Joo Hyun-mi
{{short description|South Korean singer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{family name hatnote|Joo||lang=Korean}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Joo Hyun-mi
| image = Joo Hyun-Mi.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|09|27}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}}
| origin = Gwangju, South Korea
| genre = Trot
| occupation = Singer
| years_active = 1984–present
| label =
| spouse = {{marriage|Lim Dong-shin|1988}}
| website = [http://www.juhyunmi.com Official website]
{{Infobox Korean name
| child = yes
| hangul = 주현미
| rr = Ju Hyeon-mi
| mr = Chu Hyŏnmi
}}}}
Joo Hyun-mi ({{Korean|hangul=주현미|hanja=周炫美}};{{Cite web |date=2020-07-27 |title=데뷔 35주년 맞은 트로트 여왕 주현미 |trans-title=Empress of Trot Joo Hyun-mi celebrates her 35th debut anniversary |url=http://monthly.chosun.com/client/news/viw.asp?ctcd=E&nNewsNumb=202008100036 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Monthly Chosun |language=ko}} born September 27, 1961{{Cite web |last= |date=2018-02-28 |title='아침마당' 주현미 중앙대 약대 나와 트로트 가수 된 사연은? |trans-title=Joo Hyun-mi on 'AM Plaza', why she went from Chung-Ang University College of Medicine to becoming a trot singer? |url=https://www.ajunews.com/view/20180228090744331 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Aju Business Daily |language=ko}}) is a South Korean trot singer. Sometimes referred to as an "Empress of Trot",{{Cite web |date=2013-11-10 |title='히든싱어2' 주현미 최종우승…트로트 여제의 뜨거운 눈물 |trans-title=Joo Hyun-mi wins in 'Hidden Singer 2' finals...Empress of Trot cries passionate tears |url=http://www.tvdaily.co.kr/read.php3?aid=1384037731602507010 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=TV Daily |language=ko}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2020-11-26 |title='트로트 여제' 주현미, 내일 20집 마지막 수록곡 공개 |trans-title='Empress of Trot' Joo Hyun-mi will release the last song from her 20th album tomorrow |url=https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20201126160300005 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Yonhap News |language=ko}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-12-27 |title=트로트 여제 주현미 "트로트는 우리 DNA에 콕 박힌 민족 정서" |trans-title=Empress of Trot Joo Hyun-mi: "Trot is a national sentiment embedded in our DNA" |url=https://www.chosun.com/culture-life/culture_general/2022/12/27/YVZYZVOZ2NB2FID7OZRPI2GXQA/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=The Chosun Ilbo |language=ko}} Joo is credited as being one of the leading figures in the trot music revival of the 1980s.{{Cite web |date=2005-02-17 |title=[클릭 대중문화] 트로트 음악 중흥기 오나 |trans-title=[Click Pop Culture] Trot music boom |url=https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/082/0000035012?sid=102 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Busan Ilbo |language=ko |via=Naver}}
Early life
Joo Hyun-mi was born on September 27, 1961 in Gwangju, South Korea to a South Korean mother and a father from Shandong, China.{{Cite web |date=2020-01-01 |title=주현미는 누구? 나이 쉰 아홉 약사출신 가수, 임동신과 결혼후 1989년 한국국적 취득...약사때 수입은 별로![종합] |trans-title=Who is Joo Hyun-mi? Fifty-nine-year-old singer who was a pharmacist, acquired Korean nationality in 1989 after marrying Lim Dong-shin... My income as a pharmacist was not that great! [Comprehensive] |url=http://www.kihoilbo.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=844459 |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=Kiho Ilbo |language=ko}} When she was a child, her parents moved to Taiwan to try to improve the family's financial situation, leaving Joo and her three younger siblings in the care of their grandmother.{{Cite web |date=2011-12-19 |title=주현미 "사업실패 부모님 모두 대만에..소녀가장 신세였다" |trans-title=Joo Hyun-mi: “After their business failed, both my parents went to Taiwan… I was the head of the household.” |url=https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201112191029191001 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Newsen |language=ko}} Following her grandmother's death, Joo raised her younger siblings alone, relying on money her mother sent from Taiwan. Joo was a citizen of Taiwan until adulthood when she became a South Korean citizen.{{Cite web |date=2011-12-19 |title=주현미 "동생들 여전히 대만 국적, 어머니 호적에도 없어" |trans-title=Joo Hyun-mi: “My younger siblings still have Taiwanese nationality and are not in my mother’s family register. |url=https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201112191016031001 |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=Newsen |language=ko}}
Joo attended Seoul Chinese Primary School and studied pharmacy at Chung-Ang University.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2009-10-05 |title=명동 화교소학교, 개교 100주년 행사 |trans-title=Myeong-dong's Seoul Chinese Primary School celebrates 100 years |url=https://n.news.naver.com/mnews/article/001/0002897364?sid=102 |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=Yonhap News |language=ko |via=Naver}} While in university, she received an award for competing in the MBC Riverside Song Festival. After graduation, she worked as a pharmacist in Seoul.
