Son Ho-young (born March , ) is a Korean-American singer and musical
actor based in South Korea. Best known as a member of g.o.d, he made
his debut in the entertainment industry with the group in and pursued
a solo career as a singer and musical theater actor after the group
went on hiatus. He has also regularly appeared on Immortal Songs:
Singing the Legend and other music variety shows.Son is the younger of
two children and was born in the United States to Korean parents who
are naturalized American citizens. They moved to South Korea, but
their parents divorced and the siblings remained in South Korea with
their father, a university professor and amateur singer; mother and
son only reconnected when he was an adult. Son was elementary and
middle schoolmates with Kang Sung-hoon and Ko Ji-yong, both of whom
went on to form Sechs Kies. Despite growing up in a musical home, he
showed no inclination towards a career in the music industry until he
was a teenager. He had a difficult relationship with his father in
adolescence and would run away from home to escape being disciplined
for misbehavior, finally leaving home for good at age seventeen and
only returning after nearly three years. Son later stated that he had
been living on the streets when he befriended future g.o.d bandmate
Danny Ahn and eventually auditioned for a project group that Ahn's
cousin Park Joon-hyung was forming. He returned home after his debut
to reconcile with his father and present him with a copy of g.o.d's
debut album.Son, Danny Ahn, Shoo and Kim Hwan-sung were initially part
of a mixed-gender project group but it fell through when Shoo signed
with S.M. Entertainment; she went on to debut as a member of the girl
group S.E.S. while Kim was recruited as the final member of NRG. Ahn
was recruited by his cousin Park Joon-hyung to join his project group
under EBM and persuaded Son to audition. Yoon Kye-sang and Kim Sun-a
were also recruited but the latter left to pursue acting and was
replaced by Kim Tae-woo. With Park Jin-young as their producer and
primary songwriter, the group eventually became a five-man boy band
g.o.d, short for "Groove Over Dose", and made their debut in January .
Despite the lukewarm response to their debut performance, g.o.d would
go on to be one of the most popular boy bands of the early s. Son was
both a rapper and vocalist but was mainly given rap parts in the first
and second albums. He was gradually given more singing parts, as seen
in the third album.
actor based in South Korea. Best known as a member of g.o.d, he made
his debut in the entertainment industry with the group in and pursued
a solo career as a singer and musical theater actor after the group
went on hiatus. He has also regularly appeared on Immortal Songs:
Singing the Legend and other music variety shows.Son is the younger of
two children and was born in the United States to Korean parents who
are naturalized American citizens. They moved to South Korea, but
their parents divorced and the siblings remained in South Korea with
their father, a university professor and amateur singer; mother and
son only reconnected when he was an adult. Son was elementary and
middle schoolmates with Kang Sung-hoon and Ko Ji-yong, both of whom
went on to form Sechs Kies. Despite growing up in a musical home, he
showed no inclination towards a career in the music industry until he
was a teenager. He had a difficult relationship with his father in
adolescence and would run away from home to escape being disciplined
for misbehavior, finally leaving home for good at age seventeen and
only returning after nearly three years. Son later stated that he had
been living on the streets when he befriended future g.o.d bandmate
Danny Ahn and eventually auditioned for a project group that Ahn's
cousin Park Joon-hyung was forming. He returned home after his debut
to reconcile with his father and present him with a copy of g.o.d's
debut album.Son, Danny Ahn, Shoo and Kim Hwan-sung were initially part
of a mixed-gender project group but it fell through when Shoo signed
with S.M. Entertainment; she went on to debut as a member of the girl
group S.E.S. while Kim was recruited as the final member of NRG. Ahn
was recruited by his cousin Park Joon-hyung to join his project group
under EBM and persuaded Son to audition. Yoon Kye-sang and Kim Sun-a
were also recruited but the latter left to pursue acting and was
replaced by Kim Tae-woo. With Park Jin-young as their producer and
primary songwriter, the group eventually became a five-man boy band
g.o.d, short for "Groove Over Dose", and made their debut in January .
Despite the lukewarm response to their debut performance, g.o.d would
go on to be one of the most popular boy bands of the early s. Son was
both a rapper and vocalist but was mainly given rap parts in the first
and second albums. He was gradually given more singing parts, as seen
in the third album.
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