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One of the great voices of current jazz, Korean Youn Sun Nah, will perform for the first time in Cartagena this Friday, November 22 at the New Circus Theater, in what will be the penultimate day of the 39th edition of the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
It is the latest jazz singers.
Youn Sun Nah (Seoul, 1969) has a seductive and sensual voice that does not leave indifferent and has led her to be considered one of the great voices of contemporary contemporary jazz.
His career is unstoppable;
After having conquered his country, where he is a celebrity, he has achieved a privileged position throughout Europe, being headliner in festivals as prestigious as those of jazz in Montreaux or San Sebastián.
In France, it is considered the 'sacred Diva' and music stores in the French capital worship its figure with shelves overflowing with its records.
In 2009 he deserved the Chevalier Award for Arts and Letters, and comes to the Cartagena Jazz Festival for the first time to present his latest work.
2019 has been a new turning point in his career: the contract with the Arts Music division of Warner Music Group and the launch of the Immersion album, in which, as a preamble to his visit, there is a reverent theme of Spanish musical literature : Asturias by Isaac Albéniz.
Youn Sun Nah was born and raised in Seoul in a family captivated by the voice;
His father is a choir director and his mother is a musical actress.
She learned piano in her childhood, but devoted most of her time to her general studies until she graduated in French Literature at Konkuk University in 1992. A year later, the Korean Symphony Orchestra invited her to sing the gospels.
She made her first steps on the record and on stage.
After that experience, she was hired in musicals.
She was opening a career, but she wasn't convinced she was on the right track.
Finally he decided to go back to school to study music and sing.
Francophile, a fan of the song, settled in Paris during the fall of 1995. She enrolled in the National Institute of Music of Beauvais, in the Conservatory of Nadia and Lili Boulanger and in the CIM, jazz and modern music school.
It was in that school that the epiphany happened.
Around the year 2000, he made his first tours and collected awards during jazz competitions.
The beginning of a long list of distinctions, which will be marked by a decoration of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres badge awarded by the French Ministry of Culture in 2009 and also by the Sejong Culture Prize awarded by the Koreans.
Government in 2013. From his first album, Reflet (2001), released only in Korea, to Voyage (2008), his first album released worldwide, he established himself step by step as an emerging vocal Jazz star.
In 2010, with the album Same Girl, his career took an international turn.
This album was a critical and commercial success in Europe, especially in France (Gold Record and Académie du Jazz Award), in Germany (Echo Jazz Award) and in Korea (Korean Music Award).
She covered the most famous festivals: Montreal, Marciac, Monterrey or Montreux, who also entrusted her with the presidency of the jury for the 2013 voice contest. The Slow album, released in 2013, was also a gold record in France and Germany, definitely He made it part of contemporary jazz figures.
Throughout the seasons, his voice and personality marked the minds and hearts of people around the world.
Between 2009 and 2015, Youn Sun Nah performed around 500 concerts in the world, mostly sold out.
On February 23, 2014, he made a stop in Sochi to sing during the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
After these 6 full seasons, he decided to take a break.
He returned in 2017 with the album She Moves On.
The same year she was invited to sing during the International Jazz Day in Havana.
2019 is a new turning point in his career: a contract with the Arts Music division of Warner Music Group, based in the USA.
UU., And the release of the Immersion album.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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