Friday, February 01, 2008

[08.01.31][Trans] "The youngest member rap" Andy, 'Sings' in solo


Looking at SHINHWA youngest member's recent performance, he is no longer just a rapper.

Because on January 18th with "ANDY the first new dream" being as his official solo debut album release, Andy had shown not only a rapper image, but also a s a singer.

In year 1998 after SHINHWA had debut, within the 10 years, Andy was once with Eric in group SHINHWA master as a rapper in the group. When there were news spreaded that Andy will release a solo album, there were lots of showbiz related people and his close friends thought that he will release a rap single.

But, Andy had surprised everybody. In his first album recorded with 12 songs, and his title song 'Love Song' was light and melodic which also expresses his strength in music. Through the 5th track in the album "Hope after hope" too had made him challenge in R&B category.

"In the past 10 years, i only did rapping, but the behalf end of last year i was performing in a small theater in University Road with musical 'Music In My Heart', and at the same time was undergoing some vocal and dancing training. And at that moment i had passionately grown my hope and love towards singing. Furthermore, being as a shinhwa member i had debuted for 10 years, I was to express my own speciality, so i had release my recorded first album."

Andy with his first solo album had grown to an even matured person, and at the same time he too had shown his sunny smiles in the album.

"In this album, i take it hardly on the singing part. So when i am doing my practice, i really devoted all my efforts into it. And with that feeling occured in my heart, after finish recording each song, i will feel like i had grown a step matured. When i was holding onto my first solo album, all the feelings while Shinhwa was doing the 1st album & singing with the members song by song came back into sudden. And at the same time, now my songs will be appearing in the karaoke too. Haha."



Although just in his age 28, but Andy who had debuted 10 years and through this album he had uses his connection he had in the showbiz.

ChaeYeon & Byul each vocal featured in song "(Track 3) Timing" & "(Track 6) Shall We fall In Love", SHINHWA members too gave some involvement as encouragement to the Andy. Beside composing the 8th track 'Miss You', Eric too also rap in the 9th song 'Never Give Up'. LeeMinWoo & KimDongWan too featured in the song 'Never Give Up'.

Furthermore, ParkJinYoung too rewrite the lyric for the 10th song "Extraordinary Imagination", wonder girls's Yubin featured rap in this song.

"Many people involving in this album, i would really thank to them, this made me think that i did not waste my 10 years. Ohyes, Eric Hyung really ask for the price of a pizza as the replacement of the album involvement. Haha, although recently i also spend him on some drink. Addition, LeeMinWoo hyung too send me a text message on the first day of album release saying "Our Andy album had release! Congrats congrats""

Because it was a devoted album, so andy had made a decision to sing live in most of the program with his hit song "Love Song".

"I will appeard in radio & entertainment program, but during on the activities period, i will focus on singing live in all the music performance stage. When the album was release, i even hold a 6 days solo concert. On my first stage performance in music program, i was nervously standing on the stage, but due to there was alot of fans who came and they gave me a fulfilment to walk down to the stage. I want to be like Hyesung, DongWan, Minwoo who won no.1 spot in music program with their own solo. Haha."

Solo album released, once again Andy's heart were filled with excitement and he will still be working onto Shinhwa 9th album and meeting up with the fans. To welcome the day of March 24th to arrive, Shinhwa will be releasing their 9th album as a memorial.

"In 1998 March 24th through KMTV 'Show! Music Tank' shinhwa had debuted. At that moment there were only 11 shinhwa fans infront of us, i still could not forget the moment when they were holding 6 of our name plate and working hard to support us. Because there were such fans we were all feeling grateful to them, and shinhwa could only stay on together for 10 years. To repay the fans, Shinhwa will hold a large scale concert locally as a memorial of our 10 years anniversary. Please do give lots of love and support to Shinhwa & Andy, haha."

Source:starnews&oceans
Cn Trans:jojoyu7@shinhwachina
Eng Trans: amane86@myshinhwa, love4andy.net, shinhwa.biz

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