SS501: Heo Youngsaeng

Heo Young Saeng was a trainee under SM Entertainment, making him close
with members of TVXQ and



Super Junior. He later joined DSP Entertainment
and debut as a member of SS501 on 8 June 2005.

Heo Youngsaeng

Birthday: November 3, 1986

Position: Main Vocal

Height: 178 cm

Weight: 63 kg

Blood: O

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Heo Youngsaeng's vocal is the backbone of SS501's songs, impressive in
its strength and sweet clarity. Youngsaeng started out as a trainee with
SM Entertainment where he was friends with members of many of the
label's popular groups. For an unspecified reason he decided to take his
chances elsewhere and on the advice of a friend auditioned for DSP and
gained admittance to the group. Specifically it is known that he is
still good friends with Siwon and Yehsung of Super Junior and Jaejoong
and Yunho of DBSK.

Youngsaeng has also stated that he admires Lee Minwoo
of Shinhwa and hopes to follow in his footsteps. Not long after SS501
had debuted it was announced that Youngsaeng had developed a problem
with his vocal chords that required surgery and a period of rest, at the
time he had been co-hosting the radio show Youngstreet with fellow
member Jungmin so Kyujong took his place.



Youngsaeng is mostly quiet, preferring to let everyone else do the
talking. In interviews it is obvious that he suffers from a lack of self
confidence stating once that he didn't like his voice and wished it
were manlier. Yet he loves to take pictures of himself, perhaps a habit
picked up from his SM days. His nickname in the group is “Otter” which
was something he didn't like because he didn't know what it was. However
once he looked it up he thought otters were cute so he didn't mind
being called that anymore. He has been called Dr. Love by the other
members because of his impressive knowledge of girls and also Prince by
his fans. When Youngsaeng thinks the camera isn't on him he will slack
off with his dancing. He can be really cute when he relaxes during
performances, giving fans bright smiles and v signs.



Young Saeng hosted SS501’s Youngstreet (SBS, 2006) with fellow member
Park JungMin from 1 May 2006. He had to part with the program in Aug’06
due to some problems on his vocal cords which requires surgery and time
to recover.



In 2008, due to 2 members’ busy schedules, Jung Min performing in a
Korean production of the musical “Grease” and Hyun Joong filming drama
“Boys Over Flowers“, SS501’s album which was originally due for release
in late 2008, was to be pushed back to July 2009.



Instead, a sub unit of SS501 was formed, with Heo Young Saeng as the
leader of this sub unit. Other two members in this unit are Kim Kyu Jong
and Kim Hyung Joon. This unit group was initially named “Triple S” but
they changed it back to “SS501″, reason being that they are 5 members
always as 1. The unit group released a special project album “U R Man”
(released on November 25, 2008).



Young Saeng composed and wrote his solo song, ‘(Is it Love?)’
which is also included in the special project album. This song is
written while SS501 were having activities in Japan in 2007. He is the
first member to have both composed and wrote lyrics for a song.



Finishing their promotional activities for “U R Man”, they continued
their activities to promote “(Because I am stupid)”, a song
they sang for the OST of “Boys Before Flowers”. This song is very
well-received due to the success of the drama. They won the “Song of the
month (Feb)” award with this song at the 32nd Cyworld Digital Music
Awards (28 Mar 09) with about 110,000 downloads for BGM at
www.cyworld.com.

Pictures of Heo Youngsaeng

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