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10 Things you don’t know about Psy

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1. His real name Park Jae-sang

2. He was born on the 31st of December 1977
3. Psy met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations Headquarters where Ban expressed his desire to work with the singer because of his “unlimited global reach”
4. His music video “Gangnam Style” reached a billion views on YouTube, becoming the first and video to achieve that much amounts of views in the web history.
5. In December 2012, Psy performed on-stage in front of a live audience of over 1 million people in Times Square, New York City

6. In an interview on South Korea’s Seoul Broadcasting System, a former teacher of Park said “I remember Psy making a lot of sexual jokes during class. He had such a big influence that he would drive the entire class to his jokes. I disliked him at the time, but looking back, I see that he added a great energy to the class.”
7. He  originally planned to study business administration at Boston University  but ended he lost interest in his studies and ended up  spending his tuition funds on musical instruments
8. Park Jae-sang’s stage name ‘Psy’ derives from the word ‘psycho’. Explaining his stage name, he said in a BBC interview, “what I thought was, you know, crazy about music, dancing, performance, so that kind of psycho.
9. British rock band Queen inspired Psy to start his music career.
10.He has won close to 40 Awards in his career

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