MAMAMOO member Hwasa has joined Okay-pop company P Nation, based by Psy.

Over the weekend throughout Psy’s 2023 Summer season Swag occasion, he stunned the viewers by out a desk on stage telling the viewers: “I run a small company known as P NATION. The corporate says we have now an necessary contract to signal,” per Soompi.

Hwasa then appeared to signed her new contract with P Nation on stage, earlier than she carried out her hit tune ‘Maria’. Following the efficiency, the Okay-pop idol spoke about her new contract with P Nation.

“It wasn’t a efficiency; I truly signed an actual contract. After discussing [the specifics] of the contract for some time, we labored every thing out right this moment,” she mentioned.

Final Thursday (June 27), South Korean information outlet Xportnews reported that Hwasa was within the last phases of contract discussions with Psy’s P Nation company. On the time, P Nation instructed MyDaily that “a contract with Hwasa has not been confirmed”, whereas additionally confirming that it was “at the moment underneath dialogue”, as translated by Soompi.

Hwasa has been signed to RBW since 2014, when she made her debut as a member of Okay-pop woman group MAMAMOO. In 2021, the singer and her groupmates Moonbyul and Photo voltaic re-signed with the label.

She has since grow to be the second member of the group to depart RBW, as introduced by the corporate on Thursday (June 27). Bandmate Wheein determined to not renew her contract with the company in 2021, although she did comply with an “prolonged settlement” the place she would proceed to be part of MAMAMOO till a minimum of December 2023.

Since then, MAMAMOO have launched various tasks underneath RBW, resembling the mini-album ‘Mic ON’ and the compilation album ‘I Say MAMAMOO: The Greatest’. The quartet have additionally launched a slew of solo work.

In the meantime, Hwasa and Psy beforehand launched the tune ‘Now’, a remake of Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora’s 1984 single ‘When The Rain Begins To Fall’. The remake appeared on Psy’s ninth studio album ‘Psy ninth’.