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** HAPPY 1st ANNIVERSARY OF D'SCOVER **

:: 27 February 2014


D'scover - Daesung 1st solo album in Japan and also 1st solo album in his career. It was released on February 27, 2013. It's been one year since it's released. Happy 1st Anniversary!!! 


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Singer's Ballad



Great news for Daesung's fans that this year Daesung will release his 2nd solo album in Japan and hopefully 1st solo album in Korea. He will also embark a new Arena Tour this coming June & July. Wish Daesung the best of luck in his upcoming events and hope everything will turn out well. Daesung fighting!!!

[Videos] MTV D'splay Ep.1 & Ep. 2 [Eng Sub]

D'splay with Daesung and VJ Boo
:: 13 March 2013


[SHOW] 130413 D'splay Ep 1 by bbvipchannel


:: 27 April 2013


[SHOW] 130427 D'splay Ep 2 by bbvipchannel

[Videos] D'scover Special on SSTV [Eng Sub]

:: 2 March 2013

D'scover Special on SSTV during 'D'scover' Album promotion last March.



[SHOW] 130302 Daesung on Dscover Special by bbvipchannel

[Videos] Daesung @ 'Our Music' with Hata Motohiro [Eng Sub]

:: 18 Oct 2013

Talk Part


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Performance 'Ai' (Acoustic version)


1018ai by HappyVirusD

 Note: Hata Motohiro is the original singer of 'Ai'


Watch here for English Subbed: @wheneverds

[Videos] Preview for 'D-LITE D'scover Tour 2013 In Japan~DLive~ DVD

'Utautai No Ballad'

 

'Wings'




Trailer



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[Video] D-LITE D'scover Tour 2013 In Japan~DLive~ Digest [Eng Sub]




[Info] D'scover Tour 2013 In Japan ~DLIVE~ DVD Release

D-Lite's D'scover Tour 2013 In Japan~DLIVE~




DVD/Blu-Ray Release Date: 30 October 2013

Versions:
[1] 2 DVD + 2 CD Deluxe Edition
[2] 2 Bluray + 2 CD Deluxe Edition
[3] 2 DVD
[4] 2 Bluray

Note: For Versions 3&4 (Non Deluxe Edition), Disc 2 is only 60 minutes and only includes the documentary

Track List:
DVD DISC 1 (141 Minutes)
1. Singer’s Ballad
2. Love
- MC1 -
3. Sunny Hill
4. Powerful Boy
5. Wings
- MC 2 -
6. Like Overflowing with Kindness
7. Missing You Now
- MC 3 -
8. The Flower Bud Of My Dream
9. Try Smiling
- MC 4 -
10. Miraiyosozu
Ⅱ
- Band Interlude -
11. Konayuki
12. Baby Don't Cry
- MC 5 -
13. Joyful
14. Sobakasu
15. Hello
- Encore -
16. Big Hit + Look At Me, Gwisoon
- MC 6 -
17. Wings
- MC 7 -
18. Joyful
- Curtain Call -
- Encore 2 -
19. Look At Me, Gwisoon

DVD DISC 2 (125 Minutes)
1. Documentary of “D-LIVE” D'scover Tour
2. Special Features
- “Joyful” Call & Response Digest
- Introduction of D'Staff Digest
- Tour MC Digest
-
タハー !! (Taha!!) Digest
- D-Live Goods Interlude Movie
3. Collection of Best Moments
- Singer's Ballad (Close-up Edit Version)
- Missing You Now (Close-up Edit Version)
- Baby Don't Cry (Close-up Edit Version)
4. Special Bonus
- I Love You @ A-Nation Island Tour Festival

CD DISC 1
1. Singer's Ballad
2. Love
3. Sunny Hill
4. Powerful Boy
5. Wings
6. Like Overflowing with Kindness
7. Missing You Now
8. The Flower Bud Of My Dream
9. Try Smiling
10. Miraiyosozu
Ⅱ

CD DISC 2
1. Konayuki
2. Baby Don't Cry
3. Joyful
4. Sobakasu
5. Hello
6. Big Hit/Look At Me Gwisoon


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[Videos] Daesung @TBS "Power Purin" Part 1&2 [Eng Sub]



:: 28 Feb 2013 : Part 1


[SHOW] 130228 Daesung on Power Purin by bbvipchannel

:: 7 March 2013 : Part 2


[SHOW] 130307 Daesung on Power Purin by bbvipchannel



Note DS: This is a must watch ok! daesung is too cute & adorable in this show. ^__^

[Video] Daesung @ FNS Summer Music Festival

:: 31 July 2013

Daesung's performance on FNS Summer Music Festival. He performed やさしさで溢れるように (Like Overflowing with Kindness) with the original singer JUJU. 


