My second post was about Lizz Wright and her genius. At the bottom of the post I said, “Somehow you have hit a nerve in me. I love the essence of who I think you to be.”
When I read it back to myself, I immediately thought it should be a line in a song that I wanted to write about Lizz. That was my “cue”! That was about three weeks ago.
I was living in South Korea at the time and I worked as a Korean translator. To get better at the language, I immersed myself in the culture and customs.
I also made many trips to the Korean bookstores looking for dictionaries, books with short stories, magazines similar to Reader’s Digest, music books, and bilingually published books. The English was on the left side and the Korean on the facing page. So I could quickly see how they would say things.
Music has always been important to me. And all my memories about music and anything else start about when I was six years old. Continue Reading…
In the post, “A Fun Year, Musically! (Part 1)”, I wrote about my friend, Kim Tae-gon, who was a popular Korean singer at the time.
Because of his generosity and good nature, I had many fun and interesting experiences that year which I would not have had, had I not met him.
In my previous post I talked about singing a Korean song on a radio station in Korea. This is the story behind that.
When I first went to Korea, the music caught my attention right away. Whenever a specific song “grabbed me”, I would go into the little record shop and ask what the song was and I’d buy the song book that had that song in it, and the tape (what??) or later, the CD.
I wanted to learn to sing it but I couldn’t speak Korean. So I took Basic Korean classes at the Education Center on base and I began learning the alphabet and the pronunciation right away.