Jun Sung Ahn
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Performing at KCON LA 2016, July 30.
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| Background information | |
| Native name | 안준성 |
| Birth name | Jun Sung Ahn |
| Also known as | Jun Curry Ahn |
| Born |
February 18, 1993 Seoul, South Korea |
| Origin | Princeton Junction, New Jersey |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
| Labels | Unsigned |
| Associated acts | BgA |
| Website | www |
Jun Sung Ahn or Ahn Jun-sung (Hangul: 안준성; born February 18, 1993), better known by his stage name Jun Curry Ahn, is a Korean American musician, YouTube video producer and member of BgA. He is a classically trained violinist who is known for his 2012 violin and dance cover performance of Psy's Gangnam Style on his YouTube channel and other K-pop and pop music covers.
Ahn was born in South Korea and moved to West Windsor, New Jersey in the third grade of elementary school. He started playing classical violin in fifth grade, performing in competitions and recitals. He said he chose the violin because it was versatile and its sounds and characteristics matched his personality. He looks up to his sister as an influence and said, "She is the smartest, most caring, silly person I know, and I always strive to be just like her." He said he had a phase in middle school when he admired his mother's cooking and watched the cooking channel after school, thinking that he would like to be a chef, and enjoys making her spaghetti aglio e olio and his favorite kimchi soup.
Later at college, although he majored in radio/TV/film, and not music, he still joined Northwestern University's orchestra and participated in the Asian-concentrated dance crew, 'Refresh'. By his sophomore year in 2012, he no longer studied violin formally, but continued to play, and described himself as a mediocre pianist and a beginning guitarist.
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".
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