Ep 7. Commemorating Jong-hyun and his artistic works and Wishing him a peaceful rest….
Jonghyun(종현, 1990 - 2017) is a singer-songwriter, record producer, radio host, and author. He was the main vocalist of the boy band 'Shinee'
Jonghyun began a solo career in January, 2015. It peaked at number one on some Korean charts the same year. Jonghyun released two compilation albums, Story Op.1 and Story Op.2. Jonghyun remained musically active until he committed suicide in December 2017. His final album, Poet | Artist, was released posthumously on January 23, 2018.
Here I picked a song from his memorial album, Poet/Artist
‘Before Our Spring’ (우린 봄이 오기전에)
Lyrics (origin from : http://lyricstranslate.com)
Before spring comes
Before it gets warm, shall we meet?
Before the day comes
When everyone else is asleep, let’s met\
Actually, looking at you
Watching over you
Makes me happy
Just looking at you smiling
Just watching over you makes me feel at peace
I know this sounds foolish, but I’m afraid to go to you
Even if you don’t understand
It’s alright, it’s alright
Because there’s still a lot of time
Before spring will come
Actually, I don’t want spring to come
Don’t want it to get warmer
Just looking at
You smile from afar
Makes my heart ache
I know this sounds foolish, but I’m afraid to go to you
Even if you don’t understand
It’s alright, it’s alright
Because there’s still a lot of time
Before spring will come
They say spring will come
Faster than last year
But the cold and frozen winter
Is still here
Don’t worry about what to do
I’m alright
Spring will come to me too
I don’t want to go to you
I’m afraid I’m contagious
When I forget my tears and my sadness
When spring comes to me too
Then, then, then
Then
Shinin’ (빛이나) is another song from the same album
‘Oh, yeah’ is Um Jung-hwa’s song in her 10th album in which Jong-hyun featured.
‘Lonely’ was written by Jong-hyun along with 2 other song-writers and sung by him duetted with Tae-yeon(a lead singer of Girls’ Generation)
‘Breathe(한숨)’’ was Lee Hi’s one of hit songs and written and lyricized solely by Jong-hyun.
( Lee Hi is known as the runner-up of SBS' K-pop Star Season 1.)
I hope someday musicians can release their songs freely and directly to audiences and listeners through a platform like Steemit or dTube and even better coming ways so that young singers like Jonghyun don't suffer from too much burden of restrictions and tight schedules in which they get bound by.
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Ep 5. Kpop - Sleepless Night
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