Before him, there were no Korean-language rap artists. I saw that Korean music was changing. It was harder for me to have a hit. Choi decided to attend Berklee to burnish his skills.
But writing lyrics in English was very difficult for me, so I became a professional music major. After receiving his degree in , Choi returned to Seoul.
But the ballad style he was known for had waned, there was a new emphasis on dance music. So Choi adapted and began mixing in jazz, classical, and musical theater styles with his ballads at concerts.
He also released a series of compilation albums of his top songs. Like many returning Korean alumni, Choi is a sought-after educator and has taught at several Seoul institutions. He currently teaches courses on music history—including early and contemporary jazz—at Jangan University. An enthusiastic advocate for Berklee in Korea, Choi served for a year as the president of the local Berklee alumni association in Seoul. While he enjoys a successful and ever-evolving career, songwriting and performing are his main interests.
In , a song from her self-titled debut album topped the charts, sold , copies, and netted multiple awards. Her subsequent albums also soared up the charts. With a career firmly on the upswing, Yangpa surprised her fans by accepting a scholarship to study at Berklee in So Yangpa chose Berklee. Students as well as teachers knew that I was a star in Korea. A story on the two in a major Boston newspaper trumpeted their arrival. Before completing his studies in film scoring, Kim, Dong-ryool released the album Hope , which combined the sounds of the London Symphony Orchestra and traditional Korean percussion.
Today, Kim continues to release critically acclaimed albums and is a popular TV and radio host. Conversely, Yangpa encountered contractual problems with her label, and since her return to Korea, has issued new albums only sporadically to her still-loyal fan base. The Korean pop music machine is fixated on youthful stars, and Yangpa was no longer a teen sensation.
Her husky alto voice and emotional delivery drew in many fans. Throughout the s, she released a string of albums and hit songs and kept a busy schedule with TV and concert appearances. Pondering her future, she decided she needed to know more about music.
Friend and Berklee alumnus bassist Chang, Ki-ho recommended that she attend Berklee. Jang majored in professional music, and studied piano, arranging, and more. Unlike American Idol or The Voice , all competitors on the program are established professional singers. The visibility heightened her fame and requests for more concert and TV appearances poured in.
In addition to her performing career, Jang also devotes a lot of energy to education. Lee, Su-jin whose stage name Seomoon Tak is an unusual artist in K-pop; when her debut album, Asura , came out in , Korea had few rock singers—especially female rockers. Seomoon Tak is known for her gutsy and agile voice visit www.
To date, she has released seven CDs, and her latest, Victoria , is her first self-produced outing. Sales of her albums for BMG Korea total nearly 1 million units. After more than a decade as a successful concert and recording artist, Seomoon Tak came to Berklee in There were significant benefits for Seomoon Tak to compete. Before attending Berklee, he played piano and sang. But despite winning several prestigious music competitions, he decided against majoring in music when he enrolled at Hanyang University.
After graduation, he turned his attention to contemporary music. A brochure for Berklee picturing one of his musical heroes Pat Metheny inspired Lee to apply to the college.
He became a film scoring major only after prodding from his piano teacher, Assistant Professor John Arcaro. In , while Lee was still a Berklee student, a friend in Seoul connected with him and said that a Columbia University graduate needed music for his short film. The score that Lee completed in one day led to an opportunity to score the feature film Peppermint Candy by famed Korean director Lee, Chang-dong.
Lee, Jaejin took a yearlong leave of absence from Berklee and returned to Seoul to score it. The venture paid off when the film won several festival awards and its director hired him to score his next film as well. After 13 years of composing for features, Lee is firmly established with Korean filmmakers and pens two to three scores annually. What makes them experience surprise, cry, and laugh? Music is a big part of that. So I take on the responsibilities for all the music in a film.
Despite having few spare hours, Lee makes time to regularly gather Berklee film scoring alumni for discussions about the business. Kim has scored a handful of films and released CDs and singles with his band Pudding and under the nom de plume Pudditorium. Yoonhan is a rising star with a multidimensional career. A film scoring major, his training in arranging and orchestration comes in handy when he writes two charts weekly for the piece orchestra on the TV show he hosts.
After finishing at Berklee in , Yoonhan returned to Korea, fulfilled his two-year mandatory military service and then launched his career. Representatives from Stomp Music spotted him at a music competition and signed him to a management contract. Yoonhan is also developing his career as a concert attraction and headlines regularly.
Some of his concerts are presented in collaboration with fashion designers. Despite having a packed schedule, Yoonhan has carved out time for further education, anticipating that one day he will teach. He is currently finishing Ph.
With talents and opportunities that could take him in different directions, Yoonhan will continue with TV for now. Kenzie has a coveted position as a staff songwriter for S. Entertainment, one of the three major labels in Korea. The two met at Berklee and married in Seoul in In addition to collaborating daily with Kenzie, Jung-bae also has a full schedule teaching at Seoul Jazz Academy, Seoul Arts University, and elsewhere and just released Santa Monic a, his second jazz-rock instrumental album available through iTunes.
The couple has a unique system for working remotely. His stage name blends his last name and an abbreviation for the producer role. After three years as a business major at Parsons College in New York, Cho PD decided to develop his abilities as a singer and drummer and transferred to Berklee. Soon afterward, his career blew up. In , Seo, Taiji was the first artist to introduce rap in Korea.
But, in , Cho PD skirted the censors by offering his songs on the Korean equivalent of America Online rather than through terrestrial radio. In so doing he was able to include expletives in his music, pushing the boundaries. People noticed. I uploaded eight or nine songs that all became hits. A savvy businessman, Cho PD figured out how to monetize his music. A lot of companies wanted to sign me, but I produced my songs and released them myself.
I only signed a distribution deal. After that I started my own label. Cho PD gathered other artists to his imprint, with Psy among his first signings. Psy is now on another label. Cho PD had a good run as an artist, but found himself aged out of the K-pop demographic by ChoPD who could still pass for a college student , retired from the stage to launch his own production company, Brandnew Stardom Entertainment now just Stardom Entertaiment.
He just built a new recording studio in Seoul and is now the executive producer for a variety of K-pop artists. The Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children was an honor presented to recording artists for quality children's music albums at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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