighter vocal edge, rap support, fluent English for international schedules and enough performance versatility to move between playful group material and harder choreography.

The final ARrC chapter and what comes next

Andy’s ARrC period lasted from his January 31, 2025 announcement through June 23, 2026, when MYSTIC STORY ended the group’s official activities. The company said the decision followed repeated discussions with the members and that all seven would move toward separate paths. That makes Andy a former member because the group itself concluded, not because he individually abandoned the lineup.

The final year still produced milestones. HOPE framed complicated youth emotions through five tracks, and “CTRL+ALT+SKIID” extended the group’s playful, system-breaking vocabulary. In January 2026, ARrC received the Golden Choice award at the 40th Golden Disc Awards in Taipei. The members called it a milestone pointing toward their future. Five months later, that future changed shape.

That abrupt ending deserves precision. ARrC did not continue without Andy, and Andy did not receive a public solo-debut announcement automatically because the group closed. His personal Instagram remains the clearest direct public channel, while his next agency or formal music plan should stay listed as unannounced until he says otherwise.

The member profile therefore has two timelines. His public performing career began through PROJECT 7 in 2024 and remains open. His ARrC membership has a firm January 2025 to June 2026 boundary. Mixing those dates would make the status divider look neat while telling the wrong story.

Voice, rap and why the “replacement” framing failed

Andy entered a group with established vocal colors, so usefulness mattered more than spectacle. English and Japanese fluency made international schedules smoother, while his Korean let him work inside the group rather than hover as a foreign-language accessory. Onstage, he could move between melodic support and rap phrasing without forcing every part into one signature trick.

The lead-vocalist and lead-rapper labels sound like a position chart, but the practical value was flexibility. ARrC’s music moves between old-school grooves, youthful chant energy and more reflective material. Andy could brighten a hook, sharpen a rhythmic passage or handle an interview handoff. That versatility helped the new lineup feel assembled around actual chemistry instead of a vacant seat.

His PROJECT 7 experience also made cameras less mysterious. Survival shows teach performers to locate lenses, deliver a short narrative and recover quickly when an edit moves elsewhere. Those are not the same skills as making an album, but they shortened the adjustment period when he joined a working group weeks before new promotions.

Zodiac side quest

Western sign: Aries. April 19 sits at the end of Aries season. The playful shorthand is initiative, speed and willingness to enter a situation before every variable settles. Andy joining a reorganized group immediately after a televised elimination is a better real-world example of nerve than any generic horoscope.

Chinese zodiac: Fire Pig. His April 2007 birthday falls after Lunar New Year. Pig symbolism emphasizes sincerity and sociability, while Fire adds visibility and momentum. Keep that in the side-quest drawer. His multilingual work, survival-show record and quick integration into ARrC are the evidence that belongs in the career file.

The panda side quests

• Guitar: not a random profile decoration; it hints at the kind of musician content fans would reasonably want after the idol schedule ended.
• Gymnastics: useful body control, although nobody needs him flipping through every chorus to prove it.
• Kansai dialect: the multilingual clips get more personality when Japanese is not flattened into one generic “fluent” label.
• Needles: he is reportedly afraid of them. Survival-show cameras? Fine. Medical pointy thing? Absolutely not.
• Role model: Billlie’s Tsuki:an interesting choice for somebody whose strength includes expressive performance rather than stone-faced cool.
• Family: parents, an older sister, an older brother and a younger brother.

Fandom notes and the part a fact box misses

• Nickname: “A.” Efficient. Possibly too efficient even for me.
• Colors: blue and gray.
• The uncomfortable sentence: Andy joined after Ziwoo left, but Ziwoo did not leave because Andy joined.
• The real second-lineup test: watch the group content after his introduction. The useful story is how quickly the six existing members stop treating him like a guest.
• The short runway: he had roughly seventeen months of public ARrC membership before group activities ended on June 23, 2026.

Official music video tracking

Official ARrC releases featuring Andy. Daily gains and total views update through CVM Sekai’s YouTube tracking history.

2025nu kidzARrC official music videoDaily+78Total views10.8M2025awesomeARrC official music videoDaily+70Total views5.8M

Official handles, related files and receipts

• Instagram · @andy.y_o
• Official ARrC YouTube archive
• Official conclusion notice on Weverse
• Showcase reporting with Andy’s comments about rejoining former trainees
• Comeback reporting and second-lineup context
• “awesome” RaeRae React
• Ziwoo/Andy lineup Tea file
• ARrC group archive