IU

IU debuted on September 24, 2008 with her first mini-album, Lost and Found in which she was praised by various Korean artists for her strong vocals. On April 16, 2009, IU returned with her first full album, titled Growing Up with her title song being, Boo, in which she started promotions for the album on the 17th. Within three weeks, Boo went up to the #1 contendants for SBS Inkigayo, and her names also went up twice on Take 7 together with other notable artists like SG Wannabe and YounHa. The song is also doing very well on KBS Music Bank K-Chart, on Mnet M!Countdown chart, and on various online music charts.

IU also often sings other artist’s songs with her guitar, most notably re-editions of SHINee “Juliette”, Big Bang (band) “Lies”, Super Junior “Sorry, Sorry” and Girls’ Generation “Gee”. More recently, IU sung the ending title song, Araro for the acclaimed MBC drama, Queen Seon Duk, where she was recommended by the music director of the drama, citing her “clear tone and her lyrical sensibility.” She also featured on Mighty Mouth’s album Love Class in the song “희망사항”. – Wikipedia

I chanced upon IU when i was watching KBS Star Golden Bell a while back. She was strumming away to her own cover version of Girls’ Generation “Gee” and immediately I was glued to the screen by her clear, sweet sounding vocals.

Apart from that she has also done quite a few covers that were really quite good including some American Pop & R&B songs, but the one which left quite an impression on me was “Wind Flower” (originally sang by Yesong), she sang it in a pitch perfect tone and coupled with the mellow piano melody, I bet IU version will give the movie producer a run for their money. (in my opinion the song has a melody that  reminisced songs from the popular Japanese game Final Fantasy)

Check out these video performances as well:

• IU – Gee, Lies , Sorry Sorry (medley cover)
• IU – Wind flower(original was sang by Yesong)
• IU – Offically missing you, Like a star
• IU- Train Ride + medley
• IU – Loving you
• IU – Womanizer

And her originals:

• IU – BOO
• IU – Marshmallow
• IU – MIA

You can also purchase IU’s albums via yesasia if you are interested.

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