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Korean-American hip hop singer and dancer who initially gained fame as a member of boy band 2PM. He later gained YouTube fame by releasing covers of other popular artists. He has won multiple awards, like Musician of the Year at the Korean Music Awards in 2013.

He was a part of break dancing crew named Art of Movement as a teenager.

He released the #1 Korean album, New Breed, in 2012.

He has a younger brother named Jehan.

He gained a large internet following for his cover the Bobby Ray Simmons song “Nothin’ On You.”

Jay Park (Korean name: Park Jae-beom (Hangul: 박재범; Hanja: 朴載範); born April 25, 1987) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, choreographer, entrepreneur, actor, member of the Seattle-based b-boy crew Art of Movement (AOM), and founder and CEO of the independent hip hop record labels AOMG and H1GHR Music. Park started as a b-boy and dancer, known for his charismatic performances and stage presence. Park was described as a “born entertainer” by Korean pop singer Patti Kim, and The New York Times quoted the president of digital music distributor DFSB Kollective describing Park as “not just an artist, but also his own PR agent, fan club president, and TV network.”

Park’s music takes its roots in R&B and hip hop, more specifically from the 90s. He is influenced by the work of American artists he grew up listening to, such as Usher, Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown, Ginuwine, Musiq Soulchild, Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Jay-Z, Nas, Tupac, Dr. Dre, and Canibus. Park credits Usher as his idol and as one of his biggest influences, who he started listening to in the 6th grade. He also cites Michael Jackson as his role model, as “he is the best”. He cites both Usher and Michael Jackson as singers and dancers who influence him vocally and in dance, as he attempts to mimic them, looking at their music videos. Park also cites Chris Brown as an inspiration, and wants “to be a singer who can be good at both singing and rapping like [him]”. Park began listening to hip hop music when he was in second grade, after one of his cousins let him listen to Warren G’s “Regulate”. In general, Park stated he “doesn’t really listen to music to get inspiration, I listen to music because I listen to music, but I do get inspired when I listen to music, it definitely helps”.

Born in Edmonds, Washington, in the Seattle metropolitan area, Park showed great interest in hip hop music and breakdancing at a young age. Park attended Edmonds Woodway and Meadowdale High School, where he spent most of his break and lunch times practicing dance with friends. Park started listening to hip hop and rap music in his early teens, and spent time learning and writing raps himself during high school. In 2003, Park became one of the first members of the Seattle-based b-boy crew Art of Movement (AOM). In 2004, Park’s mother, seeing how her son spent more time breakdancing than studying, suggested he audition for Korea-based JYP Entertainment, which brought him to Korea in January 2005 to receive further training in dancing, rapping, singing, and the Korean language. Park eventually completed his university education at Dankook University.

Park first appeared through Mnet’s Hot Blood Men, a documentary-style reality program that showed the future members of One Day, split as idol groups 2AM and 2PM, in training. Park, finishing at the top spot with the most fan votes, became the leader of 2PM. On September 4, 2008, 2PM debuted with the song “10 Out of 10” (Korean: 10점 만점에 10점 ; Revised Romanization: Ship Jeom Manjeome Ship Jeom) on the music program M! Countdown after the release of their first mini-album, Hottest Time of the Day, a few days prior. Aside from 2PM’s music activities, Park created the song “Jeong” (Korean: 정 ) with Yeeun of the Wonder Girls for the original soundtrack of the television drama Conspiracy in the Court, and featured on V.O.S’s “To Luv…”. He also participated in special stage performances, such as Navi’s “Heart Damage” (Korean: 마음이 다쳐서 ; Revised Romanization: Maeumi Dachyeoseo) on May 3, 2009, and K.Will’s “One Drop per Second” (Korean: 1초에 한방울 ; Revised Romanization: Il Choe Hanbangul) on June 20, 2009. In addition to Idol Show and Wild Bunny with fellow 2PM members, he also became a regular cast member in several variety programs, including Star King and Introducing a Star’s Friend. In August 2009, he and Kara band member, Nicole Jung, became the new hosts for a cultural variety show called Nodaji.

