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1. Choi Young-jae (Korean: 최영재; born September 17, 1996, professionally known by the mononym YOUNGJAE, is a South Korean singer, dancer, actor and songwriter. He is the main vocal of the Korean boy band GOT7. Youngjae started dreaming of becoming a singer in his childhood, when he sang with his older brother. When the latter enlisted, Youngjae joined a practical music academy in his hometown, Mokpo, to learn more professionally. In 2011, he won the Vocal Excellence Award at Mokpo Youth Music Festival. In 2013, JYP Entertainment held a closed audition in the academy and he became a trainee. After one month of training in Seoul, he was chosen as part of JYPE new boy group After a total of 7 months of training,[3][4] he subsequently debuted as the main vocalist of the seven member boy group, Got7, with the single "Girls Girls Girls", released on 16 January 2014, from the group's first EP Got It?.[6] In early times after the debut, Youngjae mentioned his dream was to become a music therapist. He has been writing songs and lyrics under the name Ars since 2016, starting with "REWIND" in Got7's extended play Flight Log: Departure. Youngjae had a collaboration with Sanjoy and Elliott Yamin in 2017 on the song "Victim of Love", while he recorded "I'm All Ears" with Park Ji-min for the Life Insurance Social Responsibility Foundation's youth suicide prevention campaign in 2018. The song was released on October 15 alongside its music video. On September 25, he was cast in Netflix's
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