HORI7ON MEMBERS

If you’re new to HORI7ON, the first thing you should know about Vinci is that he is, for all intents and purposes, the group’s parent. As the eldest member and leader, he doesn’t just manage the group in a professional sense — he genuinely looks after his members the way a parent would. There are moments backstage where he’s quietly fixing a member’s hair or straightening someone’s outfit right before they go on, often without making a big deal of it. The younger members, especially the two youngest, are almost always on his radar. It’s not a role that was assigned to him alongside the “leader” title; it’s just who he is.

What makes Vinci remarkable as a leader is how well-rounded he is, both in talent and in character. As the group’s main vocalist, he’s capable of powerful high notes — fans often joke about his “Filipino throat chakra” — but what’s interesting is that he actually gravitates more toward mellow, laid-back songs where he doesn’t have to go all-out. He’s also a strong dancer, a skill that actually came before singing for him, and he’s the group’s first spokesperson, always the one to introduce HORI7ON and take the first question in interviews. He even represented the group as a radio DJ guest on Arirang Radio in South Korea for a few months, so his communication skills are no joke.

Outside of performing, Vinci channels his creativity into digital arts. He studied Multimedia Arts in college, though he didn’t finish his final year because he chose the idol path instead. His style leans aesthetic, and he uses those skills actively for the group: he edits vlogs for fans, does photography of the members, and his photos were officially used as a photo booklet giveaway at HORI7ON’s second concert. More recently, he may even be behind some of the group’s official graphic designs. And beyond the visual side, he's also been writing lyrics for the group's songs — which, taken altogether, paints a picture of someone who is quietly involved in far more of what HORI7ON puts out than most people realize.

Here’s a detail about him that surprises a lot of new fans: Vinci was never the “performer type” before Dream Maker. He’s an introvert by nature, not someone who typically performs in front of people. He actually loved dancing far more than singing for most of his life — he danced, but he only sang in the shower. He also wasn’t initially drawn to K-pop music; he got into it through the dance aspect first. But when he stepped into the competition, he was immediately recognized as someone who understood K-pop better than anyone else in the room — that was the mentors’ words, not a fan observation. He consistently ranked among the top contenders from the very first episode.

Since debut, he’s deliberately pushed himself to become more extroverted because he knows the group needs that from him. His body is also surprisingly flexible; he can pull off nearly bone-breaking poses with his arms and upper body that make you do a double take. When he’s not working, he gravitates toward perfumes and scented candles. He is decidedly not sporty — dancing is genuinely his only physical activity. Fans call him Chi or Chichi, and the thing that doesn’t get talked about enough is the quiet, steady dedication he puts into keeping this group together and moving forward.

Before anything else: Kim is funny. Not “idol funny” where someone does a rehearsed bit — genuinely, unpredictably funny in a way that catches you completely off guard. He is the group’s unofficial mood keeper, the one who, right when an interview or group conversation is starting to get heavy or too serious, drops something out of nowhere that sends everyone into laughter. The thing is, his humor doesn’t entirely come from trying to be funny. It sometimes comes from his struggle to find the right words, which sends him down a path where he accidentally blurts out something so left-field that no one was prepared for it. Fans have turned him into their favorite meme subject for exactly this reason, and he remains one of the most beloved sources of funny clips in the fandom.

Kim is the second oldest in the group, but he carries a very different energy from what you’d expect of an older member. He’s the smallest in height and probably the thinnest, and between his quiet demeanor and his tendency to stay in the background, he sometimes reads more like one of the younger ones. He’s very shy — his hands get shaky on stage and in promotional settings, and when he speaks, he often trails off, searching for words, never quite sure how to phrase what he means. And yet that same uncertainty is what makes him so funny, because what comes out when he stops trying to be careful is almost always something spectacular.

What a lot of people miss beneath the shy, goofy exterior is that Kim is actually quite mature in how he thinks. He understands the group dynamic well, he knows what to do and what not to do, and his humor is genuinely one of the ways he takes care of his members — keeping the energy light when things get tense. On stage, the contrast becomes even more visible: he dances with big, expansive movements and can hit high notes that might surprise you if you only know him from variety-type content.

