You do know Jo Hyun-Jae was a singer before he was an actor, don't you? Rather, he was a member of a boy band called "Guardian" when he was 18. The group obviously didn't do very well because it soon disbanded. We think their manager chose the wrong lead singer! But then if "Guardian" had made it big, we would not have the actor Jo Hyun-Jae.
This 1998 video is a great discovery and shows a very young, very sweet JHJ who sings pretty well, to our biased ears. He looks even better (definitely shouldn't be dancing at the back!) It's fun watching the boys going through their motions.
This is the "white" video; there's another "black" version (the boys dressed in black.) We'll see if we can locate that.
(Photos courtesy of Param of carpediemJapan. Thanks!)
you're right wuli JHJ when you wrote that the manager of the guardians chose the wrong lead singer, he sang pretty well even if his voice was not yet the rich baritone that it is not. but you were wrong when you wrote that if the guardians had made it big we wouldn't have the actor JHJ. i think that even if the guardians had made it big, our JHJ would stil have eventually ended up an actor because even while singing one could easily see the passion he has for performing/acting. among the 4 boys of the guardians he was the only one who showed passion while singing, the others were just mouthing the lyrics. he was the only one whose facial expression changed at all while singing.
ReplyDeleteJHJ has very clear facial expression during singing. He is the most handsome one, too.
ReplyDeleteerratum: in my first comment, the first sentence should have read "........,he sang pretty well even if his voice was not yet the rich baritone that it is now."
ReplyDeleteon another note, i love the countdown!!!