Yang Joon-il (born 19 August 1969), also known as John Yang, Yang Joon Il, Joon-il Yang, JIY and V2, is a Korean-American singer-songwriter. He spoke English, wore earrings and had long hair despite being a man.”Yang quickly faded into obscurity, working as an English teacher until he moved to the U.S. in 2015.He struggled to make ends meet with a wife and toddler son to support, and confesses to feeling suicidal until he secured a job as waiter in Florida, working 14 hours a day.Keung Yoon-bae, who researches film and media at Harvard, said Yang first emerged at a time when “an explosion of Korean pop had to coexist with a still-conservative social climate.”Within a few years of Yang’s brief moment in the spotlight, emerging stars — including Seo Taeji and Boys, a band considered as innovators who marked the start of modern K-pop — were laying the ground for its expansion to global popularity, now epitomized by the septet BTS.“I didn’t really think I was ahead of my time,” Yang insisted.University of California, Berkeley sociology professor John Lie calls him a “pioneering public figure of nonmacho, almost gender-bending presentation of self.”Yang’s big break came three decades after he first began performing.In 2018, South Korean television stations started streaming long-archived pop TV shows on YouTube, and millennials — many not even born when he made his debut — discovered him.Word spread until it was picked up by mainstream media, and in December he made his comeback television appearance, pulling off his signature New Jack Swing-inspired dance steps.The singer’s rise to fame comes at a time when intergenerational conflict is mounting in South Korea. The Korean-American singer, now 50, made his debut in 1991 at the age of 22 with a song titled "Rebecca."

His reemergence is thanks to the “Newtro” trend, or “New Retro“: in which the aspects of the “Vaporwave” fandom gave inspiration for embracing all things 80s and 90s. According to rumors on WikiTree on … His 2nd full length album was released in 1992.

AFP "At karaoke bars, people would just turn off the machine when his music played," said Yi Duk-jin. "I'd like to ask them: 'Why do you like me?
Michael Jordan's sneakers sell for $615,000, new record In 2001, he made a brief comeback as JIY, a member of project group V2. He debuted on the "Rookie Stage" of the MBC's music program "Saturday Night Music Show" performing "Rebecca".


Sponsored contents planned and edited by JT Media Enterprise Division. Gone for a song "People said he was too weird, too strange. A series of the interviews with the behind-the-scenes of photo shooting for his book was released also.On March 14, the 100th day anniversary of his re-debut, Yang and choreographer Lia Kim appeared on MBC "On April 28, Yang held a Drive-through Fansign Event in Paju Premium Outlet.The remastered first and second album on vinyl LP are pre-sold from August 5th to 19th and released in October.On his 51st birthday[Yang Joon Il Maybe Special Edition] is published.

“But Yang is different.”Tamar Herman, a K-pop correspondent for Billboard, said fans are looking “nostalgically at the past.”Bringing “hidden gems” like him to light, she added, “gives audiences a sense that they can change the past at a time when changing the present is hard.” DKDK TV has a video that highlights the rise and fall–and sudden revival–of the solo artist Yang Joon Il as of 2019. Jewish refugee's wartime escape from Nazis, aided by Japan diplomat, highlights unsung heroes "Yang quickly faded into obscurity, working as an English teacher until he moved to the US in 2015.He struggled to make ends meet with a wife and toddler son to support and confesses to feeling suicidal until he secured a job as waiter in Florida, working 14 hours a day.Keung Yoon Bae, who researches film and media at Harvard, says Yang first emerged at a time when "an explosion of Korean pop had to coexist with a still-conservative social climate".Within a few years of Yang's brief moment in the spotlight, emerging stars including Seo Taeji and Boys, a band considered as innovators who marked the start of modern K-pop, were laying the ground for its expansion to global popularity, now epitomised by septet BTS. I didn't imagine any of this. Pandemic spurs Japan travel companies to roll out online tours

In a 2019 interview with On April 17, 2001, he made another debut as JIY, a member of a music band V2, with a third album "Fantasy". “I’d like to ask them, ‘Why do you like me? AFP "There are no words to describe what that moment was like. “People said he was too weird, too strange. "This is my first time. Today, 50-year-old Korean-American singer Yang Joon-il is enjoying an unlikely comeback, re-discovered by the YouTube and social media generation through online clips and hailed as a … Today, 50-year-old Korean-American singer Yang Joon-il is enjoying an unlikely comeback, re-discovered by the YouTube and social media generation through online clips and hailed as a forerunner to today’s K-pop stars.

40 years later It's time to rethink the Japan-U.S. alliance Coronavirus antibodies disappear in months. Singer Jung Joon Il (37) and actress Jung Eun Chae (34) are facing rumors of an extramarital affair.