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Today's video is LaSalle Ave by American singer Jay Chang. His real name is Jay Steven Kapossy and he has a Filipino Chinese mum and Irish/Hungarian dad. 

Jay was born in the US but moved to South Korea for his music career. He followed in the footsteps of his dad, who was a musician in the 80s

He started out by competing on the Korean survival programme Under Nineteen in 2018 and while he didn't make the final group, he went on to make his solo debut with the digital single Is you in November 2020. He released two other digital singles- LIAR and I'd do anything.

Jay later signed with FM Entertainment. In 2023 he competed on another audition programme, BOYS PLANET and although he didn't make it in to the final line-up for the project boyband ZEROBASEONE, he became well known and it kickstarted his career. 

He made his official solo debut in October 2023 with the EP LATE NIGHT, which is a mixture of Korean and English tracks. The lead singles were I'll Be There and Rockstar. 

A month later, Jay also made his group debut with the 5-member boy band ONE PACT, made up of previous BOYS PLANET contestants. In addition, he also took part in the reality music competition Build Up: Vocal Boy Group Survival in early 2024. He placed first with his team, going on to debut as the project boy group B.D.U in June 2024.

Last November, Jay released his 2nd mini album Neighborhood. 

He has released 2 singles from the album so far- LaSalle Ave and What You Need featuring his ONE PACT bandmate TAG. 

He hasn't released much lately (his most recent video being a live cover of Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' 2024 single Die With A Smile, with Filipino American singer Kriesha Chu. Maybe he's concentrating more on band activities right now. :) 

LaSalle Ave came out last November. I saw Jay perform it on Simply K-pop Con Tour at the time. It's an English language R'n'B song about memories from the past, reminiscent of old soul songs from the 60s and 70s. I also like the cat in the music video! :)

 


Plus, check out the music video for What You Need featuring TAG (also released in Nov): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xemuy-El2BM

 

For more on Jay visit these links: 

Kprofiles: https://kprofiles.com/jay-chang-profile/

Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaychang63/

Official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JayChang63 

 

Official ONE PACT YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ONE_PACT 

Official B.D.U YT: https://www.youtube.com/@BDU4official 

 

P.S. Lately when I go on my blog, the images on the post previews don't always load correctly; I'm not sure why. It loads fine when you click through though. :)  

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