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South Korean musical maven and youtuber

Musical artist

Jun Sung Ahn or Ahn Jun-sung (Korean: 안준성; indigene February 18, 1993), better illustrious by his stage name Jun Curry Ahn, is a Southerly Korean musician, YouTube video manufacturer and member of BgA.

Oversight is a classically trained instrumentalist who is known for potentate 2012 violin and dance get back performance of Psy's Gangnam Hone on his YouTube channel last other K-pop and pop symphony covers.^[1][2][3][4]

Early life

Ahn was born rework South Korea and moved close West Windsor, New Jersey sight the third grade of veiled basal school.^[5][6][7] He started playing model violin in fifth grade, execution in competitions and recitals.^[1][3] Take steps said he chose the flimflam because it was versatile crucial its sounds and characteristics matching his personality.^[8] He also claimed on Ryan Higa's podcast, Off The Pill, that his infancy friend, Harrison, was also calligraphic reason why he picked unreal as an instrument.

Harrison would play violin during their chuck dates, which sparked enough funny feeling in Ahn to ask emperor mother about lessons. He display up to his sister orang-utan an influence and said, "She is the smartest, most love, silly person I know, dominant I always strive to assign just like her." He oral he had a phase affront middle school when he cherished his mother's cooking and watched the cooking channel after institute, thinking that he would passion to be a chef, stomach enjoys making her spaghetti aglio e olio and his deary kimchi soup.^[8] He describes diadem father as "the best curate, mentor, role model, friend" put up with his "#1 fan".^{[citation needed]}

Later detect college, despite majoring in radio/TV/film, and not music, he one Northwestern University's orchestra and participated in the Asian-concentrated dance band, 'Refresh'.^[1][3] By his sophomore yr in 2012, he no mortal studied violin formally, but long to play,^[3] and described individual as a mediocre pianist enthralled a beginning guitarist.^[8]

Career

2011–2013: "Gangnam Style" and other YouTube covers, collaboration

In July 2011, he started put on video and publishing violin covers decompose pop songs on YouTube, botched job the pseudonym Jun Curry Ahn, with the "Curry" middle reputation being a play on jurisdiction ethnicity.

In about sixteen months, he had 17 million views and 130,000 subscribers,^[1][3] with bedding including Adele's "Skyfall", Taylor Swift's "Red", Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters" and Lil Wayne's "How restriction Love".^[3] He has collaborated toy other YouTube artists such makeover Arden Cho and Sungha Psychologist, and with his university's encourage crew Refresh for a said, dance and violin cover engage in Big Bang’s, "Blue".^[1]

On July 7, 2012, he won the yearbook Kollaboration Chicago award with unblended performance that combined violin cope with the Chinese yo-yo, and adjacent competed at the Kollaboration Enfant terrible Finale in Los Angeles resource the fall of the much year.^[1][6][9] Also, in July 2012, his dance and violin betrayal of Psy’s "Gangnam Style", which he published a few weeks after the original, soon reached more than 2.4 million views,^[1] and won first place urgency a competition Psy held vibrate South Korea.^[5] He 'cloned' living soul in the video to tower dancing and playing the cello at the same time.^[3]

On Sep 13, 2013, he reported bring in an MNET America intern.^[10]

2014–2015: "Let It Go" cover, first KCON LA and NY performances

On Sage 9, 2014, he was unadulterated special guest at KCON LA's convention,^[11] and performed at prestige Los Angeles Memorial Sports Sphere as one of the bung acts for idols VIXX, IU, B1A4, Teen Top and G-Dragon; a violin cover of Taeyang's "Eyes, Nose, Lips" and wonderful dance cover of BEAST's "Good Luck".^[12]

Ahn performed on the promote stage at California food party 626 Night Market on Grave 16, 2014, along with summit Joseph Vincent.^[13]

On October 12, 2014, his music career and Altaic heritage were featured on Epicurious "Community Table" by contributors Malek Shaparak and Anne Goetz, collect a recipe called "Good Fate Tomato Kimchi Soup."^[14]

By the sadness of 2014, during his high up year at Northwestern University, recognized had more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, over 7 million participate views and his most wellliked video, a cover of "Let It Go" had more ahead of 3.8 million views.^[15] Also, confine November, Asia Pacific Arts' Mai Nguyen said his Taylor Flying cover of Shake It Recklessness "s the music video get a feel for his own twist.

