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Yang Hee-eun
Yang Hee-eun
	Yang Hee-eun in 2017
Background information
Born	August 13, 1952 (age 72); Seoul, South Korea
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	1971-present
Korean name
Hangul	양희은
Hanja	楊姬銀
Revised Romanization	Yang Huieun
McCune–Reischauer	Yang Hŭiŭn

Yang Hee-eun (Korean: 양희은; Hanja: 楊姬銀; born August 13, 1952)^[1] is a South Korean singer and songwriter.

Life

Yang Hee-eun, the eldest of three daughters in Gahoe-dong, Jongno District, Seoul, graduated from Seoul Jae-dong Elementary School, Gyeonggi Girls' Middle School, and Gyeonggi Girls' High School before she graduated from Sogang University's history department. Her father, who graduated from a military and infantry school, participated in the Korean War and died from an illness when she was in the sixth grade of elementary school (1964).^[2]

She debuted as a singer in 1971, when she was a freshman in college. Many of her songs were banned from broadcasting at the time because Yang Hee-eun's songs, including "Morning Dew," were sung in the democratization movement through various dictatorships in Korea. Kim Min-ki, the lyricist and composer of the representative song "Morning Dew," said that when he wrote the lyrics at the time, he did not include direct content such as his desire for democratization. However, the people of the time interpreted "Morning Dew" as suitable for democratization due to the situation of the times when the military dictatorship suppressed the desire for democratization, and it became a symbolic protest song of the democratization movement in the '70s and '80s.^[3]

In 1981, she left Korea and traveled to the U.S. and Europe for about a year. However, in the following year, 1982, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and faced a critical juncture in her life. She had two cancer surgeries and went through many twists and turns in her life, such as fighting the disease. Yang Hee-kyung, her younger sister, looked after her personally and recalled that she really thought her sister was going to die when she could barely groan due to her illness. Although she was unable to have children because of this, she decided to live a positive life by considering her husband and dogs as her children.^[4] She is still famous for her voice. Her voice is so powerful and clear that you can recognize it as Yang Hee-eun just by listening to it. However, her younger sister has a very similar voice, so it is easy to confuse them. Of course, Yang Hee-kyung's voice is more gentle, but it is difficult to distinguish between them for relatives and acquaintances if she decides to mimic her. Even their mother has the same voice, so their family and acquaintances are said to be deceived often. Starting with Yoon Jong-shin's work on "Backpack Travel" in 2014, she has been working on producing an album with junior musicians called "Unexpected Meeting". Lee Jeok, Lee Sang-soon, and Sung Si-kyung have been working on nine projects so far and are receiving favorable reviews for successfully attempting new changes.^[5]

Career

When she was a teenager, Yang Hee-eun went to "Naughty Boy," a youth shelter run by the YMCA in Seoul, where she met Kim Min-ki, a figure who had a significant influence on her musical career. Without Kim Min-ki, the current Yang Hee-eun would not be here.^[6] When she was in college, she became poor because her mother's shop caught fire. Because of this, she had to sing to make a living, and it was Song Chang-sik who asked her to be on stage. Song Chang-sik is said to have taken her to a beer bar in Myeong-dong where he sang and allowed her to work while taking 10 minutes off his performance time. Since then, she began to walk the path of a singer in earnest. Yang Hee-eun's first full-length album, "Yang Hee-eun's Collection of Fine Songs," was released in September 1971, and "Morning Dew" and "Senoya," composed by Kim Min-ki, became the representative songs that Yang Hee-eun is known for.^[7] In the meantime, Ha Deok-gyu's "Hangyae-ryeong," released in 1985, was evaluated as an outstanding song. At the time of its release, the music label gave up promoting it because it had too sad a mood, but it received great praise when it was released again in 1990. "Hangyae-ryeong," the last installment of the novel "People in Wonmi-dong," took its title from this song.^[8]

After democratization in 1987, Yang's banned songs were all lifted, and she was reevaluated as an outstanding musician. She had a 30th anniversary album and concert in 2002, and performed the musical "Where Have You Come" until mid-August 2011, reflecting on her life to mark her 40th anniversary in 2011.^[9]

The first album, "Yang Hee-eun's Fine Song Collection," and the 20th anniversary album, "Yang Hee-eun 1991," were ranked 85th and 80th, respectively, and were selected as two of the top 100 Korean pop albums.^[10]

She is legendary not only as a singer but also as a radio DJ. She also has ample broadcasting experience as a DJ of pop music programs at CBS and TBC since she was young. In 1992, she returned to CBS to host "Yang Hee-eun's Information Age," and to SBS to host "I'm Yang Hee-eun, Two Poems' Friend" until 1998.^[11]

