Min Yoongi / Suga from BTS (rapper, songwriter, producer)
“I’m grateful for the award, but I enjoyed the concerts more, I wanted to share our music and who we are.”
Early life / education:
Min Yoongi aka Suga from BTS was born on 1993 March 9th (age 28) from Daegu from South Korea, the youngest son of the two. He attended Taejeon Elementary School, Gwaneum Middle School, and Apgujeong High School. In March 2019 after graduating from the Global Cyber University with a degree in Broadcasting and Entertainment, he enrolled at Hanyang Cyber University. or the Master of Business Administration program in Advertising and Media.
Career 1993-2010:
He grew up with an interest in rap after getting inspired by a song call “Ragga Muffin” by Stony Skunk, he mentioned that it was different from anything he had ever heard before. After hearing Epik High, Yoongi decided to become a rapper.
At the age of 13 he started to write music and learned about MIDI. By the age of 17 Suga worked at the recording studio for a part time job. He began composing and arranging music, rapping, and performing. Before being signed, he was an active underground rapper known for his stage name Gloss. As part of the hip hop crew D-Town in 2010, he produced “518-062”, a song commemorating the Gwangju Uprising.
Present time 2013, BTS:
Suga then joined the company big hit entertainment (HYBE) and trained under the company as a trainee alongside RM and JHOPE for three years. He later made his debut as a member of BTS on M-countdown with their debut track of “No More Dreams” from their single debut album “2 cool 4 skool.” Suga then realsed a solo intro entitled “Most Beautiful Moment In Life.” describing it as the “feeling of being trapped in some sort of framework.’’ Suga continued to talk more about his struggle with depression and social anxiety and his fear of reaching adulthood. The song then was later realsed on April 17th, 2015, with a featured amine styled music video. With a follow up with pt2 “Most Beautiful Moment In Life pt2.” And “Nevermind” another solo track he wrote which talks more about his teenage years. The song was then realsed on November 15th, 2015. Some other songs that he wrote are interlude shadow from the map of the soul album, O! RUL82?, First love from the album wings, trivia: seesaw from the album love yourself; answer and many more. His stage name Suga (슈가) is derived from the first syllables of the term shooting guard (슈팅 가드), the position he played in basketball as a student.
Present time 2016 Solo artist:
On august 15 2016, Suga release his own solo album on SoundCloud and Spotify the album was called AGUST D. His solo album had more songs that had songs talking about his personal life, and the life being a k-idol. In 2020 he released another solo album D-2 which was a continuation of his first album with songs talking about him living life as two different people in the song Daechwita. The song also reached the billboard chart 100 in 76 place on the US charts. The mixtape D-2 debuted at number 11th on the billboard 200 becoming the highest-charting album by a Korean soloist in the US. It is also the first Korean solo release to reach the top 10 in the United Kingdom, opening at number 7th on the UK albums chart. Some other songs that Suga also had written are song request with lee- sora, wine with suran, we don’t talk together with hezie , Suga interlude with halsey, eight with IU. The people he helped produce music for are all solo female artists from South Korea and America.
In 2021, Suga recomposed Samsung‘s signature ringtone, “Over The Horizon“. The track was unveiled on August 11, 2021, as part of Samsung’s “Unpacked 2021” Event. Later Suga was producing the title song “You” for Japanese singer, ØMI, which was released on October 15. In December 2021, Suga featured on Juice Wrld‘s album Fighting Demons with the single “Girl of My Dreams“. The song also debuted at 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 which gave Suga his second entry on the chart, as a solo artist.
Overall Summary:
Even though Suga grew up in a rough and poor environment growing up as a kid, where he had to choose between spending money for the bus and food, he would save the money he had to buy himself music Equipment. With his family not fully supportive of his music career he only had his older brothers supporting him along the way. When Suga debuted under the company during the time he was also working his part time job. He got a shoulder injury and hid it from his manager, and the rest of the members of the group, later for them to find out. His manager made a deal with Suga that they will help cover his shoulder injury if he works hard on being trainee and his music.
After 3 years of training under the company alongside his other members, in 2016. BTS won their first ever daesang for award for Album of the Year at the 2016 – Most beautiful moments in life: Young Forever. Melon Music Awards and Artist of the Year at the 2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards. Which is a big deal in the kpop music industry.
If Suga never had debuted with BTS he wouldn’t be where he is today. Without the support from the company, and their huge fan base. BTS’s music journey was a hit or miss. During their time when they were debuting in 2013, there was already bigger and other well-known kpop groups before them who overshadow them. Without their first daesang win, BTS wouldn’t be as well known. Their frame didn’t happen overnight. It took them years to finally get recognized by people streaming their songs on YouTube and other platforms, voting for them in award shows, but even with that recognition, they weren’t as well known in America at the time.
Suga’s and BTS main way of connecting with fans is by twitter, weverse, and instagram, for their music. It’s mostly all from their official YouTube account with over 63M subscribers. The way how Suga’s and BTS got their success was through luck and chances. This example is a 50/50 chance, especially if you’re in the kpop music industry. Most solo artists were from groups before siding off with everyone else. In Suga’s case. He chooses to be a part of BTS instead of being a solo artist, because of how close everyone got during the times they were together and with his manager too. BTS wouldn’t be the same without all 7.
https://bts.fandom.com/wiki/Suga
https://www.instagram.com/agustd/?hl=en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suga_(rapper)
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