SOHYANG & POS

Women who catches two rabbits at the same time
Fantasy Novel Writer & Singer SOHYANG
"My dream is my novels becoming movies"

Dash off in a brush. Pop! The subject rose up and couldn't stop typing.
Once her imagination got started, it rushed her to finish.
In a short time, she filled 50 sheets of A4 papers and 50 sheetes became 100 sheets and finally it became manuscripts of several books. Inside the books, there are every genre like Romance, SF, whodunits and Criminals.
If you think it would be distractive, you're wrong. The immersion is powerful. I'm talking about a web-novel 'Anaxion' written by the singer, SoHyang.

'Korean Mariah Carey', 'The Highnote master that nobody can top'

These are modifiers of SoHyang who won several #1s in music competition show 'I Am A Singer'.
Recently, SoHyang made a debut as a novel writer as she published her web-novel 'Anaxion'.
She's having busy days to finish the manuscripts of next book.

Thought she's having an affair away from her original job, music, but it's not. Her long time dream is to be a movie creator.
She said her wish is to die after seeing her novels become movies.

She considered writing movie scenario but she wrote novel which is easier to try.
She once published her fantasy novel 'Crystal Castle' right after her appearance I Am A singer.

"While ago, I found the web-novel is attractive. I received an offer of writing a web novel with the story of Crystal Castle from one representative of a publishing house and I said ok quickly.

The story of 'Anaxion' begins as an ordinary girl realizes that she has an ability to foresee disasters.

'I want to question what heart we should have when we live in this irrational world.
Can we say that we're innocent just because we are not involved in bad things in person?
I think there is nothing that is not involved with us when it happens around us.
If you care about it with your mind, you will have a power to change the world."

SoHyang made her debut as a CCM singer when she was 20.
She had remarkable abilities in high note and musical technique but she played in small genre 'CCM', so she wasn't known very much to public people. but turning point came. It was I Am A Singer.

"I conceited like I was better than others in music. but I was like I saw new world as I appeared at IAAS.
I got to know about pop music, and I realized that I should sing from bottom of my heart.

I was singing on the stage and audiences were crying. They wanted the sound that sympathizes with their scars and hurts, not technique. It was experiences that I could look back why I should sing."

SoHyang also opened her heart "As I get greed(musically-'as I get higher standards of music'), I'm afraid of releasing albums."
She added "I felt like people don't like my music, so I considered quitting, but Everytime I did, many people around me encouraged me."

"I think the more I count how much I have archived, the smaller I feel, and it discourages me.
So I'm gonna focus how better I am getting. I want to deliver something warm to people thru my life."

SoHyang will have a concert with JK Kim Dongwook in New York in September.

(Source MK News. And I did some free translation.)

I was away form Korea for a while so I couldn't read her new novel Anaxion.
So far, I just finished only one book among 4 books that were published.
So I don't know the whole story yet.

but let me tell you a little..

Aileen, half-korean with redhead, is 17 years old girl and she is into History.
She's like a tomboy wearing white T-shirt and jeans.

And she got implicated in some issues and it makes her close with the most popular boy in the school, Bratt whom she never spoke to before.

They witness a mysterious murder together but they couldn't report this to the police because it was obvious that they would be the suspects of this murder that had no other clear evidences. 
They also got to know it was related to Anaxion, a book that was written by a korean young girl in Chosun Period. They tried to work on this unknown mysterious book and found Aileen is the key to this book.

And at the same time, polices were trying to solve the murder case and they found Aileen and Bratt are involved in this case somehow because they found a red hair at the place.

Very interesting book. There are some similar things with her former book Crystal Castle, because main characters have similar appearances and personalities. but the stories go so differently. I can't wait to read the rest of the books.

SoHyang performed 'Childish Adult(어른아이)' at Immortal Songs yesterday.
She was chosen as 1st singer to perform and she came out in black ensemble with JK Kim Dong Wook.
They were introduced as 'big contrast' because JK is famous for his low voice and SoHyang for her super high note.

She doesn't care about winning, but this time she came just to enjoy the performance more.
I know many of her fans expected a ballad song with big scale but it's very different and very new style and
you can feel her unique grooves.
She reduced her high belting but you will see her vocal agility and how she plays with the beat.



By the way, recently her body condition was bad cause she has had pneumonia for weeks.
So I heard it was a miracle for her to sing like that yesterday.
In addition, she had many performances to do before Immortal Songs.
It's really a miracle. Her songs can't be sung without proper breath supports.
In Korea, it's been really hot and yesterday it was pouring.
Just doing nothing, but already exhausted.
But she's done amazing performances even with pneumonia.
Please pray for her health.

SoHyang had a joint concert called' Super Diva Concert' with Jeok Woo on 25th.

It was held in DaeJun City.

She performed 7 songs.

