This is what Jon Koon, the year-old owner of downtown Manhattan boutique Private Stock, says to the slight, 5'8" blonde-haired Asian man browsing his store on a sweltering Sunday in July. Possibly, maybe. The mystery visitor is year-old Kwon Ji-yong, better known as G-Dragon, and he is wildly famous in his native South Korea. Amazing what 1. GD has also become a fast favorite of all-leather-everything label En Noir. G-Dragon, as he will tell you, is a musician first, but his crossover to the U. Though his dominant influence on fashion and music in Asia inspires comparisons to Mr. Search for them on YouTube for a cuteness overload.
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Breaking out of its more than two-year hiatus due to members' military service, boy band BIGBANG is scheduled to drop new music this year, the band's first release since "Flower Road" in March , according its management, YG Entertainment. The exact date of the new music release has yet to be fixed, but the return of BIGBANG is sure to sharply raise the profile of the K-pop scene this year. Global phenomenon BTS is also preparing to drop a new album in the coming months, adding heat to the music market going forward. As the septet set out on a course to release a new album, the band also launched a secondary project, telling the story of the album production and the band members' engagement in the process in YouTube shows.
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His first solo album Heartbreaker and its title track of the same name , released in , were commercially successful, becoming the best-selling album by a Korean soloist at the time and earning him Album of the Year at the Mnet Asian Music Awards. G-Dragon collaborated with Big Bang bandmate T. In , he embarked on his first worldwide tour as a solo artist, making him the first Korean soloist to tour Japanese dome arenas. E became the largest tour ever conducted by a Korean soloist. Widely recognized for his influence on youth culture, fashion trends, and music in South Korea, [10] G-Dragon was named by Forbes in as the most influential person under 30 in Asia's entertainment and sports.
From age twelve, G-Dragon trained for six years at South Korean entertainment label YG Entertainment before debuting in as the leader of the hip hop boy band Big Bang, which went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands in the world. His first solo album Heartbreaker and its title track of the same name, released in , were commercially successful, becoming the best-selling album by a Korean soloist at the time and earning him Album of the Year at the Mnet Asian Music Awards. G-Dragon collaborated with Big Bang bandmate T. In , he embarked on his first worldwide tour as a solo artist, making him the first Korean soloist to tour Japanese dome arenas.
