Turbo
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Late-90s dance kings who started as a duo, picked up a new partner and sold out albums across Asia. Press play on "Twist King" for the nostalgia, then "Again" with Yoo Jae-suk for their 2015 reunion.
- Members
- 3
- Debut
- 1995 (31 years)
- Generation
- 1st gen (until 2003)
- Label
- Star Music
Start with: Twist King
Achievements
- Debut album 280 km/h Speed (1995) sold over 300,000 copies by December
- Second album New Sensation (1996) sold 800,000 copies in its first two months
- Mikey won the spot after auditioning against 3,500 other hopefuls (1997)
- Recorded the Korean version of Will Smith's "Just the Two of Us"
- Represented South Korea at the Asia Superconcert on December 30, 1998
- Reunited as a trio for their 20th anniversary, releasing the comeback single "Again" on December 21, 2015
Timeline
- 1995Debut as a duo of Kim Jong-kook and Kim Jung-nam with the album 280 km/h Speed
- 1996Second album New Sensation, with "Twist King" and "Love Is...(3+3=0)"
- 1997Kim Jung-nam leaves; Mikey joins and the album Born Again... is released in October
- 1998Fourth album Perfect Love released in October
- 2000Fifth album Email My Heart
- 2001Kim Jong-kook leaves Star Music; final album History with three new songs
- 2015All three members reunite for the 20th anniversary and release the album with "Again" on December 21
- 2017First mini-album Turbo Splash with the title track "Hot Sugar" on July 25
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