Yoo Seung Jun's bio

When Yoo Seung Jun was 6 years old, he began to dream of becoming a star. He enjoyed listening to music by Michael Jackson. His family moved to the United States when he was 13, and he resided in Buena Park, California. He attended Sunny Hills High School, where he experienced discrimination and did poorly as a result of gang activity and drugs. Yoo eventually overcame his problems, and started singing in a church choir.

He discovered he had a knack for singing and dancing, so he began to video tape and make demos of his rap and dance moves. At 20 years old, he worked hard to get his name known in the Korean music industry, sending out demo tapes to various Korean music agencies displaying his variety of talents: rapping, dancing, swimming, playing tennis, roller blading, playing basketball, body building, and Tae Kwon Do. For a while, no one responded, but when Steve Yoo finally received a response, he left California to start his singing career.

In 1996, he started filming himself singing and dancing, and sent these videos to Brothers Entertainment where he was scouted. He was sent to Korea and debuted as a singer in 1997. His first album West Side was an instant hit with the song debuting with Gawi translated as Nightmare. With the hit of Gawi and I love you noona, He was awarded The Best Rookie of the Year in most of year end event. Yoo gained the big popularity with the specific dance move of the song Gawi. The move that shake the legs while body goes down and up and few people line up diagonally to perform same dance move became the signature of Yoo. The summer of 1998, he released 1998 V2 for SALE with the single Na Na Na, the song and the music video for Na Na Na topped charts and his popularity grew even more. 2nd album is consider as the most successful album of his career which award him The Best Artist of the Year on multiple award ceremony. In 1999, He went on to release his 3rd album Now Or Never with single album passion. In this time, He started to expand his singing activity to China and Taiwan. Working with Taiwan singer Yuki, He release the single Can't Wait in China and Taiwan and gained big popularity which helped him later on his life. In 2001, he released his single Wow. He continues to release album and single in Korea until 2002. From late 1990s to early 2000s, because of success of group idol like H.O.T and Shinhwa, Most Korean entertainment companies continue to produce group singers and Yoo Seung Jun is known as the best solo artist of that era. close