SOHYANG & POS

주님 다시 오실때까지(Until The Lord Comes Back) is surely SoHyang's most famous song ever.
This song was composed and written by 고형원 선교사님(Missionary Ko HyungWon) who wrote a lot of Gospel and CCM music.
The song is included in POS's 3rd Album Butterfly.
She said it's her favorite song and she will sing this song until the Lord comes back.
She also said she think this song teaches her how to live as a christian.

널 사랑하는걸(That I Love You) is a song included in POS's third album Butterfly.
This song was written by POS and its another title is 주의 고백(Declaration of the Lord or Confession of the Lord).
Later, this beautiful ballad song became the OST of the film 공정사회(Fair Society-English title is Azooma).
The film is about an Azooma(married woman) who tries to revenge for her raped daughter when they couldn't get any help from police.

This song was also covered by very famous singer in Korea.
조성모(Jo SungMo) became a super star in 90's and officially he is the biggest selling artist of Korea(16 million copies sold)
He was famous for his clear and beautiful voice and he sang a lot of ballad songs.
He also got more popular in entertaining TV shows. He was a mega star indeed.

But he started to face hard times for some reasons.
During his army service time in Korea
(Every korean man has to go army and he had an alternative service), he had difficult times as a singer and this song comforted him
so he decided to cover this song even when he couldn't set a plan about his new album.

When his fans prepared a birthday party for him, he sang this song for his fans even before he recorded this song.
And he recorded this song for his new album.

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The virtuoso diva SoHyang is coming to States this summer!!
She will have 4 benefit concerts in California.
Los Angeles, Buena PArk, St. Irvine, Rowland Heights
Total 4 concerts.
Ticket is only $20.00 and it will be used for children.

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SoHyang is a big fan of TV drama producer ByungHoon Lee(이병훈) who is well known for Korean historical dramas.

"Among my latest works... This was the most satisfying and the most difficult song, too.
I really felt solitude while I was working on this song.
It should be plaintive and at the same time, it should explain unconcerned pain..
I think I didn't have many choices of female singers who could do that.
In a sense, Ms.SoHyang is more R&B and Gospel, and asking her for this major and traditional sound?
After she just grasped [the point of] this song, finally she just recorded the song only three times and went home.
And it got 'OK'[which means the recording is already perfect so they don't need to do anymore]...
it means I think she is more than I thought."

The Heavenly Diva SoHyang won another episode of KBS The Immortal Songs.
It's her only third appearance and she already won twice of them!
At her first appearance, she sang 'Lean On Me' in front of Michael Bolton
and she made him do standing ovation for her.
Bolton praised her saying she is a 'Virtuoso' and he asked her a duet and they did at his concerts.

Whenever she sings, people get crazy about her perfect performance and she did it again.
The Episode was about the English pop songs that korean people love.
And she chose 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' by Simon & Garfunkel.
She was so busy before this appearance, she had a lot of schedules in a row before the show.
she didn't have time enough to practice but she made it again.

She was 4th singer of 7 singers of the show.
Since she chose this old pop song, there were many people who didn't know this song.
(Other singers chose Let it Go of Disney Frozen OST, My Heart Will Go On by Celin Dion, Heal The World by Michael Jackson..

She didn't belt those her B5~C6 like her other songs, but still sounded strong and amazing and of course emotional.
This song has very gospel sound and you know she is a CCM singer, so it was perfect for her.

Although many people got up from their seats for her after her performance, the score was just 416.
Weirdly the audiences were calmer than other days and they didn't put the button for singers.
so the score was lower than anybody expected.
but she kept defeating other singers and became the final winner of the show.
In fact, she was only one who got over 400 score of the show.


By the way her birthday was 5th April, so this day, her fans brought big flowers, cake, letters, meals and snacks for her, her family, her team and other staffs of the show. they also would buy an expensive gift for her but she asked them to donate the money for Haiti.
So her fans donated money like $2,000 to Haiti.

I went to Incheon City to see her singing O Holy Night for Christmas Lighting.
It was a freezing day, but the heavenly diva, SoHyang still sang this song so perfectly.
I was amazed by her perfect voice again.
Korean Mariah Carey, SoHyang sang You Raise Me Up and O Holy Night.

Check this video out.

Her voice is so angelic.
The highest note of this performance is D6(Super headvoice) and A5(Upper chest voice).
So Amazing that she can easily and perfectly sing like this on this freezing day!!

The vocal virtuoso, SoHyang had an interview with CGN TV recently.

SoHyang is saying...

Being famous is of course success, but I don't want to focus on this..
I thought I need to mediate more...why He gave me this, why He did this..

(Through I Am A Singer) I could understand better minds of those people who don't believe in Jesus that I couldn't see before.

At first I thought, thru I Am A Singer, I would become more influential and use this to tell about Jesus.
Vaguely I thought He gave me this answer, but it wasn't..
Through this, I repented more...Cause when I came to people as a christian, I guess I was trying to teach them before.

It wasn't just solid, I had my own confusion in myself and It's like I had a battle..
Sometimes I regret, sometimes I feel it's difficult, sometimes I would be conceited.
But I don't regret about those moments, because I needed them, God needed them to make me grow up.

(About Crystal Castle)
That is a fantasy novel based on John's revelation.
I got more hopeful cause my life's wish really came true. Ah, Film will be made, too.
When God wants, He does. I became more confident.

We don't know What God will do, Who God will save, but I surely believe He will work thru this TV, too.
Be healthy and Be Peaceful and be victorious all the time in Jesus Christ. Fighting!

The heavenly voice, SoHyang performed at Kirk Franklin's concerts.

On the first day, she was first guest singer and she sang two songs, 하늘을 달리다(Running To The Sky) and 주님 다시 오실때까지(Until The Lord Comes Back) at first.

But, she appeared on stage again to sing 'Lean On Me' with Kirk Franklin team.
Kirk Franklin was amazed by her amazing and beautiful voice.
Of course audiences were amazed, too. She hit C6.

Even though they played different version from original version of Lean On Me, she made it with her ad-lips.

On the second day, she was second guest singer.
She was wearing white mini dress and sang two songs, You Raise Me Up and 주님 다시 오실때가지(Until The Lord Comes Back).

And she appeared to sing Lean On Me again.
She amazed all the people again. She sang wonderfully as well.

But her condition wasn't good enough. In fact, she was hurting on 2nd day.
Her condition wasn't good enough to sing on stage.
Nevertheless, she did an amazing job, and people didn't know she was hurting cause she was still wonderful.
She just told a few fans of hers after concert that her condition was bad..

Even though her body was painful, she made a really really wonderful job.
This story was spread by her fans after the show, and this made people surprised again.

The vocal terminator, SoHyang went to press interview about Kirk Franklin on May 28th.
Kirk Franklin will visit Korea for his concerts and SoHyang will perform at his concert as a guest singer.

At this interview, SoHyang said she is a big fan of Kirk Franklin and she repeated almost every song of him.
She also said his song 'Revolution' is like revolution of gospel music and she wanted to make him as her model. People may think gospel music is boring, but she was surprised by his music like 'Gospel music can be made this way'. She added she is so grateful that she can be a part of his concert this time.
She recommended several songs of Kirk Franklin, 'Hosanna', 'Brighter Day' and 'Lean On Me'.

Kirk Franklin's concerts in Seoul will be 27th and 28th June.