SOHYANG & POS

So long! Mrs. Fun Rich!

SoHyang finally took off her mask and showed herself.
I was told not to tell about the TV show(though people already knew who she was), so I have been quiet.

Yes, She is SoHyang! Yey I said that now!!!!

She appeared at the Show after 2 years long love call from the show.

When the TV show became popular, they wanted her on their show, but she didn't appear.

But they kept asking for her appearance, so she was going to appear last year, but somehow it was cancelled because of her another schedule.

but they didn't stop contacting, so finally she appeared at the show for their 2nd anniversary though her health wasn't perfect.

From the first time, she didn't long to remain as the king of the show for long time.
You know she's not like that.

But she just kept winning at the show so she became the second longest king of the show ever(1st longest one among female singers).

She knows what people expect from her, but she chose the songs that she wanted to sing, though they don't have a lot of high notes.
however, those songs became more popular.
She just focused the quality of the show, not winning.

Though she didn't care about winning, it doesn't mean that she didn't do her best.
She said though she's not care about how long she will be king, she's gonna do her best on every stage given to her.

Yey that's SoHyang.

During the appearance, her health got really bad.

She told at the show shortly but it was much worse than people know.
She got fluid therapy and she almost gave up the appearance so producers were embarrassed as well.
But she appeared again, and she made the big issue again.

She showed amazing performances but I admire her more because of her attitude.
She was humble, she was passionate in spite of her bad health.

Thank you for supporting her while she was on the show.

It's not the end. She's preparing new things to show you!!

Now she's coming to America for a concert.
Don't miss it American fans!!!!!

SoHyang is coming to Palm Street for a concert.

She will perform with Jo Jang Hyuk who appeared at I Am A Singer 2 and King of Mask Singers.

The venue is Agua Caliente Casino Resort.

The date is 15th, July.

Normal tickets are available at https://www.hotwatercasino.com/cho-so

VIP tickets seem to be available at http://koreanconcert.net/index.php?main_page=concert19

VIP includes autographed CD and taking pictures with singers.

We had a time to celebrate SoHyang's birthday on 25th.

We met her at a cafeteria in Gangnam and we prepared many things for her.
Many fans sent me presents, letters and photos from China, USA, Vietnam, Russia, Malaysia, Spain and Korea.

She was so happy for love from her fans around the world.

Many presents and letters and photos.

This year she's so busy and I'm also busy, so it was delayed a lot.

I just could ship them to her in parcel.

but I know some people expect me some photos of her, so we met in person though it was difficult to arrange the schedule.

She opened them with joy.
Jade seal for her calligraphy, LP player, Little Mermaid figure, Fan Book, Art tools, Ball Jointed Doll, Diffuser, Book, Grapefruit Cake etc...

She wants to say thank you to all of you for great love and supports :-)

Thank you for celebrating her birthday together.

Today, Mrs. Fun Rich became the king of MBC TV show, 'King of Masked Singers'.

She sang 2 different songs at the show today.
First one was 'Atlantis Girl' originally sung by Boa, and another one was 'Dear Love' sung by The One.
Her signature angelic voice made a big impact, of course her high notes were out of the world.
Finally she became the king of the show defeating the former king, Lee Hae-Ri from girl-duo, Davichi.

Lee Hae-Ri said 'I think she's not human' after she watched the performances of Mrs. Fun Rich.

Her next performance will be shown 2 weeks later.
(Kings of the show perform only one song in 2 weeks)
You'll see another amazing performance soon. And her apron will be changed.
It was already filmed last week.

By the way, we still don't know who Mrs. Fun Rich really is.
Why am I writing about her here? Hmm.... 

It's SoHyang's Birthday!!
Congratulations!!

There is a TV show, 'King of Masked Singers', a popular competition TV show of singers wearing masks to hide their identities.

So it's only about 'voice' and people enjoys deducing their identities.
So they check their voice, height, pose and habits on the stage to find out who they are.

They don't open their masks until they lose in competition.
So if a singer became the king for weeks, he(she) keeps wearing mask for weeks.

Anyway one female singer is appearing at this show now and

People think this female singer is SoHyang.

As her first episode was broadcast, SoHyang became #1 on keywords on Korean major sites.
People are so sure it's SoHyang and they expecting amazing performances from her.

Her stage name is 노래9단 흥부자댁.
It's like 'Singing 9th grade, Mrs. Fun Rich.'