His Dream Maker journey is one of the best underdog stories the show produced. He started from the lower ranks, and for nearly the entire run of the competition, he never broke into the top 7. Most viewers would have quietly counted him out. But he slowly, patiently climbed, and in the very last ranking of the finale, he clutched the 6th spot. The kind of ending that made fans who’d been quietly rooting for him absolutely lose it. Before Dream Maker, he’d also competed in another survival show called Top Class, though it wasn’t a great experience — he wasn’t favored by the other contestants. His journey across both experiences, and into his years with HORI7ON, has been genuinely earned.

Off the competition stage, Kim had already been building a large following on TikTok through dance videos before any of the shows aired. He’s also an impressive beatboxer — it’s a skill he sometimes uses to introduce himself at events, and it always lands well. The members and fans alike call him Kimberly, a running joke about his being “mahinhin” (demure), which he takes in stride. He has multiple pet cats at home. And one quiet thing that deserves more attention: at fanmeets, even when he’s visibly nervous and uncomfortable, he makes it a point to initiate conversations with fans, because he knows that fans can freeze up in those moments. He looks out for them even when he himself is the one who’s struggling.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: yes, Kyler is stunning. His small, symmetrical face and tall, lean build are the kind of combination that makes people stop scrolling, and more than a few have noted a resemblance to Cha Eun Woo. He’s appeared on multiple “most handsome faces” rankings, and his face alone has been responsible for pulling curious people into learning more about the group — a pull strong enough that he’s been cast twice in other artists’ music videos, appearing in Lee Seung Chul’s "It's Rainy Day" and Maki’s "Bughaw". But if you stop at the visuals, you’re missing most of what makes him interesting.

Off-camera and in public settings, Kyler is the definition of composed. He’s an introvert through and through — in interviews or around people he doesn’t know well, he stays quiet unless directly addressed, and even then, he’s measured and put-together. He gives the impression of someone very still and in control of himself. And then you see him with the members. Around people he’s comfortable with, Kyler becomes one of the loudest, most chaotic presences in the room. He joins in the teasing, he gets loud, and he’s the type to randomly do something with absolutely no context — a goat sound out of nowhere, a stretch of comedic singing for no particular reason. There’s no warning. It just happens. Fans who know this side of him find it one of the most charming things about him, precisely because it doesn’t match the image at all.

Vocally, he can hit high notes, but it’s actually his lower register that fans respond to more — and that’s also where he’s most comfortable. In terms of dancing, his journey has been one of the more honest and hard-earned arcs in the group. He started out struggling — complicated choreography didn’t come easily to him, and it showed in earlier performances. But his improvement over time has been consistent and visible enough that it’s become something fans genuinely root for and celebrate. He’s not where he started, not by a long shot, and that growth belongs entirely to him.

His Dream Maker journey was more dramatic than most of the other members’. From the start, the mentors could see what he had — his visual presence on stage, the way he projected himself — but they were simultaneously frustrated because his actual performance wasn’t matching the potential they saw. There was real pressure put on him, there were tears, and there were tough conversations. But he put his head down and worked, and by the end, he had proven himself. It hits differently when you know that he pursued this path largely because it was something his late father had wanted for him.

Fans call him Ky, or sometimes Ji — his real-life nickname. He enjoys basketball, occasionally playing with some of the members, and online gaming rounds out his off-hours. If you're a new fan meeting Kyler for the first time, come in ready to look past the face. There's a lot more going on in there than he'll ever let on in public.

Reyster might have the most striking contrast between his onstage and offstage self of anyone in HORI7ON, and that contrast is the first thing you need to understand about him. On stage, he’s a force — his dancing is powerful in a way that feels deliberate and grounded, and his deep-voice rapping carries so much character that it pulls full attention. A mentor on Dream Maker specifically pointed out that he had the sexiest image and appeal in the competition, especially when he danced. Then the performance ends, and Reyster steps offstage, and he becomes the quietest person in the room. He defaults to the background, doesn’t push himself into conversations, lets things happen around him. The same person who commands a stage is the same person you might not notice standing in the corner — and somehow that makes both versions of him more fascinating.

