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Last Name: Kwon (권)
First Name: Ji Yong (지용)
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G-Dragon (G-드래곤)
Gender: Male
Country of Origin: Korea (South)
Birthday: Aug 18, 1988
Blood Type: A
First Name: Ji Yong (지용)
AKA:
G-Dragon (G-드래곤)
Gender: Male
Country of Origin: Korea (South)
Birthday: Aug 18, 1988
Blood Type: A
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G-Dragon initially started out as a child hip hop artist likely in hopes of emulation the popularity and success of Lil Romeo and Lil Bow Wow in the states. He too was also a model. However, he could not release an album and was limited to featuring on other YG artists’ albums. On January 2001, GD debuted on the compilation album Daehanmingook Hip-Hop Flex as a rapper. After his debut, he was recruited along with Tae Yang to act in JinuSean’s mv as mini JinuSean, which was released in February of the same year.
Then GD started training out his planned debut as one half of hip hop duo GDYB. During that time, he was featured on songs by Perry, Se7en, Wheesung, YG Family and Masta Wu. He also had cameos in many YG artists’s music videos and performed live with Swi.T, Lexy, JinuSean and YG Family. He also performed in concert with Wheesung, Gummy and Se7en and in YG Family’s annual One concerts. Out of everyone, GD was closest to YG and Perry, who thought him a lot, and his relationship with Hyun Suk was even described as “father and son”.
GDYB released 2 songs on YG Family’s second album, but never debut or released an album. In 2004, GD and Tae Yang were both listed as YG new faces and scheduled to debut that year. However, Hyun Suk announced that their debut was canceled in favor of forming a four-to-six member group. It took until 2006 for BIG BANG to be officially announced via The BIG BANG Documentary Reality Show. Meanwhile GDYB were featured in Se7en’s album and performed with him at the World Cup.
After graduating from high school, he decided to wait a year before applying to college, and took his college entrance exams in Fall 2007.
G-Dragon is BIG BANG’s leader. He is also a rapper and vocalist and has been producing with BIG BANG’s releases with the help of Hyun Suk since the beginning. He also wrote many of the lyrics and recently started songwriting and arranging.
Sources: Wiki.theppn
Then GD started training out his planned debut as one half of hip hop duo GDYB. During that time, he was featured on songs by Perry, Se7en, Wheesung, YG Family and Masta Wu. He also had cameos in many YG artists’s music videos and performed live with Swi.T, Lexy, JinuSean and YG Family. He also performed in concert with Wheesung, Gummy and Se7en and in YG Family’s annual One concerts. Out of everyone, GD was closest to YG and Perry, who thought him a lot, and his relationship with Hyun Suk was even described as “father and son”.
GDYB released 2 songs on YG Family’s second album, but never debut or released an album. In 2004, GD and Tae Yang were both listed as YG new faces and scheduled to debut that year. However, Hyun Suk announced that their debut was canceled in favor of forming a four-to-six member group. It took until 2006 for BIG BANG to be officially announced via The BIG BANG Documentary Reality Show. Meanwhile GDYB were featured in Se7en’s album and performed with him at the World Cup.
After graduating from high school, he decided to wait a year before applying to college, and took his college entrance exams in Fall 2007.
G-Dragon is BIG BANG’s leader. He is also a rapper and vocalist and has been producing with BIG BANG’s releases with the help of Hyun Suk since the beginning. He also wrote many of the lyrics and recently started songwriting and arranging.
Sources: Wiki.theppn
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G-Dragon is a South Korean singer, musician, and songwriter. He debuted at the age of 12, by participating in the Korean Hip Hop Flex album in 2001, as the youngest member of the group. In 2002, he was scouted to YG Entertainment, and after 6 years of practice, he became the leader of a Korean band, Big Bang, in 2006. He is now the vocal and rapper of the team, and also contributes to various album production. He also writes lyrics and songs; he created many hit songs. He has opened a new, revolutionary era for the Korean music industry with the success "Lies," which was quite new in Korea at the time. His boom continued with the success of "Last Farewell", "Haru Haru", and "My Heaven"- which he worked on with a Japanese musician, Daishi Dance. He also became a famous fashionista, representing his own unique fashion style. He was awarded as one of the "Most Influential Men of 2008" (style part) sponsored by Arena magazine.
