[Social Media] World Music Awards wishes Seungri a happy birthday 2015-12-12

Happy Birthday to #BIGBANG's #SEUNGRI! Happy #SeungriDay! 🎶🎉🎈 https://t.co/b646Ft3ZrC pic.twitter.com/GJoi5Ok0s8

— World Music Awards (@WORLDMUSICAWARD) December 12, 2015

Happy Birthday to BIGBANG‘s Seungri!
Lee Seung-hyun is 25 today! He’s a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He is the youngest member of the South Korean boy band BIGBANG, and the Sub-vocalist and dancer in group. V.I is his stage name when performing in Japan. Seungri released his first solo album, ‘VVIP’ in 2011 and his second solo mini album ‘Let’s talk about love’ in 2013 in both Korean and Japanese. He debuted in Japan as a solo singer. Before joining BIGBANG, in his hometown, Gwangju, he was the leader of the dance group “II Hwa”. Seungri was known for his dance skills. He first appeared on television on the reality television series Let’s Cokeplay: Mnet Battle Shinhwa. He was later discovered by the record label YG Entertainment and joined the group BIGBANG. Seungri has choreographed a large portion of BIGBANG’s dances. During the BIGBANG Documentary, for the dance battle between 2 teams, his team was made up of Taeyang and T. O. P., against G-Dragon’s team with Daesung and Hyunseung. Seungri was the team leader and choreographed an African-inspired dance with costumes to boot. The combination of the dance, outfits and performance won them the dance battle. Seungri was introduced to the other members of the Band, but G-dragon hated the idea of a idol group because he had trained for six years with Taeyang to become a hip-hop duo. He didn’t talk to Seungri for three months and the reason they got close was falling in love with the same drama, Princess Hours.

Seungri recorded his first solo song “The Next Day” in 2007, which was included in BIGBANG’s first album ‘Since 2007’. The album was fairly successful, but the group only achieved mainstream success with the release of the song “Lies” from their 2007 mini-album ‘Always’, which topped several charts upon its release. The singles, “Last Farewell” from the mini-album Hot Issue and “Day by Day” from ‘Stand Up’, became chart-toppers too. Seungri became the first member of BIGBANG to act in a musical with the performance in Sonagi in 2008. Seungri also hosted MBC’s music program Show! Music Core, alongside fellow member Daesung. Seungri made his film debut in with the movie Why Did You Come to My House?, followed by 19 alongside fellow BIGBANG member T. O. P. and former YG Actress Heo Yi Jae in November, 2009. Although his first solo song “Next Day” was recorded as part of BIGBANG’s album track, his second solo song “Strong Baby” was released as a promotional single for the group’s second full-length Korean album ‘Remember’. In order to shed the “youngest member” look from BIGBANG, Seungri promoted the single with a more mature look along with a stylized dance. He won his first triple crown for “Strong Baby” on Inkigayo.In 2011, he played the role of Ahn Jae-su in MBC’s retro-drama series Lights and Shadows.

In February, during the Lunar New Year, 18 Idols went to Pattaya, Thailand to battle out for the title “King Of Idols”. At the end Seungri and After School’s U-ie were crowned King & Queen of the Idols.
Seungri released his first solo mini-album, VVIP, on January 20, 2011. For the album’s promotion cycle, Seungri promoted double title tracks, “VVIP” and “What Can I Do.” Seungri participated actively in the production of the album, composing and writing six out of the seven songs. His songs, “VVIP” and “What Can I Do”, won a triple crown on M! Countdown. He promoted his album for a short time from January 20-February 13 due to BIGBANG’s Comeback. In July Seungri started his first Japanese Promotions by appearing on variety shows, such as Yomiuri TV‘s ‘Yoshimoto Jounetsu Comedy’ and Run for Money. He was chosen as the special MC on Fuji TV’s ‘Sakigake! Ongaku Banzuke Eight’. He interviewed many popular stars such as Oguri Shun, Exile’s Akira, Miori Takimoto, Takei Emi, Perfume, and even labelmates senior Se7en and his own bandmates. Seungri had his first Japanese Show, “Seungchan’s Complete Victory Declaration” on Space Show TV. The first episode was broadcast on August 2. On August 27, 2012, he held his 1st solo fanmeeting in Tokyo. Bandmate Daesung showed his support to him by appearing on stage to sing ‘Fantastic Baby’ with him. His next solo fanmeeting was on September 9, 2012 held in Osaka. Seungri appeared in the Nihon TV special drama “Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo – Hongkong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case”. The two-hour-long drama won the award ‘Best Drama SP (Excellence Awards)’ at the Tokyo Drama Awards 2013.

Seungri’s is second mini album was released on August 19, with the title track “I Have Something To Say”. He promoted his album in Korea until the end of September. He released his first Japanese Album on October 9, 2013. The Japanese album contains songs from ‘Let’s Talk About Love’ as well as songs from his first mini album, ‘VVIP’, which were recorded in Japanese. The album included a new song, “The Feelings Painted In The Sky”, which was used as the theme song for the Japanese mobile drama Yubikoi ～Kimini Okuru Message～, which he also starred in. This was Seungri’s first original production in Japanese. On September 27, 2013, Seungri joined Popular Women 100 as a co-host alongside comedian Hiroshi Yamazaki on Japan’s Fuji TV station. Seungri was the first international celebrity to clinch a hosting spot on a regular cable show in Japan. In 2014, Seungri starred in the new SBS weekend drama ‘Angel Eyes’ alongside labelmate Ku Hye-sun. On the MADE tour concert on July 25,2015, Seungri saved T.O.P and Daesung from a firework disaster. During the song “Fantastic baby”,T.O.P and Daesung got too close to the firework machine and were saved by Seungri.

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