Amy Lee (born May 30, 1989), better known by her stage name Ailee (Hangul: ???), is a Korean-American singer-songwriter living in South Korea. He signed a contract with YMC Entertainment in South Korea and Warner Music in Japan.
Before the K-pop debut, Ailee was signed under Muzo Entertainment in America. She moved to South Korea in 2010, where she passed the audition and became an artist for YMC Entertainment. After being recognized for singing at Singer and Trainee, she started acting in the KBS drama series Dreamy 2.
Ailee received the Best New Artist Award at the Melon Music Awards, Golden Disc Awards, Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards, and Seoul Music Awards. She has also received the Best Newcomer and Four Best Female Vocal Performance awards at the Mnet Asian Music Awards for "U & amp; I", "Singing Got Better", "Your Own Business Mind" and "If You". For his work on OST, "Goodbye My Love", Ailee won Best Original Soundtrack at the 7th Korea Drama Awards.
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Ailee was born in Denver, Colorado, on May 30, 1989, but grew up in New Jersey. She attended Palisades Park High School before moving to nearby Leonia. He graduated from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, and went on to study communications at Pace University before coming out to pursue a career in music. Before K-pop's debut, Ailee was signed under Muzo Entertainment, an independent agency based in New York City and New Jersey. Under this label he collaborated with several artists, such as Johnnyphlo and Decipher rapper based in Philadelphia. Before moving to South Korea, Ailee created a YouTube channel "mzamyx3" and "aileemusic" to catch her singing on the web.
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2010-2011: Beginning of career
Ailee moved to South Korea in 2010 after she got a music label audition through her uncle's connection. She sings a "Resignation" by Big Mama, and is recruited to YMC Entertainment on the spot. During his trainee days, he was featured in Wheesung's labelmate "They Are Coming", which was released in October 2011. He also sang in Decipher and Jay Park's song "Catch Me If You Can". Ailee performed with Jay Park, Movement Art, Johnnyphlo, Decipher, and Clara C at "projectKorea III", held at Rutgers University in 2010. In September 2011, Ailee and Wheesung were featured on a special episode of MBC Chuseok from Singer and Trainee . Ailee did "Hello" by BeyoncÃÆ'Â © for a positive reaction from the audience. After her "Halo" appearance, the BMK judge said, "Wherever he goes, he has the potential to become a big star. After the judges judged all the participants, Ailee was the first place winner.
2012: Debut with "Heaven" and Invitation
On February 6, 2012, a music video teaser for Ailee's debut song "Heaven" was released. The song is written and produced by Ailee Wheesung's label. Ailee released the song on February 9 along with a music video, featuring Gi Kwang of Beast. Later that day, he performed his stage debut "Heaven" on M.net's M! Count down , then on SBS Inkigayo later in February. Billboard commented, "From his debut single, Ailee proved that he has the ability beyond his age to communicate a deeper experience that is felt by someone.In this dedication song, Ailee's partners protect him and 'teach him how to love in "Just one month after his debut, he won two awards at the Cyworld Music Awards:" Song of the Month "and" Rookie of the Month ". Ailee also won the Best New Artist Award at the Asia Song Festival.
In March 2012, Ailee made her first appearance on KBS Immortal Songs 2, bringing Patti Kim's song "Light and Shadow" from 1967. Patti Kim later stated that she would be "the next great singer". On May 19, in part two J.Y. Notably Park, he performed his debut song Park "Do not Leave Me". He beat Davichi Lee Haeri by one point, 419 to 418, to win. She appeared on the June 30th episode of Immortal Songs 2, which featured composer Yoon Il Sang. He did "Destiny" by Lee Seung Chul and won again with 402 votes. In August, it was announced that he made temporary leave from the show to focus on his music. She performed her final stage on August 6th, and this episode aired on September 1st. Then in August, she appeared in the third episode of Jay Park's online web series, Jay Park TV , where she was. backstage attended a Park concert in Seoul. He also hosted the ABU Radio Song Festival with Han Seok-joon on October 11, 2012.
