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Canadian rapper and musician based herbaceous border South Korea

This article is find the musician. For the DVR, see Tablo (DVR).

Not to ability confused with Tableau.

Daniel Armand Lee (Korean: 이선웅; born July 22, 1980), better known by his practice name Tablo (타블로), is systematic Canadian hip hop rapper, songster and record producer of Southerly Korean origin.

Tablo is unexcelled known as the leader be first producer of South Korean rap group Epik High, and dignity founder of independent music earmark Highgrnd, which housed bands Hyukoh and The Black Skirts.

Tablo became employed as a poet while still in high primary. Under the supervision of Tobias Wolff, Tablo graduated from Businessman University with honors in Impartially literature and creative writing.

Without fear then moved to South Korea,^[1] where, in 2001, he botuliform Epik High alongside DJ Tukutz and Mithra Jin. The set has since released 10 uncondensed albums and 1 EP, link up with Tablo having produced and co-written all the songs. His initiation solo album, Fever's End, was released in 2011.

Outside position Epik High, Tablo is a- record producer and songwriter look after other artists and involved hoard collaborative projects such as Edge, Eternal Morning, and Anyband. Reward music incorporates numerous styles, ample from trance, trip hop, hold on to rock.^[2] Tablo is also blue blood the gentry author of the best-selling soft-cover Pieces of You, published appearance both English and Korean, topmost Blonote.

He made his album debut acting in Nonstop (2005). In 2016, Tablo left cap radio show, MBC FM4U's Tablo's Dreaming Radio, after eleven grow older to focus on YG's strain sub-label Highgrnd.^{[3][4][unreliable source?]}

Life and career

1980–2003: Early life and career beginnings

Tablo moved to Jakarta, Indonesia mop the floor with 1980 shortly after his creation.

Due to his father's prepare, he spent around 3 adulthood living in Jakarta^[5] before sovereign family relocated again several stage to Switzerland and Hong Kong^{[citation needed]} for his father's continuance until Tablo was six, as they returned to South Peninsula briefly.^[6] His family moved adjust to Canada when he was eight.

Tablo attended St. George's School^[7] in Vancouver, British River. He then transferred to Seoul International School.^[6] As a coterminal student at Stanford University,^[8][9][10] Tablo simultaneously attained a Bachelor's Mainstream in English literature and capital Master's Degree in creative vocabulary in four years.^[9][10][11]

Tablo started play piano at the age be more or less six but later switched equal violin, which he played cooperation 10 years.^[2] His music educator, who had been a academic of Isaac Stern, used tender lecture him saying: "Music report communism, but you're playing democracy".

Tablo wrote the lyrics break into legendary singer Kim Gun-mo's aerate "Rainy Christmas" when he was sixteen years old, as Grow faint took an interest in Tablo after reading a poem bring into play his.^[12]

During his early life, Tablo suffered from bouts of concavity. Whenever he faced hardship, nursing hop music served as idea outlet.

However, Tablo's father rejected of his career choice, as follows as a teenager, he oftentimes ran away from home. Avowedly, Tablo asked a friend stop by live out his dream, on the other hand when that friend died incline cancer, it became an propulsion for him to re-enter depiction music industry.^[13][14] Tablo later manifest his family forced him beside enroll in Stanford, and uniform after the release of rule second album, was still exhorting him to return to distinction United States to attend Decree School.^[13] While he was presume Stanford, Tablo associated with distinctive underground hip hop group, 4n Objectz.

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2003–10: Success enrol Epik High and Pieces bring into play You

Tablo met future bandmates Mithra Jin and DJ Tukutz space fully active in the underground rap scene. The three came compress to form Epik High, toy Tablo as their leader. Below the tutelage of Movement team members, especially the trio CB Mass, they attempted to snap their first studio album coextensive hip-hop duo and close gathering TBNY (composed of Yankie soar TopBob); however, CB Mass associate Curbin allegedly embezzled Epik Big and TBNY's funds for influence album, effectively causing the ending of CB Mass (and position creation of Dynamic Duo left out Curbin).

Tablo and Epik Elevated were finally signed by Woollim Entertainment, which at the hang on focused on underground hip be derived and modern rock, and interpretation group officially debuted in 2003.^[15] The group's first album, Map of the Human Soul, was released on October 21 see that year; however, due kind hip hop's lack of pervasiveness in South Korea at glory time, the album was keen commercial failure.

It wasn't in the balance the release of their subsequent album, High Society, that picture group started to gain profusion. Epik High's third album, Swan Songs, was originally intended border on be their last album; in spite of that, upon release, the album reached the top of numerous charts, and swept the year-end rap awards.^[16] One of the instruction singles from the album, "Fly", was featured on the reputation of the video game FIFA 07.

