Crucial Star
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October 16, 1989
Crucial Star | |
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| Born | Park Se-yoon October 16, 1989 |
| Origin | South Korea |
| Genres | K-hip hop, K-pop |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 2007–present |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박세윤 |
| RR | Bak Seyun |
| MR | Pak Seyun |
Park Se-yoon (Korean: 박세윤; born October 16, 1989),[1] more commonly known as Crucial Star (크루셜 스타), is a South Korean rapper and record producer. He started writing music at the age of 17 and joined the hip hop duo Libra Twins in 2007, before debuting as a solo rapper in 2010.[2] He released his first EP, A Star Goes Up, in 2011.[3]
Park Se-yoon was born on October 16, 1989, in Seoul, South Korea. His father is the painter Hang-Ryul Park.[4]
He made his musical debut at the age of seventeen in the hip hop group Libra Twins.[5] Several years later, he signed with independent hip hop label Soul Company, working under the name Crucial Star.[5] He and label mate Mad Clown collaborated on the digital album Mad Clown VS Crucial Star in 2010.[6][full citation needed] The following year, he released his first EP, A Star Goes Up, and his first full-length album, A Star From The Basement.[7][unreliable source?][8][unreliable source?]
Following the dissolution of Soul Company in 2012, Crucial Star moved to Grandline Entertainment.[5][9] While with Grandline, he released two mix tapes, Drawing #1: A Dream Spokesman (2012) and Drawing 2: A Better Man (2013), two albums, FALL (2012) and Midnight (2014), and one EP, Boyhood (2015).[10][unreliable source?][11][unreliable source?][12][unreliable source?][13][unreliable source?]
In 2015 he appeared as a contestant on Mnet television rap contest Show Me the Money 4. He was eliminated in the preliminary round after forgetting his lyrics.[14][unreliable source?] In October 2015, Crucial Star's agency published a statement announcing that he and Unpretty Rapstar 2 contestant Heize were in a relationship.[15][unreliable source?] A week after this announcement, it was reported that they had broken up several months prior.[16][unreliable source?]
He left Grandline Entertainment in January 2016 when his contract ended.[17] In April, he signed with C-JeS Entertainment.[18][unreliable source?]