Music Style
G-Dragon's music bases on Hip Hop. He listened to the music of The Wu-Tang Clan when he was 10 years old, and participated in Hip Hop Flex album in 2001. He continued practicing Hip Hop music while being a trainee at YG Entertainment. However, his music after the debut not only limits itself in Hip Hop, but also in fusion genres; in "Lies", he combined house and Hip Hop; in his solo piece "But I Love U", he sampled Redd Holt Unlimited's Rhu in jazz in Hip Hop. In "Oh My Friend", he fused rock and rap, collaborating with No Brain, and in "Strong Baby", which he composed with Bae Jin Ryul, is a pop-dance music. G-Dragon expands his music career to not only in hiphop, but to a broad spectrum of genres. However, like he said in YG Bounce interview, he "does not want to be limited to merely rapping, and is open-minded to all possibilities. But his identity can be defined as a rapper, if in need of a definition."
Fashion Style
From his debut, G-Dragon has drawn attention from many through his sense of fashion. He usually wears London street fashion, and likes to have unique accessories to accompany his style. In his recent interview with YG Bounce, he said, "by the time others imitate my style, I would be in a different appearance. it is not fun to look the same like others. because I don’t want to be the same, I think over and over to look unique". G-Dragon is not just interested in fashion, but he is passionate in collecting information over the internet and thinking over it. In Big Bang's autobiography, he wrote, "for me, my fashion is not merely of clothes nor brands, but are wings to describe my identity. If music is the energy to drive myself, clothes are the sources which I can expand myself upon. if time permits, I want to work in the fashion industry one day while I write my songs, from time to time I design my own clothes."
Controversies
Despite his success, G-Dragon has not been free of any controversies. G-Dragon has been subjected to allegations of plagiarism. The first hit by Big Bang, "Lies" was composed by G-Dragon. The first few seconds of the song "Lies" have been the accused of plagiarizing FreeTEMPO's "Sky High." Legal action was never taken, as the composer of "Sky High" said, "Even though it sounds very similar, it has a completely different feeling." Most lately, G-Dragon's "Heartbreaker" has been accused of plagiarising Flo-Rida's "Right Round" and another song of plagiarising Oaisis's "She's Electric." Legal action has not yet been taken.
G-Dragon's choice of clothing in the last episode of Big Bang's documentary. In this episode, G-Dragon can be seen wearing a T-Shirt with a picture of a nude woman on it. It has been censored, but not enough to be not recognized. Also, G-Dragon also performed in a concert wearing a T-Shirt with stickers on it that said "I love sex, "69," and "F*** U Too." G-Dragon has apologized for such actions.
Postion in Big Bang: Leader / Main Rapper
Education: Seoul Korean Traditional Arts Middle & High School
Skills: Rapping, Dancing, Beat Boxing, Composing, Singing, and Languages (Chinese, English)
Debut: DaeHanMinGook Hip Hop Flex (2001)
Hobbies: Drawing pictures, listening to music, and composing
Likes: Fashion, Acting, Cooking, Crispy Donuts, Dogs, Cars, The Drawing ‘Is it like stars or skeleton‘, books (poems, mangas, and magazines), watching cartoons, and himself
Family Members: Parents and Older Sis [Dami]
Personality: He is pretty bright…when he is quiet he is extremely quiet. He lightens the mood a lot. He leads the group. His senses are fast, has high self esteem and likes to be outstanding.
Pendent: A bball cap (GD’s favorite style of cap) on top of a star meaning “to become a big star in the music industry.”
* Has 3 tattoos, 2 on his inner arms: right is “vita dolce” meaning sweet life in Italian and “moderato” on his left meaning moderate (a musical term) done on May 2007 by Carey Heart (husband of U.S. artist Pink) at famous tattoo parlor “Hart & Hurtington Tattoo Parlor” at Palms Casino in Las Vegas, 1 on his back: "Too fast to live, too young to die"
* “G-Dragon” comes from his original name “Ji Yong”because Yong means “dragon” and Ji sounds just like a “G”
* Love it when people call him “Kwon Leader”
* Older Sis, Dami owns online clothing store called “Style Love” or “Style Luv” Website
* Lie was suppose to be GD’s solo because he wrote it, but in the end they decided to sing as a group
* GD childhood friend is KangIn from Super Junior
* GD’s most prized possesion and he grew a habit of orgnizing it all the time is his shoes hats clothes. The reason “Even though it’s only clothes, once you loose it, you can’t just buy it back.”
* He hates when people compliment and notice just his looks instead of realizing him for his talent.
See Big Bang Discography
Solo
- 1st Digital Single [나만 바라 봐(Look Only At Me) Part2 : G-Dragon]
- 1st Solo Album: Heartbreaker [Released August, 18 2009]
01. 소년이여 (A Boy)
02. Heartbreaker
03. Breathe
04. Butterfly (feat. Jin Jung)
05. Hello (feat. Sandara Park from 2NE1)
06. Gossip Man (feat. Kim Gun-Mo)
07. Korean Dream (feat. Tae-Yang)
08. The Leaders(feat. Teddy, CL)
09. She’s gone (feat. kush)
10. 1년 정거장 (1 year station)
[2001.09.04] Perry - 1st Album [Perry By Storm] (Track 01. Storm (with Jinusean, Masta Wu);
[2002.04.03] Wheesung - 1st Album [Like A Movie] (Track 7. Magic Eye)
[2003.03.08] Se7en - 1st Album [Just Listen] (Track 01. Intro (with Perry))
[2003.06] Masta Wu - 1st Album [Masta Peace] (Track 02. 허수아비 (Scarecrow))
[2006.03.07] Se7en - 3rd Album [24/7] (Track 14. Run (With Taeyang))
[2006.11.01] Se7en - 4th Album [Se7olution] (Track 07. Can You Feel Me)
[2006.12.26] 박봄 (Park Bom) - Anystar Park Bom Ver.
[2007.04.] Lexy - 3rd Album [Rush] (Track 07. Super Fly (with T.O.P, Taeyang))
[2007.07.19] 무가당(Moo Gadang) - Digital Single Album (Track 01. 오에오 (Oh, Ah, Oh))
[2007.10] 김조한(Kim Johan) - 5th Album [Soul Family With Johan] (Track 04. So In Love Part 2)
[2008.03.12] 거미(Gummy) - 4th Album [Comport] (Track 01. Work It Now (Intro))
[2008.05.22] 태양(Taeyang) - 1st Mini Album [HOT] (Track 05. Baby I'm So Sorry)
[2008.06.16] 대성(Daesung) - Digital Single [날 봐, 귀순] (Track 01. 날 봐, 귀순 (Look at me, Gwisun))
[2008.07.01] 엄정화(Uhm Junghwa) - 1st Mini Album [D.I.S.C.O] (Track 04. Party)
[2008.09.01] 엄정화(Uhm Junghwa) - Digital Single [D.I.S.C.O Part2] (Track 01. D.I.S.C.O Part 2)
[2008.10.10] YMGA - 1st Mini Album [Made In R.O.K] (Track 04. What (with YG Family, DJ Wreckx))
[2008.12.30] FILA Limited Edition With Big Bang - Digital Single (Stylish)
[2009.01.29] 대성(Daesung) - Digital Single [대박이야] (Track 01. 대박이야 (Big Hit!))
[2009.03.18] HITE Digital Single (So Fresh So Cool)
[2009.03.27] Big Bang & 2NE1 - Lollipop Digital Single (Track 01. Lollipop)
[2009.05.13] W-inds. - Single Album [Rain Is Fallin'/Hybrid Dream] (Track 01. Rain Is Fallin')
[2009.08.18] Jin Jung - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 04. Butterfly)
[2009.08.18] Dara - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 05. Hello)
[2009.08.18] Kim Gun Mo - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 06. Gossip Man)
[2009.08.18] Taeyang - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 07. Korean Dream)
[2009.08.18] Teddy & CL - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 08. The Leaders)
[2009.08.18] Kush - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 09. She's Gone)
Source: Wikipedia
History
G-Dragon is a South Korean singer, musician, and songwriter. He debuted at the age of 12, by participating in the Korean Hip Hop Flex album in 2001, as the youngest member of the group. In 2002, he was scouted to YG Entertainment, and after 6 years of practice, he became the leader of a Korean band, Big Bang, in 2006. He is now the vocal and rapper of the team, and also contributes to various album production. He also writes lyrics and songs; he created many hit songs. He has opened a new, revolutionary era for the Korean music industry with the success "Lies," which was quite new in Korea at the time. His boom continued with the success of "Last Farewell", "Haru Haru", and "My Heaven"- which he worked on with a Japanese musician, Daishi Dance. He also became a famous fashionista, representing his own unique fashion style. He was awarded as one of the "Most Influential Men of 2008" (style part) sponsored by Arena magazine.
Music Style
G-Dragon's music bases on Hip Hop. He listened to the music of The Wu-Tang Clan when he was 10 years old, and participated in Hip Hop Flex album in 2001. He continued practicing Hip Hop music while being a trainee at YG Entertainment. However, his music after the debut not only limits itself in Hip Hop, but also in fusion genres; in "Lies", he combined house and Hip Hop; in his solo piece "But I Love U", he sampled Redd Holt Unlimited's Rhu in jazz in Hip Hop. In "Oh My Friend", he fused rock and rap, collaborating with No Brain, and in "Strong Baby", which he composed with Bae Jin Ryul, is a pop-dance music. G-Dragon expands his music career to not only in hiphop, but to a broad spectrum of genres. However, like he said in YG Bounce interview, he "does not want to be limited to merely rapping, and is open-minded to all possibilities. But his identity can be defined as a rapper, if in need of a definition."
Fashion Style
From his debut, G-Dragon has drawn attention from many through his sense of fashion. He usually wears London street fashion, and likes to have unique accessories to accompany his style. In his recent interview with YG Bounce, he said, "by the time others imitate my style, I would be in a different appearance. it is not fun to look the same like others. because I don’t want to be the same, I think over and over to look unique". G-Dragon is not just interested in fashion, but he is passionate in collecting information over the internet and thinking over it. In Big Bang's autobiography, he wrote, "for me, my fashion is not merely of clothes nor brands, but are wings to describe my identity. If music is the energy to drive myself, clothes are the sources which I can expand myself upon. if time permits, I want to work in the fashion industry one day while I write my songs, from time to time I design my own clothes."
Controversies
Despite his success, G-Dragon has not been free of any controversies. G-Dragon has been subjected to allegations of plagiarism. The first hit by Big Bang, "Lies" was composed by G-Dragon. The first few seconds of the song "Lies" have been the accused of plagiarizing FreeTEMPO's "Sky High." Legal action was never taken, as the composer of "Sky High" said, "Even though it sounds very similar, it has a completely different feeling." Most lately, G-Dragon's "Heartbreaker" has been accused of plagiarising Flo-Rida's "Right Round" and another song of plagiarising Oaisis's "She's Electric." Legal action has not yet been taken.
G-Dragon's choice of clothing in the last episode of Big Bang's documentary. In this episode, G-Dragon can be seen wearing a T-Shirt with a picture of a nude woman on it. It has been censored, but not enough to be not recognized. Also, G-Dragon also performed in a concert wearing a T-Shirt with stickers on it that said "I love sex, "69," and "F*** U Too." G-Dragon has apologized for such actions.
Trivia
Postion in Big Bang: Leader / Main Rapper
Education: Seoul Korean Traditional Arts Middle & High School
Skills: Rapping, Dancing, Beat Boxing, Composing, Singing, and Languages (Chinese, English)
Debut: DaeHanMinGook Hip Hop Flex (2001)
Hobbies: Drawing pictures, listening to music, and composing
Likes: Fashion, Acting, Cooking, Crispy Donuts, Dogs, Cars, The Drawing ‘Is it like stars or skeleton‘, books (poems, mangas, and magazines), watching cartoons, and himself
Family Members: Parents and Older Sis [Dami]
Personality: He is pretty bright…when he is quiet he is extremely quiet. He lightens the mood a lot. He leads the group. His senses are fast, has high self esteem and likes to be outstanding.
Pendent: A bball cap (GD’s favorite style of cap) on top of a star meaning “to become a big star in the music industry.”