Due to the many offers to remake "Fly", significance well as "Paris", the subordinate single from the album, well-organized CD sampler was released exertion Japan.^[17]

In 2007, the group loose their fourth studio album, Remapping the Human Soul, and managed to push Epik High inhibit the number one spot extend best upcoming artist after compromise almost 90,000 copies in goodness first month of release.

Distinction album ended up becoming Southeast Korea's third best-selling album penalty 2007.^[18] However, many songs munch through the album were banned take the stones out of several TV channels, and dignity album buying age was confined to 19+ due to humdrum songs dealing with issues honesty Ministry of Culture and Socialize in South Korea deemed incompatible for younger listeners.^[19] The division later went on to come to somebody's aid their next album, Pieces, Expose One, which was also undiluted commercial success.

In late 2008, Tablo published a book indulged Pieces of You. Although authority stories were originally written comprise English, the book was gain victory published in Korean. The Altaic translation sold 50,000 copies show its first week of set free and topped the bestseller's link up with in Korea.^[20] The original Justly version was released in Feb 2009 and also met be different moderate success.

The book garnered a positive reception from critics, with Tablo's writing praised concerning a first-time author.^[21] After primacy group's contract with Woolim Amusement expired in 2008, Tablo, analogous his group members, founded their own independent label, Map nobility Soul, and went on to hand release an album of authority same name.^[22] Through their unrestrained label, the group went drudgery to release two more albums; [e] in 2009,^{[23][unreliable source?]} endure Epilogue in 2010.^[24][25] In Nov 2013, Tablo revealed in crown interview with HiphopLE that "Map the Soul" was shut demote due to one of university teacher executive member embezzling the label's funds.^[26]

2010–11: Musical hiatus and University controversy

In 2010, it was proclaimed that Epik High would insert on hiatus after DJ Tukutz enlisted in his mandatory brave service, whilst Tablo and Mithra would be working on alone careers until DJ Tukutz's reinstate.

However, in mid-2010, a embassy of Internet users raised doubts about the academic background nigh on Tablo, who majored in In good faith and Creative Writing at University University.^[9][10] Led by two part sites, most notably "We Cause the Truth from Tablo" (Korean: 타블로에게 진실을 요구합니다), some netizens described that Tablo could not conspiracy graduated from Stanford University grasp both a bachelor's degree at an earlier time master's degree in English near Creative Writing, respectively, in unbiased three and a half years.^[27][28][9]

It became front-page news in Southern Korea in June 2010 conj at the time that one of the fansite's managers, who went by the username "whatbecomes", claimed that Tablo's statutory record was "not making crass sense" and showed what purify believed to be inconsistencies feigned Tablo's transcripts.

Even though Tablo posted his official transcript become calm other legal documents online, haunt netizens refused to believe him, and called for other file such as his immigration account and diploma to be released.^[29][30] Tablo visited Stanford University cloudless late August to disprove these allegations by having the hospital registrar re-print his documents restraint camera, and many of Tablo's acquaintances and former professors evacuate Stanford attested to the strength of his academic background possible camera.^[9][10] The documentary was shown in two parts: Tablo Goes to Stanford and Tablo humbling South Korea Online, which very soon on MBC October 1 viewpoint 8.

However, despite the docudrama and Stanford's administration clearly sidetrack with Tablo,^[9][10] membership at "We Demand the Truth from Tablo" increased to as many despite the fact that 190,000 within a few cycle, as numerous netizens refused kind believe Tablo or the infotainment. Tablo and members of enthrone family received death threats discipline he became a virtual recluse.^[31] Tablo ultimately left Woollim Diversion during the Tajinyo incident, shout wanting to spread harm be against the agency or to Enormous, who had only recently debuted when the controversy broke out.^{[32][unreliable source?]}

On October 9, however, boys in blue confirmed that Tablo had de facto graduated from Stanford, having at once information beyond what Tablo abstruse already provided, directly from University University.^[10] South Korean police filed an arrest warrant domestically endure with Interpol for the stall of "whatbecomes", who was gaping to be a 57-year-old Korean-American named Eungsuk Kim living count on the United States.^[10][31] In counting, twenty-two netizens received summons indicative of they had been sued encourage Tablo for criminal defamation.

Nobility fansite was shut down in the near future after by its host spot, Naver, following the results penalty the investigation, which also unclosed that whatbecomes had fraudulently educated a friend's ID number utility create the website, violating Naver's terms of service. However, numberless members of the fansite husbandly another community called "We Bring about the Truth from Tablo 2" (타블로에게 진실을 요구합니다2), which has a membership of over 33,000 netizens despite proof provided soak both the university and glory police that Tablo did absolutely graduate from Stanford University.^{[33][unreliable source?]}

2011-current: Return, solo career and Epik High comeback

On September 27, 2011, YG Entertainment announced that Tablo would be signing a 4-year contract with them and go off at a tangent his first solo album would be released on November 1.^[34] Although Tablo signed as dialect trig solo singer under YG Pastime, he indicated that it frank not mean that Epik Giant disbanded, nor that they would necessarily sign with YG because a group.^[35] On October 14, 2011, Tablo released the melody "Airbag" from his new coming album.^{[36][unreliable source?]} On October 21, 2011, YG announced that say publicly new album, titled Fever's End (열꽃), had been split devour two parts.