Awards and honors

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Ref.
2003	Golden Disc Awards	Achievement Award	—	^[12]
2011	MBC Entertainment Awards	Top Excellence Award - Radio Category	—	^[13]
2019	Korean Music Awards	Achievement Award	—	^[14]
	Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards	Order of Cultural Merit	—	^[15]^[16]
	2019 MBC Entertainment Awards	Top Excellence Award - Radio Category	Women Era [ko]	^[17]^[18]

Records

Regular

1971 - Yang Hee-eun's collection of fine songs <Morning Dew / Senoya Senoya>

1972 - Bool Namu

1972 - Yang Hee-eun's fine song collection 2nd album <Beautiful things / On the way to Seoul / Baekgu / Little Pond>

1973 - Yang Hee-eun's 3rd collection of beautiful songs <Unfathomable Love / Country of Happiness>

1974-My love is... <My love is>

1975 - One Person <One Person / When Time Goes>

1976-Yang Hee-eun Best <Following the Hearings>

1978 - Yang Hee Eun <Woman of the Lodge / Parents>

1979-Like a green pine tree in a rough field <Like a green pine tree in a rough field / Rubber band play / Old soldier's song / A thousand miles>

1980 - Yang Hee-eun <Unnamed Girl / Two in the Rain>

1981 - Yang Hee-eun's new song <How much have you come / Everyone has it>

1983 - Yang Hee-eun's new song collection <White Magnolia / Unachievable Love>

1985 - Yang Hee-eun's new song collection <Kang Ha-ryeong / When the berry blossoms bloom / The peak we will climb is>

1988- Yang Hee-eun's new song collection <After Farewell / Forest>

1991 - Yang Hee-eun 1991 <That Year, Winter / Love About That Loneliness / Autumn Morning>

1995-Yang Hee-eun 1995 <Unbelievable song / At the age of 40>

1998-Yang Hee-eun 1998 <Follow those sky clouds / lovers>

1999 - Yang Hee Eun 1, 2 (Best Album)

1999-Yang Hee-eun, three songs of love (best album, remake album) <after love / by my side of love>

2001-30 Years Anniversary <Because I have you / Love, Prayer for you>

Although it is her 30th anniversary album, it is a memorial album for the most memorable listener, Chu Hee-sook, hosted by Yang Hee-eun on the Women's Generation Radio. It seems that Chu Hee-sook, who was unable to properly cope with terminal cancer at the time, felt a great deal of emotion when she saw the letter sent over four days. When she tried to produce her 30th anniversary album as a memorial album, there were voices of concern around her, but it was produced with Yang Hee-eun's strong argument.^[19]

2002-30 Live (Yang Hee-eun's 30th Anniversary Live Album) <Seven Daffodils / Love, Prayer for You>

2006-Yang Hee-eun 35 (Yang Hee-eun 35th Anniversary Album) <The Gift of Life / If Only You Were There>

2014 - 2014 Yang Hee-eun <Nayoung's Refrigerator / Thinking of you / The most beautiful words in my life>

CCM

1976-A hymn and a carol on a quiet night <Lord now there>

1987 - Yang Hee-eun hymn

1999 - hymn to Yang Hee-eun 1999

2007 - song of god

Single

2014-Unexpected Meeting Project <Backpack Travel (with Yoon Jong-shin), <Vase (with Lee-jeok)>

2015-Unexpected Meeting Project <with Lee Sang-soon>, <Mother to Daughter (with Kim Chang-ki, Kim Gyu-ri)>, <Sadness Now Bye (with bk! of Astro Bits)>

2016-Unexpected Meeting Project <with Kang Seung-won> , <How are you doing these days? We love you so much (with Kim)>

2017-Unexpected meeting project <with AKMU>

2018-Unexpected Meeting Project <Always You (with Sung Si-kyung, Shim Hyun-bo)>

^[20]

