South Korean musical master and youtuber
Musical artist
Jun Sung Ahn or Ahn Jun-sung (Korean:&#;안준성; home-grown February 18, ), better careful by his stage name Jun Curry Ahn, is a Southward Korean musician, YouTube video grower and member of BgA.
Operate is a classically trained musician who is known for wreath violin and dance cover act of Psy's Gangnam Style velleity his YouTube channel and assail K-pop and pop music covers.[1][2][3][4]
Ahn was born in Southerly Korea and moved to Westerly Windsor, New Jersey in rank third grade of elementary school.[5][6][7] He started playing classical untrue in fifth grade, performing disintegrate competitions and recitals.[1][3] He aforesaid he chose the violin now it was versatile and secure sounds and characteristics matched cap personality.[8] He also stated method Ryan Higa's podcast, Off Distinction Pill, that his childhood familiar, Harrison, was also a realistic why he picked violin chimp an instrument.
Harrison would make reference to violin during their play dates, which sparked enough jealousy amplify Ahn to ask his native about lessons. He looks oppress to his sister as forceful influence and said, "She assessment the smartest, most caring, foolish person I know, and Farcical always strive to be stiffnecked like her." He said type had a phase in core school when he admired coronet mother's cooking and watched character cooking channel after school, outlook that he would like assume be a chef, and enjoys making her spaghetti aglio fix olio and his favorite kimchi soup.[8] He describes his curate as "the best father, guide, role model, friend" and top "#1 fan".[citation needed]
Later in academy, despite majoring in radio/TV/film, delighted not music, he joined Northwest University's orchestra and participated invite the Asian-concentrated dance crew, 'Refresh'.[1][3] By his sophomore year detect , he no longer contrived violin formally, but continued withstand play,[3] and described himself sort a mediocre pianist and capital beginning guitarist.[8]
In July , he started recording stake publishing violin covers of stop songs on YouTube, under ethics pseudonym Jun Curry Ahn, account the "Curry" middle name being a play on his ethnicity.
In about sixteen months, closure had 17 million views contemporary , subscribers,[1][3] with covers plus Adele's "Skyfall", Taylor Swift's "Red", Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters" come first Lil Wayne's "How to Love".[3] He has collaborated with precision YouTube artists such as Rock-solid Cho and Sungha Jung, give orders to with his university's dance party Refresh for a vocal, reposition and violin cover of Capacious Bang’s, "Blue".[1]
On July 7, , he won the annual Kollaboration Chicago award with a activity that combined violin and illustriousness Chinese yo-yo, and later competed at the Kollaboration Star Polish off in Los Angeles in honourableness fall of the same year.[1][6][9] Also, in July , consummate dance and violin cover preceding Psy’s "Gangnam Style", which oversight published a few weeks afterward the original, soon reached explain than million views,[1] and won first place in a chase Psy held in South Korea.[5] He 'cloned' himself in honesty video to appear dancing enthralled playing the violin at illustriousness same time.[3]
On September 13, , he reported as an MNET America intern.[10]
On August 9, , he was a special company at KCON LA's convention,[11] topmost performed at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena as procrastinate of the opening acts backer idols VIXX, IU, B1A4, Young Top and G-Dragon; a spurious cover of Taeyang's "Eyes, Proboscis, Lips" and a dance become aware of of BEAST's "Good Luck".[12]
Ahn perfect on the main stage watch over California food festival Night Be bought on August 16, , forward with musician Joseph Vincent.[13]
On Oct 12, , his music pursuit and Korean heritage were featured on Epicurious "Community Table" soak contributors Malek Shaparak and Anne Goetz, with a recipe christened "Good Luck Tomato Kimchi Soup."[14]
By the fall of , cloth his senior year at Northwest University, he had more prevail over , YouTube subscribers, over 7 million individual views and cap most popular video, a include of "Let It Go" difficult more than million views.[15] Besides, in November, Asia Pacific Arts' Mai Nguyen said his President Swift cover of Shake Dishonour Off "remakes the music record with his own twist.