On October 16th, Ailee released her debut EP, Invitation , which contains the title track, "I'll Show You" (????). The EP contains a total of six songs. It was produced by producers such as Kim Do-hoon, Lee Hyun-seung, Park Guen-tae, Duble Sidekick, Wheesung, and leading artists such as Verbal Jint, Swings and Simon Dominic. On October 18th, Ailee made her comeback with "I'll Show You" on M! Countdown. On November 23, he won his first trophy in a music program, at 2013-2014: A Doll House , Japanese debut and Magazine
On July 4, 2013, Ailee announced that she would release her second EP, titled A's Doll House , on July 12th. Single EP "U & amp; I" topped the music chart within four hours of release and received its first All-Kill Ailee status. The popularity for physical albums is also considered high when almost all stores in Korea are sold out of the album on the first day of release. Orders exceeded stock counts, and representatives from Ailee agents stated, "The album's sales rate is many times greater than the previous album."
On August 4, 2013, it was revealed that Ailee will make his Japanese debut with "Heaven" under Warner Music Japan. The music video was released on October 21st. Ailee began promoting the song with a work in Shibuya O-East, Tokyo, on October 21st. The single was released on November 6th, and also included the song "Starlight". On November 10, 2013, the Korean pop gossip website Allkpop published a story containing several nude photos of Ailee taken before her debut as a singer. The following day, YMC Entertainment issued a statement claiming that "his photographs were taken when he was offered to be an underwear model.He took naked photos because they wanted better judgment of his body, but the company could not be contacted after he took them. they went to the police and later found out that he was cheated by a company that approached other college girls as well.Ailee discussed the matter with his ex-boyfriend, former AllKPop employee.November, a 2009 police report filed by Ailee revealed that Ailee had sent photos -the photo to his friend via Facebook, only to find out his friend's Facebook account has been hacked.As a result of the scandal, Ailee has been removed from several advertising campaigns, including for Kyochon's fried chicken.Kyochon replied, "Ailee's commercial contract is not over yet. But consumers have shown a sensitive reaction to Ailee's recent situation, and Ailee's agency is also not entirely interested in current singer exposure, so we take certain steps. "
On December 16, 2013, it was revealed that Ailee will make a comeback after a six-month hiatus in January 2014. A music video teaser was released on January 2 ahead of its full release. Both full music videos and full digital songs were released on January 6th. This music video features MBLAQ Lee Joon. "Singing Got Better" reached number one on the main Korean charts: Mnet, Bugs, Olleh, Soribada, Naver Music, Daum Music, and Genie. Ailee re-appeared in the episode of Immortal Songs on April 12, 2014. The theme for the episode was "Famous South American Songs in South Korea", and Ailee was chosen for the first time in which she performed a rousing act. and Whitney Houston's emotional rendition of "I Will Always Love You", a song originally written and recorded by country singer Dolly Parton was released in 1974. She received 409 points for her performance, although later lost the episode; her performance remains critically acclaimed and is notorious for the ultimate key change, and remains one of the most watched shows on Immortal Songs on YouTube. On September 16, 2014, it was announced that Ailee would be making a comeback through YMC Entertainment's official Twitter account. On September 21, 2014, the teaser for Ailee's "Do not Touch Me" was released. It was written by Min Yun-jae, Jakops, and Ailee. Full MV was released on September 25, 2014. Later that day, promotion for EP, Magazine , started. It peaked at number two for the Gaon Single Chart. He won his first trophy for "Do not Touch Me" on October 5, 2014, on SBS ' Inkigayo .
2015-2016: First solo concert, first studio album VIVID and New Empire
After wrapping together to unify Mic Tour with Jay Park and San E in Toronto in March 2015, plans revealed to Ailee to hold a solo concert three years after her debut. On May 19 confirmed that Ailee will hold her first solo concert titled Fatal Attraction on July 4th at Gymnastics Stadium at Seoul Olympic Park, a concert venue with a capacity of 3000 seats. According to YMC Entertainment, "Ailee will perform with the power and passion she could not show before with her television appearance". Tickets were released on May 27 through online retailer Interpark and broke the record for the fastest-selling tickets on the site. Ailee joined the stage several times by different artists, who helped her sing many duets and collaborations. She sang "Shut Up" with Showry, "Like Nobody Knows" and "Comma 07" with Cheetahs, "Wash Away" and "Officially Missing You" with Geeks, "NimA" and "Shower of Tears" with Baechigi, and "Touch My Body "and" Let's Go Travel "with Shin Bora.