Park initially rose to fame as the leader of South Korean boy band 2PM, formed by record label JYP Entertainment in 2008, after having previously been a trainee for four years. In September 2009, Park returned home to Seattle after comments he wrote about Korea in 2005 as a teenager were publicized by the Korean media; Park officially left the group in early 2010. In March 2010, Park uploaded a cover video of B.o.B’s hit “Nothin’ on You”, with his own rap and lyrics, to YouTube, which went viral and reached over 2,000,000 views in less than 24 hours, leading to the release of Park’s first EP, Count on Me in July 2010, which debuted at number one on the Gaon chart. Park returned to South Korea in June 2010 for the filming of Hype Nation, while being represented by Digital Media Wire’s CEO and entertainment attorney Ned Sherman, and in July 2010, Park signed a contract with SidusHQ, one of the largest agencies in South Korea, re-debuting as a solo singer and an actor.

Soon after Park returned to the United States, the South Korean public changed their perspective on the matter when they realized that his Myspace messages had been severely mistranslated and taken out of context, in addition to strong fan support for Park’s return. Park was seen at b-boy battles with fellow Art of Movement members during his time in Seattle. However, on February 25, with Park’s comeback looking more and more likely, JYP suddenly announced that Jay Park’s contract with them had been terminated, citing a separate “personal mistake” that Park had made in 2009. JYP would make reference to this unknown event several times in 2010, but would never elaborate on any details. This termination had been agreed by all six members of 2PM and led to fan boycotts on 2PM-endorsed products. Protests for Park’s return to the group began to take place, not only in South Korea, but internationally as well. Various Jay Park-dedicated forums and fansites all over the world organized silent protests and flash dance mobs. Fans also hired a plane with a banner showing “J, what time is it now?” to fly over Seattle, and was broadcast on Seattle-based radio stations.

On September 4, 2009, unfavorable comments towards Korea were found on Park’s personal Myspace account from 2005. The comments, written in English to a friend, were translated by Korean media, quickly spreading across hundreds of news articles. Park expressed deep remorse and shame over his forgotten words and issued an official apology, explained the unhappiness that he experienced during his early days as a trainee in an unfamiliar country where he lacked family, the ability to easily communicate, and an understanding of the culture. Although outraged protesters demanded that Park should be removed from 2PM, JYP Entertainment’s CEO, Park Jin-young, stated on September 7, 2009, that he was going to continue as a part of the group. The following day, Park announced on his official fancafe that he would be leaving the group to calm the situation and return to his hometown, Seattle, Washington. He also apologized to the other 2PM members, and promised that he would “come back a better person”. Park Jin-young then confirmed that 2PM would continue as a six-member group. Additionally, due to the sensitive topic of Park’s departure, all 2PM members were withdrawn from their regular appearances on variety shows, and the final episode of their reality show, Wild Bunny, was postponed indefinitely. Park’s vocals would not be removed from the older songs he promoted with 2PM, but he would be absent from the newer tracks, and the remaining six members of 2PM re-filmed their music video for “Heartbeat” without Park on October 31, 2009.

In July 2010, Park was announced to be endorsing Levi Strauss & Co.’s new brand, dENiZEN. He had previously revealed on YouTube in June 2010, before coming back to Korea, that he was at a photoshoot without revealing it was for dENiZEN. He continued to endorse the brand until the end of 2011 with female model Kwon Ri-sae. Park and Kwon recorded a remix duet song of dENiZEN’s theme song, “Manifesto”.

Park began working with singer, producer, and fellow AOM member, Cha Cha Malone, releasing “Bestie” in both Korean and English, and a duet titled “Speechless”. Also in 2010, Park began collaborations and forming close ties with rappers Dok2 and The Quiett of Illionaire Records, titling the partnership “AOM & 1llionaire”. On September 5, Park participated in the 3rd International Secret Agents Los Angeles concert held in Cerritos, California, together with well-known YouTube celebrities such as Ryan Higa, KevJumba, AJ Rafael, Alyssa Bernal, Far East Movement, and America’s Best Dance Crew Season 5 champions, Poreotix. Park’s performance drew many positive responses.

Park created his own YouTube channel on March 15, “jayparkaom”, with the first upload being his own version of “Nothin’ on You”, which went viral and reached over 2,000,000 views in less than 24 hours. In Korea, the original song by B.o.B and Bruno Mars topped the Cyworld music chart in a matter of hours upon the video’s release. “Nothin’ on You” earned $300,000 in sales through the effect of Park’s video. On June 15, 2010, B.o.B released “Nothin’ on You” featuring Park, in South Korea, where he replaces Bruno Mars’ vocals. His YouTube cover helped contribute to much of the song’s success in Korea, with more than 5 million copies sold. Park subsequently thanked his fans for their support and continued to urge them not to hate remaining 2PM members.

