G-Dragon Profile

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G-DRAGON'S PROFILE

Name : Kwon Ji Yong  (권지용)

Stage Name : G-Dragon (G-드래곤)

Birthday : August 18th, 1988

Position : Leader, Main Rapper, Composer, Face of The Group, Song writer

Height : 177 cm

Weight : 58 kg

Blood Type : A

Education : Seoul Korean Traditional Arts Middle & High School

Hobbies : Drawing, listening to music
Talents : Rap, dance, beat box, songwriting, Composing, Singing, and Languages : Chinese, English

Debut : DaeHanMinGook Hip Hop Flex (2001)

Likes : Fashion, Acting, Cooking, Crispy Donuts, Dogs, Cars, The Drawing ‘Is it like stars or skeleton‘, books (poems, mangas, and magazines), watching cartoons, and himself

Religion : Christian
Family Members : Parents and Older Sister
Favorite Food : Gejang

G-Dragon is the leader of Big Bang. People described, he as the most fashionable one in his group. G-Dragon's role in influencing fashion trends in South Korea have garnered him awards such as the Style Icon of 2008 and the award for Most Influential Men of 2008 sponsored by Arena magazine. Fashion icon Kang Dong Wan has also acknowledged G-Dragon's influences, Kang Dong Wan calling G-Dragon is a fashionista.

G-Dragon and main vocalist Taeyang were the first ones to receive training under YG Entertainment at the age of eleven. Before entering YG Entertainment, they were child actors and models. On January 2001, G-Dragon debuted on the compilation album Daehanmingook Hip-Hop Flex as a rapper. After his debut, he was recruited along with Taeyang to act in JinuSean’s mv as mini JinuSean, which was released in February of the same year. Then G-Dragon started training out his planned debut as one half of hip hop duo GDYB and released two tracks under YG Family album. 

G-Dragon trainees at YG Entertainment for 6 years. He officially debuted as the leader and one of two rappers for Big Bang. With he skills, G-Dragon has been involved with writing, composing and producing many of Big Bang's tracks, including Haru Haru, Lies, and Last Farewell.

Aside from Big Bang, G-Dragon also made several solo appearances. After helping produce Taeyang's debut album, on August 18, G-Dragon released his debut album, Heartbreaker, promoting it with the album's title track. The album went on to win the "Album of the Year" at the 2009 Mnet Asian Music Awards, selling over 210,000 units. Heartbreaker also sparked major controversies for the artist, including accusations of plagiarism. In December 2009, for support his album, G-Dragon staged his first solo concert at the Olympic Park.

After almost a year of hiatus, in November 2010, YG Entertainment announced G-Dragon and bandmate, T.O.P collaborated to record and release the album GD & TOP (2010). The album saw the release of three singles: "High High," "Oh Yeah," and "Knock Out," all of which have charted within the top three positions of the Gaon chart, with "High High" becoming a chart-topper. Preceding the release of the album, the duo held a world-wide premiere showcase for their album at Times Square in Yeongdeungpo of Seoul, South Korea.