Suga (entertainer)
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Suga at a SK Telecom fansigning event on July 6, 2013
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| Born |
Min Yoon-gi March 9, 1993 Daegu, South Korea |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
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| Also known as | Agust D |
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| Instruments | Vocals, piano |
| Labels | Big Hit Entertainment |
| Associated acts | BTS |
| Website | bts |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 민윤기 |
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| Hanja | 閔允其 |
| Revised Romanization | Min Yun-gi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Min Yunki |
Min Yoon-gi (Hangul: 민윤기; born March 9, 1993), better known by his stage names Suga and Agust D, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Managed under Big Hit Entertainment, he debuted as a member of the pop idol septet BTS in 2013. In 2016, he released his first solo mixtape Agust D.
Suga was born under the birth name Min Yoon-gi on March 9, 1993, in Daegu, South Korea. The younger of two sons, he attended Taejeon Elementary School, Gwaneum Middle School, and Apgujeong High School. By the age of 13, he began to write music lyrics and learn about MIDI. He worked a part-time job at a recording studio by age 17. From then, he began composing and arranging music, rapping, and performing. Prior to being scouted, he was active under the name Gloss as an underground rapper. As part of the hip hop crew D-Town in 2010, he released a song titled "518-062" in commeration of the Gwangju Uprising.
The stage name Suga (슈가) is derived from the first syllables of the term shooting guard (슈팅 가드), the position he played in basketball as a student. He trained for years with members J-Hope and Rap Monster, making his debut as a member of BTS on Mnet's M Countdown with the track "No More Dream" from their debut single album 2 Cool 4 Skool. He has produced and written lyrics for a variety of tracks on all of BTS's albums.
Suga adopted the alias Agust D in 2016, which is derived from the initials "DT", short for his birth place "Daegu Town", and "Suga" spelled backwards. He released a free self-titled mixtape via SoundCloud on August 15. He decided against releasing the project as a commercial studio album, describing it as the "feeling of being trapped in some sort of framework". On the record, he discussed matters such as his struggles with depression and social phobia. Fuse TV rated it as one of the top twenty mixtapes of 2016.
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