Jun Sung Ahn
Jun Sung Ahn was born in Seoul, South Korea on February 18th, 1993 and is the Violinist. At the age of 31, Jun Sung Ahn biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In July 2011, he started recording and publishing violin covers of pop songs on YouTube, under 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, with covers including Adele's "Skyfall", Taylor Swift's "Red", Bad Meets Evil's "Lighters" and Lil Wayne's "How to Love". He has collaborated with other YouTube artists such as Arden Cho and Sungha Jung, and with his university's dance crew Refresh for a vocal, dance and violin cover of Big Bang’s, "Blue".
On July 7, 2012, he won the annual Kollaboration Chicago award with a performance that combined violin and the Chinese yo-yo, and later competed at the Kollaboration Star Finale in Los Angeles in the fall of the same year. 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, and won first place in a competition Psy held in South Korea. He 'cloned' himself in the video to appear dancing and playing the violin at the same time.
On September 13, 2013, he reported as an MNET America intern.
On August 9, 2014, he was a special guest at KCON LA's convention, and performed at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena as one of the opening 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".
Ahn performed on the main stage at California food festival 626 Night Market on August 16, 2014, along with musician Joseph Vincent.
On October 12, 2014, his music career and Korean heritage were featured on Epicurious "Community Table" by contributors Malek Shaparak and Anne Goetz, with a recipe called "Good Luck Tomato Kimchi Soup."
By the fall of 2014, during his senior year at Northwestern University, he had more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, over 7 million individual views and his most popular video, a cover of "Let It Go" had more than 3.8 million views. Also, in November, Asia Pacific Arts' Mai Nguyen said his Taylor Swift cover of Shake It Off "...remakes the music video with his own twist. While playing the upbeat pop song on his violin, Jun Sung shows off his comedic side in his attempts to perform martial arts and Indian dance".
On August 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. On August 8, 2015, he opened for the first KCON New York for VIXX, AOA, Teen Top and Girls' Generation.
On May 13, he and BGA members, YouTuber Ryan Higa, musician David Choi, filmmaker Philip Wang and actor Justin Chon, released a parody K-pop song and music video "Dong Saya Dae", which recorded a million views the first day of its release. In the video, his persona was "Jeungri", an "aspiring YouTuber and actual K-pop star".
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 Benjamin 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 to me and said my performance was amazing and that the BTS members have seen my videos. I'M DEAD."
On July 30, he performed BTS' "Save Me" at KCON LA's pre-show at the Staples Center before larger acts I.O.I, DEAN, Amber, GFriend, Block B, Turbo, and SHINee, and held a "meet-and-greet" at the convention. On August 4, 2016, while reporting chart news, Billboard's Trevor Anderson mentioned his performance at KCON LA and his nearly 1 million YouTube subscribers. Anderson accounted his Twitter posting of the popular cover of BTS' "Butterfly" for boosting the song to a re-entry on the Billboard Twitter Top Tracks Chart at Number 2, along with a cover by singer Lucia.
On September 2, he participated with eleven other star YouTubers in the YouTube FanFest in Seoul.
In February, a Harry Potter medley he performed with 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 the franchise have come to love, arranged for two violins, cello and piano," by WQXR-FM's James Bennett II.
In March he was a guest participant at the inaugural KCON Mexico festival on the 17–18, which had an attendance of 33,000. On March 16, Ahn featured in a skit titled "My K-Pop Boyfriend" by Wong Fu Productions, acting in his Boys Generally Asian persona Jeungri. On March 24, he appeared in a second BGA YouTube K-pop parody video release, "Who's It Gonna Be", which received over six million views within a few days.
On August 3, he released his MV "Hold it Down".