Huntr/x found a perfect harmony

The real members of the animated girl group from Netflix's 'KPop Demon Hunters' met for the first time in June. They instantly hit it off.

- Laura Sirikul

The women of Huntr/x scored a No. 1 hit with "Golden."

THIS SUMMER, NETFLIX'S animated hit "KPop Demon Hunters" might have created the most popular Kpop girl group in America. And seemingly the only people unaware of that distinction are its members. "Is that what it is?" asks Rei Ami, who with fellow artists Ejae and Audrey Nuna forms the film's fictional trio Huntr/x. "Is that what it's being labeled as?" The stats are behind them: "Golden," a contender for the Oscar for original song, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for more than eight consecutive weeks, with three other numbers earning a place in the Top 10. As a result, the film's soundtrack hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and recently went platinum. With success has come an array of other opportunities as well. The group have since made a cameo on "Saturday Night Live" and performed on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." But as Ejae points out, theirs has not been the usual route to K-pop stardom. A former K-pop trainee herself, she notes that many hopefuls spend years developing their craft and chemistry with future group members. "We were all individually our own person.

Rei Ami

They had their music career, and I have my career as a songwriter," she says. "[Becoming a K-pop group] later is unheard of with K-pop training. You do it when they're kids, before anything [can develop], so they can shape them together, whereas we're our own individuals coming together.