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[Interview] Daesung's 100 Q&A in BIGBANG Times Vol. 6.5


1. How did you feel when you heard you would have to answer 100 questions? 
- Eh~ so many (laughs)

2. Prefer beach or mountain? 
– Uhh mountain!

3. Prefer living in a city or rural? 
– Rural

4. If you would have to choose to wear ripped underwear or ripped socks on a date? 
– (laughing hard) Hahaha ripped socks

5. Your crush is heartbroken. Do you think this is your chance or would you worry about her?
– I would worry if she is okay or not

6. 100 friends to just hang out with or 1 true best friend? 
– 1 best friend

7. If you have to choose three meals per day but all same food, or one meal per day but you can eat anything? 
– One meal per day

8. Your crush happens to be your friend’s girlfriend. Give up or not give up? 
– Give up

9. What is your daily routine? 
– Listen to music

10. Tell me when you feel good/bad.
– I feel good when I eat something delicious. I feel sad when a restaurant I go to isn't good.

11. One thing you want to do but haven’t done yet? 
– Bungee jump!

12. What kind of person do you want to be? 
– Someone other people can feel relaxed with

13. Most embarrassing moment? 
– During Alive tour my pants ripped

14. What would you do if world ends in a week? 
– I would plant an apple tree (a Korean saying) 

15. Where/when do you feel calm? 
– While half body bathing 

16. What is a habit you want to quit? 
– Biting my nails

17. Do you get nervous? How do you get over nervousness? 
– Yes, I do. I try to get over it by imagining the good ending

18. What is ‘singing’? 
– Not a difficult thing (referring to lyrics of Utautai)

19. What do you have with you all the time? 
– Accessories like rings, piercings

20. What do you want now? 
– Strong trust from my fans

21. You don’t want to own pets? 
– No (immediate answer)

22. Your favourite smell? 
– Aroma. Something relaxing

23. Show us what’s inside your bag.
– Ah.. don’t have my bag. I used to carry one but I only have my wallet and phone now.

24. Which Korean restaurant do you recommend? 
– Yeolbong (Se7en’s restaurant)

25. A spot you recommend in Korea? 
– Jimjilbang (Korean sauna)

26. What is your ideal family when you get married? 
- 2 kids. A boy and a girl. No, 11! Want to make an all-boys soccer team!

27. How frequent do you want to talk to your girlfriend? 
– Email every hour. Like “it’s 5 o clock~”, “it’s 6 o clock~” (laughs)

28. How do you want your girlfriend to call you? 
– "Jagiya" (darling in Korean)

29. Your girlfriend is crying but you are far away. What would you do? 
– Video chat. Then I will cry more than her

30. It’s your girlfriend’s birthday. How would you celebrate? 
– I'm into tofu now so I would make tofu cake!!

31. Where would you like to travel with BIGBANG members? 
– With GD in Europe, with VI in Japan, with SOL in America, with TOP in Seoul and go eat good food

32. Do you hang out with the members? 
– Yes! We do! We go eat and go watch movies

33. What is your favourite hairstyle you have done? 
– Last year’s MAMA blue hair. It was only for a short period though

34. What do you do while travelling? 
– I listen to music and play games on my phone

35. Which part of your body do you wash first while taking bath? 
– My hair

36. While you were working secretly for 3 months(in Japan for D’scover), how did you feel? Were you lonely? 
– I was busy, but I was happy. I had to work in Japanese so I was nervous. I wasn't lonely.

37. You told us that you graduated from Doraemon. Would you notice your fans even they don’t have Doraemon goods during concert? 
– Of course, my eyesight is good! Let’s graduate from Doraemon together! We now have D-kun!

38. What would you do if you get a break? 
– If it’s only one day, I would stay in the hotel. If it’s a month, I want to travel! To Paris!

