Lena Park

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Lena Park
Jung-hyun park
Hangeul 박정현
Hanja 朴 正 炫
Revised
Romanization 		Bak Jeong-hyeon
McCune-
Reischauer 		Pak Chŏnghyŏn

Lena Park (born March 23, 1978 in Los Angeles ; Korean name: 박정현 , Park Jung-hyun ) is a Korean - American R&B and soul singer with great popularity in Asia, mainly in South Korea and Japan .

Life

Lena Park grew up in Los Angeles as the oldest of three children of a Korean pastor family. She took an active part in the gospel choir from childhood and participated in various singing competitions. In 1989, at the age of 13, she won her first prize in the Downey Way Outer Broadway Talent Contest , which she repeated the following year. In 1993 she took part in the big gospel singer contest and again won first place. This award enabled her to perform for the first time on an American gospel album called Crying Inside, Dying Inside . She won other awards and took a. a. participated in the Gospel Music Festival in Chicago .

In 1997 she began studying theater and acting at the University of Los Angeles. During her studies she gave continuous performances and in the following year she released her first album Piece in South Korea, on which she worked for two years. It sold 500,000 times.

In 1999 her second album A Second Helping was released; 2000 the third album Naturally .

After a year off, during which she concentrated on her studies in the United States, she returned in 2002 with her fourth album, Op.4 . The single 꿈 에 (In the dream) helped her breakthrough in Asia, such as Singapore or Hong Kong, and from then on she also enjoyed great popularity in Japan. At the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan , she was chosen by the South Korean government to represent the opening and closing anthems. Together with the bands Brown Eyes , Chemistry and Sowelu , she sang the title song for the world championship.

In 2005 she released her fifth album On & On and in 2007 her sixth album Come To Where I Am .

Since 2006 she has been enrolled as a student at Columbia University in New York .

Discography

Korean albums

  • August 9, 1998: 1 st Album: Piece
  • April 19, 1999: 2 nd album: A Second Helping
  • 9 November 2000: 3 rd album: naturally
  • May 6, 2001: Special Album: Forever
  • June 15, 2002: 4 th Album: Op.4
  • October 24, 2002: Best Album: The Romantic Story of Park Jung Hyun
  • July 5, 2003: Live Album: Live Op.4 Concert Project 4 th Movement
  • February 5, 2005: 5 th Album: On & On
  • December 11, 2007: 6 th Album: Come To Where I Am
  • February 26, 2009: 7 th Album: 10 Ways To Say I Love You
  • 2010 Cover Album: Park Jung Hyun - Cover Me Vol.1
  • 2012 8 th Album: Parallax
  • 2012: Special Album: Gift

Korean singles

  • March 29, 2006: Against All Odds
  • April 14, 2006: 위태 로운 이야기 (Witaeroun Iyagi, Precarious Stories)
  • 2008: No Break (with Crown J)
  • 2008: Winter Kiss (feat.Baek Chan degli 8Eight)
  • 2011: I Hope It Would Be That Way Now
  • 2014: Syncrofusion
  • 2014: Syncrofusion Vol.2
  • 2014: Syncrofusion Vol. 3
  • 2015: winter

Japanese singles

  • November 25, 2004: FALL IN LOVE
  • May 18, 2005: Sanctuary
  • February 22, 2006: Subete no Mono ni Anata wo Omou (す べ て の も の に あ な た を 思 う, Subete no Mono ni Anata wo “Omou”? )
  • March 24, 2006: Music
  • May 21, 2006: Gold
  • October 4, 2006: Ai no Jealousy
  • June 20, 2007: Inori ~ You Raise Me Up ~ (祈 り ~ You Raise Me Up ~, Inori ~ You Raise Me Up ~ ?)

Japanese albums

  • November 25, 2004: another piece
  • May 18, 2005: Beyond the line
  • June 21, 2006: COSMORAMA

Collaborations

  • 1998: Player - The New Beginning
  • 1999: Yoon Jong Shin - 7 th
  • May 2002: Yoon Jong Shin - From The Beginning
  • May 29, 2002: 2002 FIFA World Cup Official Album - Songs of Korea / Japan
  • May 2003: Kim Jin Pyo - 4 th
  • May 2003: Na Won Ju - 1 st
  • December 10, 2003: Voice of Love Posse
  • April 2004: Kim Jin Pyo - Remastering All about JP
  • March 24, 2005: JHETT aka YAKKO for AQUARIUS - JHETT (Track 11: Everything Inside Of Me feat. Lena Park)
  • 2012: What Should Have Been with PSY
  • 2012: Eottaesseulkka (어땠 을까) with PSY
  • 2012: White Winter with Kim Bum-soo
  • 2013: Hwang Seong-je Project Superhero 1st Line Up with Lee Seok-hoon and Sohyang
  • 2014: Always with Don Spike
  • 2015: Hello (네일 했어) with PRIMARY (프라이 머리)

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personal data
SURNAME Park, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean-American R&B and soul singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles