On September 1, 2009, she officially debuted in SM Entertainment's newest girl group f(x), with their performance on MBC's Music Core of their first digital single, "La Cha Ta". On February 16, 2015, she debuted as a soloist with her first mini album Beautiful and its title track "Shake That Brass" featuring Taeyeon of Girls' Generation. A few days prior to the release of the album, a lyric video for the B-side track, "Beautiful", was released.
The music video contained childhood photos of her, as well as photos since her debut as a member of f(x). Its lyrics tells the story of the difficulties she faced as she chased after her dreams of being an entertainer and how she liked herself the way she is. Beautiful debuted at number two on Billboards World Albums chart and number 19 on Heatseekers Albums.
According to Jeff Benjamin of Billboard K-Town, this ranking shows Amber has a large international fanbase. As a part of the SM Station project, Amber's solo single, "Borders", was released in March, 2016. She participated in composing, lyrics writing and arrangement of the song.
Written entirely in English, the hip hop track relates her childhood experiences and gives a message not to give up on oneself against life difficulties. She released the digital single, "On My Own" on May 18, 2016. On May 25, she released another digital single titled "Need to Feel Needed".
On September 9, 2016, SM Entertainment published the official music video for "Breathe Again". This was Amber's first entirely English song and her first collaboration with Japanese DJ, Ksuke. On April 15, 2018, Liu released her first English-language solo mixtape, Rogue Rouge, with six songs, free on SoundCloud.
She also released a music video for one track, "Closed Doors", on YouTube, with plans to release a total of six videos. On July 10, 2018, she signed with Steel Wool Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based agency from the United States, in order to promote her activities in the country more actively. Following f(x)'s 10 year anniversary, on September 1, she announced via her social media accounts that she had decided not to renew her contract with SM Entertainment.
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