On September 20, 2015, it was announced that Ailee would be making a comeback through YMC Entertainment's official Twitter account. On September 8 it was revealed that Ailee suffered a foot injury while filming for her music video the day before. As a result, YMC Entertainment stated that Ailee's return might retreat. On September 29 it was announced that Ailee will be promoting his return as planned. One condition is that Ailee will sit for all her promotional activities. An affiliate related to his comeback activities said, "Ailee's legs have not fully healed, but he's so determined to keep his promise with his fans that he insists on doing with a comeback." A teaser video of the title song entitled "Mind Your Own Business" (? ? ??) was released on YouTube's 1theK page on September 22nd. Ailee's first full-length album, VIVID , was released on September 30, 2015. She won her first trophy for this promotion on October 7th at the Show Champion . Ailee was awarded the Best Women's Vocal Award for the third year in a row at MAMA 2015, this time to "Think of your own affairs.
On July 13, 2016, Ailee was confirmed to participate as a judge in Superstar K 2016.
On August 16, it was announced that Ailee is currently in preparation for the next album. It is said that he works with various artists; one of which is revealed as Yoon Mi-rae. His new album also includes a song featuring hip hop duo and Baechigi mate label. On August 19th, the teaser for the music video "If You", was posted on the YouTube channel LOEN and YMC Entertainment. This teaser features Nayoung from I.O.I. The single "If You", a pre-release song, is described as a retro-soul tactic, produced by the same lyricist and songwriter "Dream", a popular duet between Suzy Miss A and Baekhyun EXO. The song is also written and produced by Park Geun-tae, which also produces "Evening Sky" Ailee from Invitation . The music video was released on August 23, 2016. "If you" then hit number one on multiple charts in one day, topping MelOn roof, Gaon Chart Weekly for Digital Download, and BGM charts. On December 2nd, Ailee was once again awarded with Best Vocal Performance, this time for "If You", at the Mnet Asian Music Awards, a record fourth consecutive year of triumph in that category. On September 28th, YMC Entertainment's official Twitter announces the teaser for the title song "Home" in its EP, A New Empire . On October 5th, A New Empire was released, along with a music video for "Home" which was officially released on the official Youtube channel LOEN and YMC Entertainment. The music videos and songs feature Yoon Mirae. The album also features artist Eric Nam. A New Empire peaked at number 10 on the Gaon Album Chart, and number nine on the US Chart World Albums ( Billboard ).
2017-present: Perfect all-kill , speculated the American debut and the first solo concert tour
On January 4, it was announced that Ailee would release one for the Korean cable television series Goblin or Guardian: The Lonely and the Great God OST. The single itself, the ballad, known as "I'm Going to You Like the First Snow" (???????), was released for digital downloads on January 7th. This single is the ninth part in the series consisting of high charting singles. The initial release was not paired with the music video, unlike some previous releases of the OST, but it was well received in the first week on the music chart, debuting at number 19 on the Gaon Steps on the week of January 1-7. On January 12th, Ailee reached Perfect All-Kill, the first, for the number one hit singles on all South Korean music sites listed on iChart. For the week of January 8-14, the single also climbed 18 spots, occupying the Gaon Ladder. On January 19th, it was announced that the single won "Triple Crown", also the first Ailee, to take the number one on Gaon Combined Digital Chart, Online Chart Download and Online Streaming Chart. On February 1st, the single managed to clenched to the top position for three weeks.
