Dae-sung
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Daesung in 2016
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| Native name | 강대성 |
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Kang Dae-sung April 26, 1989 Incheon, South Korea |
| Other names | D-Lite |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
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| Hangul | 강대성 |
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| Revised Romanization | Gang Dae-seong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kang Tae-sŏng |
Kang Dae-sung (Hangul: 강대성; born April 26, 1989), better known by his stage name Daesung, is a South Korean singer, actor and television host. Daesung made his musical debut in 2006 as a member of the South Korean boy band Big Bang. He debuted as a solo artist in South Korea under the group's record label YG Entertainment with the number one trot song "Look at Me, Gwisoon" in 2008. Since the inception of the Gaon Digital Chart in 2010, Daesung achieved two Top 10 songs, the digital single "Cotton Candy" and "Wings" from the Big Bang album Alive (2012).
In 2013, under the stage name D-Lite, he released his first solo album in Japan, D'scover, under the label YGEX and embarked on his first Japanese tour. The following year, he released two more albums, D'slove and his first number one Delight, in support of his second tour, that made Daesung the first Korean soloist to gather over 100,000 fans for two Japanese tours in a row. In 2017, he held his first Dome tour, performing for over 150,000 attendance within four shows and released his second number one album, D-Day, that made him the second foreign male solo artist to have two consecutive number one albums in Japan after Michael Jackson.
In South Korean television, he was a member of the main cast of the top-rated comedy show Family Outing from 2008 to 2010, of the musical drama series What's Up (2011), and was one of the hosts of the talk show Night After Night (2010).
Daesung was born in Itaewon and attended high school at , but dropped out after a year to focus on his activities with Big Bang. Eventually, he passed his college entrance exams in 2008 and got admitted into the post-modern music department at Kyung Hee University in 2008.
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