Reyster has never been in a hurry to say anything, and the members have simply learned to wait for him. While everyone else has already moved on to the next topic, Reyster is still formulating his response to the previous one. They believe it’s because he’s intentional about what he says — if you ask him his favorite food, he’ll actually think about his favorite food before answering, rather than blurting out the first thing that comes to mind. He needs loading time. There's an iconic moment from Dream Maker where the host asks him two simple questions back-to-back, and both times you watch him look upward in every direction like the answers are somewhere on the ceiling, slowly say "aaaaaa..." for an uncomfortably long beat, and deliver the shortest possible response — capping it off by admitting that he's just not used to talking. It’s become one of those clips fans keep returning to. He’s improved in this over the years, but the loading time remains a core part of who he is, and the members love him for it.

What’s endearing is that even when he’s not speaking, Reyster is rarely still. He’s often the one quietly dancing on the side, or randomly tumbling. His primary language is body movement — he communicates through gestures and facial expressions far more than through words, and he’s very good at it. He has these cute dimples he makes no effort to hide, and his designated identity in the group is that of the “sexy member,” which means he’s often the one given the most revealing outfits during performances. He’s made peace with this title.

Before Dream Maker, Reyster had been putting up dance videos on TikTok, and he used to sing alongside his siblings at their church. His artistic range extends beyond performing: he paints, and he also does doodle-style drawings. He’s particularly celebrated among fans for his girl group dance covers, where he has an unusual ability to take choreography that reads feminine and make it look distinctly, effortlessly masculine — not by changing the moves, but purely by how he inhabits them. Fans call him Toto, a nickname that somehow carries exactly the right warmth for the quietest member of the group.

Winston’s story in HORI7ON is, more than anything else, a story about what dedication looks like in practice. When he entered Dream Maker, he had no background in performing — no dance training, no singing lessons, no stage experience of any kind. He started from the lower rankings and worked his way up, visibly and consistently, until people stopped being surprised by his performances and started expecting them to be good. Today, he is one of the group’s strongest vocalists and one of its most impactful dancers, and every bit of that was built through effort rather than inherited through experience. That transformation is what defines him, and it’s the lens through which everything else about him makes sense.

Outside of his artistic growth, Winston is the member who smiles the most, and it’s never a forced one. He’s often described as the group’s angel — not dramatically, just genuinely: he doesn’t get angry, he’s warm, and he carries an energy that makes the people around him feel at ease. The other members tease him often, and he’ll try to fight back and get even, but he fails at it in the most endearing way, because the kind of chaos the others are capable of is really not who Winston is. He’s too sincere for it, and everyone, including him, kind of knows it. He takes the teasing well and keeps smiling.

Fans have given him the unofficial title of “fan-service king” of the group, and it’s earned. He goes out of his way during performances and fan events to make sure fans feel seen — the brightest smile in the room at any given moment is almost always his. During Dream Maker, he also managed to maintain his position as a top student in school while the competition was ongoing, balancing intense training schedules against his academics without letting either one slip. That level of self-discipline doesn’t come from talent. It comes from character.

His range of hobbies is charmingly all over the place. He played volleyball as a spiker in elementary school and still plays basketball with the members. He solves Rubik’s cubes. He does crochet. He’s recently taken to going to the gym. One recurring, fond source of amusement for the members: his mother tongue is Waray, which gives him a distinctively hard-edged dialect, and the way certain words come out of his mouth has become a gentle running joke among them. Fans call him Tonton or Ton. He is proof that the ceiling of what you can become is significantly higher than wherever you happen to start.

If you only know Jeromy from the performance side — his sets, his choreography, his “maangas” stage presence — you know only half of him. The other half, the one that most people outside his immediate circle don’t get to see, is chaos. At home with the members, Jeromy is the most “pasaway,” the most “makulit,” the loudest, the one who starts things. He ignites the energy in the room, he’s the one teasing everyone, always has something going on. Put him in an interview or around people he doesn’t yet know well, and he turns it down — he can be shy in those settings, though he still pushes himself to speak up. But the Jeromy that the members know is relentless in the best way, and that side only really comes out when he’s comfortable. It’s worth knowing, because it changes how you watch him.