Park received the Disk Bonsang for his mini album Take a Deeper Look on January 11, on the first day of the 26th Golden Disk Awards, which was held in Osaka. He was the only solo artist to receive the Disk Bonsang among the other Bonsang winners. On January 18, he received the Popular Artist Award of the Asia Model Awards, which was held in Seoul.

Park released his single “Girlfriend”, along with the music video via his YouTube channel on November 3. Park performed his single on the same day at the 2011 Style Icon Awards, following a recording of tvN’s Taxi. The movie Mr. Idol in which Park starred in was also released on November 3. The single peaked at number 28 on the Gaon chart. Park released Part 1 of his first full-length Korean album, New Breed, with the lead single “Star” (Korean: 별 ; Revised Romanization: Byeol) on December 28. “Star” peaked at number one on various sites like Bugs, Olleh Music, and Soribada while being on the top of other charts of music sites. The first part of New Breed also reached the top of charts of various music sites including Olleh Music, Bugs, Soribada and Daum. “Star” peaked at number 17 on the Gaon Chart.

On January 6, Park was announced as the winner in “Best Web Video” Category around the globe for his song “Nothin’ on You” at the Mashable Awards, and was also nominated in the “Must Follow Personality” category, finishing second. At the beginning of February, Park was featured in two music videos of girl group, 5dolls, called “Lips Stains” and “It’s You”. Park was chosen to be the sole opener for Ne-Yo in his first concert in Seoul for the “2011 Hyundai Mall 40th Anniversary Concert” held on March 29. He also cooperated with Ne-Yo for a charity event for children dreaming to become musicians on March 28 at the Dream Academy in Seoul. On March 28, Park was a finalist and received the most votes in the special category “Connecting People Award”, a joint venture between Shorty Awards and Nokia. Park also was a finalist in the “Celebrity” category at the same event.

Park was cast for the 2011 Korean movie Mr. Idol, starring alongside friend and fellow SidusHQ actor, Kim Su-ro. Park was also one of the performers, alongside SE7EN, Taeyang and Musiq Soulchild, at the Seoul Soul Festival held at the War Memorial of Korea on October 10. Park and Musiq Soulchild also performed the latter’s song “Love” at the festival. Park held a charity concert in December called the “White Love Party Concert”, with Supreme Team and Dok2 making appearances. Park and Art of Movement performed at “Fever Seoul Live” alongside Dumbfoundead, David Choi, and several international b-boys.

Rebranding as both a solo singer and a rapper, Park’s musical identity would lend to him partaking in the underground hip hop culture in South Korea, a rarity for both active and former K-Pop idols. Park’s first mini album, Take a Deeper Look, released in 2011, went multi-platinum in South Korea. Park became the first ever artist crowned winner on a debut stage by winning on KBS’ Music Bank with “Abandoned”, and was the only solo artist to win “Record of the Year” at the 2011 Golden Disk Awards. Later in 2011, Park released singles “Demon”, “Girlfriend”, and “Star”, co-starred in the Korean movie, Mr. Idol, and joined the cast of KBS’ Immortal Songs 2.

Park was also chosen to endorse and model for casual clothing brand Googims for their 2012 collections; after the announcement was made, it was stated that “the brand’s home page server was down every five minutes”. A behind the scenes video of Park performing an impromptu dance to “Gangnam Style” by Psy at a Googims photo shoot was uploaded to YouTube on September 2, 2012, capturing the public’s attention for his unique take of the choreography. Park also has been selected as the new model for outdoor clothing brand, Williamsburg, participating in TV commercials and fan-signing events.

In early 2012, Park was chosen by KT Tech to be the official model of Take HD, a new smartphone by the brand. Park released the maxi-single “Take HD Special Maxi Album” on February 7, 2012, produced by KT Tech to promote the smartphone. The maxi-single includes remixes of Park’s lead single from his album New Breed, “Know Your Name”, released on the same day.

Park was the closing act at the MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia, along with Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, Korean girl band Kara, and Malaysian singer Mizz Nina, on July 14. Park also performed his song “Carefree”, which was included on the New Breed Red Edition repackaged album, and also showed his self-choreographed dance break to “Dirty Bass” by Far East Movement featuring Tyga, which he later shared on YouTube. Park also held his own concerts in Sydney and Melbourne at the end of September 2012. Also in July, Park started a web series, Jay Park TV, through his YouTube channel, filmed and edited by Hep, Park’s friend and fellow Art of Movement member. The web series shows Park’s daily life with his friends, behind-the-scenes of concerts and filming, and the fun and games that he gets up to.

