Kwon Ji-Yong, better known by his stage name G-Dragon, is the leader of the Korean musical group Big Bang. Yong means dragon in korean and Ji sounds like "g", hence, the stagename, G-Dragon. He began training under YG Entertainment at the age of twelve. After six years of vocal and dance training he made his debut in 2006 as part of Big Bang.
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 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 ...
Kwon Ji-Yong, better known by his stage name G-Dragon, is the leader of the Korean musical group Big Bang. Yong means dragon in korean and Ji sounds like "g", hence, the stagename, G-Dragon. He began training under YG Entertainment at the age of twelve. After six years of vocal and dance training he made his debut in 2006 as part of Big Bang.
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 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.
Big Bang
Big Bang debuted as a Hip Hop group with "La La La" in 2006. The group consists of 5 members (G-Dragon as the leader (rapper, vocal), T.O.P (rapper), Taeyang (vocal), Dae Sung (vocal), Seungri (vocal). They have numerous hit songs such as "Lies," "Last Farewell," and "Haru Haru" in Korea. They recently made a major-debut in Japan with the single album, "My Heaven," and are in the center of attention with their music, dance, and fashion style.
Genres
G-Dragon's music bases on Hip Hop. He listened to the music of The Wu-Tan 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."
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."
G-Dragon was featured in Japanese artist W-inds' single Rain is Fallin'.
G-Dragon's first full solo album, Heartbreaker,will be released on August 18, 2009, his birthday.
There will be a total of 11 tracks featuring various artists including: Jin Jung, Dara(2NE1), Kim GunMo, TaeYang(Big Bang), Teddy(1TYM), CL(2NE1), and KUSH.
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