39. What was your childhood nickname? 
– No particular meaning but it was Kangdaepo

40. You probably lived the hotel life during the tour, but what do you do first when you get to your room? 
– I would put down my carry bag

41. Food you don’t like? 
– Sour plums

42. What items do you have at all times? 
– Phone and chapstick

43. Who is your Japanese celebrity friend besides UZAI? 
– I don’t have any... ah, BOO! DJ BOO!

44. You care about your skin. Which skincare do you recommend? 
– Chinese (herb) medicine

45. Your hobby? 
- half body bathing

46. What is your favourite item? 
– Erasable pen

47. Your weak point and strong point? 
– My weak point is that I'm easily influenced. Strong point is that I eat a lot! And I'm always on time.

48. What would you do if you get wings all of the sudden? 
– I would fly(laughs)

49. What was your most expensive shopping? 
– A huge TV I gave to my parents. Because the TV at our house was smaller than the ones in hotels

50. D-lite, Daesung, To-san, what name do you like to be called? 
– Daesung. People barely call me D-lite. As for To-san, not at all (laughs)

51. Your current favourite brand? 
– Rick Owens

52. What do you care about when you eat? 
– I try to eat slow

53. Why did you start training (body)? 
– When I was a student, people would make fun of me because I was too skinny…

54. What is your favourite part of your face? 
– Nose

55. What do you think is a benefit of becoming your girlfriend? 
– Just.. awesome!(laughs)

56. Your speciality date plan? 
– I would cook. I’ll decide what I'm going to cook.. Ah, maybe gyoza.

57. What present would you want to give to someone you like? 
– Me... (laughs)

58. What hairstyle do you want to have next? 
– Something powerful. I’ll think about it (laughs)

59. What do you listen to when you want to feel excited? 
– Fantastic Baby

60. Relaxing? 
– Cafe

61. When you want to concentrate? 
– Bad Boy

62. When you feel down? 
– Garagara Go

63. When you’re heartbroken? 
– Usobonda

64. Most impressive song? 
– Tell Me Goodbye. When we filmed the MV, I was the first one but I waited for 24 hours, but the shooting ended in 10 minutes

65. Most impressive concert? 
- ALIVE tour. When fans sing Haru Haru.

66. If you can have one special power what would you want? 
– Teleporting. If I could use it now I would go to Niagara

67. What do you feel proud about your home? 
– I’m from Seoul but my place looks rural. The air is clean!

68. Your three specialities? 
– Rock paper scissors, keep opening my eyes for long without blinking, can move each of my eyebrows

69. What do you think your charm point is? 
– That I laugh a lot

70. Something that always come out of your mouth? 
– I always mix my Korean pronunciation when I speak Japanese.

71. What item you can’t feel calm without? 
– Phone

72. What is the first thing you do when you wake up? 
– Listen to music

73. What do you do before going to sleep? 
– Listen to music

74. Can you easily wake up? 
-(aggressively) listen to music (laughs) yes I can wake up smoothly

75. What do you like about your room? 
– It is bright and clean. I love my bed

76. Rice or bread for breakfast? 
– Rice

77. What are you into currently? 
– Drums.. ah I said it so I must show it someday (laughs)

78. What is your fashion style? 
– Natural

79. Fashion item you can’t refuse buying? 
– Rick Owens

80. During work, what do you keep in mind all the time? 
– To keep smiling/laughing with everyone while working

81. Do you do something before getting on stage? 
– We form a circle and say Aja Aja Fighting!

82. What do you want to challenge next? 
– Challenge is scary.. maybe chef?

83. During work, when do you feel you have grown? 
– I have patience now

84. What made you happy recently? 
– Solo concert

85. What was fun recently? 
– Solo concert

86. What was sad recently? 
–(aggressively) Solo concert (laughs)

87. Do you have any jinx? 
– No

88. Your favourite word? 
– ‘chinpunkanpun’ (meaning ‘no clue’ in Japanese)

89. Motto? 
– Believe in myself

90. What phrase makes you happy when someone tells it to you? 
– ‘Awesome!’

91. What do you think is a benefit of becoming your friend? 
- You'll be healthy (because he eats healthy)

92. What would you do if there are 30hrs a day? 
– I would sleep more

93. If you weren't BIGBANG, what would you be doing? 
– Security...?

94. When you’re in danger, how would you overcome it? 
– Try to think faster

95. What is your life theme? 
– This is deep... I was born with nothing so I would die with nothing

96. What do you think is the most needed in life? 
– Love and meal

97. What is your biggest ambition of life? 
– Conquer TOP!(laughs)(because TOP’s ambition is to conquer the world so he wants to conquer TOP)

98. Do you have a treasure? 
– Yes. It is D’scover

99. When do you feel pleased to be a member of BIGBANG? 
– Even when I go through rough times, we are so close. When I feel that..

