Lee Joon Gi shows sexy, fun side in Singapore

On the much more family-friendly programme were live performances of his own tracks, as well as covers of artistes from all over the world. Although more renowned for his award-winning acting chops, Joon Gi also has a few albums under his belt and, as we witnessed at his gig, can flaunt some pretty impressive vocal skills and dance moves.

“Some of you who are seeing me for the first time might think I’m a singer, but no, I’m an actor who’s here for a fan meeting,” Joon Gi clarified with a chuckle. And as if to drive the point home, the Hallyu heartthrob prepared a funny video of himself parodying all kinds of different K-drama roles, such as a tough action star, a doctor and a romcom male lead, featuring one very lucky large teddy bear as his co-star.

Well, singer or actor, it’s clear that the crowd thoroughly enjoyed his renditions of EXO-CBX’s ‘For You’ (from the Scarlet Heart: Ryeo soundtrack), Justin Timberlake’s ‘Sexyback’, Jason Mraz’s ‘I’m Yours’ and even JJ Lin’s ‘Our Singapore’, the theme for NDP 2015. “I try to sing a local song in every country I visit,” he explained, adding that the melody for ‘Our Singapore’ really left an impression on him.

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An adorably amusing incident happened during his performance of Mayday’s ‘Zhi Zu’, when he went off-key while tackling a high note towards the end. Poor Joon Gi could not stop laughing at himself and looked so visibly mortified that his supporters started chanting “it’s okay!” to him in Korean. “This is the first time I’ve gone out of tune for this song,” he claimed, still in stitches.

His last few presentations, which included a medley of BIGBANG hits and TWICE’s ‘TT’ (iconic cutesy finger pose and all), went much smoother – although he did end up collapsing with an out-of-breath “oh my gosh!” But the energetic star was soon up on his feet again, and remained hyper all the way until the end of the event when he started tossing out gifts into the mosh pit.

As for us, we were left wondering what Joon Gi – who is, let’s face it, a decade or more older than most K-pop idols these days – must have eaten to be able to gain that kind of stamina.

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