-Set List-

I Have Nothing

In The Flower Garden

You Raise Me Up

Running To The Sky

The Day When Sunshine Kissed Me

The Only One

I Will Always Love You

She performed the songs with backup singers and live band.

She was perfect as always.

'I Have Nothing' was similar with the performance at I Am A Singer Legend Special Concert last year.

She asked applause for the band, backup singers and other staffs.
She does this in many shows.
I've never seen any other singer asks applause for staffs like that.

She asked a security if there was the stairs and then she got down from the stage during 'Running To The Sky'

and she sang almost part of the song including the highlight part in the audience area.

She tried to go everywhere to shake hands with people.

She also asked applause for securities too.

She had a couple of lovers stand up and she sang a song for them.

She sang 'The Day When Sunshine Kissed Me' to celebrate their wedding in early summer

and they were standing during the performance.
She even asked a lighting for them.

She performed I Will Always Love You for the first time in her own show.

(She just performed that song only once in Danny Jung's concert as he asked to do)
She prepared the song specially and she said she will perform the song more in future.

Now it's Easter Day and she will perform for that in Pocheon City.

Last Sunday, SoHyang performed at Danny Jung's concert in Yeoido, Seoul.
Danny Jung is very famous saxophonist and they are very close.
He also performed at her first Christmas concert.

He asked her to perform 'I Will Always Love You' (by Whitney Houston) together. so they did really.
They raised the key higher and she performed this song for the first time.
It was perfect and powerful with her belting and she seemed satisfied and said she wants to perform this song again.

Then she performed 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' alone then 'Lean On Me' with Danny Jung again.
Lean On Me was different with his saxophone. He played first lines instead of her vocal.
He seemed so happy to perform with her, so, during the performance on the stage, he took his phone and recorded her singing.

She also said she's writing her books and it will be released as digital book.


After the show, she kindly made a video for her fans.


She said.
"Hello, POS Family!!
2016 New Year has begun, Two months already passed, How could it be on earth.
But we are living with hearts of the youth so I'm still a teenager in front of you.. saying this, somebody may talk for that,
However I'm a teenager in my heart so I'm always living my life with my dreams.
Because You guys like me, you visit here (her fanclub) and support POS and pray for me..
But I want you to go out for your dreams and spread your shining wings to the world 

and become much greater people than me
So I can join your fanclub in time. then I would be grateful.
I love you guys so much and thank you so much for praying for me so far.
Always be peaceful and happy. I love you!!!"

No one can deny that SoHyang was the biggest issue of I Am A Singer2.
When she became the issue of IAAS2, the producer of Immortal Singer said they also had kept seeing her to invite to their show for long time.
This interview was in July, 2012, and SoHyang appeared at Immortal Song for the first time in Sep, 2014.
They took at least 2 years to have her in their show.
(IAAS team also took so long time..)

Thankfully, I could get a ticket of the show when she appeared for the first time.
It was about legendary Michael Bolton and they invited talented singers for the show.
Michael Bolton, SoHyang.. it was a huge issue even before the show day.

Anyway, when the show started, I was a little overwhelmed. I didn't watch the show before, so everything was kinda new to me.
Every singer did a wonderful job. But the show was going difficult for me.
SoHyang still didn't come out when the score of the show became so high.
I was kinda nervous. and people started to feel exhausted by long time recording.
It was a special episode, so too many people came, and they even sit down on all the stairs.
So It was difficult to even go to restroom. They all had to see the show in crowded place and SoHyang became the final singer.
I could feel so many people already got tired and I was tired, too.

Finally, SoHyang came out with her bright vibe as always.
Wearing long dress with a lot of crystals on it.
Yep...I shouted to her at the top of my lungs to cheer her up.
She also might feel tired a little to wait for long time at her first appearance.

But, when she raised her voice, everybody held their breath to focus on her.

I often say it to people, I still feel like I'm dreaming when I think about that night.
Her voice was so angelic. and when the beat started to go faster, everybody started to clap to the music.
When she belted the high note, people shouted for excitement. I had never expected that much.
It was beyond my imagination. I had seen her performances in person so many times, but it was still totally shocking to me.
After she finished the song with last belting, so many people got up for her.
Michael Bolton did, too.
People didn't stop shouting to her, so she couldn't get out of the stage.
When Bolton was asked about her performance, he was speechless and then he said she was virtuoso.

Everybody could see she would become the final winner of the show.
in the TV, other singers and MCs talked about what score she would get, and Ailee expected the perfect score.
Audiences did, too. People were talking like that. I was soooooo happy and I was shocked kinda too much, so I even felt stomachache,
 
Surely it was one of the bestest performances by human being.

Later, SoHyang wrote a thanks note to her fans.
She said everything was done by God. and she will keep going and challenging for her dreams.
She also said she was impressed by other singers and she was so proud of them.