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Professor Zugnoni
The first and foremost rule of my house was to fill every silence with little pieces
of composition by classical music, ever since I was five years old. My house was full of
my parents musical instruments and equipment: A Long -playing (LP) record player, a
giant wooden speaker and old wall-hanging CD players. The wooden speaker in my
living room used to play some of Joseph Haydns in the morning, and some jazz pianos
by George Gershwin in the evening. From childhood to present, my parents sincere love
for music had led me to be familiar with instrumental melodies and to hum and sing to
them. Music has never left my side, but has shined my every single moment. My one and
only love, music, is so powerful that it still makes me flutter by just thinking of it.
Besides just loving it, I found my passion to never lose what I love and effort for
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Since childhood, my morning would always start with my moms yelling waking
me up. I naturally woke up when I heard the vigorous violins string sound. While I had
breakfast, brushed my teeth and wore clothes, the speaker was never turned off in my
morning routine. My parents enjoyed talking about their music choice and appreciating
the beauty of violins with their professional college major knowledge in vocals and string
instruments. When my mom does house chores after breakfast singing and humming, it
was like one piece of musical for me. When she was sad and depressed, she took me to a
piano room, played a gloomy and blue song and sang with her eyes closed. I felt like each
set of music note were coming towards me and talking to me. On the summer night of
weekend of our familys rustic trip, I could smell the lonely stars and enjoy the romantic
darkness hearing my dads viola and guitar play. Growing up with musicians, my entire
childhood and teenage life were always with melodies and sounds of endless background
music. I respected every music created by artists hand and throat as same as the way my
life and became my biggest best friend. I, then, started to musically respond to what I
I found that I had talent in practical singing more than my peers when I played a
main vocal role in singing All I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey at an
elementary school play. During our rehearsal time, I mimicked the vibrations Carey made
and added scat in the instrument playing part. I just followed the sound that came out of
my throat, the sound where my voice took me. The staff and teachers eyes became
bigger and they started to talk to each other. My friends did not really care or surprise by
my singing because they were busy doing their parts. However, all the adults were in
shock and gave standing ovation to me. One of the stage producers took me to the center
of the stage and assigned majority part and solo part with a single bright spotlight on me.
I loved that spotlight. I loved when there were only silence in the middle of the song and
people wait for my solo part to beautifully break the silence. Starting by being the main
character on school play, I was ready for future encounter with my new life.
*I enjoyed singing in the center at elementary school and loved following my
interests were always listening to music, studying musical terms and history and singing
alone or with my friends. After school, I would gather with music club friends and just
enjoy singing to the melody that we invented. We liked to listen to others and also liked
to sing together building harmonies. I was introduced in new and different type of
enjoying music and sharing feeling than doing a solo part at a school play. Due to
students who already knew me from my elementary school, my singing earned more
Then one day, when I turned to 16 years old, Korea was all about popular TV
program, Superstar K, the largest vocal audition. I could watch a number of ordinary
teenagers and students like me escaping out of their room and taking steps towards their
dream. There were also vocal professionals and Entertainment Company to help the
applicants develop their ability. I always had a dream to succeed in music and get
recognized. Without hesitation, I applied as a middle school student and sent my voice
record of Hurt by Christina Aguilera. As soon as I entered the audition auditorium, I
could see bunch of people just sitting on the floor without chair and singing loudly. Each
peoples singing sound was combined, so it was very loud and difficult to hear my own
voice. At the third steps of audition, I was required to do collaboration with assigned
peers. I was not flustered because the collaboration was what I had been doing with my
create harmony on. I enjoyed building melody on their melodies and share the feeling as
looking into my competitors eyes. From the collaboration audition, I was picked for
passed one among three peers. As I passed few steps unlike my expectation, I was thrilled
and excited. This time, I felt like really stepping forward to succeed in music field!
