Gill (musician)

In this Korean name, the family name is Gil.

Gil Seong-joon
Background information
Birth name	Gil Seong-joon
Born	(1977-12-24) December 24, 1977 Seoul, South Korea
Genres	Hip hop soul R&B
Occupation(s)	rapper, comedian, music producer, Judge
Instrument	Piano
Years active	1997–present
Labels	Jungle Entertainment Leessang Company Magic Mansion

Korean name
Hangul	길성준
Hanja	吉成俊
Revised Romanization	Gil Seong-jun
McCune–Reischauer	Kil Sŏngjun

Gil Seong-joon (Korean: 길성준; Hanja: 吉成俊; born December 24, 1977), better known by his stage name Gill (Korean: 길), is a South Korean singer and television personality. He was the main singer of former South Korean hip-hop duo, Leessang.

In 2009, Gil joined Infinite Challenge as a guest and, later on, as a regular co-host. Gil also co-hosted Come To Play. In 2012, Gil joined Voice of Korea as one of the coaches and continued for Season 2. He was caught by police for DUI incident in April 2014 and eventually resigned from any public activity including Infinite Challenge and made the comeback in TV program as a producer for Mnet's hip-hop survival program, Show Me The Money 5, in 2016.

Personal life

Gil said that when he was 5 years old, his father fainted, causing him to be disabled. To cure him, they put their house on auction. Gil's father was immobile for about a decade before he started to talk and walk again.

Career

Infinite Challenge (2009-2014)

Gil made his first appearance on an episode which featured Korean figure skater Kim Yuna in April 2009, ostensibly substituting for Jeong Jun-ha, who had to leave the episode recording early. He remained a de facto member of Infinite Challenge until he became a full member later that year. During the Boxing episodes in January 2010, Gil showed off his 9-year-long training in the sport. Gil is often called the Unfunny Friend due to his inability to ad-lib as quickly as the other co-hosts.

In 2012, both of Leesang members, Gil and Gary, who worked as the main concert organizer of Infinite Challenge: Super 7 concert announced their departure from their respective variety shows, because of high ticket price protests. The concert itself eventually canceled. On the other hand, they still continued their participation as variety show cast after the controversy calmed down.

The Voice Korea (2012-2013)

With his commentaries, Gil has shown that underneath his rugged hip-hop exterior, he is a warm and rather approachable individual. Consistently offering warm words of encouragement and advice to his disciples to help them ease their anxious hearts, and lightening up the atmosphere with his witty sense of humor, he has become an indispensable personality on the program.

Hiatus (2014)

After the DUI incident, he took a hiatus from any public activities including TV appearances and concerts.

Show Me The Money (2016)

Gill joined MNET's fifth season of the TV rap competition Show Me the Money in 2016 as one of the producers with Mad Clown as Team Gill & Mad Clown.

Discography

Main article: Leessang discography

EP

• R.O.A.D. Project #1 (2015)

Singles

• "Refrigerator" (냉장고) with Verbal Jint & Lee Hi (May 28, 2016)

Variety shows

Year	Title	Role	Network
2008	Kko Kko Tour (Season 1)		KBS2
	Kko Kko Tour (Season 2)		KBS2
2009–2014	Infinite Challenge	Co-MC	MBC
2016	Show Me The Money 5	Producer (teamed up with Mad Clown)	Mnet

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Result
2009	Mnet 20's Choice	Hot Variety Star	Won
	MBC Entertainment Awards	Newcomer - Men's Division	Won
		Best Male Variety Daesang with Infinite Challenge member	Won
2010	10th MBC Entertainment Awards	Award For Best TV Programme of the Year (TEO PD with entire directing members of Infinite Challenge)	Won
	22nd Korean Producers Grandprix	Award For Best TV Entertainment Programme (Co winner, with entire directing members of Infinite Challenge)	Won
2013	13th MBC Entertainment Awards	Most Popular Program (with Infinite Challenge members)	Won

External links

• Official website
• instagram