NI-KI

Okay, I have a real soft spot for NI-KI. Picture a kid from Okayama, born December 2005, who packed up and crossed the sea to fight his way through Korea's brutal idol grind as a teenager, then came out the other side as one of ENHYPEN's sharpest performers. He sings, he raps, but the dance is where I lose it: he's got those long, clean lines that make a frame snap into focus the second the choreo hits, and you can tell that instinct is just baked into him. What gets me is the contrast, that easy maknae grin off stage versus this genuinely cutting, predatory stare the moment the music drops. He's still so young and already this dangerous, and honestly I just want to see how far it goes.

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NI-KI is a Japanese singer, rapper, and dancer born on December 9, 2005, in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture. Active as a multifaceted performer, he is known for combining vocal, rap, and dance disciplines. He was born under the Sagittarius sign in the Year of the Rooster. He moved to South Korea alone at 13 in 2019 as a trainee at Belift Lab and became the youngest member of ENHYPEN through the 2020 survival show I-Land.

Name (English)

NI-KI

Name (Japanese)

NI-KI

Reading

にき

Born

December 9, 2005 (age 20)

Origin

Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Height

186 cm

Occupation

Singer / Rapper / Dancer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rooster

Blood type

B

Agency

BELIFT LAB

Active years

2014 -

Works summary

Appearances

23 (2014–2025)

By year (titles with a known year)

2014: 1, 2015: 2, 2016: 3, 2017: 3, 2018: 1, 2020: 1, 2021: 4, 2022: 2, 2023: 2, 2024: 1, 2025: 2, year unknown: 1

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/NI-KI
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108043218

Tags

• From Okayama Prefecture
• Singer
• Rapper
• Dancer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.