Faces of 2007
(note: other news not related to Rain deleted)
Rain According to the results of an online poll conducted by Korean daily Sports Chosun, in which participants were asked which male celebrity they felt would make 2007 his/her year, 32% of those polled said Rain. Song Seung-hun was second with 24.1% and Yoon Key-sang with 17.2%. Seven ranked fourth with 12.5%.
Rain found Asia-wide success three years ago with the release of his romantic comedy serial Full House, in which his performance even garnered him a best actor award at the KBS Acting Awards.
Around the same time, he released his third album, It’s Raining, which sold over one million copies in Asia, making it his most successful album to date, both domestically and internationally.
That year, Rain also managed to achieve the MTV Asia Grand Slam when he won top honours in the Asian countries that broadcast MTV Asia.
Rain
He won the favourite Korean artiste award at the 2005 MTV Asia Aid in Bangkok, the most popular Asian artiste award from Channel [V] Thailand, the best buzz Asia award during the MTV Japan Video Music Awards 2005 and the best Korean singer award at the MTV-CCTV Mandarin Music Honors in Beijing.
The Rain mania reached feverish pitch when he embarked on his Rainy Day 2005 Tour. Concert tickets were reportedly sold out in South Korea and Japan just moments after the ticket counters opened. And amazing to think that this cutie pie, often dubbed the “Asian Usher” and at times “Asian Justin Timberlake”, was once rejected by record label execs because they felt he was too ugly as he does not have double eyelids.
Rain’s talents have also caught the attention of the Western music world. He became the first Asian performing artiste ever to be invited to the 2005 American MTV Video Music Awards in Miami, as well as the 2005 MTV Latin Video Music Awards in Mexico.
Last year, he staged a two-day concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, a first for an Asian singer. No wonder Time magazine voted him the second most influential artiste of 2006, second only to Taiwanese film director Ang Lee.
His popularity looks set to continue this year, what with his world tour aptly named Rain’s Coming, to coincide with the release of his fourth album Rain’s World, released last October.
And Rain, as you already know, is coming to our shores on Jan 27 for a concert.
source: http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/5/music/16470187&sec=music + Yahoo7 e-news
Rain According to the results of an online poll conducted by Korean daily Sports Chosun, in which participants were asked which male celebrity they felt would make 2007 his/her year, 32% of those polled said Rain. Song Seung-hun was second with 24.1% and Yoon Key-sang with 17.2%. Seven ranked fourth with 12.5%.
Rain found Asia-wide success three years ago with the release of his romantic comedy serial Full House, in which his performance even garnered him a best actor award at the KBS Acting Awards.
Around the same time, he released his third album, It’s Raining, which sold over one million copies in Asia, making it his most successful album to date, both domestically and internationally.
That year, Rain also managed to achieve the MTV Asia Grand Slam when he won top honours in the Asian countries that broadcast MTV Asia.
Rain
He won the favourite Korean artiste award at the 2005 MTV Asia Aid in Bangkok, the most popular Asian artiste award from Channel [V] Thailand, the best buzz Asia award during the MTV Japan Video Music Awards 2005 and the best Korean singer award at the MTV-CCTV Mandarin Music Honors in Beijing.
The Rain mania reached feverish pitch when he embarked on his Rainy Day 2005 Tour. Concert tickets were reportedly sold out in South Korea and Japan just moments after the ticket counters opened. And amazing to think that this cutie pie, often dubbed the “Asian Usher” and at times “Asian Justin Timberlake”, was once rejected by record label execs because they felt he was too ugly as he does not have double eyelids.
Rain’s talents have also caught the attention of the Western music world. He became the first Asian performing artiste ever to be invited to the 2005 American MTV Video Music Awards in Miami, as well as the 2005 MTV Latin Video Music Awards in Mexico.
Last year, he staged a two-day concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, a first for an Asian singer. No wonder Time magazine voted him the second most influential artiste of 2006, second only to Taiwanese film director Ang Lee.
His popularity looks set to continue this year, what with his world tour aptly named Rain’s Coming, to coincide with the release of his fourth album Rain’s World, released last October.
And Rain, as you already know, is coming to our shores on Jan 27 for a concert.
source: http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/5/music/16470187&sec=music + Yahoo7 e-news
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