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Felix

Profile facts

Stage nameFelix
Birth nameLee Yong-bok
BornSeptember 15, 2000
FromSydney, Australia
GroupStray Kids
Role/profile emphasisRapper, dancer and vocalist
Current statusActive member

Current status: 2026 profile refresh

Felix is documented here as member, performer and Artist. This refresh connects the current release “FARMING” to the existing career file without replacing older eras or manufacturing a second biography. The canonical-page rule matters: a comeback changes the chronology, not the identity of the person or group that released it.

What changed with this release

“FARMING” is now part of the official-video tracker and static React card system. The exact upload is preserved, so viewers do not land on a teaser, mirrored playlist item or unrelated performance. The profile explains the career context; the dedicated React handles the close visual and musical reading.

How to read the current era

Stray Kids has enough history that “current” should never mean “only the newest thumbnail.” Styling, distribution, credits and live performance can shift between releases. This file keeps those changes in sequence and distinguishes confirmed credits from interpretation, because confident fan repetition is not the same thing as an official record.

Member and Artist routing

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International discovery path

Start with the official artist and company channels, then verify schedules and status through durable notices. Exact video IDs are recorded beside the work. That source-first path makes the catalog usable outside Korea, where algorithmic feeds often surface clips quickly but hide the release chronology and member context.

What the tracker includes

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The useful excitement is specific. “FARMING” earned a place here because something in its beat, concept, delivery or chemistry made replay feel necessary. The profile does not flatten that reaction into generic praise; it gives the React room to argue with the details while this page protects the factual spine.

What to watch next

Watch the official credits, live-stage changes, member handoffs and whether the next release expands the identity or repeats its easiest signal. Future updates will attach exact uploads and verified status changes here, keeping the archive readable instead of scattering one career across disconnected pages.

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Archive continuity note

Stray Kids remains one continuing career file. Dates, exact uploads, lineup status and independently verified credits are added here before interpretation. That keeps the page current without deleting the route that brought listeners to “FARMING” or turning a new promotional cycle into a false debut.

STRAY KIDS MEMBER + DANCER + RAPPER

Felix

Freckles, sunshine, baked goods, a voice from the basement floor, and enough dance control to prove the “deep voice guy” summary has been lazy for years.

Felix of Stray Kids

Contents

  1. Profile
  2. Official socials
  3. YouTube tracking history
  4. Sources

Official socials

Profile

PROFILE

Lee Felix

Korean name: Lee Yong-bok (이용복)

Born: September 15, 2000

From: Sydney, Australia

Group: Stray Kids

Roles: Dancer, rapper, vocalist

Performance unit: DanceRACHA

SKZOO: BbokAri

CONTENTS

Sydney childhood

Trainee year and elimination

Stray Kids career

The voice

Dance and performance

Solo and unit music

Fashion, philanthropy, and health

Fandom file

Official videos and Reacts

Links and sources

RaeRae take: Felix looks like a fairy escaped a luxury campaign, learned taekwondo, and swallowed a subwoofer. Then he hands you a brownie and says something so sweet you forget the bass just cracked the furniture.

Sydney, taekwondo, dance, and the Korean name he rarely used

Felix was born and raised in Sydney in a Korean-Australian family. He grew up with an older sister and younger sister and attended school in the Seven Hills area. His English name was the one used daily. His Korean name, Yong-bok, became more familiar after entering Korean entertainment.

He trained in taekwondo for years and earned a black belt, a background visible in his flexibility, kicking control, balance, and comfort learning movement. He also danced before joining JYP, though the idol system would demand an entirely new level of detail.

Felix moved to South Korea in February 2017 after passing a JYP audition. He arrived with very limited Korean. This is the basic fact that explains the earliest footage: he was not unintelligent, blank, or disengaged. He was a teenager processing evaluation instructions, hierarchy, jokes, lyrics, and cameras in a language he was still learning.

One trainee year, one television elimination, and a team refusing to leave him behind

Felix trained for a much shorter period than Bang Chan. When JYP’s Stray Kids survival program began in 2017, his performance potential was obvious but his Korean pronunciation was a serious obstacle. JYP eliminated him during the show after criticizing his language and readiness.

The scene remains painful because the weakness was inseparable from migration. He had crossed countries to join the company only months earlier and was being judged publicly for not mastering Korean quickly enough. Bang Chan, another Australian who understood the adjustment, was devastated. The team continued preparing while hoping the original lineup could be restored.

Felix and Lee Know were returned before the final debut decision. The happy ending does not erase what the format did. It turned a teenager’s language struggle into suspense and made the other members rehearse the possibility that their team could be broken for television.

Stray Kids: from a few unforgettable seconds to a complete performer

Felix debuted with Stray Kids in March 2018. His early line distribution was often limited because Korean fluency, rap technique, and vocal development were still growing. The company and 3RACHA used his deep voice as a signature impact sound.

