Yet another Korean artist has been elevated to a global attention-worthy status.
The music blog site MTV iggy for the US’s MTV network recently posted a ranking of the 12 best new female emcees dominating mics everywhere. Here, Korea’s very own Yoon Mi-rae was included, being dubbed the Queen of South Korean Hip Hop.
The list included a mini write-up of the star noting her marriage to the “King of hip hop” Tiger JK, having been born in the US with a soulful voice, and her undeniable rapping skills.
She shared the honor with the likes of Mexico’s indie hip hop star Nina Dioz, Muthoni The Drummer Queen originally from Kenya, Arabyrd from Malaysia, Chile’s Ana Tijoux, and England’s Lioness. These are all big names in terms of female hip hop stars in their respective countries.
Yoon’s agency, Jungle Entertainment stated to a news source in Korea, “Yoon Mirae’s promotions abroad are expected to really pick up with a global project song set to be released via iTunes sometime in the middle of this month.”
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◇“JYJ tries to become singer-songwriters by making 80 percent of their own songs in an album” = JYJ had created their own songs from the time when they held activities as the members of Dong Bang Shin Ki, but it is their first time releasing an album with 80 percent of their own songs. It means that they have become the first idol group which creates their own songs. Jun Soo said, “This album contains our experiences of the past two years including the world concert tour after we left our former agency. We have a strong attachment to our album because we made it, and I think that we are facing a turning point with this album. There are some excellent and lacking aspects about our album, but the interesting thing was that there was no boundaries and limitations for us. We had many different trials when we were recording the album, and the recording itself was very exciting. For example, we arranged the song entitled ‘Boy’s Letter’ five or six times over a month.” The title song of the album entitled “In Heaven” and songs such as “I.D.S,” “Pierrot,” and “Nine” were written and composed by Kim Jae Joong, and songs such as “Mission” and “Falling Leaves,” and the song “Get Out” were made by Kim Jun Soo and Kim Jae Joong and Park Yoo Chun, respectively. Their album includes various genres from R&B ballads to pop dance, and from the analog sound of the 1990s to the electronic sound of the 2000s. Jae Joong’s husky voice, Yoo Chun’s attractive low voice, and Jun Soo’s vibrato formed a perfect harmony. The members explained, “We are all different when it comes to the music genre that we pursue, but we have tried to create harmony among us and we finally completed JYJ’s own music. We could achieve this because we trust each other, and we could finally find out the true excitement of music.” Jae Joong added, “I have written songs according to different moods of different days, and I could create different genre music. We recently built a recording room in Samsungdong and a practicing room in Yeoksamdong, and I recently felt like writing songs without taking a break.” But the members reportedly do not want to make all of their songs because they are singers before they are music composers. Jun Soo explained, “Our goal is to present good songs rather than to make an album with our own songs. We will present different music, and we think that it is totally up to us whether we can be acknowledged or not. We only hope that we can have as many opportunities as possible to present our music. We will wait for those opportunities with good songs.”
◇ “We will be a recognized singing group in Europe” = JYJ will try a new challenge again in Europe next month. They will hold concerts for the first time among Korean singers at Palau Saint Jordi in Barcelona, Spain on October 29 and Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany on November 6. Jae Joong and Yoo Chun said, “We have been asked to hold concerts in Europe, and we heard that we have many fans, particularly in Spain. We are greatly anticipating our concert, and we hope that many Spanish fans will sing along to our songs.” Jun Soo added, “We could gain confidence from our world concert tour because we could see that many fans in Asian countries and America actually sang along with us. K-pop songs are hits in Europe these days, and we want to be recognized for our own music that we are good at rather than presenting trendy music in Europe.” Even though they have a conflict with their Japanese agency, Avex, they also have a huge desire to hold activities in Japan where many of their fans have been waiting for them. Yoo Chun said, “Japan has a good performance system, so standing on the stage itself is very exciting in Japan. We want to hold activities in Japan by releasing a single album, having a national concert tour, and appearing on TV.”
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