Ji-In Cho

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Ji-In Cho (born December 30, 1976 in Leverkusen ) is a German musician of Korean descent. She became known as the singer of the metal band Krypteria and the pop band Become One , which was the result of the casting show Fame Academy .

Ji-In Cho at the Rockharz Open Air 2016
Ji-In Cho at the M'era Luna Festival 2007

Life

Ji-In Cho began taking piano lessons at the age of six . Later she studied Protestant theology at the University of Cologne and passed the state examination . This was followed by studies of music at the Cologne University of Music in the fields of piano and singing. From 1999 to 2003 she was a member of the cover band Jokebox .

In 2000, she participated in the first season of the casting show Popstars to no avail . In 2003 she participated in the casting show Fame Academy . For this show she recorded the Alanis-Morissette cover Ironic . As a result, she was a member of the Become One group with five other winners . After two singles and an album, the band split on July 25, 2004.

Already in 2003 Ji-In Cho got to know the guitarist Christoph Siemons and the drummer Michael "SC" Kuschnerus from the musical project Krypteria , who at the time produced the instrumental playbacks for the show for Fame Academy . At the beginning of 2005 they founded the rock band Krypteria together with bassist Frank Stumvoll .

In 2010, Ji-In Cho was named one of the 50 Most Important Koreans Abroad by Korean Newsweek .

In August 2012, Krypteria took a hiatus due to Ji-In Cho's pregnancy, which continues.

In 2016 Ji-In Cho founded the band And Then She Came together with her bandmates from Krypteria , the bassist Frank Stumvoll, the drummer SC Kuschnerus and the guitarist Olli Singer , which released their first album of the same name on June 24, 2016. The band describes their music as "modern rock".

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Ironic
  DE 31 10/13/2003 (6 weeks)
  AT 31 10/19/2003 (5 weeks)
Don't need your alibis
  DE 16 12/15/2003 (9 weeks)
  AT 33 12/14/2003 (7 weeks)
  CH 52 04/01/2004 (4 weeks)
Come clean
  DE 61 03/22/2004 (2 weeks)

solo

With Become One

  • December 1, 2003: I Don't Need Your Alibis (Single; Sony / BMG)
  • January 5, 2004: 1 (album; Sony / BMG)
  • March 8, 2004: Come Clean (single; Sony / BMG)

With crypt

  • July 25, 2005: In Medias Res ( Synergy / EMI )
  • August 4, 2006: Evolution Principle (EP; Synergy / EMI)
  • January 18, 2007: Bloodangel's Cry (Synergy / EMI)
  • August 28, 2009: My Fatal Kiss
  • April 22, 2011: All Beauty Must Die (Liberatio)

With And Then She Came

  • June 24, 2016: And Then She Came

With Corvus Corax

  • 2017 The Curse of the Dragon: Wild and Free

Web links

Commons : Ji-In_Cho  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Weiffen: Metal singer "That was always my thing". In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . August 18, 2008, accessed December 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Line-Up 2010 CASTLE ROCK 11. City of Mülheim an der Ruhr , accessed on November 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Michael Hahn: Big Brother with singing and dancing. In: Spiegel online. September 30, 2003. Retrieved November 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ The Jokebox story. Jokebox - Live Music Band, accessed November 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ KRYPTERIA: Singer Ji-In Cho is one of the 50 most outstanding Koreans! Roadrunner Records, January 4, 2010, archived from the original on September 9, 2012 ; Retrieved November 26, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
  7. ↑ Chart positions for Become One: Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
personal data
SURNAME Cho, Ji-In
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician of Korean descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen