THE BOYZ - JACOB
On May 30, we are celebrating Bae Joonyoung’s birthday, a young man who is better known as JACOB from THE BOYZ.
JACOB is a singer, model, dancer and MC member of THE BOYZ. He is a great basketball and volleyball player who also knows how to play guitar and beatboxing. He is crazy about cereales and the other members say that he has a huge amount of cereales in big boxes at their dorm. His passion is to sing and he did not know how to dance when he started to be a trainee, but he worked really hard to become a good dancer. His co-members also call him “angel” because they never saw him getting angry and even his brother said they never fought even once. We can say that JACOB is a really kind person.
Moreover, just as KEVIN, JACOB lived most of his life in Canada before going to Korea in order to be a trainee. What is different is that JACOB always lived in Canada so it was a little hard for him when he came to Korea. The two Canadians are really close to each other and they both became MCs for Simply K-pop in which we can see their great friendship.
Just before debuting, JACOB participated in a reality show entitled “Flower Snack” in order to gain popularity and reveal each of the members from THE BOYZ. The group debuted on December 6, 2017, with title-song “Boy”. After that, the group made many comebacks without rest and showed a bright, cute and cool side with synchronized choreographies. It was during title-song “No Air”‘s promotion that the members had more confidence during their filming and on stage. This song’s popularity helped THE BOYZ gaining more fans who then worked hard in order to give the members their first win in a music show with title-song “Bloom Bloom”.
We can say that 2020 was really THE BOYZ‘s year. Indeed, the members all worked hard to become even better and show to many people their unique teamwork and perfect performances. First, thanks to a first album and title-song “REVEAL”, the group tried a new concept which was mystical and seductive. Because the eleven members trided to show new sides of themselves, the group’s agency started a new project entitled “GENERATION Z”. In May 2020, short individual videos were released to introduce each of the members. They were all able to talk freely about themselves and answer question in order to be better known as humans and as normal young men. In the video under, you can discover JACOB who shows his natural side and bright smile while answering questions.
At the same time, the young singer was able to reveal his beautiful voice in a solo clip released for a new project. In the video under, JACOB appears as a calm and peaceful young man setting a great mood which highlights the purity of his voice and the soothing sound of his guitar.
Between March and June 2020, JACOB participated with his co-members to the reality show “Road to Kingdom” in which seven boy groups had to prepare several performances in order to show the best stages and become the winner. THE BOYZ showed the most impressive performances for almost each episode thanks to a perfect teamwork and was also compared to a professional dance team. On June 12, 2020, THE BOYZ released title-song “CHECKMATE” for the show’s last episode and its success helped the group showing an impressive stage once again and won the show to go to “Kingdom”. This TV show was a great way for JACOB to improve and gain more and more confidence on stage. Indeed, in 2020, his dancing skills improved a lot and now he is one of the best dancers from THE BOYZ. This aspect has been seen during the show’s performances in which his stage presence and facial expressions were amazing.
In September 2020, THE BOYZ decided to do a comeback with title-song “The Stealer” which is the hardest choreography that the group had to learn. JACOB impressed people by showing a darker side in the MV and performances of this song which is something different from his usual self. He also had to learn how to do acrobatics for this choreo. You can see under, a video from THE BOYZ‘s practice when JACOB on the left and ERIC on the right did a backflip training with their co-members’ help.
This comeback promotion was such a success and the song was so popular that THE BOYZ won many trophies at music shows and awards at the end of the year’s ceremonies. The groups prepared several performances which were impressive, but the most incredible one was for the 2020 MAMA. Indeed, the eleven members did a performance on the theme of the kings dressed as Greek gods and showed an perfect choreography with elements that reminded of “Road to Kingdom”. It was like an even better version of the show with the use of fire and many more acrobatics. The aim of this unbelievable performance was to introduce themselves as one of the teams for the upcoming show “Kingdom”w hich started to be aired on April 1st.
Let’s wish a happy birthday to JACOB who is growing as a singer, dancer and real angel always taking care the other members as one of the oldest members of THE BOYZ.
Journalist : Solène
Translator : Solène
Source : SNS THE BOYZ
