South Korean musical artist and youtuber
Musical artist
Jun Sung Ahn or Ahn Jun-sung (Korean: 안준성; born February 18, 1993), better publicize by his stage name Jun Curry Ahn, is a Southerly Korean musician, YouTube video producer and member of BgA. Noteworthy is a classically trained violinist who is known for his 2012 violin and dance cover performance of Psy's Gangnam Accept on his YouTube channel and other K-pop and pop sound covers.[1][2][3][4]
Ahn was born in South Korea and moved comparable with West Windsor, New Jersey in the third grade of clear school.[5][6][7] He started playing classical violin in fifth grade, playing in competitions and recitals.[1][3] He said he chose the fiddle because it was versatile and its sounds and characteristics compatible his personality.[8] He also stated on Ryan Higa's podcast, Off The Pill, that his childhood friend, Harrison, was also a reason why he picked violin as an instrument. Harrison would play violin during their play dates, which sparked enough distrust in Ahn to ask his mother about lessons. He looks up to his sister as an influence and said, "She is the smartest, most caring, silly person I know, challenging I always strive to be just like her." He aforesaid he had a phase in middle school when he admired his mother's cooking and watched the cooking channel after primary, thinking that he would like to be a chef, enjoin enjoys making her spaghetti aglio e olio and his choice kimchi soup.[8] He describes his father as "the best pop, mentor, role model, friend" and his "#1 fan".[citation needed]
Later set a date for college, despite majoring in radio/TV/film, and not music, he linked Northwestern University's orchestra and participated in the Asian-concentrated dance gang, 'Refresh'.[1][3] By his sophomore year in 2012, he no someone studied violin formally, but continued to play,[3] and described himself as a mediocre pianist and a beginning guitarist.[8]
In July 2011, he started tape and publishing violin covers of pop songs on YouTube, subordinate to the pseudonym Jun Curry Ahn, with the "Curry" middle name being a play on his ethnicity. In about sixteen months, he had 17 million views and 130,000 subscribers,[1][3] with covers including Adele's "Skyfall", Taylor Swift's "Red", Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters" and Lil Wayne's "How to Love".[3] He has collaborated swop other YouTube artists such as Arden Cho and Sungha Psychologist, and with his university's dance crew Refresh for a outspoken, dance and violin cover of Big Bang’s, "Blue".[1]
On July 7, 2012, he won the annual Kollaboration Chicago award with a performance that combined violin and the Chinese yo-yo, and late competed at the Kollaboration Star Finale in Los Angeles careful the fall of the same year.[1][6][9] Also, in July 2012, his dance and violin cover 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 get your skates on a competition Psy held in South Korea.[5] He 'cloned' himself in the video to appear dancing and playing the fiddle at the same time.[3]
On September 13, 2013, he reported sort an MNET America intern.[10]
On August 9, 2014, he was a special guest at KCON LA's convention,[11] and performed at depiction Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena as one of the occasion acts for idols VIXX, IU, B1A4, Teen Top and G-Dragon; a violin cover of Taeyang's "Eyes, Nose, Lips" and a dance cover of BEAST's "Good Luck".[12]
Ahn performed on the prime stage at California food festival 626 Night Market on Lordly 16, 2014, along with musician Joseph Vincent.[13]
On October 12, 2014, his music career and Korean heritage were featured on Epicurious "Community Table" by contributors Malek Shaparak and Anne Goetz, sure of yourself a recipe called "Good Luck Tomato Kimchi Soup."[14]
By the twist of 2014, during his senior year at Northwestern University, sharptasting had more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, over 7 million feature views and his most popular video, a cover of "Let It Go" had more than 3.8 million views.[15] Also, school in November, Asia Pacific Arts' Mai Nguyen said his Taylor Fast cover of Shake It Off "...remakes the music video continue living his own twist. While playing the upbeat pop song chart his violin, Jun Sung shows off his comedic side behave his attempts to perform martial arts and Indian dance".[16]
On Honourable 2, 2015, he performed with opening acts at the Staples Center at KCON LA, preceding K-pop acts Red Velvet, AOA, Block B, Zion.T, Crush and Shinhwa.[17] On August 8, 2015, he opened for the first KCON New York for VIXX, AOA, Teen Top and Girls' Generation.[7][18]
On May 13, he and BGA members, YouTuber Ryan Higa, musician David Choi, filmmaker Philip Wang and device Justin Chon, released a parody K-pop song and music recording "Dong Saya Dae", which recorded a million views the foremost day of its release. In the video, his persona was "Jeungri", an "aspiring YouTuber and actual K-pop star".[2]
On June 25, at KCON NY, he performed K-pop covers on the Prudential Center stage as an opening for popular idol acts, including 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 dancing a bit during the breakdown." Benjamin said he shared the praise he received from BTS on a Twitter post, "Rap Monster just came up give somebody the job of me and said my performance was amazing and that description BTS members have seen my videos. I'M DEAD."[19]
On July 30, he performed BTS' "Save Me" at KCON LA's pre-show parallel with the ground the Staples Center before larger acts I.O.I, DEAN, Amber, GFriend, Block B, Turbo, and SHINee,[20] and held a "meet-and-greet" critical remark the convention.[21] On August 4, 2016, while reporting chart information, Billboard's Trevor Anderson mentioned his performance at KCON LA standing his nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers. Anderson accounted his Tweet posting of the popular cover of BTS' "Butterfly" for boosting the song to a re-entry on the Billboard Twitter Break in proceedings Tracks Chart at Number 2, along with a cover rough singer Lucia.[4]
On September 2, he participated with eleven other falling star YouTubers in the YouTube FanFest in Seoul.[22][23]
In February, a Harry Potter medley he performed check on Albert Chang, Baiyu Li and Lily Ki in January was featured on New York Public Radio and called a "sweet concoction of the themes and motifs that fans of depiction franchise have come to love, arranged for two violins, violoncello and piano," by WQXR-FM's James Bennett II.[24]
In March he was a guest participant at the inaugural KCON Mexico festival work out the 17–18, which had an attendance of 33,000.[25] On Walk 16, Ahn featured in a skit titled "My K-Pop Boyfriend" by Wong Fu Productions, acting in his Boys Generally Indweller persona Jeungri.[26] On March 24, he appeared in a secondbest BGA YouTube K-pop parody video release, "Who's It Gonna Be", which received over six million views within a few days.[27]
On August 3, he released his MV "Hold undertake Down".[28]
He has described his violin style as "slightly playful", being of the enjoyment he has as he plays and listens to music, hoping to share the same with his opportunity. In 2012, he said because he covers many vocal songs, he tries to use his violin to bring out picture same human feel and tones, listening to the song on the side of a few days and playing by ear as he practices for the final recording. Rather than creating a "perfect" concerto, he finds it important to include his personal feelings innermost emotions to create a story with the music, that his audience identifies as his own.[8]
He described his YouTube work variety building a portfolio, with his passion for film portrayed funny story his violin playing, and with each video having a cinematic quality.[15]
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US world | KOR | |||
| Hold it down | 2018 | Non album-singles | ||
| Admit | 2019 | LIMBO Mini Album | ||
| Limbo | ||||
| Switch | ||||
| REM (ft. Moon Jong-up) | ||||