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TAEYANG OF BIGBANG FACTS

Stage names : Tae Yang [태양] , Sol Used to be Known as : YB Taekwon [YB 태권] Real Name : Dong Young Bae 동영배 Position in Big Bang : Vocalist Pendant: “YB” with a crown over it. (“To become the best in the music industry”) Birthdate : May 18, 1988 Height : 174cm Weight : 56kg Blood-type : AB Education: Daejin University in Theater & Film (starting in 2008) Family Members : Parents & older brother (Hyun Bae) Specialty : Rapping, dancing, beat boxing, singing, & foreign languages (Japanese & Chinese). Hobby : Gardening, listening to music, & watching TV Debut : YG Family 2nd Album [2002] Personality : Does his best in everything, over-achiever.

Dong, Young-Bae (Korean: 동영배, Hanja: 東永裴, born May 18, 1988), better known by his stage name Taeyang, is a hip hop musician and a member of Big Bang.

Taeyang was a child actor starting in 5th grade. He was recruited at the same time as G-Dragon, at the age of 13 to play the part of mini Sean in the A-Yo MV. After that, he auditioned to join YG Family, having been impressed by JinuSean. His chosen stage name was YB Taekwon, which is either a reference to JinuSean’s Taekwon V album or to the giant robot Taekwon V.

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.

He was scheduled to debut with G-Dragon as GDYB (for G-Dragon & YB Taekwon) in 2004, but never debuted or released an album. Hyun Sukannounced that their debut was canceled in favor of forming a four-to-six-member group.
Even though he’d previously trained to be a rapper and wanted to become one, he debuted in Big Bang as a singer. He’s been studying Japanese for three years, since 2004, in preparation for Big Bang’s Japanese debut. 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.

His first kiss was during the filming of the Ma Girl music video, when the actress got carried away and kissed him for real.
Hyun Suk mentioned in his messages that Taeyang was going to have a solo single, as a reward for hard work and to make up for being too harsh with Taeyang. It was tentatively scheduled for September 2007, but it hasn’t been released yet.

-If he hadn't become a singer, he would have wanted to be a comedian.

-To the question "If you fall in love with a fan what would you do?" said that if he fall in love with a girl from his fan base, he would go to her and clasp her hand.

- In his backpack keeps: his ipod, bible, a small vocabulary in English and some energy drinks.

-He would one day star in a drama melodramatic.

- When he was a child had a nightmare where his mother rode a unicorn flying (O.O)

- His first kiss was in September 2006 on the set of the music video for 'Ma Girl'.

The girl was the actress Lee Suh Ra. He sent a text message to other members soon after with "HYUNGS I'M DEAD!" they asked him what had happened, Taeyang responded by saying 'I kissed a girl!'

- He talks in sleep.

-He's known to be extremely shy and nervous with girls, he has improved but he is still unable to speak for a long time with them.

-He hates it when people make judgments just looking at you.

He was interested in music after hearing Brian McKnight's first album when he was little.