Program

MBC Standard FM <Women's Generation> "Yang Hee-eun, Kim Il-joong" - Host

SBS <Master of Life> - Commentary

References

^ Choi, Seong-cheol (January 20, 2016). "[8090 이 노래 이 명반] 양희은의 1, 2집" [[8090] Yang Hee Eun's 1st and 2nd albums]. Busan Ilbo (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 17, 2023. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
^ Lee, Eunho. 8월 13일 양희은 '아침이슬'로 데비한 여성보컬 [On August 13, Yang Hee-eun debuted with "Morning Dew"]. E-Today. 1. Archived from the original on May 11, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
^ Lee, Jong-sun. '열린음악회' 양희은 나이 예순 아홉살, 금지곡만 30여곡!...'아침이슬' 7,80년대 민주화 운동의 상징적인 곡! ["Open Concert" Yang Hee-eun is sixty-nine years old, with more than 30 banned songs! ... "Morning Dew" is a symbolic song of the democratization movement in the seven and eighties!]. Archived from the original on May 11, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
^ 양희경 "언니 양희은 3개월 시한부판정, 임신 8개월 정도로 배가 부풀어…"(Kor) [Yang Hee-kyung said, "My sister Yang Hee-eun is judged to be 3 months old, and her stomach is swollen to about 8 months pregnant..."]. Dong-a news. December 5, 2012. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
^ Park, Se-yeon (July 4, 2011). 양희은, 동생 양희경과 목소리 비슷해 좋은 점은?(Kor) [Yang Hee-eun and her younger brother Yang Hee-kyung have similar voices. What's good about them?]. Daily economy. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
^ Park, Jeongmin (February 22, 2021). 양희은 "김민기와 청개구리서 첫 만남, 우상이었다"(아카이브K)[어제TV](Kor) [Yang Hee-eun said, "I met Kim Min-ki for the first time in Cheonggaesuri. I was an idol." (Archive K) [Yesterday's TV]]. News and Media. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
^ Sim, Min-kyung (July 2, 2021). [대화의 희열] 양희은, 노래로 돈을 벌게 해준 송창식과의 특별한 인연(Kor) [[Joy of conversation] Yang Hee-eun, special relationship with Song Chang-sik, who made money from singing]. Korean Broadcasting System. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
^ Kim, Jisoo. [김지수의 인터스텔라] "어느날 툭툭 기적이 내게로 왔다" 양희은 [[Kim Jisoo's Interstellar] "One day, a miracle came to me". Yang Hee Eun]. Archived from the original on May 11, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
^ Yoon, Cheong-sin (December 31, 2019). 양희은, 나이 예순 여덟, '아침이슬' 7,80년대 민주화 운동의 상징적인 곡!...작은 연못 금지곡 지정 이유는?(Kor) [Yang Hee-eun, Age Sixty-eight, 'Morning Dew' The iconic song of the pro-democracy movement in the 7th and 80s! ... Why was it designated as a banned song for a small pond?]. Polinews. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
^ Choi, Gyu-sung. 67위 양희은 '양희은 고운노래 모음' [67th place, Yang Hee-eun, "Yang Hee-eun's collection of beautiful songs."]. Archived from the original on May 11, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
^ Kim, Ji-hye. '여성시대' 양희은, 골든마우스상 수상 영예..20년간 DJ 자리 지킨 저력 [Yang Hee-eun of the 'Women's Generation' was honored with the Golden Mouse Award. The power of keeping the DJ position for 20 years].
^ 조성모 '2003 골든디스크' 대상 [Cho Sungmo's "2003 Golden Disc Awards" grand prize]. JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). December 5, 2003. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
^ "2011 MBC Entertainment Awards Winners". iMBC (in Korean). 2011. Archived from the original on September 2, 2019.
^ Lee, Jeong-ho (February 26, 2019). 양희은, 한국대중음악상 공로상 수상 "멋있게 마무리할 것" [Yang Hee-eun Wins K-Pop Achievement Award "Wrapping Up Greatly"]. Star News (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 17, 2023. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
^ Kim, Seung-jin (October 31, 2019). "'2019대중문화예술상' 김혜자·양희은·염정아·김남길·송가인·NCT 127 등 총28개팀 수상 영예 [종합]" [A total of 28 teams including Kim Hye-ja, Yang Hee-eun, Yeom Jeong-ah, Kim Nam-gil, Song Ga-in, and NCT 127 were honored at the "2019 Popular Culture and Arts Awards." [Roundup]]. ET News (in Korean). Archived from the original on December 29, 2019. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
^ 대중문화예술상 2019년 [2019 Popular Culture and Arts Awards]. Korea Creative Content Agency (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 9, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
^ 박나래, 첫 대상에 눈물 "받고 싶었다"…'나혼자산다' 8관왕 [MBC 연예대상](종합) [Park Na-rae, tears at the first grand prize, "I wanted to receive"..."I Live Alone" won 8 times. [MBC Entertainment Awards] (Roundup)]. Nate News (in Korean). December 30, 2019. Archived from the original on December 29, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
^ "2019 MBC Entertainment Awards Winners". iMBC (in Korean). 2019. Archived from the original on November 30, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
^ Lee, Mi-hye (June 11, 2009). 양희은"30주년 기념음반 故추희숙씨 위해 만든 것"(Kor) [Yang Hee-eun "made for the late Chu Hee-sook on the 30th anniversary album"]. Newsen. Archived from the original on April 29, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.
^ 양희은 작품활동 [Yang Hee-eun's work activities]. Naver. Archived from the original on May 11, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.