Jung Joon-young (Hangul: 정준영 Hanja: 鄭俊英 born February 21, 1989) is a Korean rock singer, songwriter and radio DJ, who was born in Indonesia, but raised in China, Japan, Europe (England and France) and the Philippines. He learned how to speak five different languages such as English, Chinese, Tagalog (Filipino), Korean,and some Japanese.
When he taught songs to the children in Philippines at the age of seventeen, he started his dream to be a rock star. He went to South Korea without his family's knowledge at the age of 19 and assembled his own band "Flowermist" (later "Switch-on") and performed in amateur club theaters as well as busked on the streets in Japan. To achieve his goal of becoming a rock star he worked as a model and appeared on television.
Jung Joon-Young finished in third place on Superstar K4 and since then he has been doing concerts, TV and radio programs(as a guest or a host) and modeling for cars, clothes, games and N-screen.
After signing with CJ E&M, Jung Joon-young released his first debut single "Spotless Mind (병이에요)" with two versions of Music Video(N version and S version) on Oct 01, 2013 and immediately made an impact on the country’s charts. Just an hour after release, “Spotless Mind” nabbed the top spot on Mnet, Bugs and Soribada etc.
On October 10, 2013, Jung Joon-Young officially made his debut by releasing his first mini album that contained his debut title song,"The Sense of an Ending 이별 10분 전" with other five songs and as soon as it was released, his 1st mini album ranked the top spot both on the daily and weekly chart of Synnara Record as a best selling album. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.