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Biography (kang gary)

Birth name : Kang Hee-gun

Stage name: kang gary (gaeri)

Born on : February 24, 1978

Born in: South Korea

Genres: Hip hop

Occupation(s): Rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur, record producer, television personality

Years active :1996-present

Labels : Jungle Entertainment,
Leessang Company

Associated acts: Leessang, Honey Family

STAGE NAME
Hangul: 개리
english: Gaeri / Gaelly / Gary / Garie

REAL NAME
Hangul: 강희건
Hanja: 姜熙建
English: kang hee gun

Kang Hee-gun (Korean: 강희건, Hanja: 姜熙建; born February 24, 1978), better known by his stage name Gary (Korean: 개리, often spelled as Garie, Gaeri or Gaelly) is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, record producer, dancer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is member of hip-hop duo, Leessang. He is also currently a cast member of the variety show Running Man.

Early years
Gary was born on February 24, 1978. His nickname in middle school was "Gae" (meaning "dog" in Korean), which he adapted to become his stage name, after deciding between "gaemi" (ant) and "Gary". In his younger years, he was more interested in dancing than rapping.

Gary went to Yong In University and trained as a bodyguard. He was an amateur boxer for 10 years and his qualifications in various martial arts sum up to 8th dan.

Music Career
In 1997, Gary joined X-Teen and helped in releasing two albums in 1998 and 2000, and met Gil, who was also a member in X-Teen. At the time, Gary said that they were not good looking and their music was not great either which made them quit the group. Gary and Gil ended up joining "Honey Family" and released two albums in 1999 and 2000. Gary takes part of the responsibility for the break up of the group stating he "started feeling like a celebrity". Gary, Gil, and Diggity decided to form "Leessam Trio ("sam" means three in Korean)". They released a compilation album called 2000 Korea, in the year 2000. When Diggity left the group, Gary and Gil changed the name to LeeSsang.

In January 2014 he released a mini album, Mr Gae. Gary's title track "Shower Later" clenched the number 1 spot on 8 real-time music charts.

Other activities
In 2010, Gary joined Running Man as co-host, an urban variety show. He had a cameo on the movie Wonderful Radio, and in February 2014 another cameo, Emergency Couple.
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thats its for this chapter :)
next, i will be doing a biography for running man. :) and then i will start with lyrics to jongkook, sukjin and gary's songs :) . (and also jihyo's recent song (you are so cute) with kenji wu)