Gary

What fascinates me about Gary is the refusal to be one thing. As half of Leessang he helped shape Korean hip-hop with sharp, lyrical rap, then quietly reinvented himself as a restaurateur and producer. I read that not as a retreat from music but as the same impulse pointed elsewhere: a need to make something people gather around and enjoy. The Yong In University background and that range hint at a man comfortable in his own skin, unbothered by reinvention. He strikes me as an artist who values warmth over hype, and I genuinely respect that kind of unhurried, self-assured career.

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Name (English)

Gary

Name (Japanese)

ゲリ

Reading

げり

Born

February 24, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

South Korea

Occupation

restaurateur / singer / songwriter / record producer / music promoter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

University

Yong In University

• Official sitehttps://www.leessangcompany.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kanggary_yangban/
• Xhttps://x.com/kanggary58
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20(rapper)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AA%20(%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q495413

Tags

• restaurateur
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.