Jay Park held his first solo concert, New Breed Live in Seoul, on March 3 at the Olympic Hall of Seoul Olympic Park. Park successfully held a second concert New Breed Asia Tour in Seoul in Seoul on August 18 at the Olympic Hall of Seoul Olympic Park, and unlike the first, which was held in March, this one did not have a 19+ age restriction. Park was selected as the 2012 R-16 Korea ambassador by the Korea Tourism Organization on April 23.

He released his first full-length Korean album, New Breed, in February, with the lead single “Know Your Name”. The album reached number 1 twice on the Gaon Weekly album chart in South Korea, and also reached number 1 on the Hanteo Weekly chart by selling more than 80,000 copies offline in 10 days. New Breed debuted at number 4 on the Billboard World Album Charts and ranked number 16 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart. Park made his comeback stage on Korean music shows on February 16. He won Music Bank on February 24, one week after his comeback. On April 27, Park began Asian promotions for the Asian version release of his album New Breed, and visited 5 countries: Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan. On April 28, Jay performed at the 2012 Star Awards in Singapore. On June 13, he released the Japan editions of his albums Take a Deeper Look and New Breed through Universal J. The regular edition of New Breed includes the English version of “I Love You” and the acoustic version of “Know Your Name” as bonus tracks.

Several songs composed and written by Park for other artists were released in 2012. Jay Park produced and composed a song with Cha Cha Malone for Korean-American singer Brian Joo, titled “Can’t Stop”. Park wrote the Korean version of the song, while Joo wrote the English Version. Park co-wrote the song “4U” for the idol group U-Kiss at the request of main vocalist Soohyun, a long-time friend and fellow former JYP Entertainment trainee, and it was included in U-Kiss’s sixth EP DoraDora. Park also produced and composed a song for the girl group Tiny-G, entitled “Polaris”; the lyrics were written by actress Lee Si-young. They worked together through MBC’s Music and Lyrics. On July 3, Korean pop singer Younha released her fourth Korean album, Supersonic, including the track “Driver” written by Park. He also featured in the song, providing rap verses.

In February 2012, Jay Park released his first full-length album, New Breed, which quickly topped charts in South Korea and internationally. The album went multi-platinum in Korea in less than a week. Park also released an English mixtape, Fresh Air: Breathe It, which became the first mixtape by an Asian artist to achieve gold status on DatPiff for surpassing 100,000 downloads. Following the release of New Breed in 2012, Park held his first solo concert in Seoul, and began embarking on tours around Asia and Australia. In 2013, Park became a permanent cast member of tvN’s Saturday Night Live Korea. In 2014, Jay Park performed in South by Southwest (SXSW)’s music festival as a Korean representative pop singer. Park released the hip hop album Worldwide in November 2015, featuring club hits such as “Mommae”.

In March 2013, Park, a long time fan of Nike, participated at a Nike event in Seoul, Korea, titled “Nike on Air”, which was streamed live online via Ustream.

On May 3, it was revealed that Park would be participating on the soundtrack of M. Night Shyamalan’s 2013 American science-fiction thriller film, After Earth, having been personally contacted by Will Smith and Jaden Smith. Produced by Cha Cha Malone, the song “I Like 2 Party” was the ending theme for the Korean version of the film and was written and composed by Park himself. On May 7, Park attended the After Earth red carpet premiere in Korea alongside Will and Jaden Smith. On May 11, Immortal Songs 2’s 100th episode, Park performed “Everyday Day With You” by Deulgukhwa, remixed with Park’s latest single at the time, “Joah”. Later that month on May 30, a song titled “Rude Girl” by Kim Seul-gi and Jay Park for was released for Korean drama She is Wow.

