From Richmond Hill to Pop Music Limelight - Wendy Son Seungwan

[AnonSone]

 

Hopefully SM can shares her talent with the world.

[dvang]

Video: GTA stages a ‘breeding ground’ for K-Pop talent

 

Wendy Son went from singing in a Richmond Hill school choir to international stardom as part of a new K-Pop girl band.

 

One of the most-hyped and newest K-Pop girl bands features talent from Richmond Hill.

 

Wendy Son — who once performed with Richmond Hill High School’s Vocal Fusion show choir — is now a K-Pop star with the girl group Red Velvet.

 

“She’s in a really huge group called Red Velvet, they just debuted last year,†said Gerald Belanger, who runs a major K-Pop — Korean pop music — event company in Toronto.

 

 

“The agencies have talent searches here in Toronto every year. Toronto is definitely what you’d call a breeding ground†for talent, he added.

 

“When I first heard Wendy sing, I was completely blown away and I told myself that I need to get in touch with this girl,†said Jorge Toledo-Ramirez, a K-Pop songwriter and producer who first saw Wendy during a K-Pop competition in Vancouver in 2011, and later worked with her on songwriting projects, before she was snapped up in 2012 by S. M. Entertainment — one of the biggest Korean music labels. Son moved to Seoul to be an “SM Rookie,†a star in training.

 

In high school, Son was known as kind, funny girl with a soulful voice, said fellow choir member Alyssa Bouranova.

 

“She she had this amazing range and almost this gospel-like quality to her voice. She was always doing Beyonce covers,†Bouranova said.

 

Son’s rise to K-Pop fame is well known among her old choir friends, Bouranova said. “It’s crazy,†she said, and added that the pop-infused songs Red Velvet has put out — which have debuted in the top 10 on an number of Asian pop charts — mask Son’s true voice.

 

 

“From what I can hear, it’s an underuse of her talent,†she said.

 

Son isn’t the only artist to be plucked from the streets of Toronto and thrust into the K-Pop limelight.

 

Henry Lau, who hails from Willowdale, is a member of one of of Asia’s biggest K-Pop sensations Super Junior-M. Lau plays violin in the boy band, which debuted in 2007 and is also under the S.M. Entertainment label.

 

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[Shino]

Could have used a better pic......or a before an after

[dvang]

i hope she trains her vocals even more coz she can really become one of the top idol vocalists considering she already has the highest range among the female idols

[SlaveMaster]

perfect queen

[xomondayes]

She has such potential, I can't wait to see her improve! She's an amazing singer <3

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Could have used a better pic......or a before an after

 

 

LOL RIGHT

 

 

i legit died at the pic they used