Yugyeom
South Korean singer and rapper
Kim Yu-gyeom (Korean: 김유겸; born November 17, 1997), known mononymously as Yugyeom (Korean: 유겸), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer who made his debut as a member of the South Korean boy band Got7 in 2014 and the subunit Jus2.
Early life
Yugyeom was born in Seoul and has spent a little of his childhood in Saudi Arabia due to his father's job. He lived in Yeosu from age 6 to 11, then moved to Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, where he grew up alongside his older brother.
While in Yeosu, he attended trumpet, bass and guitar lessons; however, he was especially interested in dance, and started performing for his classmates during lunch breaks in his second year of primary school. He started dreaming of becoming a singer and a dancer watching performances of Big Bang and J.Y. Park when he was little, and, after his family moved to Yeosu, Yugyeom joined the school talent show, where he performed a choreography. From there, he actively took part in these events, and, for two years, learnt choreographies on his own by copying them from TV.
While attending the first year of middle school, he took part in the Hidden Performing Arts Tournament, where he danced to Beast's "Shock". His older brother filmed the performance and posted it to Cyworld, where the footage caught the attention of Yugyeom's cousin, a dance teacher, who invited him to join the private dance school where she worked. After learning freestyle dance, he joined the Body & Soul crew at age 13, entering underground dance competitions: with them, in 2010, he won second place at the national competition Adrenaline House Dance Battle. A teacher at the dance school he was attending was a dance instructor for JYP Entertainment, and this led him to an audition for the label. He became a trainee in 2011, during his eighth year of school.
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