Jay Park

I have a real soft spot for Jay Park, because he's basically a Seattle b-boy who willed himself into becoming one of the most important figures in Korean hip hop. The man came up dancing with Art of Movement, broke into K-pop, then completely flipped the script by building AOMG and H1ghr Music from the ground up and giving a whole generation of Korean rappers and R&B artists a real home. What I love is how unbothered and self-made he feels, hustling between Seattle and Seoul, swaggy but genuinely hardworking. His music swings from slinky R&B to brash club bangers, and he sells all of it with charisma to spare. To me he's proof that an outsider with relentless drive can build his own lane.

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Name (English)

Jay Park

Name (Japanese)

ジェイ・パーク

Reading

じぇい・ぱーく

Born

April 25, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Seattle, Washington, United States

Occupation

composer / singer / actor / dancer / choreographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

High school

Edmonds Woodway High School

University

Dankook University

• Official sitehttps://www.jaypark.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jparkitrighthere/
• Xhttps://x.com/jaybumaom
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Park
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%9C%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q429046

Tags

• Washington
• composer
• singer
• actor

Last updated

October 18, 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.