* Has 3 tattoos, 2 on his inner arms: right is “vita dolce” meaning sweet life in Italian and “moderato” on his left meaning moderate (a musical term) done on May 2007 by Carey Heart (husband of U.S. artist Pink) at famous tattoo parlor “Hart & Hurtington Tattoo Parlor” at Palms Casino in Las Vegas, 1 on his back: "Too fast to live, too young to die"
* “G-Dragon” comes from his original name “Ji Yong”because Yong means “dragon” and Ji sounds just like a “G”
* Love it when people call him “Kwon Leader”
* Older Sis, Dami owns online clothing store called “Style Love” or “Style Luv” Website
* Lie was suppose to be GD’s solo because he wrote it, but in the end they decided to sing as a group
* GD childhood friend is KangIn from Super Junior
* GD’s most prized possesion and he grew a habit of orgnizing it all the time is his shoes hats clothes. The reason “Even though it’s only clothes, once you loose it, you can’t just buy it back.”
* He hates when people compliment and notice just his looks instead of realizing him for his talent.
Discography
See Big Bang Discography
Solo
- 1st Digital Single [나만 바라 봐(Look Only At Me) Part2 : G-Dragon]
- 1st Solo Album: Heartbreaker [Released August, 18 2009]
01. 소년이여 (A Boy)
02. Heartbreaker
03. Breathe
04. Butterfly (feat. Jin Jung)
05. Hello (feat. Sandara Park from 2NE1)
06. Gossip Man (feat. Kim Gun-Mo)
07. Korean Dream (feat. Tae-Yang)
08. The Leaders(feat. Teddy, CL)
09. She’s gone (feat. kush)
10. 1년 정거장 (1 year station)
Collaborations
[2001.09.04] Perry - 1st Album [Perry By Storm] (Track 01. Storm (with Jinusean, Masta Wu);
[2002.04.03] Wheesung - 1st Album [Like A Movie] (Track 7. Magic Eye)
[2003.03.08] Se7en - 1st Album [Just Listen] (Track 01. Intro (with Perry))
[2003.06] Masta Wu - 1st Album [Masta Peace] (Track 02. 허수아비 (Scarecrow))
[2006.03.07] Se7en - 3rd Album [24/7] (Track 14. Run (With Taeyang))
[2006.11.01] Se7en - 4th Album [Se7olution] (Track 07. Can You Feel Me)
[2006.12.26] 박봄 (Park Bom) - Anystar Park Bom Ver.
[2007.04.] Lexy - 3rd Album [Rush] (Track 07. Super Fly (with T.O.P, Taeyang))
[2007.07.19] 무가당(Moo Gadang) - Digital Single Album (Track 01. 오에오 (Oh, Ah, Oh))
[2007.10] 김조한(Kim Johan) - 5th Album [Soul Family With Johan] (Track 04. So In Love Part 2)
[2008.03.12] 거미(Gummy) - 4th Album [Comport] (Track 01. Work It Now (Intro))
[2008.05.22] 태양(Taeyang) - 1st Mini Album [HOT] (Track 05. Baby I'm So Sorry)
[2008.06.16] 대성(Daesung) - Digital Single [날 봐, 귀순] (Track 01. 날 봐, 귀순 (Look at me, Gwisun))
[2008.07.01] 엄정화(Uhm Junghwa) - 1st Mini Album [D.I.S.C.O] (Track 04. Party)
[2008.09.01] 엄정화(Uhm Junghwa) - Digital Single [D.I.S.C.O Part2] (Track 01. D.I.S.C.O Part 2)
[2008.10.10] YMGA - 1st Mini Album [Made In R.O.K] (Track 04. What (with YG Family, DJ Wreckx))
[2008.12.30] FILA Limited Edition With Big Bang - Digital Single (Stylish)
[2009.01.29] 대성(Daesung) - Digital Single [대박이야] (Track 01. 대박이야 (Big Hit!))
[2009.03.18] HITE Digital Single (So Fresh So Cool)
[2009.03.27] Big Bang & 2NE1 - Lollipop Digital Single (Track 01. Lollipop)
[2009.05.13] W-inds. - Single Album [Rain Is Fallin'/Hybrid Dream] (Track 01. Rain Is Fallin')
[2009.08.18] Jin Jung - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 04. Butterfly)
[2009.08.18] Dara - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 05. Hello)
[2009.08.18] Kim Gun Mo - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 06. Gossip Man)
[2009.08.18] Taeyang - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 07. Korean Dream)
[2009.08.18] Teddy & CL - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 08. The Leaders)
[2009.08.18] Kush - GD's album [Heartbreaker] (Track 09. She's Gone)
Source: Wikipedia
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