The most famous example is God’s Menu. Felix enters with “cooking like a chef, I’m a five-star Michelin,” and the timbre changes the entire room. The line helped the song travel through short-form video and reaction culture. Casual viewers who did not know the group knew the voice.

Similar killing parts appear in Victory Song, Side Effects, MIROH, Back Door, MANIAC, CASE 143, S-Class, Megaverse, LALALALA, and later work. 3RACHA learned to deploy the low register at structural turning points, where one phrase could function like a production drop.

That strategy built recognition and created a cage. “Felix has a deep voice” became the only fact repeated in shallow profiles, even as his Korean improved, his dance became more refined, his singing expanded, and his stage responsibilities grew.

He is part of DanceRACHA with Lee Know and Hyunjin. The unit’s Wow and performance work show a dancer whose style is cleaner and more controlled than the soft public personality suggests. Felix can use long lines, sharp hips, grounded steps, and facial contrast without overperforming every count.

The low voice is real. It is also not the only voice.

Felix’s naturally low speaking register gives Stray Kids a tone rare in idol pop. Producers emphasize it with close microphone placement, layered doubles, distortion, and pauses that clear space around the entrance.

The power is partly contrast. A warm, freckled face and gentle speaking manner do not visually prepare new listeners for the sound. Reaction videos built an entire economy around that surprise.

His technique developed after debut. Early lines sometimes relied on a pressed “deep voice effect.” Later recordings use more relaxed resonance, clearer rhythmic diction, breathy singing, and a wider range. Tracks such as Deep end deliberately reveal upper and softer colors.

A very low tone does not automatically make someone the group’s best rapper, and Felix does not need that false claim. Changbin and Han carry more complex technical rap roles. Felix is an impact rapper and texture specialist whose lines often become part of the arrangement itself.

DanceRACHA: control under the sunshine

Felix’s dance benefits from taekwondo training, flexibility, strong core control, and long lines. He can execute explosive choreography while keeping the movement visually clean. His style is less fluidly theatrical than Hyunjin and less groove-centered than Lee Know. It is direct, bright, and camera-aware.

He became more confident with facial performance over time. Early Felix sometimes concentrated visibly on executing the choreography. Later stages show sharper character changes, especially when a concept asks him to switch from warmth to threat inside one close-up.

His center moments are often short because Stray Kids has several strong dancers and eight distinct visual functions. Watch the transitions rather than only the killing part. He stays engaged, finishes lines, and uses his height and limbs to keep formations large.

Deep end, Unfair, unit work, and emotional range

Deep end, released through SKZ-REPLAY, surprised listeners expecting a bass showcase. It is an English-language breakup ballad built around vulnerability, layered vocals, and the feeling of someone changing beyond recognition. Felix wrote and composed the song with collaborators, using the solo to prove he had been listening to every complaint about range and quietly preparing an answer.

Unfair plays with the Beauty and the Beast story from the Beast’s perspective, combining fantasy reference with loneliness and the wish to be loved beyond an intimidating exterior. The concept suits the contradiction attached to Felix: a voice coded as dangerous and a personality repeatedly described as gentle.

His unit work includes DanceRACHA’s Wow, Taste with Lee Know and Hyunjin, and combinations across Stray Kids albums and tours. Taste leans into sensual restraint and gives the dance unit a darker, smoother space than the group’s loudest title tracks.

He has also collaborated outside the group, including a feature on Nayeon’s No Problem. His English phrasing and tonal contrast make him useful in international-facing collaborations, though any future solo catalog will need more than recognizable bass to establish a full musical identity.

Louis Vuitton, UNICEF, baking, and a body that still needs rest

Felix became a Louis Vuitton house ambassador and walked in the brand’s runway show. His fashion appeal combines androgyny, sharp bone structure, freckles, long hair, and an ability to wear delicate or severe styling without looking swallowed by it.

Beauty coverage often emphasizes his freckles because Korean idol styling historically covered features Western audiences later celebrated. Felix has appeared both with and without them visible. Fans can appreciate the freckles without acting as if concealer is a political crime every time a makeup artist uses it.

His philanthropy is substantial. He donated 100 million won to UNICEF in early 2024, becoming one of the youngest members of the UNICEF Honors Club, and supported children in Laos. He later took on additional UNICEF-related advocacy. His public interest in children’s welfare is a repeated pattern, not a one-day photo opportunity.

He is famous inside the fandom for baking brownies and cookies for members and staff. This fact sounds trivial until one remembers the schedule. Baking for people is time, planning, ingredients, cleanup, and a very Australian way of saying affection without making a speech.

In February 2025, Felix suffered an arm fracture after a minor vehicle collision caused him to strike the armrest. He missed a fan meeting performance while recovering. The official explanation mattered because the collision itself was minor, yet the injury was real. Bodies do not consult headlines before deciding how badly an impact lands.

He has also dealt with back issues and other physical strain. Dance skill is not evidence that a performer is indestructible.

Fandom file

English and Korean names: Felix Lee and Lee Yong-bok are both his. Members use Yong-bok affectionately, while Felix remains his professional name.

Family: He has an older sister, Rachel, and a younger sister, Olivia.

Australian line: Felix and Bang Chan share Sydney upbringing. Chan helped him through language adjustment and trainee life.

SKZOO: BbokAri, a yellow chick whose tiny size does not match the voice attached to it.

Nicknames: Lix, Yongbok, Sunshine, Bbokie, and the increasingly inevitable “deep voice guy.”

Languages: English and Korean, with Japanese used in promotions. His Korean development is part of the career, not a pre-debut footnote.

Fandom: STAY.

Official Instagram: @yong.lixx

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Watch Felix move from member spotlight to solo artist

Felix is not filed as an Artist because fans like his voice. He qualifies because he has official solo releases. Unfair is the clearest visual receipt: his own song, his own center of gravity, and a performance built around the contrast between storybook beauty and the darker vocal color that first made casual listeners turn their heads.

Keep going: Read the full Unfair React. Felix also appears with LiSA on ReawakeR, a collaboration that uses his low register as part of the song rather than as a novelty sound effect.

Official Felix video tracking

This tracker follows official Felix solo and member-focused releases and refreshes daily and total YouTube views.

The 2026 file: THIS & THAT and a wider public role

Stray Kids released the mini album THIS & THAT on August 7, 2026 with all eight members, including Felix. JYP’s official teaser archive identifies his concept images, while contemporary release coverage describes the group’s first major 2026 comeback. The release keeps his status current: active member, 2018 to present.

The year also expanded his public work beyond music. Felix was appointed an honorary ambassador for the 140th anniversary of France-Korea diplomatic relations and selected as a face of the Korean government’s 2026 Hanbok Wave. Gong Cha renewed him as a global ambassador, and additional campaigns continued alongside festival and comeback schedules. These credits belong in the public-career file, but they do not replace the music or turn endorsement volume into artistic evaluation.

Performance remains the through-line. The title track again uses his low register as a structural contrast, but the useful watch is still his movement between those headline lines. Felix helps the choreography stay expansive without becoming loose, especially when the arrangement switches quickly between rap, chant, and ensemble sections.

Slow It Down — 2026 solo artist file

“Slow It Down” expands Felix’s artist record through original lyric and composition credits, several vocal registers and a story led by Roh Yoon Seo. It is solo work inside the Stray Kids ecosystem, not a duplicate identity.

Slow It Down — 2026 solo artist file official video React card

Read the complete React · Watch the exact official uploadDaily+20KTotal views6.6M. Exact video ID: YWsczzufh6Q.

YouTube tracking history

Official links and research trail

Sources used for the factual spine

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Catalog decisions that protect this profile

Felix is maintained as one canonical member and Artist file. A new song adds an exact upload, a dated credit and a static image card; it does not authorize a duplicate biography. Group work, individual originals, collaborations and performance clips remain distinguishable so a visitor can understand what kind of release they opened before pressing play.

Current status comes from official artist, company or broadcaster sources. Older reporting stays in the chronology when it explains a debut, lineup change or creative credit, but outdated promotional language is not allowed to overwrite the present. When sources disagree, the page keeps the uncertainty visible instead of choosing the most repeated answer.

Why the card and hero rules matter

Each post owns a unique featured attachment, and that same local file supplies its hero, social preview and landing-page card. Relevant hubs may display the card as a link, but they do not claim the attachment as their own featured image. This prevents two articles from becoming visually indistinguishable and keeps media metadata, source credit and SEO attached to the correct story.

Static cards also respect the way this site is meant to browse: a clear finite set of choices rather than an endless horizontal carousel. Contrast has to remain readable on desktop and mobile, especially when a dark purple image or overlay meets pale lavender text. If the title disappears into the art, the design has failed even when the link technically works.

RaeRae Reacts

JJAM: Stray Kids Put the Beat in a Factory and Refused Every Safety Inspection — exact playlist upload 7ytGFxD-FcI.

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MOUNTAINS: Stray Kids Climbed Their Own Myth and Brought Construction Equipment — exact playlist upload 80H_-aHTUws.

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Chk Chk Boom SKZOO Version: Stray Kids Let the Mascots Commit the Crime — exact playlist upload 7lqcfG5MnZs.

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MOUNTAINS Unveil Track: Stray Kids Showed the Blueprint Before the Full Climb — exact playlist upload sPgE8HitE_E.

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Double Knot: Stray Kids Tightened the Beat Until the Street Became a Stage — exact playlist upload UWoyeuwj9c0.

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Official video tracker

THIS & THAT official-video tracker update

Felix supplies the low-register contrast that gives the brighter and faster sections somewhere to rebound from. Exact official video BZ4UzthYTss: read the RaeRae React.

Unfair exact-video tracker update

Felix carries the solo SKZ-PLAYER through a performance identity that stays connected to the group without shrinking into a group footnote. Exact official video Oswujxm2Ag0: read the RaeRae React.