*When I passed the first step in vocal audition Superstar K, I was excited to be with
thousands of people to show my singing. (Copyright: Superstar K,
http://superstark.mnet.com/)
My joy, however, could not last longer. My parents always knew that I was good
at singing, but had no clue about how passionate I was about it and how many years I had
been studying on it. I got accepted few more steps on Superstar K and the audition started
to take away my time more such as camp training. Therefore, my parents finally found
out that singing and going for audition were not just hobby for fun, but more like serious
dream. Unlike how my parents had raised me in musical environment, they strongly said
No to any music activities I was involved in. Since they were in the music field, they
knew how difficult it was to get a job in music industry and stably earn money in Korea.
They didnt want me to have an unsure and unstable future as a singer. They knew it was
a hungry path. She stopped me from going on the next auditions on Superstar K. She
specifically told me that I would not go to art school or any music field. It was hurtful
because of the fact that I could no longer continue singing. She, then, called my dad to
make sure that I should focus on studying rather than wasting my time on singing. All the
achievements I had made were stopped and trashed like they were nothing. I was
After few days of frustration, I realized that I should turn this tragedy to a task I
need to break. Therefore, I went to Orange Recording Studio I found on the Internet, an
hour away from my high school. I decided to record a song in a private studio to present
my technique and skill on my vocal. I repeated the same line over and over until I was
satisfied. It took a day to record a four-minutes of song. With the delicate edit from the
engineers and trainers, a CD came out in few minutes and was ready to give to my
parents. Additionally, I contacted my vice principal to ask for permission to sing for a
gala show and at graduation. On the Gala show day, I gave my CD to my parents first,
and shared my stage with student orchestra. I looked my mom and dad straight into their
eyes as if I was communicating with them. Many parents from the gala praised my
parents and me after the show, and my parents came to me with a comment, I was
impressed by your melody. However, I still needed to make sure that they could trust my
*I was exhausted repeating the same line over and over to perfectly create my
For the high school graduation celebration song, I practiced and practiced.
Sometimes I would repeat just three syllables for one hour because I thought I couldnt
control the period of breath and emotion, which should be expressed through only three
syllables. I had never truly worried and strived for something before. No one asked me to
do this. I pushed myself to lead this project by knocking on vice principals door to
change my parents minds. High school graduation meant more than that of any other
because it was the last time I could stay with my parents in Korea before I took off to the
U.S. They also had to be ready to let me go to another country for years, so they were
very emotionally sensitive at that time. I sang a country song, Bridge Over the Troubled
Sail on, silver girl, sail on by your time has come to shine.
They finally cried when I showed the last stage to my parents at the graduation. My mom
asked me, Do you think you can be happy if you go on to music career? My answer
was, It has been my everything. This was the moment that I could never forget without
the stage to say thank you for my parents. (Photo taken by my parents)
I hated my parents for stopping my way, for denying my identities and for
destroying what I had accomplished. I was jealous of my friends who were trained with
vocal trainers. Sometimes I just wanted to give up music activity and focus on academics.
However, every time I became weak and wanted to give up, my parents became my
powerful enthusiasm towards music than when there was only love towards music for me
before. The conflict strengthened me and I grew more passionate towards what I do. I
could be able to think outside of box and come up with a clearer future plan. Without this
struggle and objection of my parents, these outcomes would have not been produced.
I can never forget those glorious moments when I tried my best for years to get
approved by my parents. The obstacles that I had struggled with under tremendous stress
and pressure developed me as a more mature musician. The moment when my parents
finally accepted me as one young musician is what reminds me and makes me feel alive.
My sincere love for music and hope to persuade my parents worked. To respect these
moments, I got myself a tattoo on my arm near the elbow that says sincere.
* Tattoo that I gave myself to remind me the time I realize the true and sincere love
what my parents told me. However, to get accepted what I love the most from whom I
love the most was that I wanted to achieve other than just doing music. I wanted my life
who can actively search the ways and prepare to achieve my parents permission. I
learned how to turn my worst tragedy to a task assigned for me to solve. One strong goal
taught me how enthusiastic and constant I had to be before making important choices.
With the help and guide of my parents classic knowledge, I was able to re-debut to my
music crew. Now my parents are the greatest supporters and I am happier than ever.