100. What is BIGBANG to D-lite? 
– Friends!


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[News] Daesung Gets 'D'scover' Nominated for an Album Cover Award in Japan

:: 21 June 2013

Daesung, who has been promoting in Japan as D-Lite, has been nominated for an album cover design award in Japan.
The Recording Industry Association of Japan announced through its official webpage on June 17 the list of nominees for its Music Jacket Gallery 2013. In the list of 50, comprised of albums which made it through the first round of preliminaries, Daesung′s D′scover album was included.
He is the only Korean artist to have made it into the list.
The Music Jacket Gallery 2013 is in its third running this year, and introduces fans to many attractive CD packages while aiming to foster the development of such artwork.
Nominees were chosen out of albums released between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013, and winners will be decided based on local fan votes to take place in September.
Daesung′s D′scover was released on February 27. The cover brings together images of birds, butterflies and skyscrapers, as Daesung stares out in monochrome styles.
Daesung will next hold an encore for his Japan tour on June 23 for the members of Big Bang′s official Japanese fan club VIP Japan.

Source: @ENewsWorld

[Interviews] Daesung @ Croissant Magazine

:: 10 April 2013
Title: D-LITE, 
One by one, listen to my stories. I am a part of Bigbang and I am also a singer


Not long before, D-LITE released his Japanese cover album “D’scover” and it started a hot topic as it was ranked #2 on Oricon’s Weekly Chart. At the latter half of last year, D-LITE was staying in Japan for a long period of time to work on his album. It took 3 months to complete the production of the album and it is filled with D-LITE’s charm.
“It was tough selecting songs. I had to collate all the songs selected by staff members and listen to it one by one. In the beginning, I did not bother about the content of the lyrics but rather I selected songs based on the amount of warmth it contained and how the song touched my heart. After filtering my list, I then selected songs that suit my voice and also checked on the lyrics.”

When we asked him if there were any songs that he fell in love with the lyrics, he shyly smile and replied “Of course, it’s ‘Singer’s Ballad’”
“I really like the lyrics. It is very similar to what I want to say. So, it is not only singing but hoping people would listen to what I have to say and sing it out like I am speaking.”

Although D-LITE is Korean, he sounds very natural singing Japanese songs and it left a deep impression on others.
“I think to a person who keeps listening to original songs, every time they listen to that song, it brings back some memories of their past that belongs to them. So, in order not to ruin them, I considered a lot and thought of where I should add my own colors in. I think singing is not only about skills but it is about accumulating all your experience and concepts and focus it on the lyrics and melody of the song and singing it. I believe in that way, I am able to add D-LITE’s colors in naturally and it will become a song with my style.”

Compared to “Singer’s Ballad” which is easier for you to immerse yourself into it, the more challenging song would be Ikimono-gakari’s “Joyful”.
“I was a little worried before performing the song but once recording started, I was enjoying myself. I felt like I was a child again.”

When you first knew J-Pop, it was in junior school where visual music was popular.
“I watched music channels on TV but when I was young I thought it was scary so I didn’t like it. As the impression that time was too deep, I did not listen to Japanese music afterward until Bigbang collaborated with a Japanese producer DAISHI DANCE for “My Heaven” and “Haru Haru”. After I learnt that Japanese music is not all about the intenseness, I started listening to other Japanese songs. Now I like listening to a sub-genre called Shibuya-kei.”

Although D-LITE san has released a trot solo song in Korea, has experience in musicals and also able to grasp freely the different genres of music, however this time round, you are releasing your first solo album in Japan and also holding a national concert. This interview is done before the national tour but instead of nervousness, we felt calmness from him.
“To a singer, we place importance in being able to have direct contact with our audience. I have been to countless stages with Bigbang but this time it is just me alone. My anticipation for this tour outweighs my worries. This album was completed step by step, day by day and what I want to show on stage is to show everybody D-LITE’s all. That is a concert I would like to do.”