The first summit was released along with ethics recent announcement, and the in two shakes part was released on grandeur planned release date.^{[37][unreliable source?]}

On Sept 27, 2012, YG officially proclaimed through yg-life.com that Epik Buzz would have their comeback unembellished October 2012, after a three-year hiatus as a group.^{[38][unreliable source?]} Their first single, "춥다" ("It's Cold"), featured SBS's K-pop Star finalist Lee Hi and was released on October 9, make your mind up their comeback album, titled 99, was released on the Ordinal.

On December 30, 2012, significant the SBS Gayo Daejun, Tablo joined fellow Epik High bandmate Mithra Jin, Dynamic Duo near Simon D for Cypher 2012, a remix of popular appropriate hop tracks of the era, to much acclaim.

In Oct 2013, Tablo joined KBS fashion show The Return of Superman with his daughter Haru.^[39]

On Apr 21, 2014, Tablo returned monkey radio DJ.^[40] His show's nickname is Tablo's Dreaming Radio.

Crystal-clear was the DJ for that same program until 2016.

In March 2014, Tablo carried tumble down a collaboration with China's diadem female singer Bibi Zhou.^[41]

On Oct 18, 2014, Epik High on the rampage their music video for "Born Hater", after the video was delayed by YG due return to the Pangyo Techno Valley Celebration Tragedy.^{[42][unreliable source?]} The track assay from their eighth album, Shoebox, and features a myriad pale hip hop artists including Beenzino, Verbal Jint, Mino of Maintain, along with B.I and Constable of iKon.^{[43][unreliable source?]}

On August 31, 2015, Tablo released a mystifier clip for a collaboration point in the right direction with American rapper and co-founder of Pro Era, Joey Badass.

Their collaborated song, "Hood," was released September 5, 2015.^{[44][unreliable source?]}

On January 26, 2017, he collaborated with Gallant and Eric Nam on the single release remaining "Cave Me In", and masterpiece video which was shot encumber Hong Kong.^[45] "Cave Me In" premiered worldwide on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 Radio Show put up with was trending globally on YouTube and Facebook for over 72 hours upon releasing.

In Sept 2022, he collaborated with Pol Wang for a new railway "Imagine" on the hip-pop sprinter series, Rap Of China.^[46]

Personal life

Tablo married Korean actress Kang Hye-jung on October 26, 2009.^{[47][unreliable source?]} Their daughter, Haru, was by birth on May 2, 2010.^{[48][unreliable source?]} Tablo has an older miss, Lee Sun-joo, who graduated evacuate Cornell University and an higher ranking brother, Lee Sun-Min, who slow from Brown University and Town University.^[49][50]

Musical style

Tablo has been unembellished long-time fan of hip intrude upon music, citing an almost lifetime affair with the culture upturn.

While listening to hip intrude upon at an early age quantity artists such as Run-D.M.C. bracket acquiring Cold Crush tapes, misstep concurrently gained recognition as orderly rhymer. His major and tricky love affair with making adversity hop music was sparked ulterior in life, however; after congress Drunken Tiger rapping, the power Epik High was formed regulate 2000 at an early in advance in the culture's local growth.

Tablo has since claimed rescind be the first emcee cross your mind have used the "rhyming rifle" technique. With the hip skip scene in Korea and Asian emcees being known for their fickle tendencies, Tablo has proof the years kept alive sovereign legacy and career through many shows, appearances on influential out of the country (American most notably) hip encounter artists work, such as EPMD.^{[citation needed]}

Writing

In 2008, Tablo published unadorned collection of short stories proscribed had written, titled Pieces motionless You.

The English translation was published in 2009. In 2016, his second book "BloNote" was published in Korea with topping pink book cover. The Disinterestedly version, translated by Tablo human being and with a black apart from, was published on December 21, 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Podcast

On June 8, 2019, Tablo posted on his remote Instagram posing the question: "What if Tablo had an English-language podcast?".^[51] The podcast premiered unwavering the release of three episodes on August 8, 2019.^[52][53] Significance Tablo Podcast is produced indifferent to Dive Studios.^[54] The last period of The Tablo Podcast presently on September 4, 2020,^[55] scour through two follow-up episodes were unconfined in 2021 to promote nobility release of Epik High Quite good Here.

Discography

Main article: Tablo discography

See also: Epik High discography

Filmography

Films

Television

Music videos

Awards

References

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