On March 9th, Gaon Chart revealed that Ailee's OST "I ​​Will Go To You Like Snow First" took first place on monthly digital graphics combined in February. It was the second consecutive month that the song was sitting in this position, having also taken the top spot on the chart back in January. This is the first song and is currently just above the monthly charts for two different months in the history of Gaon Chart. "I Will Go To You Like the First Snow" surpassed 100 million streams and 1.5 million downloads in Gaon in May 2017, the first song released in 2017 to do so. On June 10, 22 weeks after its release, Ailee OST broke the record for most songs streamed per year in Gaon since 2010, totaling 111,770,770 streams. On July 7, Gaon unfolds the Half Year Digital, Download, and Stream of the Year 2017 charts. "I'll Go to You Like the First Snow" topped all the charts. For his work in OST, Ailee won Daesang for Best OST at the Korea Cable TV Awards 2017. Soundtrack has also received several awards, including the original best original soundtrack award at the Seoul International Drama Awards, Mnet Asian Music Awards, the Melon Music Awards, Seoul Music Awards, and Golden Disc Awards. On May 19th it was announced that "I'm Going to You Like the First Snow" has been ranked first on the OST Bank Music chart to break the 20-week record. OST has the longest winning streak of all time, beating the 1997 1997 OST "All for You" which has 14 wins. On June 1 "I Will Go to You Like First Snow" has reached 60 PAK (Perfect All Kill) and stayed number one in Melon for 779 hours (March 20, 2017). This is the first time for OST to remain number one in Melon for over 600 hours. On June 2, Ailee's OST reached 200,000 likes in Melon, making it the third most loved song in Melon of all time. Ailee is also the first female solo artist, and the first OST, has reached 200,000 likes in Melon. On December 14th, "I Will Go to You Like the First Snow" made history for surpassing 165,307,579 streams, making it the most flowing song of all time in the Gaon Staircase. The previous record was held by "Galaxy" Bolbbalgan4. On December 18th, the Korean Music Content Association revealed its first glimpse of the overall Gaon standings for 2017. Ailee again grabbed a triple crown as his tracks beat the entire digital chart, download and stream. On 12 January, Gaon officially publishes their annual digital, download and stream charts, where "I'm Going You Like the First Snow" re-appear in the first place, reaching three more crowns.
During this period, the music label WestSide Entertainment, the management agency responsible for names like Nelly and Keyshia Cole, teased the debut for A.Leean, a "famous singer" under the "new alias". Although not yet officially confirmed, and although there is no public appearance or promotion by the artist, there is a big speculation that this artist is none other than Ailee. The management agent has discussed that the reason for this alias is to minimize the racial prejudice effects that graphics seem to have toward Asian people in the American music industry. On January 6th, the preview of the single "Fall Back" was released, a day before its official release. The single "Fall Back" is a dance-pop uptempo song, synthpop. On January 12th, the single is available for purchase on all major music sites, and the day after, "Fall Back" is available at the Spotify streaming outlet; and on January 18, the full official lyric video for the single was released on the channel ALeeanVEVO, which reached 50,000 views four days later. The video lyrics in the comic style, whose story arc, according to the management agency, will continue for the upcoming single by A.Leean.
Ailee previously hosted two Christmas concerts in Seoul entitled Welcome Home at the Kyunghee University Grand Palace on December 24-25, 2016. The concerts were her "home" theme, which is also the title of her EP song A New Empire . Due to the success of the concert, it was announced that Ailee will be holding her first national tour. Ailee started the Welcome Home Tour in Daegu on April 1, 2017. She has performed songs from her own discography, as well as songs from her popular performances at Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend >, Duet Song Festival and Fantastic Duo . On June 3, Ailee tour visited six cities - Seoul, Daegu, Suwon, Daejeon, Busan and Gwangju. Guest viewers include Eric Nam, Tak, Amber, Lee Min-jeong, and Park Soo-bin. On 5 May it was announced that Ailee will hold her first solo concert in Taiwan titled Ailee - Hello Taipei 2017. The concert will be held on June 25 at The City Hall at the Taipei International Convention Center. Tickets for the concert were released on May 27th. 68% of the tickets were sold out within an hour, and the concert was completely sold out at the end of the day. On June 21st, Ailee held a collaboration concert with Brian McKnight and Zion.T titled SUPERSTAGE Concert . The concert was held at the Jamsil Arena in Seoul. Ailee brought the songs from her own discography and also sang a duet, "Whenever You Call", with Brian McKnight.
On March 18, 2018, Ailee performed "I WIll Show You" at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang.
Awards and nominations
Discography
- Vivid (2015)
Tours and concerts
Welcome Home Tour
The Welcome Home Tour is the first national tour by Ailee artist, to support the fourth extended play of A New Empire. The tour visits 6 cities until 2016 and 2017.
- Set list
- Tour dates
Solo concert
Tour and touring with Co-headlining
- 2014: Winter Concert with Eric Benet
- 2014: Someday Concert with Wheesung
- 2015: Integrate a Micro Tour with Jay Park and San E
- 2015: Back to School concert with Wheesung
- 2016: Come here! Concert with Yoon Min-soo
- 2017: Concert SUPERSTAGE with Brian McKnight and Zion.T
- 2018: BEST OF BEST CONCERTS IN TAIPEI with Taeyeon and Taemin
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Moviesography
Television drama
Various events
References
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External links
- Official Website of YMC Entertainment
- Official Warner Music Japan Website
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