Raising K-pop and the Genius Singer G-Dragon

Many people are still unfamiliar with k-pop, The word “K-POP” stands for Korean popular music; it is a music genre consisting of pop, electro-pop, dance, hip-hop, R&B, rock, electronic music originating in South Korea.

We already have the biggest and the hottest pop music market in America, so adults must be wondering why so many teenagers and young people start to listen to Korean music recently. What is the fascination of "K-POP"? From now on, I will introduce you this developing Asian country with its famous music, movies, dramas, fashion trend and anything about pop culture.

Honestly, I was attracted by Korean pop music when I was about 13 years old. My first impression about Korean music was that they tried to learn and follow American music trend and fashion. However, they didn’t just copy from American pop music; they put Korean music factors and Korean style into music. I could still feel and hear the difference between K-pop and American pop music very clearly.

In recent years, G-Dragon has been my favorite singer from Korea. G-Dragon is now active as the young leader of the Korean boy band, “Big Bang”, one of the best hip-hop and pop group in Korea, Japan and many other Asian countries.

Aside from being a singer, he is also a famous songwriter and producer. His contribution to his own work also got him praise as one of the best composers in the year of 2008.

G-Dragon's interest in rapping and hip-hop music was first expressed at the age of 12, and he was inspired from music by Wu-Tang Clan, a famous American rap group.

G-Dragon had been trained under the record label YG Entertainment for six years. It is special and well-known that the whole Korean entertainment industry has a series of training programs for youths who want to be singers or actors in the future. YG Entertainment provided the best training programs for G-Dragon to become a good rapper, singer and dancer. During that time, He learned dancing, rap, beat box, song writing, singing, English, and Chinese to prepare for his debut. G-Dragon has excellent language skills because when he sings in English, his doesn't even have any accent; instead, he sounds like an native English speaker.

Before joining the group “Big Bang”, G-Dragon had also made some featured appearances on other artists’ albums. G-Dragon is a  genius at composing, writing, and producing music. He has written many songs for other singers and got favorable reception which won him the title of “the youngest and the most successful composer” of South Korea.

G-Dragon released his first solo album “Heartbreaker” on Aug.18 in 2009, his 21st birthday. I love every song of that album! The album truly demonstrated his artistic talent and became the most popular album of the year in Korea. After that, he also had a fabulous collaboration with a popular American rapper, Flo Rida.

Here is the remix version of G-Dragon’s “Heartbreaker” was featured by Flo Rida.

Last month, G-Dragon’s group, Big Bang, released their new mini album called “Alive”. It’s charted at number 150 of the U.S. Billboard 200 and the group also ranked at number 4 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. G-Dragon has participated in composing and producing all of the 7 songs. I believe it will be another hit by G-Dragon.

And a music video of Big Bang’s new song “Blue”,

Check this out and make it your today's K-pop song!