Conducting your tour around the whole nation and what exactly will you show your audience? This is what we are waiting to see. Last year, Bigbang performed in South America as well and that left a deep impression on D-LITE.
“At first I was really worried as it was the first time we are visiting so many countries and we do not know if they accept or recognize us and our music. But once the concert started, I saw how all of them are able to sing to our songs and how they gave us support by responding loudly. I thank them very much.”

The world tour then came upon to Tokyo Dome and during the encore, the members also interacted with the audience which was impressive.
“Due to the condition of the venue and time constraints, we had different situations so we always had to do impromptu stuffs that we are happy to do too. In future, I want to do a concert like this as well.”

Small words below the photo: D-LITE’s original name is Kang Daesung. He possesses an overwhelming and warm voice and also a warm character. “D’scover” is a collection of covered Japanese songs by D-LITE.

<2nd page>

“If Bigbang is a family, G-Dragon will be a strict father, if you did anything wrong he will point it out to you mercilessly.  SOL is the mother who will console you afterward. Then, T.O.P is… a baby (laugh).” 
It is no secret to fans that T.O.P has a child’s heart. He will not speak much on stage but when off stage, he is someone funny and someone who will always make the members laugh. Lastly it would be the maknae V.I. “The truth is, all the members are the youngest at home other than V.I who is the elder brother of his family. He is the youngest in the group yet he looks like the eldest, I didn’t dare to believe it at first (laugh). After a few years of communicating, our relationship improved.”

What are FANS to D-LITE?
“I belong to the type who will not perform excessively on stage but rather, I support them from far. I feel that my fans are like me, they don’t show off too much but they always support me without changing. So I am very thankful and I trust them very much.”

<3rd page>

Singers and their fans are very similar, this is because they are like soul-mates.


Source: Croissant Magazine
Translated by: nakedae@SMILE HOLIC www.dsholic.com

[Interviews] Gummy @ Oricon

Oricon: It seems like Gummy yourself also participated for the production of the fifth song “To Dear You ft. D-LITE (from Bigbang)”

GUMMY: I wanted to create a song that might be sad but when if we listen to the song with a cheerful mood, the song will become a song with energy so I spent 3 hours finishing it with Jeff. Also, I think that it is very important to put my feelings into the song and sing. Jeff is a passionate person, he produced this song for me based on this important point.



Oricon: Also, D-LITE participated in this song as well.
GUMMY: D-LITE is really a warm and beautiful person! He doesn’t hide himself. The way he speaks about his own feelings truthfully is really alike me….. I mean in the song (laugh)



Oricon: How was it recording with D-LITE?
GUMMY: He has a very serious case of worrying unnecessarily. During his solo concert as well, he was very stressful and under huge pressure, to the point that even I worried as well. When singing this song, he kept complaining “Because it is Gummy Noona’s song, I can’t do it!” But I will say “Just sing~”, only at that point of time did I become an elder sister (laugh)



Oricon: I can imagine the scenario of how you two spoke (laugh). D-LITE is a person who has a huge sense of responsibility towards singing, he doesn’t want to affect Gummy’s established songs.
GUMMY: Because before they (Bigbang) debuted, I gave advices to D-LITE about singing, so that may be why D-LITE treats me as an elder sister. But now, the hoobaes can all portray their feelings and heart very well now, so I am very relieved, but no matter what, I still admire him!



Oricon: Gummy also joined D-LITE for his solo concert, how does it feel to stand on the Japanese stage after so long?
GUMMY: I was a little too excited (laugh). During D-LITE’s solo concert, everybody gave me huge support so I was really happy, I also felt nervousness after a long while, I sang and looked into everybody’s eyes at the same time.



Oricon: The MC said D-LITE was very handsome oh.
GUMMY: I think it was recently ah~~ Don’t  you think that his face has become very handsome?



Oricon: That is true.
GUMMY: Although this is a joke, but we can say he is Bigbang’s visual (laugh), he is really a handsome man. Before that he was only very caring…. Wait… I am sorry (laugh). The him right now is equipped with everything, he is really a charming person now!

Source: Oricon
Translated by: nakedae@SMILE HOLIC www.dsholic.com