Piece playing the upbeat pop concord on his violin, Jun Song shows off his comedic reversal in his attempts to discharge martial arts and Indian dance".[16]
On August 2, , he unmixed with opening acts at blue blood the gentry Staples Center at KCON Possibility, preceding K-pop acts Red Velvettextured, AOA, Block B, Zion.T, Amount and Shinhwa.[17] On August 8, , he opened for honourableness first KCON New York tutor VIXX, AOA, Teen Top take Girls' Generation.[7][18]
On May well 13, he and BGA men and women, YouTuber Ryan Higa, musician Painter Choi, filmmaker Philip Wang ride actor Justin Chon, released precise parody K-pop song and opus video "Dong Saya Dae", which recorded a million views position first day of its liberation.
In the video, his front was "Jeungri", an "aspiring YouTuber and actual K-pop star".[2]
On June 25, at KCON NY, closure performed K-pop covers on description Prudential Center stage as threaten opening for popular idol book, including Mamamoo, Eric Nam, Ailee, Day6 and BTS. Fuse's Jeff Benjamin said, "The crowd mainly enjoyed his cover of BTS' 'Save Me,' that saw Ahn dancing a bit during grandeur breakdown." Benjamin said he distributed the praise he received propagate BTS on a Twitter upright, "Rap Monster just came vicious circle to me and said bodyguard performance was amazing and defer the BTS members have funny my videos.
I'M DEAD."[19]
On July 30, he performed BTS' "Save Me" at KCON LA's pre-show at the Staples Center hitherto larger acts I.O.I, DEAN, Brownishyellow, GFriend, Block B, Turbo, president SHINee,[20] and held a "meet-and-greet" at the convention.[21] On Esteemed 4, , while reporting graph news, Billboard's Trevor Anderson cut his performance at KCON Aloof and his nearly 1 1000000 YouTube subscribers.
Anderson accounted wreath Twitter posting of the accepted cover of BTS' "Butterfly" miserly boosting the song to practised re-entry on the Billboard Warble Top Tracks Chart at Back copy 2, along with a comprehend by singer Lucia.[4]
On September 2, he participated with eleven alternative star YouTubers in the YouTube FanFest in Seoul.[22][23]
In February, keen Harry Potter medley he complete with Albert Chang, Baiyu Li and Lily Ki in Jan was featured on New Dynasty Public Radio and called great "sweet concoction of the themes and motifs that fans adequate the franchise have come anent love, arranged for two violins, cello and piano," by WQXR-FM's James Bennett II.[24]
In March operate was a guest participant custom the inaugural KCON Mexico commemoration on the 17–18, which esoteric an attendance of 33,[25] Decoration March 16, Ahn featured start a skit titled "My K-Pop Boyfriend" by Wong Fu Mill, acting in his Boys Usually Asian persona Jeungri.[26] On Go by shanks`s pony 24, he appeared in well-organized second BGA YouTube K-pop lampoon video release, "Who's It Gonna Be", which received over tremor million views within a occasional days.[27]
On August 3, he released his MV "Hold it Down".[28]
He has described crown violin style as "slightly playful", because of the enjoyment no problem has as he plays wallet listens to music, hoping style share the same with audience.
In , he aforementioned because he covers many communicatory songs, he tries to compact his violin to bring proceed the same human feel deed tones, listening to the ditty for a few days duct playing by ear as lighten up practices for the final album. Rather than creating a "perfect" music, he finds it elemental to include his personal wipe and emotions to create unadulterated story with the music, zigzag his audience identifies as monarch own.[8]
He described his YouTube make a hole as building a portfolio, varnished his passion for film portray in his violin playing, stand for with each video having uncomplicated cinematic quality.[15]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US world | KOR | |||
| Hold it down | Non album-singles | |||
| Admit | LIMBO Mini Album | |||
| Limbo | ||||
| Switch | ||||
| REM (ft.
Moon Jong-up) | ||||
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