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Today is Mark Lee Birthday on August 02

Mark Lee (born August 2, 1999), known professionally as Mark, is a Canadian rapper, singer, and dancer of Korean descent. He is a member of the South Korean boy band NCT and its fixed sub-units NCT 127 and NCT Dream, as well as the South Korean supergroup SuperM.

Mark Lee Career

Mark Lee began his musical journey when his parents enrolled him in a music school subsequent to moving to South Korea from Canada. While changing in accordance with another life and culture, he began to play the guitar with his available time.

In 2012, Mark Lee chose to enter a competition called ‘S.M. Global Audition’ that was being held in Canada around then. He was chosen for the global audition and entered a training group of S.M. Entertainment. ‘S.M. Entertainment’ is South Korea’s biggest Entertainment organization that has been instrumental in finding and creating K-pop’s greatest stars.

By December 2013, Mark Lee had become part of a group of trainees’S.M. Rookies’ and went through rigorous training as a part of the group. Alongside the other group individuals, he featured in ‘Disney Channel Korea’s ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ in 2015.

2016 was a major year for him. On April 4, 2016, S.M. Entertainment announced that Mark Lee would make his debut as a member of the kid group ‘NCT U’. ‘NCT’ means ‘Neo Culture Technology, a term made by S.M. Entertainment’s founder that describes the idea of a group having a limitless number of individuals further divided into different sub-units in view of certain criteria.

NCT’s first sub-unit, NCT U, released their most memorable digital single, ‘The 7th Sense’, on April 9, 2016, and ‘Without You on April 10, 2016. The ‘U’ in ‘NCT U’ means ‘Joined together; it is a rotational group whose individuals can change based on the necessities of the song. ‘The 7th Sense’ song had a hip-hop groove that impeccably fit Mark’s specialty rapping skills.

In July 2016, Mark Lee was chosen as a member of the second sub-unit, NCT 127, and the group released their debut song ‘Firetruck’. ‘127’ in the group’s name represents the longitude coordinates of Seoul. All through 2016, he kept on releasing new songs, performing live in front of a stage and in music videos for ‘NCT 127’.

In August 2016, Mark Lee impacted history by getting chosen as a member of the third sub-unit ‘NCT Dream. Thusly, he turned into the main NCT member to be a part of the multitude of three sub-units and was nicknamed ‘Pro Debut Idol’. This subunit’s logic was essential that all the group members ought to be teenagers and they ought to graduate to another NCT sub-unit when they become 20 years of age.

Among all the ‘NCT’ members, fans believe Mark Lee to be the best rapper. It is a direct result of this rapping talent that a South Korean music television channel ‘Mnet’ selected him to be important for their hip-hop show, High School Rapper, in January 2017. As a part of the show, he garnered considerably more consideration and distinction. Other than proceeding with his musical career with NCT, in January 2018, he turned into the co-host of ‘The MBC’ television channel’s ‘Music Core’ show. He stood firm in that position for one entire year.

Since Mark Lee turned 20 years of age in August 2018 and was presently not a teenager, S.M. Entertainment announced that Mark Lee would at this point not be a part of ‘NCT Dream’ and would move on from the sub-unit in the wake of wrapping up the advancements of the ‘We Go Up’ single of the group’s album.

Mark Lee is likewise a talented songwriter, having composed ‘The 7th Sense’ lyrics and co-writing the ‘Mad City’ lyrics. Since he spoke English quite well, he turned into an unofficial leader of the group while interacting with international fans.

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