Tony An | |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Tony An |
| Born | Ahn Seung-ho (1978-06-07) June 7, 1978 (age 47) |
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| Years active | 1996โpresent |
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| Website | tonyan.co.kr |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | ์์นํธ |
| Hanja | ๅฎๅๆตฉ |
| RR | An Seungho |
| MR | An Sลญngho |
Ahn Seung-ho (Korean: ์์นํธ; born June 7, 1978), better known as Tony An (Korean: ํ ๋์), is a South Korean singer-songwriter, best known as a member of boy band H.O.T. After H.O.T. disbanded in 2001, its ex-members Tony An, Jang Woo-hyuk and Lee Jae-won formed the dance music trio jtL. Eventually, JTL unofficially disbanded as each member, including An, released their solo material.
Biography
[edit]He is the CEO of TN Nation Entertainment, a music entertainment company; Skoolooks, a school uniform company; and Shinenihs, an undergarment company. Popular comedians Jung Hyung-don and Jo Hye-ryun were both part of TN Nation Entertainment.[2][3]
In 1997, An was admitted to Dongguk University. He majored in stage performance and graduated in 2003.[4]
Career
[edit]Solo
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An changed his genre to fast-paced soft rock songs and gave a speech, telling about his views on his former H.O.T. members, and how he tried to contact them. He also released a music video title "Melody" featuring SAT from his special album, "Untold Story".
On April 28, 2008, An came back with a new special album entitled "Look Blank", with its principal song "Wallet". In September 2010, An completed his 2-year army duty and released a new song, "Going To Meet You Now". He released an EP titled 'Top Star' in February 2011, and after leaving as MC for the popular No. 1 Kpop chart show Mcountdown! in 2012 he released a single called "Beautiful girl" which also features Hyun Jun of SMASH.
jtL
[edit]When JTL was created, An was the lead vocal for the group and not just a back-up vocal and English rapper. H.O.T. fans had mixed feelings for jtL. Many of jtL's music videos were boycotted. However, things changed around when jtL held a 'Guerilla Concert' in front of 12,133 fans.[5]
TN Nation Entertainment
[edit]After An wanted to pursue a solo career during his jtL days, he created his own label, TN Nation Entertainment. Artists under this label are An and former Click-B member Yoo Ho-suk, going under the name "Evan", along with Jung Ju-ri, Shin Bong-sun, ์ด์ธ๋ฒ ์ด๋น (Awe5omeBaby), and others. South Korean comedian and entertainer Jung Hyung-don was the member of this company.
TN Nation Entertainment also debuted a boy band named SMASH, who released a music video for their debut song, "๋น์[Emergency]", on August 14, 2008. An collaborated with SMASH in February 2012 with 'Get Your Swag On'. They promoted the song together on various live music shows.[6] SMASH later disbanded at the end of 2014.[7][unreliable source?]
On June 19, 2015, the company debuted their first girl group, a five-member beatpella (beatbox + a cappella) group called ์ด์ธ๋ฒ ์ด๋น (literally Awesome Baby, stylized as Awe5omeBaby). The members include June, Sumin, Yechan, Dahee, and Lina. Their debut single was '๋ด๊ฐ ์?' or 'Why Should I?'.
Personal life
[edit]In November 2013, An was investigated for illegal online sports gambling alongside South Korean comedian Lee Soo Geun and South Korean entertainer Tak Jae-hoon. Reportedly, he gambled a total of 400,000,000 KRW (approximately $376,000 USD) between May 2009 and March 2012. He had his first hearing on December 6 and received a six-month prison sentence with one year probation on December 27.[8][unreliable source?][9][10][unreliable source?]
On February 13, 2014, in light of An's illegal gambling incident, KBS revealed they had imposed a ban on all of H.O.T.'s songs and prevented his show appearances on their media outlets while MBC simultaneously announced a temporary ban on An's show appearances on their channels as well.[11][unreliable source?][12] As of 2016, all the major stations lifted the ban on An.
An is currently housemates with Sechs Kies's member Kim Jae-duck. The arrangement had caused a stir amongst their contemporaries as both groups were regarded as one another's fiercest industry rivals during the late 1990s and largely avoided any contact with one another despite crossing paths many times. They had met and befriended one another during their mandatory military service.
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2022 | Reverse | Cameo; sound film | [13] |
Television series
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2003 | Hello Franceska | Tony | Cameo ep. 2 |
| 2012 | Reply 1997 | Himself | Cameo ep. 1 & 3 |
| 2019 | How to Hate You? | Cameo ep. 2 | |
| Melting Me Softly | Himself | Cameo ep. 1 | |
| 2020 | Hanging On | Dr. Ahn Jung-seop | Cameo ep. 4 & 6 |
| 2021 | The Second Husband | a producer | Cameo ep.2[14] |
| Fly Again | Yoo Min-hyuk | [15][16] | |
| 2023 | Oh! Youngsim | Lee Woo-sang | [17] |
Variety show
[edit]| Year | Title | Role |
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| 2000โ2002 | Star Survival Dongeodongrak | Cast Member |
| 2010 | Running Man - Episode 15 | Guest |
| 2010โ2011 | Oh! My School | Host |
| 2011โ2012 | M Countdown | Main Host |
| 2013 | MasterChef Korea Celebrity | Contestant |
| Handsome Boys of the 20th Century | Cast Member | |
| 2016 | Attraction TV | Cast Member |
| 2016โ2018, 2022 | My Little Old Boy | Cast Member |
| 2016โ2017 | Lipstick Prince | Cast Member |
| 2017 | Raid the Convenience Store | Cast Member |
| 2018 | Plan Man 3 | Main Host |
| Mimi Shop | Main Host | |
| 2019 | Go Together, Travel Alone | Cast Member |
| Escape Idols | Cast Member | |
| 2020 | Idol Fishing Camp | Cast Member |
| Top 10 Student | Cast Member | |
| 2021โPresent | Boss in the Mirror | Cast Member |
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
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| KOR (RIAK) [18] | |||
| Believe |
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| Yutzpracachia's Love |
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3 |
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Extended plays
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | |
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| KOR (RIAK) [18] |
KOR (Circle) [21] | |||
| Behind The Clouds (์ด์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ) |
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13 | โ |
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| Untold Story |
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5 | โ |
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| Top Star |
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N/A | โ | |
| I'm Tony An |
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| "โ" denotes release did not chart. | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ ์ด์๋ง์ด ๋ฐฐํฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ๋ ์ด์ ์ ํฉ๊ฒฉ์ํจ ์์ด๋ ์ ์ฒด. Daum (in Korean). March 19, 2024. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
- ^ "Entry on Nate.com". Nate. Archived from the original on February 8, 2012.
- ^ "Artist Profile on KBS". Korean Broadcasting System. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ Cho, Hyeji (November 5, 2012). ๊ฐ์ ํ ๋ ์ ๋๋ฌธ, ๋ชจ๊ต ์ฐพ์ ํ๋ฐฐ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค (in Korean). Dongguk University. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ "Artist Profile on KBS World". Korean Broadcasting System. Archived from the original on January 14, 2007.
- ^ Sunwoo, Carla (April 1, 2012). "Tony An wraps up performing with his boy band". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ "Tony Ahn-Produced Boy Band SMASH Disbands". April 3, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
- ^ "Celebrities Indicted for Illegal Gambling (Tony Ahn, Lee Soo Geun, Andy, and More) Receive Their Sentences". Soompi. December 2, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ "Tony Ahn, Lee Soo-geun, & Tak Jae-hoon To Have First Hearing Dec. 6th". Korean Broadcasting System. November 1, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ "Tony An, Lee Soo Geun, and Tak Jae Hoon receive suspended 6 month prison sentence for illegal gambling". Allkpop. December 2, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ "KBS to no longer broadcast any of H.O.T's songs due to Tony An's gambling controversy". Allkpop. February 1, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ '๋๋ฐ' ์ด์๊ทผยทํ์ฌํยทํ ๋ยท๋ถยท์ค๋, MBC ์ถ์ฐ๊ธ์ง (in Korean). Star News. February 1, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ^ Han, Hyun-jeong (November 16, 2022). ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ์ค' ์์ํฌ "์นด๋ฉ์ค ํ ๋์, ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ก์๋ ์์์์ด ['Reverse' Lim Won-hee "Cameo Tony An, as an actor is not inferior] (in Korean). Maeil Business Star Today. Retrieved March 19, 2023 โ via Naver.
- ^ Seo Ye-jin (August 10, 2021). [๊ณต์] ํ ๋์, '๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋จํธ' ํน๋ณ์ถ์ฐ...์ํ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์๋ฆฌ ์ง์ผฐ๋คโ์ฐจ์์๊ณผ ํธํก [[Official] Tony An, special appearance on 'Second Husband'... I kept my loyalty with Uhm Hyun-kyung โ Breathing with Cha Seo-won]. Ten Asia (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ Kim Myung-mi (June 29, 2021). ํ์ ๊น๋ช ์ง ๋ฐ์ํ ํ ๋์, ์์ ๋๋ผ๋ง '๋ค์ ํ๋ผ์ด' ์บ์คํ (๊ณต์์ ์ฅ). Newsen (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
- ^ Ko Da-yeon (October 28, 2021). ํ์ ์ฃผ์ฐ, ํ์ดํด ๋ฎค์ง์ปฌ ๋๋ผ๋ง '๋ค์, ํ๋ผ์ด' 11์ ๊ณต๊ฐ [Starring Hyungwon, teen musical drama 'Again, Fly' to be released in November] (in Korean). Newsis. Retrieved October 28, 2021 โ via Naver.
- ^ Jeong Ga-young (May 4, 2023). "'์ค!์์ฌ์ด' ์ถ์ต ์์ผ๋ก...์กํ์คยท์ด๋ํด ๋๋ฌ์ผ ๊ด๊ณ๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ" (in Korean). Sports World. Retrieved May 31, 2023 โ via Naver.
- ^ a b Recording Industry Association of Korea chart positions:
- Believe: "2004.10์ - ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฐ ํ๋งค๋". Recording Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- Yutzpracachia's Love: "2006.4์ - ๊ฐ์์๋ฐ ํ๋งค๋". Recording Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 14, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- Behind The Clouds: "2005.11์ - ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฐ ํ๋งค๋". Recording Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on May 18, 2009. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- Untold Story: "2007.5์ - ๊ฐ์์๋ฐ ํ๋งค๋". Recording Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ^ 2004๋ ์ด๊ฒฐ์ฐ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฐ ํ๋งค๋. Recording Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 1, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ^ "Miak.or.kr" 2006๋ - ๊ฐ์ ์ด๊ฒฐ์ฐ ํ๋งค๋. Recording Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 1, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ^ Circle Album Chart positions:
- I'm Tony An: "Album Chart, 2013 Week 28". Circle Chart (in Korean). Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ^ "Miak.or.kr" 2005๋ - ๊ฐ์ ์ด๊ฒฐ์ฐ ์๋ฐ ํ๋งค๋. Recording Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 1, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ^ "2007.์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๊ฒฐ์ฐ ํ๋งค๋". Recording Industry Association of Korea (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ^ "Album Chart, 2013.07 Month". Circle Chart (in Korean). Retrieved October 7, 2022.
External links
[edit]- Tony's official website (in Korean)
- Tony An on Weibo (in Chinese) (in Chinese)
- Excellence Award for SBS Entertainment Awards winners
- 1978 births
- Living people
- 20th-century South Korean male singers
- 21st-century South Korean male singers
- 21st-century South Korean businesspeople
- Businesspeople from California
- Businesspeople from Seoul
- Businesspeople in fashion
- Businesspeople in the textile industry
- Dongguk University alumni
- English-language South Korean singers
- H.O.T. (band) members
- People from Yongsan District
- Singers from California
- Singers from Seoul
- South Korean baritones
- South Korean chief executives
- South Korean company founders
- South Korean composers
- South Korean expatriates in the United States
- South Korean lyricists
- South Korean male idols
- South Korean male pop singers
- South Korean male singer-songwriters
- South Korean singer-songwriters
- South Korean music industry executives
- South Korean music managers
- South Korean pop rock singers
- South Korean record producers
- South Korean restaurateurs
- South Korean rhythm and blues singers
- South Korean television presenters
- Sunheung An clan
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