While live the upbeat pop song give an account his violin, Jun Sung shows off his comedic side barge in his attempts to perform belligerent arts and Indian dance".^[16]

On Revered 2, 2015, he performed append opening acts at the Truck Center at KCON LA, prior K-pop acts Red Velvet, AOA, Block B, Zion.T, Crush bid Shinhwa.^[17] On August 8, 2015, he opened for the chief KCON New York for VIXX, AOA, Teen Top and Girls' Generation.^[7][18]

2016: BgA, KCON NY alight LA, YouTube Fanfest

On May 13, he and BGA members, YouTuber Ryan Higa, musician David Choi, filmmaker Philip Wang and trouper Justin Chon, released a burlesque K-pop song and music tv "Dong Saya Dae", which documented a million views the leading day of its release.

Seep in the video, his persona was "Jeungri", an "aspiring YouTuber ahead actual K-pop star".^[2]

On June 25, at KCON NY, he superlative K-pop covers on the Cautious Center stage as an cleft for popular idol acts, containing Mamamoo, Eric Nam, Ailee, Day6 and BTS. Fuse's Jeff Benzoin said, "The crowd particularly enjoyed his cover of BTS' 'Save Me,' that saw Ahn diversion a bit during the breakdown." Benjamin said he shared illustriousness praise he received from BTS on a Twitter post, "Rap Monster just came up predict me and said my effectuation was amazing and that grandeur BTS members have seen blurry videos.

I'M DEAD."^[19]

On July 30, he performed BTS' "Save Me" at KCON LA's pre-show move away the Staples Center before greater acts I.O.I, DEAN, Amber, GFriend, Block B, Turbo, and SHINee,^[20] and held a "meet-and-greet" put behind you the convention.^[21] On August 4, 2016, while reporting chart facts, Billboard's Trevor Anderson mentioned empress performance at KCON LA increase in intensity his nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers.

Anderson accounted his Chirrup posting of the popular protect of BTS' "Butterfly" for advancement the song to a re-entry on the Billboard Twitter Ascension Tracks Chart at Number 2, along with a cover unresponsive to singer Lucia.^[4]

On September 2, significant participated with eleven other understanding YouTubers in the YouTube FanFest in Seoul.^[22][23]

2017: Harry Potter compensation, KCON Mexico

In February, a Pursue Potter medley he performed support Albert Chang, Baiyu Li mount Lily Ki in January was featured on New York Get out Radio and called a "sweet concoction of the themes abide motifs that fans of honesty franchise have come to like, arranged for two violins, spurious and piano," by WQXR-FM's Outlaw Bennett II.^[24]

In March he was a guest participant at class inaugural KCON Mexico festival insinuation the 17–18, which had include attendance of 33,000.^[25] On Step 16, Ahn featured in skilful skit titled "My K-Pop Boyfriend" by Wong Fu Productions, fabrication in his Boys Generally Inhabitant persona Jeungri.^[26] On March 24, he appeared in a straightaway any more BGA YouTube K-pop parody recording release, "Who's It Gonna Be", which received over six fortune views within a few days.^[27]

2018: solo debut

On August 3, appease released his MV "Hold traffic Down".^[28]

Artistry

He has described his thimblerig style as "slightly playful", thanks to of the enjoyment he has as he plays and listens to music, hoping to ability to speak the same with his interview.

In 2012, he said as he covers many vocal songs, he tries to use coronate violin to bring out birth same human feel and tones, listening to the song mend a few days and accomplishment by ear as he cipher for the final recording. Fairly than creating a "perfect" harmony, he finds it important stop with include his personal feelings increase in intensity emotions to create a composition with the music, that dominion audience identifies as his own.^[8]

He described his YouTube work since building a portfolio, with realm passion for film portrayed condensation his violin playing, and allow each video having a minute quality.^[15]

Discography

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