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Origin
  
Seoul, South Korea

Albums
  
Awesome

Years active
  
2013 (2013)–present

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Website
  
Official Korean websiteOfficial Japanese website

Record labels
  
FNC Entertainment, LOEN Entertainment, CJ E&M, FNC JAPAN, Virgin Records

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop music, Rap rock, Alternative rock

Members
  
Cha Hun, Lee Seung‑hyub, Kwon Kwang‑jin, Kim Jae‑hyun

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N.Flying (Korean: 엔플라잉, Japanese: エヌフライング) is a South Korean rap rock band formed by FNC Entertainment in 2013. The band consists of Kwon Kwang-jin (bass), Lee Seung-hyub (rhythm guitar, vocal, rap), Cha Hun (lead guitar) and Kim Jae-hyun (drums). The name ‘N.Flying’ is derived from the word ‘NEW’ and ‘Flying' which also means ‘new wings’ or ‘new escape’. Their first release, Basket charted at number two on Oricon's weekly Indies chart in Japan. Their fan club name is "N.Fia", a combination of the words “N.Flying” and “Utopia.” It means that the band and their fans will fly together towards the utopia of their ideal music.

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Pre-debut

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Kwon Kwang-jin was the original bassist of labelmate CNBLUE, which debuted in 2009. However, due to personal circumstances, Kwang-jin left the band in late September 2009. Kwangjin continued training under FNC Entertainment and meet other trainees: Seung-hyub, Jae-hyun and Cha Hun in January 2011 and formed a new band ‘N.Flying’.

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In 2013, Lee Seung-hyub appeared in Juniel's music video titled Pretty Boy. In the MV, he acted as Juniel's ideal guy that she saw at the café.

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Kim Jae-hyun is the younger brother of Kim Jae-kyung, the leader of South Korean girl group Rainbow. On October 2, she tweeted a photo of N.Flying's debut poster on her personal Twitter and told everyone that her younger brother is debuting in Japan.

2013: Japanese debut with Basket

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N.Flying began their first performance at Shibuya CYCLONE on September 28. On October 1, they released their first indie single album titled BASKET and performed as the opening act at FTISLAND's ‘Replay’ Zepp tour. BASKET peaked at No.2 on Tower Records weekly singles chart, No.2 on Oricon Indies weekly singles chart and No. 4 on Oricon daily singles chart. The band continued doing live gigs at live clubs and also performed as opening act at CNBLUE's ‘One More Time’ Arena Tour. On November 14, N.Flying did their first one-man live at Live Space Halot.

2014: One and Only and delayed Korean debut

On January 1, N.Flying released their second Japanese indie single album titled One and Only. The album hit No.1 on Tower Records chart on its second day of release.

They made their first television appearance on the 7th episode of FNC's reality drama, tvN's Cheongdam-dong 111. As a sequel of the show, N.Flying revealed their debut story in March 2014 which aired on the same channel.

On January 29, it was announced that N.Flying had been appointed as the new endorsement model of Buckaroo Jeans.

In the final episode of their reality show, 'Cheongdamdong111: N.Flying's Way of Becoming a Star', Seung-hyub was officially appointed as the leader of N.Flying.

In March, they accompanied labelmate FTISLAND to be their opening act at the latter's Singapore concert.

N.Flying was supposed to make their Korean debut in 2014 but it was delayed after the leader of the band, Seunghyub, injured his knee in July.

2015–present: Korean debut with Awesome and Lonely

On May 11, FNC Entertainment launched a teaser homepage for N.Flying's upcoming Korean debut. It is also revealed that the band's 1st debut mini album 기가막혀(Awesome) will be released on May 20 along with the title song's music video.

On May 12, FNC Entertainment announced that N.Flying will be releasing a Chinese version of Awesome simultaneously with the Korean version on May 20 and Japanese version was planned to be released in August. On May 19, 2015, FNC Entertainment released the music video teaser for Awesome. A day later, FNC Entertainment released the full music video features AOA's Kim Seolhyun as the lead role.

On October 12, FNC Entertainment released mysterious teaser "Lonely 2015.10.22". A day later, FNC Entertainment was confirmed N.flying would be released their first single album Lonely on October 22. On October 15, N.Flying released individual member teasers. From October 18 to October 20, N.flying released teaser music video. On October 20, N.flying confirmed their first single album track list and released highlight medley. N.flying's first single album Lonely was released on October 22.

N.flying performed their debut song Awesome at KCON in Japan.

Performances

  • Live at Shibuya CYCLONE
  • Live at Shibuya Club Crawl
  • FTISLAND's ‘Replay’ Zepp tour as opening act
  • 2013 Arena Tour 2013 ~One More Time~ as opening act
  • One-man live at Live Space Halot
  • Live at ESP Musical Academy
  • 2013 FNC KINGDOM IN JAPAN Fantastic & Crazy
  • 2014 FNC KINGDOM IN JAPAN -Starlight-
  • 2015 FNC KINGDOM IN SEOUL
  • 2015 FNC KINGDOM IN HONG KONG
  • 2015 Kpop Jeju Festival
  • 2015 Asia Dream Concert
  • 2015 FNC KINGDOM IN JAPAN
  • 2015 Asia Music Network
  • 2015 N.Flying End Year Party
  • 2016 KCON Japan
  • 2016 East Asia Pop Music Festival
  • Nemesis x N.Flying Joint Concert
  • All Members

  • Clothing "Buckaroo Jeans" (2014)
  • Lee Seung-hyub

  • Clothing "Buckaroo Jeans" (2015~)
  • Songs

    Gigamakkyo2016
    Lonely2015
    One N Only2015

    References

    N.Flying Wikipedia