Career
Joo debuted as a singer in 1984 with the trot medley album Couple's Party, which sold 3 million copies, primarily through cassette tape sales at highway rest stops.{{Cite web |date=2014-08-26 |title=원조 ‘고속도로 뽕짝 메들리’ 가수 주현미의 가요인생 30년 |trans-title=30 years of the music career of Joo Hyun-mi, the original ‘Highway Ppongjjak Medley’ singer |url=http://www.tvdaily.co.kr/read.php3?aid=1409045466753399004 |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=TV Daily |language=ko}}{{Cite web |date=2023-12-18 |title='약사 가수' 주현미 "약국 잘 됐으면 가수 안 해…작곡가 추천으로 데뷔" (회장님네)[종합] |trans-title="Pharmacist singer" Joo Hyun-mi, "If pharmacy goes well, I won't become a singer. I debuted on the recommendation of a composer." [Full] |url=https://www.xportsnews.com/article/1805281 |access-date=2024-03-22 |website=Sports News |language=ko}} The following year, in 1985, she released her first album of original songs, featuring the single "Rainy Yeongdong Bridge", which became one of her signature songs.{{Cite web |last=Do |first=Je-hae |date=September 2, 2014 |title=Joo Hyun-mi, Kim Yeon-ja, Choi Jin-hee trot back to limelight |url=http://www.koreatimesus.com/joo-hyun-mi-kim-yeon-ja-choi-jin-hee-trot-back-to-limelight/ |access-date=February 5, 2018 |website=The Korea Times}} That year, she won awards for Best New Artist at both the KBS Music Awards and MBC Gayo Daejejeon.
Over the next few years, Joo released several hit albums, including 1988's That Man in Shinsadong. The album and its lead single of the same name swept the year-end music awards shows, garnering Joo awards for Album of the Year at the Golden Disc Awards, the Grand Prize at the KBS Music Awards, and the two top awards for Most Popular Song and Most Popular Singer at the MBC Gayo Daejejeon.
Personal life
In 1988, Joo married singer and guitarist Lim Dong-shin ({{Korean|hangul=임동신|labels=no}}), who performed on Cho Yong-pil's album Cho Yong Pil and the Great Birth.{{Cite news |date=September 6, 2016 |title=가수 주현미 남편은 누구? 조용필과 함께한 기타리스트 겸 가수 임동신 |trans-title=Who is singer Joo Hyun-mi's husband? Guitarist and singer Lim Dong-shin |url=http://news20.busan.com/controller/newsController.jsp?newsId=20160906000183 |access-date=February 5, 2018 |work=Busan Ilbo |language=ko}} They have two children.{{Cite news|url=http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/11/12/2014111201856.html|title=힙합 아들, 트로트 엄마 주현미 함께 노래하는 날 꿈꿔요|date=November 16, 2014|work=The Chosun Ilbo|access-date=February 5, 2018|language=ko|trans-title=Hip Hop Son, Trot Mom Joo Hyun Mi, Dream of Singing Together}}
Discography
= Studio albums =
- Rainy Yeongdong Bridge (비내리는 영동교) (1985){{Cite web |last= |date=2023-05-12 |title=주현미, 약사→가수된 사연…"친정父 덕분" |trans-title=Joo Hyun-mi, the story of going from pharmacist to singer... "Thanks to my father" |url=https://www.newsis.com/view/?id=NISX20230512_0002301571 |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Newsis |language=ko}}
- My Love Don't Go (님아 가지말아요) (1985)
- I Have to Forget (잊어야지) (1985)
- Crying and Regretting (울면서 후회하네) (1985)
- Tangeumdae Story (탄금대 사연) (1986)
- Rainwater (빗물이야) (1986)
- First Affection (첫 정) (1986)
- Why Am I Crying? (내가 왜 웁니까) (1986)
- That Man in Shinsadong (신사동 그 사람) (1988){{Cite web |date=2019-12-02 |title=가수 주현미 – (4) 대를 잇는 음악 |trans-title=Singer Joo Hyun-mi – (4) Music that connects generations |url=http://www.breaknews.com/695249 |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Break News |language=ko}}
- One-Sided Love (짝사랑) (1989)
- Wait (잠깐만) (1990)
- Love Story (사랑이야기) (1991)
- We Met Again (또 만났네요) (1992)
- First Love (첫사랑) (1993){{Cite web |date=2022-08-01 |title=[가요무대 출연진] 주현미-이용-조항조-송대관-문희옥...주현미 데뷔곡과 불세출의 히트곡 열창 |trans-title=[Music stage cast] Joo Hyun-mi, Lee Yong, Jo Hang-jo, Song Dae-gwan, Moon Hee-ok... Joo Hyun-mi's debut song and extraordinary hit songs |url=https://www.mhns.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=531705 |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Munhwa News |language=ko}}