Now for the side that speaks for itself: Jeromy is a dance prodigy, and that’s not a term being thrown around loosely. He has been dancing since he was five years old, with hip-hop as his primary genre, and he was already part of Electrogroovers — a dance crew that won the World Supremacy Battlegrounds in Australia — before Dream Maker ever happened. He also did modeling as a child and appeared in multiple commercials. So when he was assigned as the group’s performance leader at age 14, even as the second youngest member in the group, it wasn’t surprising to anyone who’d seen his background. He has the kind of technical eye and understanding that comes from years of competing and performing dance at a serious level. He notices the details others miss, and he lifts the group’s collective performance because of it.

His Dream Maker run was dominant. He topped the rankings twice in a row mid-competition and then topped the final ranking in the finale — three out of five rankings in total. After debut, his dancing only continued to develop, which is remarkable given how strong he already was going into the competition. Being chosen as part of Stars On The Floor is the clearest external confirmation of what fans had long recognized. On stage, his style is described as “swag” and “maangas,” but what fans consistently point out is how light he is on his feet. There's a quality to how he moves where his feet don't seem to hit the floor the same way everyone else's do — it's become something of a running joke within the group and among fans that Jeromy simply flies on stage. It makes his performances mesmerizing in a very specific way.

Beyond dancing, he discovered after joining HORI7ON that he can also rap well — a talent that surprised even him. He plays online games, basketball, and even boxing. He’s known among the members as someone who is generously paying for the group more often than not. He can also be “pikon” — he loves to tease but doesn’t particularly enjoy being on the receiving end. Everyone who knows him personally calls him Jiro, not Jeromy. For someone so committed to the “maangas” image, his eye smile does him absolutely no favors — and fans are grateful for it every single time.

The first thing that will strike you about Marcus is how he talks. He is well-spoken in a way that doesn’t feel like it should come from someone his age — composed, articulate, and thoughtful in a way that makes you forget you’re listening to the youngest member of the group. He speaks both English and Tagalog fluently, with a clear preference for English, and he managed to become conversational in Korean after the group’s training period in South Korea, where he was the most advanced student among all the members. Language is just something that clicks for him in a way it doesn’t for most people, at any age.

He’s HORI7ON’s second spokesperson after Vinci, and the two of them have developed an unexpected but seamless dynamic — the eldest and the youngest, nine years apart, finishing each other’s thoughts in interviews with a fluency that reads like they’ve been doing this for decades. He also has a habit of casually dropping genuinely wise observations or surprisingly deep questions right in the middle of otherwise light moments — the kind of thing that makes everyone pause for a second before moving on.

For all his composure, his teenage side peeks through when he’s with the members — he teases subtly, catches the group’s chaotic energy and runs with it. He also shared that during training in South Korea, there were moments where he broke down crying because he missed his parents. A reminder that beneath the articulate confidence, he is still a kid who grew up faster than most, and who misses home like any kid would.

He’s strong in both singing and dancing — he’s one of the quickest to absorb new choreography, and vocally, he carries a quiet expertise, with a range that sits comfortably on the lower end and is all the more distinctive for it. Behind the scenes, he’s also been contributing to the group’s music more directly, writing song lyrics and deepening his understanding of music production — a natural extension of someone whose mind has always worked a step ahead.

His performance background stretches back long before HORI7ON. He’s been performing since he was three years old: singing in school events, joining competitions, winning SM Little Stars, becoming a regular on Team Yey! (a kids’ TV show), appearing in commercials, acting in a movie alongside known artists, and going on an Asian tour where he played young Simba in The Lion King musical. His Dream Maker competition run was a bit up and down, but his natural charisma made him a consistent viewers’ favorite throughout.

He also plays drums, ukelele, and keyboard. In 2024, he became part of a South Korean project group called izx!. His memory is unusually sharp — he can vividly recall specific moments from when he was two or three years old and recount them with a detail that genuinely surprises people. Fans sometimes call him Sucram, which is his name spelled backwards. He is the youngest member of HORI7ON, and he carries that in his own way — not like a kid pretending to be grown, but like someone who genuinely grew up in front of everyone and still hasn’t stopped.