Shin Joong Hyun

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Moon Watching 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Woman 00:00 Tools
I've Got Nothing to Say 00:00 Tools
'J' Blues 72 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Rivers and Mountains 00:00 Tools
Anticipation 00:00 Tools
The Rising Sun (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Think 00:00 Tools
Long, Long Night 00:00 Tools
Funky Broadway 00:00 Tools
I Think There Was Someone Else 00:00 Tools
Lady 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
I Do Not Know 00:00 Tools
The Sun 00:00 Tools
Please Don't Bother Me Anymore 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Must Leave 00:00 Tools
Please Wait 00:00 Tools
I Don't Like 00:00 Tools
Spring Rain 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Sunset 00:00 Tools
Pushing Through the Fog 00:00 Tools
Why That Person? 00:00 Tools
From Where to Where 00:00 Tools
Grass 00:00 Tools
What Am I Going to Do 00:00 Tools
J Blues 72 00:00 Tools
Beautiful River and Mountains 00:00 Tools
03_From Where to Where_Kim Jung Mi 00:00 Tools
01_What Am I Going To Do_Kim Chu Ja 00:00 Tools
02_Grass_Park Kwang Soo 00:00 Tools
04_Beautiful Woman_Shin Joong Hyun 00:00 Tools
Please Don?t Both Me Anymore 00:00 Tools
"J" Blues 72 00:00 Tools
07_Expectation _Shin Joong Hyun and Yupjuns 00:00 Tools
I Don?t Like 00:00 Tools
05_Beautiful Rivers and Mountains_Shin Joong Hyun 00:00 Tools
I Don’t Like 00:00 Tools
06_Funky Broadway_Shin Joong Hyun and Questions 00:00 Tools
In-A-Kadda-Da-Vida 00:00 Tools
Why That Person 00:00 Tools
Please Don't Bother Me Anymore (Golden Grapes) 00:00 Tools
아름다운 강산 00:00 Tools
Please Wait (Jang Hyun) 00:00 Tools
미인 00:00 Tools
I’ve Got Nothing To Say 00:00 Tools
아리랑 00:00 Tools
The Sun (Kim Jung Mi) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Like (Lee Jung Hwa) 00:00 Tools
Spring Rain (Park In Soo) 00:00 Tools
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Shin Joong Hyun’s tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions, but one that produced reverberating echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable. Inspired by jazz, soul, and traditional Korean music, Shin started his career in the mid-1950’s, performing for US troops stationed locally after the Korean War armistice of 1953. While his English language skills were limited, the young player had no trouble communicating through his trusty electric guitar, but Shin was no mere 6-string slinger for hire, he was able to communicate something far beyond your average professional musician. Production work and extensive songwriting followed, not to mention a steady stream of electrifying performances. Gaining momentum by the moment, Shin developed popular success across South Korea molding protégés like singing duo the Pearl Sisters and folk-psych songbird Kim Jung Mi into top pop stars. From there it was hit after hit. The late 1960’s rock explosion and an influx of imported music from The Beatles, Jimmy Smith, and The Jefferson Airplane all informed and inspired Mr. Shin to elevate his own craft. Even experimental trips via a crew of local hippies also took the music man to new heights despite Korean law forbidding such rebellion. Drug use was illegal and punishable as a serious offence. Park Chung-hee, then President of South Korea began to closely monitor Shin’s “subversive” activities. After refusing to write a song in praise of the political leader, the musician was labeled unpatriotic and his career was instantly snuffed-out through a series of surveillance, torture, and institutional confinement. While this was not the end of Shin’s musical story, for an all-too-brief moment in Korean cultural history, Shin Joong Hyun and his talented accomplices laid down a trove of recordings that have slowly reverberated far from their native land. For the first time outside of Korea, Shin’s music will be readily available to music lovers the world over. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.