- Love Letter (러브레터) (2000){{Cite web |date=2006-05-23 |title=[김문기자가 만난사람] 3년만에 새달 신곡내는 가수 주현미 |trans-title=[People met by reporter Kim Moon] Singer Joo Hyun-mi releases new music after 3 years |url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=081&aid=0000090661 |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Seoul Shinmun |language=ko |via=Naver}}
- Really Good (정말 좋았네) (2003)
- Uhhura Love (어허라 사랑) (2006)
- 30th Anniversary Album (2014){{Cite web |date=2014-08-27 |title=주현미 확 달라졌다, 오늘(27일) 30주년 기념앨범 발매 |trans-title=Joo Hyun-mi has changed dramatically, 30th anniversary album released today (27th) |url=https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201408271404153410 |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Newsen |language=ko}}
= Medley albums =
Filmography
= Television =
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |
|---|
| scope="row" | 2013
| Contestant / Herself |
| scope="row" | 2019
| Wang Wei (cameo) |
| rowspan="4" scope="row" |2020
| Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend | Legend / Herself |
| K-Trot in Town
| Herself |
| Trot National Sports Festival
| Leader / Herself |
| Yesterday (인생앨범 예스터데이)
|Host / Herself |
| scope="row" | 2022
| Fire Trot (불타는 트롯맨) | Judge / Herself | {{cite web|url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=052&aid=0001801771|last=Oh|first=Ji-won|title=불타는트롯맨' 남진·설운도·주현미·조항조·김용임, 트롯 군단 라인업 1차 공개|trans-title='Burning Trotman' Namjin, Seol Woon-do, Joo Hyeon-mi, Jo Hang-jo, Kim Yong-im, first reveal of Trot Corps lineup |publisher=YTN|via=Naver|date=October 17, 2022|access-date=October 17, 2022|language=ko}} |
| scope="row" | 2023
| King of Active Singers (현역가왕) | Judge / Herself |
Awards
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" | Award
! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" | Nominee / Work ! scope="col" | Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}} |
|---|
| scope="row" | Baeksang Arts Awards
|1987 |Best Original Song (TV) |"My Heart Is Like A Star" |{{won}} |
| scope="row" rowspan="6" |Golden Disc Awards
|1986 | rowspan="2" |Album Bonsang |Crying and Regretting |{{won}} |
| 1987
|Why Am I Crying? |{{won}} |
| rowspan="2" |1988
|Album of the Year (Daesang) | rowspan="2" |That Man in Shinsadong |{{won}} |
| rowspan="3" |Album Bonsang
|{{won}} | |
| 1989
|One-Sided Love |{{won}} | |
| 1990
|Wait |{{won}} | |
| scope="row" rowspan="13" |KBS Music Awards
|1985 |Best New Female Artist | rowspan="3" |Joo Hyun-mi |{{won}} |
| rowspan="2" |1987
|Singer of the Year (Bonsang) |{{won}} |
| Popularity Award
|{{won}} |
| rowspan="2" |1988
|Grand Prize (Daesang) |"That Man in Shinsadong" |{{won}} |
| rowspan="7" |Singer of the Year (Bonsang)
| rowspan="9" |Joo Hyun-mi |{{won}} |
| 1989
|{{won}} |
| 1990
|{{won}} |
| 1991
|{{won}} |
| 1992
|{{won}} |
| 1995
|{{won}} |
| 1996
|{{won}} |
| 2000
| rowspan="2" |Singer of the Year – Adult Category (Bonsang) |{{won}} |
| 2001
|{{won}} |
| scope="row" rowspan="13" |MBC Gayo Daejejeon
|1985 |Best New Artist | rowspan="2" |Joo Hyun-mi |{{won}} |
| 1986
|Top Ten Singers Award |{{won}} |
| rowspan="3" |1988
|Most Popular Song |"That Man in Shinsadong" |{{won}} |
| Most Popular Singer (Daesang)
| rowspan="2" |Joo Hyun-mi |{{won}} |
| Top Ten Singers Award
|{{won}} |
| rowspan="3" |1989
|Most Popular Song |"One-Sided Love" |{{won}} |
| Most Popular Singer (Daesang)
| rowspan="2" |Joo Hyun-mi |{{won}} |
| Top Ten Singers Award
|{{won}} |
| rowspan="2" |1990
|Most Popular Song |"Wait" |{{won}} |
| rowspan="3" |Top Ten Singers Award
| rowspan="4" |Joo Hyun-mi |{{won}} |
| 1991
|{{won}} |
| 1992
|{{won}} |
| 1999
|Top Singer – Chosen by People Over 30 |{{won}} |
| scope="row" | MBC Riverside Song Festival
|1981 |Encouragement Award |Joo Hyun-mi |{{won}} |
| scope="row" | Mnet Asian Music Awards
|2009 |Trot Music Award |"Jjarajajja" (with Seohyun) |{{nom}} |
=State honors=
Notes
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References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.juhyunmi.com Official website]
- [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEDXalKckJ-JqVCjusmHm3g/videos Official YouTube Channel]
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