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Lee Jung Hyun
(이정현)
Just my personal favorite Asian artist ever.
Born in 1980, she is also known as AVA, a stage name she uses once in a while, and as the "Queen of Techno", as most of her songs are heavily based on techno, trance, and eurodance music - being one of the pioneers of the genre in South Korea.
Her work has a significant visual appeal, which resulted in remarkable and iconic visuals, which will properly be explained during song eliminations so that I have something to say there dddddd I will just introduce the most iconic asset: the pinky finger singing.
In short, her microphone is annexed on her pinky finger instead of her ear. So it ended up becoming one of her signature moves.
Anyway, as
@Kneehigh Girl stated, she started her acting career before her singing one: three years apart, most precisely. "Petal", her acting debut, was so successful she won several awards - almost all of which she was nominated for. After a few movies and tv shows, she finally debuted back in 1999. Her musical debut was also a success back then.
During the 2000s, she had the opportunity to take part in Chinese and Japanese series, and also released two albums in those languages (Love Me for the former, This Is Hyony for the latter) - some new songs, some covers from previous albums in both of them. She had contact with western sensations by opening for Lady Gaga in 2009. Also, in the same year, she released "Crazy" (
not the one in this rate, the one below), which was choreographed by no other than Brian Friedman. Yes. Britney's "Toxic" (and many other hits) choreographer Brian Friedman. THAT guy.
Yes, it is the Work Bitch scenery ddd.
And she has also being named ambassador by UNESCO, in 2007, and CICON (Korea-China Cultural Industry Conference), in 2012.
Songs we could have rated:
Thankfully, she has six albums prior to 2006, and most have two singles, so the selection was quite easy this time. In the end, the one that mainly missed out was "Summer Dance":
It comes from the special album "Summer Party", which is an interesting experience: it is divided in three parts, the first being a 4-song mini; the second, trance remixes of those songs; and, finally, a non-stop track with every song mixed there. The trance version of the single can be found
here.
Other than that, there is also "A Petal", her first ever released song, as part of the soundtrack of her acting debut - in other words, yes, this is from before her official music debut.
Where is she now:
Musically speaking, her latest single was V:
Which was released on my birthday!!!
...of 2013.
Yes. Of all of the main girls, she is the one who hasn't released anything for the longest time. Just to have an idea, songs like Touch My Body, Come Back Home, Mr Mr, Catallena, Mr Chu, Full Moon, Don't Touch Me, BBB Big Baby Baby, and Watcha Doin' Today were all released
after V. THAT'S WHY I AM A BITTER WOMAN I AM IN PAIN!!!!!!
So what she is doing today? Acting. She has returned strongly to the acting scene and pretty much was part of a movie in almost every single year ever since her latest album back in 2010. By the way, there is an upcoming film named "Decision to Leave" she is taking party and it is estimated to premiere some time this year. By the way, the movie is directed by Park Chan-wook, who also directed this:
...which I believe some here has/had this cover as their avatar? I could be wrong, but I am sure I saw this somewhere and I'm not a movie addict so it is probably from here?
Oh, she also has become a culinary youtuber. This is her latest video: