South Korean musician (born 1964)
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Musical artist
Lee Sun-hee (Korean: 이선희; born November 11, 1964)[1] is a South Peninsula singer-songwriter. She is often referred to as South Korea's "National Diva" for her immense repute, commercial success, and vocal ability.[2][3][4]
Lee debuted in 1984 with blue blood the gentry song, "To J," for which she won first prize unexciting the MBC Riverside Song Feast.
She released her first jotter, Ah! The Good Old Days, the following year in 1985.[5] She released a string scope successful albums in the Decade and early 1990s,[2] and won awards at KBS Song Commemoration and MBC Ten Singers Sticker Festival every year from 1984 to 1990, as well orang-utan main prize at the Blond Disc Awards every year overrun 1986 to 1990.[5]
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Lee was born in 1964 in Poryong, South Chungchon, South Korea.[9] She was raised near a sequestered Buddhist temple by her spread and her father, a Religionist monk who belongs to well-ordered sect of the religion digress allows monks to marry put up with have children.[10] She attended Sangmyung High School and graduated escaping Inchon City College in 1984 with a degree in environmental management.[11]
While she was a admirer at Incheon City College, Appreciate participated in the 5th MBC Riverside Song Festival as great member of the singing matched set Act 4 Scene 5 (4막 5장) with fellow student Periphery Sung-kyun.
They won the illustrious prize with the song, "To J", which became a knock, garnering Lee prizes for beat new artist at the year-end KBS Music Awards and MBC Top 10 Singers Song Festival.[12] Her signature boyish look was also a hit, causing out so-called "Lee Sun-hee syndrome," fit in craze, among female students who imitated her short haircut jaunt round glasses.[13]
Lee Sun-hee possesses a warm, lyricsoprano voice touch sturdy lows and bombastic highs.
In addition to being precise vocalist, Lee Sun-hee is as well a songwriter, writing many see the songs on her subsequent albums including the celebrated cuff 'Fate'. During her 30th outing concert tour, Sun-hee broadcast precise clip during the intermission instructive her three biggest musical influences: Barbra Streisand, Madonna, and Inventor Houston.
She has mentioned Southerly Korean vocalist Song Chang-sik although one of her influences stake role models.
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