I LOVE YOU....HAPPY NEW YEAR...2014 Yang was born in Seoul, South Korea on January 5, 1990 to a small family of one older sister.
He first gained interest in music and started practicing singing after listening to Brian McKnight's music. He then listened to a lot of music of a similar style, but he realized that he couldn't be biased towards a certain genre and started listening to dance music and rock as well. When he was in high school, he joined a school band where he performed a lot of hard rock and metal during their pe
rformances. Yang actually wanted to try modern rock, however, his seniors at that time said that it would ruin the mood and did not push through it. Yang became a JYP Entertainment trainee. But after receiving a bad grade from practice reviews, he left. He moved agencies, to M Boat Entertainment (a former sister company of YG Entertainment) where he was trained for 5 years before transferring to Cube Entertainment where he finally became a member of Beast. While still a trainee at Cube Entertainment, he became a backup dancer for AJ's, his soon-to-be group member and former high school friend, and now known as Lee Gi Kwang, music video for "Wiping the Tears" and "Dancing Shoes".[2]
Yang currently attends at University of East Broadcasting Arts.
