Taeyang Profile

Big Bang Member

TAEYANG'S PROFILE

Birth Name : Dong Young Bae (동영배)

Stage Name : Taeyang (태양) / Sol / YB Tae Kwon, YBTK

Birthday : May 18, 1988

Position : Main Vocalist, Main Dancer

Debut : YG Family’s Second Album in 2002

Height : 174 cm

Weight : 56 kg

Blood Type : AB

Education : Daejin University in Theater & Film (starting in 2008)

Skills : Rapping, Dancing,Beatboxing, Singing, Languages (English, Japanese)

Hobbies : Basketball, Music, Watching TV
Likes : Church, Summer, Clothers, Game, Manhwa
Religion : Christian
Family Members : Parents and Older brother (Dong Hyeon-Bae 동현배)

Musicians he admires : Usher, Omarion, Justin Timberlake

Dong Young Bae (동영배) or people generally knows as Taeyang (태양) is Main Vocalist of popular South Korean boy band, Big Bang. Taeyang began training under YG Entertainment at the age of 12 alongside fellow member and leader G-Dragon. After six years of vocal and dance training, he made his debut in 2006 as a member of Big Bang. 

Taeyang's first appearance in the entertainment industry was with Maddie in the hip-hop group Jinusean's music video "A-yo" when he at 5th grade. After that, he auditioned to join YG Family, having been impressed by JinuSean. The collaboration eventually lead him to successfully auditioning into the group's record label YG Entertainment, where he became one of the rappers alongside fellow trainee G-Dragon and former trainee Kim Junsu that now become 2PM member.

His rapping debut was in YG Family’s second album in 2002. In 2003, he participated in Wheesung’s second album, rapping on the track Player. He performed with JinuSean, Swi.T, Lexy, Masta Wu, Se7en and YG Family, and took part in Wheesung, Gummy, Se7en and YG Family’s One concerts. Taeyang and G-Dragon debuted under the group name GDYB, and released two tracks under YG Family album. However they did not release an album of their own.

After graduating high school, he and G-Dragon decided to take a year off before applying for college. He has been accepted at Daejin University in theater and film for 2008, and has mentioned wanting to become an actor. 

May 22, 2008 Taeyang released his debut mini-album Hot one of which is assisted by G-Dragon. Moving beyond the hip-hop genre of Big Bang, Taeyang incorporated mainly R&B songs into his album, stating that it was his "main focus".