노래 = singing, vocal, song
9단 = 9th grade

흥 = fun, excitement
부자 = Rich

댁 = Mrs, Wife

9th grand is like top grade. and 흥부자댁 is kinda difficult to translate.
흥부자 means people who has a lot of fun and excitement.
So it means she's a married woman who has a lot of excitement and has amazing vocal ability.
She's wearing like a housewife with apron and old fashioned clothes... even hair rolls..

(Last one is Mrs. Fun Rich)

They even compared her tiny moles on her neck with SoHyang's photos.

SoHyang is surely one of the best vocalists of the world now.
She is often called 'Korean Mariah Carey' and
It's not a secret that SoHyang has been a huge fan of Mariah Carey for very long time.
She has shown her respect to Mariah Carey openly many times.

Recently She talked about Mariah again during her lectures at Music house Academy.
She said she thinks Mariah Carey is the technically best singer ever.
Especially she praised Mariah's octave changing technique like singing in low range like a male singer 

then change the octave and sing in female range
saying there is no other singer who can do those wide ranges perfectly.
Mariah Carey has many songs that show her wide vocal range from very low part to whistle range.
Many singers change the key for highlight part, but Mariah changes the melody one octave higher to explode.
SoHyang praised this signature technique of Mariah.
She also said maybe there will be no other singer who can sing like her ever again.

Many years ago, she praised Mariah as a producer for making her own styled music mixing two different genres R&B + Hip-hop.
SoHyang often said when she got 'Music Box' album, she repeated the album like one thousand times and sang along every line of songs including instrumental sounds and it helped her to learn singing naturally.
When SoHyang appeared at Star!King for the first time, she said Mariah is her teacher because she could learn music listening to Mariah's music.

She also said she prays for Mariah sometimes.


SoHyang is so humble and she always sees good things from people.
I love these two talented divas and I hope someday they will be working together :-)
Mariah used to make some music for other musicians as well.

I recorded the video on 12th January. I made English subtitle so use youtube caption button to see this.
I met her before the premiere started and gave the Moana baby doll to her.
She was holding the doll during this video recording :-)

She said she had A-type flu in the video.
After video, I asked her about that, she said her immunity got weak since she had pneumonia, 
Maybe she went to Hospital late after she felt fever. But she seemed to be doing well then.
You know how she sang 'How Far I'll Go' at the premiere. 

Moana was released officially on 12th In Korea, and they had a special premiere in COEX with SoHyang.
Before the premiere, She was very embarrassed to hear that they will show Korean version of the film at the premiere.
(Originally they would show English Version, but then they changed as they invited SoHyang and another voice actor)
She was shy because it was her first movie.
But the movie of korean version was really well-made and she said she cried while she was watching the film.

After the film they had GV(Guest Visit) with audience.
Those film staffs were surprised by how many people still remained so late for GV, because more than half people leave after the film usually,
but almost everyone remained this time and during Q&A time, they even couldn't answer to all the questions for there were too many questions)

SoHyang said it was so difficult to be Moana not SoHyang in the studio.
Disney always requires very high quality works, and she analyzed the character of Moana and tried to sing as real Moana.
She intentionally sang with younger voice on some lines.
She said she was so shy but since she watched the final work, she is very proud and she can recommend Korean version to people with confidence.

During GV, She was asked to sing the theme song a little.

They told her 'Feel free to be SoHyang now and sing it' so she sang with more bigger volume and resonance as always.

People were really surprised by her pure and powerful voice. She is superb.

SoHyang is going to perform 'How Far I Will Go' At the premiere of New Disney Film 'Moana' which will be held in COEX in Seoul on 12th.
Can't wait!!!

The OST album will be released on the same day, too
and there are 5 tracks recorded by her in Korean language including How Far I Will Go and the reprise version of the song
and other songs recorded with other singers.

Her fans already know that SoHyang is a big fan of Disney Movies.
She used to exercise her English repeating after Disney Movie 'The Little Mermaid' when she was young.
She said she watched the film like 100 times.

She performed 'Part Of That World', the sound track of the film, several times including short accapella during interviews.
When she performed at I Am A Singer after she became one of the 7 top challengers,
she chose 'Beauty And The Beast' the soundtrack of the same titled Disney Film.
She also performed 'A Whole New World' of 'Aladdin' and 'Let If Go' of 'Frozen'.
Her pure voice really fits to Disney films.

Now she became Moana of new disney musical film.
She recorded the korean version of the sound track 'How Far I'll Go'.

The film will be released 19th Jan in Korea.
Can't wait!!