I remember that in the winter of 2014, Sauce Sauce overheard the scene of a Korean female singer, only to see her dressed in a traditional Korean costume, beautiful and approachable, singing a song "Solo Arirang". The weak sound in the front section is like a trickle of water, and the strong sound in the back section seems to be terrifying waves, and the singing strength makes the sauce feel unparalleledly stunning. From that moment on that day, Soo Sauce completely changed his mind about Korean singers and began to listen to Korean music and get to know Korean singers. He is familiar with powerful Korean singers such as Park Hyo-shin, Ha Hyun-woo, The One and so on. And this Korean female singer who changed the concept of sauce and sauce, her name, is Su Xiang.
Su Xiang's real name is Jin Zhaoxiang, also known as SoHyang, enjoying the meaning of "light" and "enjoyment", about this, and Su Xiang later healed people's hearts, and all the time showed the love of life of the musical style, really can be described as the name of the song.
Born in 1978 in Sukyu, Gwangju, South Korea, he settled with his father in Incheon. Perhaps influenced by her family, perhaps inspired by culture, or as a child, she has picked up a pen and written letters on paper, recording her life and hoping to send them to God. It is this holy light of the soul, in the third year of high school, Su Xiang accompanied her sister to a shop, overheard the store playing church hymns, has bid farewell to childhood, understand the world, she was immediately attracted by the sense of pilgrimage in the song, since then became a devout Christian, no wonder many songs sung later, have been evangelically adapted.
Many friends may not know that in addition to being a powerful singer, Su Xiang is also a fiction writer, and in 2013 and 2014, he published two fantasy novels, "Crystal Castle 1" and "Crystal Castle 2". Su Xiang's love for art is far more than that, and at a very young age, she loved painting and film. It was her exposure to different artistic genres that made her later singing full of a sense of cultural resonance beyond technology.
Of course, Sauce Sauce felt that Su Xiang's favorite thing was still singing. When she was still in junior high school, Su Xiang had begun to form a band with her friends, and she naturally took the lead singer position with her singing talent since she was a child. It is said that Su Xiang likes to learn to sing mariah Carey and Whitney Houston songs, and often imitates the tone and pronunciation of American movies, she knows the importance of English for the establishment of music concepts, so in the Korean music and Japanese music scenes where English skills are generally not very good, Su Xiang practiced a near-standard American English. It is also in this way that Su Xiang's singing not only realizes the integration of Eastern culture and Western culture, but also can even achieve Orientalized singing, such as "Solo Arirang"; and Westernized singing, such as "Lean On Me".
The artistic path of Su Xiang is really smooth. However, her life trajectory is not so perfect, in 1998, shortly after marrying pos band drummer and producer Kim Heejun, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer during a gynecological examination. Sauce sauce does not know what Su Xiang experienced during that time, fortunately, after treatment and careful maintenance, Su Xiang's condition has been cured. Perhaps it is precisely because of this storm in life that Su Xiang has more gratitude to God and the Lord. So, in many of her later live performances, more evangelical, or black spiritual adaptations were made.
Su Xiang has long been known by many friends as South Korea's Mariah Carey. However, Sauce Sauce does not quite agree with this view. In terms of independent musical personality, Su Xiang is Su Xiang, Mariah Carey is Mariah Carey, and no one can replace anyone. In terms of sound technology, the mixing of Su Xiang is more balanced, and it does not develop in the direction of large chest sound and whistle. Of course, Mariah Carey is worthy of a milestone in the entire history of popular music, Su Xiang can be regarded as South Korea's Mariah Carey, but also from the side to prove that Su Xiang as a singer, strong singing ability, although her singing ability and Mariah Carey is not a road number.
In 2012, Su Heung participated in the second season of "I Am a Singer" in South Korea. This season of "I Am a Singer" is recognized by many friends as the most classic season among the previous "singers" in China and South Korea. Because the strength of the participating singers is really too strong, especially in the final stage, the Vocal ability of all the participating singers is almost at the top of the pyramid of the Korean pop music scene, so this season of "I Am a Singer" is also known as the "Battle of the Gods".
The subtlety of Su Xiang's singing skills has been basically fully displayed in the video of "Arirang Alone" above. Although this is a song with a strong melody and does not highlight the rhythm of black spiritual songs, objectively speaking, Su Xiang's singing of black spiritual songs is not known for its rhythm, and more importantly, she has a balanced vocal state as always, as well as free and flexible vocal color changes.
For example, in this song "Arirang Alone", the first paragraph uses a weak mix based on head cavity resonance, and the latter part strengthens the chest sound, and the pharyngeal resonance and the head cavity resonance reach a parallel strong mix. No matter what kind of sound form is used, the sound of the plain fragrance is so unimpeded. I don't know how many friends like sauce sauce, before hearing Su Xiang sing for the first time, I think F5 and G5 are already high notes that female singers highlight the extreme sense of female singers, until they hear Su Xiang singing, only to find that there is such a wide world, A5, B5, and even C#6, which can also sing a beautiful mixed voice color.
The treble is already a synonym for suxiang, in fact, in the eyes of sauce sauce, suxiang is one of the few people in Asia who can afford the name of "solitary female singer". Looking at the Asian pop music scene, especially the Chinese pop music scene, how many singers as long as they desperately squeeze out some G5, they are called high-pitched singers by many people. However, even if Su Xiang has sung to A5 and B5, there is still no squeezing phenomenon, and the sound is always unimpeded.
Whether it is a natural sound zone or a sound change zone, Su Xiang can use a relaxed, open and bright tone to complete it. However, Su Xiang's ability does not stop there, she also has a very skilled weak mixing skills, in the first part of "Solo Arirang", Su Xiang's vocal cords are in a state of edge vibration, and the air flow is all condensed in the mouth and nose, as thin as a gossamer, like a natural sound, which is really a high-level sound use. What is even more rare is that the tail section, after experiencing such a dense strong sound output, can still suddenly weaken down, and does not affect the quality, which is enough to see that her control of the voice and the control of the breath has reached an incredible point.
Su Xiang is a Korean female singer who personally likes Soo Sauce personally, and it is she who makes Soo Sauce leave out narrow concepts and use a new perspective to appreciate Korean singers. It was also she who reshaped the vocal optimism of sauce sauce, so that sauce sauce knew that the female voice could still use a powerful voice and easily and freely travel between the A5-C6 range. Throughout Su Xiang's life, it is both smooth sailing and full of twists and turns, and finally still presents such a good musical appearance, which is infinitely moving in front of our eyes.
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