Kenny

Los Angeles, China and the trainee route

Kenny Hao was born on December 9, 2002 and grew up in the Los Angeles area in a Chinese-American family. His path into Korean pop was international before the group concept existed. He trained in South Korea, including a period connected to SM Entertainment, and later appeared on the Chinese survival program Asia Super Young. He withdrew because of health concerns, which belongs in the history without being turned into either failure or mystery.

Joining Singing Beetle gave Kenny a different role from the usual foreign trainee brought into a nearly finished lineup. He became an early connector in the project that developed into 1VERSE. He encouraged Aito to return to training, helped bridge languages inside the team and brought existing performance experience into a company working with members whose preparation started from radically different places.

The group does not need those backgrounds flattened into a marketing slogan. Kenny is from the United States, has Chinese family and language connections, and works in South Korea. Those facts can coexist. The useful question is what he contributes: vocals, writing, communication and the ability to keep a multinational room from becoming five separate interviews.

1VERSE debut, writing and group identity

1VERSE debuted on July 18, 2025 with the single album The 1st Verse. Singing Beetle’s official profile lists Kenny as a vocalist. He also co-wrote the title track “Shattered,” giving him a documented creative role at debut rather than a vague future promise. The release framed damage and resilience through a group whose members did not arrive from one shared trainee pipeline.

In the Associated Press debut interview, Kenny described the group’s goal as being inclusive of each member’s history and current circumstances. That statement is important because 1VERSE received heavy attention for including North Korean defectors Hyuk and Seok. Kenny’s wording redirects the story toward all five members and toward a group identity that does not use two biographies as the entire product.

Later interviews and releases continued showing his participation in lyrics and group concepts. Kenny and Nathan contributed writing to “WABIF,” while member discussions around touring and new music placed the team beyond the novelty phase of its debut coverage. His cooking content also serves a real group function: low-stakes episodes expose timing, language habits and chemistry that a formal profile photograph cannot.

Music-video tracking note

Kenny does not currently have a verified individual solo music-video catalog. 1VERSE videos, including “Shattered,” “Multiverse” and later group releases, belong on the 1VERSE group profile. This page will add a personal tracker when he releases an official solo or separately credited individual video. Until then, copying the group total onto every member page would inflate the same release five times without adding useful metadata.