Following on from the success of the Jay Park’s March edition of Men’s Health Korea, the same cover was used for the April edition of Men’s Health China, which was also the magazine’s 10th anniversary edition, and included large promotional posters across the country. In collaboration with Ustream Korea, Park held an official livestreamed event titled “Fan & Music Live” on April 2, and revealed the titles of the 3 songs from his upcoming single release; “Joah” (Korean: 좋아 ; Revised Romanization: Joha), “1 Hunnit” (Korean: 사실이야 ; Revised Romanization: Sasiriya), and “Welcome”. The title track, “Joah”, was revealed to be a mellow feel-good song, and was produced by Cha Cha Malone, with instrumentals by provided Saturday Night Live Korea in-session band Common Ground, “1 Hunnit” was a rap track featuring Dok2, and “Welcome” was provocative R&B track. On April 10, Park released the single album “Joah”, along with the music video for the title track. The music video was filmed in Park’s hometown of Seattle, and starred Korean actress Clara Lee. On April 16, Park appeared on SBS’ Hwasin – Controller of the Heart, the sequel of Strong Heart. On Park’s 26th birthday, April 25, Park released a music video for the song “Welcome”. On the April 27 episode of Immortal Songs 2, Park performed Lee Moon-sae’s “Sunset Glow” with R&B singer and friend Crush. Park’s skit on the April 27 episode of Saturday Night Live with Gayoon of 4Minute gained attention for Park’s character mistakenly saying inappropriate and sexual words in Korean, and featured a return of Park’s in-character ad lib as the camera’s failed to cut away at the end of the skit.

On February 6, 2013, it was announced that Jay Park would be joining the cast of Saturday Night Live Korea, having previously hosted an episode in late 2012. On Valentine’s Day, February 14, Park released the song “Appetizer” alongside a music video. The track was produced by friend and fellow Art of Movement member, Cha Cha Malone. On the first episode of Saturday Night Live Korea, Park garnered attention for his skit parodying the film Holiday with Korean actor and host of the episode, Choi Min-soo, and for his ad lib during a skit with Shin Dong-yup and Kim Seul-gi. on February 25, Mizz Nina’s single “Around the World” featuring Jay Park was officially released. The song had been in the works since Park and Mizz Nina had performed at MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia 2012. On February 28, Park received the “Musician of the Year” award at the 2013 Korean Music Awards, and his album New Breed was nominated in the “Best R&B and Soul album” category.

On February 6, 2013, it was announced that Jay Park would be joining the cast of Saturday Night Live Korea, having previously hosted an episode in late 2012. On Valentine’s Day, February 14, Park released the song “Appetizer” alongside a music video. The track was produced by friend and fellow Art of Movement member, Cha Cha Malone. On the first episode of Saturday Night Live Korea, Park garnered attention for his skit parodying the film Holiday with Korean actor and host of the episode, Choi Min-soo, and for his ad lib during a skit with Shin Dong-yup and Kim Seul-gi. on February 25, Mizz Nina’s single “Around the World” featuring Jay Park was officially released. The song had been in the works since Park and Mizz Nina had performed at MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia 2012. On February 28, Park received the “Musician of the Year” award at the 2013 Korean Music Awards, and his album New Breed was nominated in the “Best R&B and Soul album” category.

On September 1, 2014, Jay Park released his second full-length album, Evolution. With features and production from many of his AOMG labelmates such as Simon Dominic and Gray, the album presented tributes to Michael Jackson and R&B throwback ballads in its 17 tracks.

In 2015, Jay Park participated as a judge on Mnet’s rap competition program Show Me the Money 4. During the same year, Park released an extensive list of songs including “Lotto”, “All I Got Time For”, “On It”, “Want It”, “Mommae” and “Sex Trip”. Park released “My Last” featuring Loco and Gray in July 17, 2015 alongside a music video. On November 5, 2015, Jay Park released his third official studio album, Worldwide. The album was released alongside lead single “You Know (뻔하잖아)”, which featured Okasian and a music video. Directed by the production company Tiger Cave, the music video starred 4Minute’s HyunA and featured cameos from other Korean talents such as rappers Reddy and Ugly Duck, among others. The hip hop project contained a total of 18 tracks and contained some of the songs Park had previously released in the year, such as “Mommae”. The album also debuted at number five on Billboard’ s World Albums chart. Soon after the album’s release, Park released music videos for the tracks “Bo$$”, “Worldwide x Want It” and “In this B*tch x My”.

In 2016, Park, alongside Jessica Jung, Tian Yo, Charlene, and Pakho Chau modelled for Adidas’s Celebration of Sportswear campaign. In March 2016, Park modelled for Umbro Korea’s ‘Reborn to Heritage’ campaign; and did a photoshoot for Police Sunglasses, which was featured in the April issue of Dazed Korea magazine.

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