Seomoon Tak

Lee Su-jin (born March 3, 1978), best known by her stage name Seomoon Tak, is a South Korean rock singer. She had her debut at a music festival in 1994. In 2002, she participated in the Red Devils Cheer, a Korean football team support album for the 2002 Korea–Japan World Cup.

This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee. In the stage name or pen-name, the surname is Seomoon.
Seomoon Tak
Hangul
서문탁
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSeomun Tak
McCune–ReischauerSŏmun T'ak
Birth name
Hangul
이수진
Revised RomanizationI Sujin
McCune–ReischauerRi Sujin

Biography

Seomoon Tak, a female South Korean rock singer with a powerful voice and a wide vocal range, is an alumna of Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, and majored in Music Production and Engineering. She debuted in 1999 and sold her first album over 300,000 copies and her second album over 300,000 copies. After she debuted in Korea, she regularly had more than 1,000 live performances per year, and radio and TV shows appearances. She released 6 studio albums (Korean), 2 studio albums (Japanese), and 2 single albums, and recorded multiple movie and television soundtracks. Marty Friedman, the guitarist of Megadeath, also featured her second Japanese album.

Besides her recordings, she was cast as Yitzhak, the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Acid Queen, and the musical The Who's Tommy in both Korea and Japan for many years. She is the first and only Asian Berklee student who was selected to perform for both "Singer's Night" and "Singer's Showcase" in front of over a thousand audiences at Berklee Performance Center for multiple times.

In 2012, she appeared a Korean TV show, I Am a Singer 2, where selected veteran Korean singers by advisory panels perform and compete each other. This sensational concept raised the Korean music scene to a higher level, and let the audiences truly focus on authenticity and quality of the music and the vocalist. Chinese broadcasting company adapted this show, which made a huge success in China. Seomoon Tak survived for five months and she made the final round of the entire season of the show.

As she released her second single in summer 2013, she started a project band, Seomoon Tak Band. This January, Seomoon Tak Band successfully had their solo concert in South Korea.

Discography
YearAlbum Title
1999Asura
2000Seomoontak 2
2001Sudden Death
2004Now Here Vol.4
2005Pianissima Vol.5
2007Leap of Truth Vol.6
2009Victoria
2013Corona
2014The Seventh Spring
2015U & I
2015Love, Whatever[1]

Television Appearances
  • I Am A Singer 2: Singer of October (MBC) (Aired October 2012)
  • Immortal Songs 2 (KBS)
    • International Music Festival (Air Date 2015-06-07)
    • Seven Divas Special (Air Date 2015-06-27) Final Winner
    • Koo Chang Moo Part 2 (Air Date 2015-07-18)
  • Concert 7080 (KBS) 2015-05
  • Open Concert (KBS) 2015-06
  • 100 Songs (JTBC) 2015-06
  • King of Mask Singer (MBC) (episodes 63, 64)
  • Singing Battle (Moontak was a Hidden Card)(KBS)(Aired 2016-11-09)2016
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See also
  • List of Korea-related topics
  • List of Koreans
  • Contemporary culture of South Korea
  • Korean music

References
  1. "Seomoon Tak Official". Seomoon Tak Official Website. Retrieved 2015-08-16.


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