1. David Choi was born on March 22,1986 and is a Korean-American singer, songwriter, producer, music composer, entrepreneur, YouTuber, and a member of parody K-pop group BgA based in Los Angeles.
31 Facts About David Choi
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David Choi has worked with companies such as Kellogg's, Starburst, the American Cancer Society, General Electric, Samsung, and J C Penney.
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David Choi often appears in online videos with fellow YouTube personalities, like Ryan Higa and Wong Fu Productions, who often use David Choi's music in their videos.
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David Choi co-founded a tech company called Takko in 2020, a platform for asynchronous video chatting, which had the backing of notable investors like NEA, Dreamer's VC, Mucker Capital, and Canaan.
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David Choi was born in Anaheim, California, on March 22,1986.
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David Choi is of Korean descent and comes from a musical family: His parents, Ray and Jane Choi, own a music store named "Grace Store," and his father plays the autoharp.
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At a young age, David Choi was required to play the piano and violin, an experience that he did not enjoy.
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David Choi would get in trouble with his parents for not practicing.
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David Choi says that class was easier for him than it was for some of the other kids because he had already covered some of the material through his private lessons.
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David Choi began to listen to more and more pop songs and fell in love with the Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, and Japanese pop.
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In junior high David Choi would stay up late listening to the radio, recording the songs and began to make his own mix tapes.
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David Choi then began to write his own songs and his first instrumental piece was a song titled "Lost Memory", written on the piano.
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David Choi eventually stopped taking violin lessons in high school, and started jazz piano lessons in ninth grade.
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David Choi began composing music, and won his first accolade after submitting an instrumental pop song entitled "I'm Really Happy When" for a contest.
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David Choi taught himself how to use the program within several days of downloading it, and he learned a few songwriting tips from a friend.
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David Choi appeared in USA Weekend Magazine alongside Usher, after he received the grand prize for the magazine's John Lennon Songwriting Contest for teens.
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David Choi soon received requests for new songs, a live performance, and an album.
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On February 21,2009, he performed at the annual Kollaboration talent show, and within a space of half a year, David Choi compiled composed songs into his second album, By My Side, released on May 18,2010.
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David Choi released a music video for its lead single "That Girl" on the same day.
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David Choi released a Korean edition, with two bonus tracks: "Valentines" and "My Company".
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David Choi has said that a third album will include these two songs.
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On July 7,2011, David Choi released his third music video, for his single "By My Side", a collaboration with Wong Fu Productions.
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David Choi started to help his father, Ray David Choi, in uploading YouTube videos of him playing the autoharp.
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David Choi released his third album, Forever and Ever, on October 25,2011.
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In 2010 David Choi embarked on his second tour singing live in the East Coast cities of Washington, DC, New York, Boston, and Chicago as well as Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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David Choi was there for eleven days, and on his vacation day, he went to Sentosa and Night Safari.
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David Choi went to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.
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Again on this tour, David Choi went to small venues, like the 245-capacity Esplanade Recital Studio.
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On his tours, David Choi has meet-and-greet sessions with his fans.
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David Choi often uses happy melodies, for example in "Something to Believe" and "My Time with You".
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David Choi has been portrayed by "netizens" and fans as a sad and solemn person, with a poker face: Such perceptions were bolstered by the absence of images of David Choi smiling.