1. Son Ho-young is a South Korean-American singer and musical actor based in South Korea.
39 Facts About Son Ho-young
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Son Ho-young has regularly appeared on Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend and other music variety shows.
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Son Ho-young was elementary and middle schoolmates with Kang Sung-hoon and Ko Ji-yong, both of whom went on to form Sechs Kies.
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Son Ho-young 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.
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Son Ho-young was both a rapper and vocalist but was mainly given rap parts in the first and second albums.
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Son Ho-young was gradually given more singing parts, as seen in the third album.
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Son Ho-young did not renew his contract with JYP Entertainment and signed with Lobe Entertainment, which was later absorbed into LOEN Entertainment.
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Son Ho-young has since re-released the album containing a DVD of the album's music videos.
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Son Ho-young continued to periodically collaborate with former bandmate Kim Tae-woo, often performing with one another or appearing on variety shows together.
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In 2007, Son Ho-young released a single album entitled Sweet Love; the lead song is "My Heart in Heaven".
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Son Ho-young performed the song with Lee Min-woo of Shinhwa during the "Special Stage" segment of Music Bank, in which two singers or idol groups would cover one another's songs.
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Son Ho-young performed as a soloist at the Korean Music Festival in 2008 and 2009 and was MC for the 2009 and 2012 editions.
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Son Ho-young was a regular participant in Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend.
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Son Ho-young won an episode for the first time in episode 75.
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On November 10,2011, Son Ho-young released his second mini album U-TURN.
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From November 25,2011, to January 29,2012, Son Ho-young starred in the musical Fame along with Eunhyuk of Super Junior, Tiffany of Girls' Generation, Go Eun Seong, Kim Chan Ho, Shin Ui Jeong, Lina of The Grace, Choi Ju Ri, KoN and Kim Jung-mo of TRAX.
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In 2013, Son Ho-young participated and won in MasterChef Korea Celebrity alongside other Korean celebrities, Seo Hye-jeong, Lee Kye-in, Shin Eun-jung, Kim Sung-soo, Tony An, Shin Bong-sun, Hwayobi, Fei, Henry and Jiyul.
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In early 2014, Son Ho-young came back to the entertainment industry after a 1-year hiatus, joining O'live TV's Share House as his first appearance on TV since 2013.
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Son Ho-young recorded the ballad "One Day", one of the soundtracks for the tvN drama series Marriage, Not Dating.
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Son Ho-young collaborated with Danny Ahn to record their version of the song.
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Son Ho-young featured in Natthew's single "Love Will Be Ok" and its music video, which were both released in November 2014.
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On May 23,2016, Son Ho-young released his fifth mini album, entitled May, I, to mark his tenth year as a solo artist.
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Son Ho-young returned to musical theater for much of the latter half of 2016.
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Son Ho-young was double-cast as Dr Rieux in Peste, the translated musical adaptation of Albert Camus's novel The Plague.
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Son Ho-young was one of eight guest artistes featured in his bandmate Kim Tae-woo's sixth solo album T-WITH, which was released in June 2017.
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Son Ho-young was the producer for the concerts, which took place in Seoul, Busan and Daegu over six days.
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The anniversary album was released on January 10,2019, and Son Ho-young produced the ninth track, a remixed and recorded version of the song "You Don't Know" from their fourth album.
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Son Ho-young was triple-cast in the male lead role of Park Do-kyung, who was portrayed by Eric Mun in the drama.
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Son Ho-young's performance received rave reviews from both the audience and critics.
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Son Ho-young was cast in the musical Chunhyang is Alive, a modern interpretation of the pansori Chunhyangga.
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On June 11,2021, Son Ho-young signed an exclusive contract with Beat Interactive.
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Son Ho-young was the most seriously injured and required treatment in hospital.
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Son Ho-young and his older sister both hold American citizenship as they were born in the United States to Korean parents who were naturalized American citizens.
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Son Ho-young's citizenship became the subject of controversy when his father's estranged second wife revealed in 2005 at a press conference that the former had recently given up his Korean citizenship and claimed that he had done so to evade mandatory military service.
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Son Ho-young clarified that he had been given Korean citizenship due to an administrative error and had returned his passport at the request of the Immigration Office to correct the error.
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Son Ho-young was never eligible for Korean nationality due to the fact that he was born overseas to parents who did not hold Korean citizenship and thus did not meet the requirements.
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Son Ho-young's company stated that the suicide had nothing to do with her relationship to Son Ho-young.
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Son Ho-young attempted to commit suicide following his girlfriend's death, on the morning of May 24,2013.
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Son Ho-young was then rushed to the hospital and was treated immediately, incurring no long-term damage to his health.