Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Seungri and IU promised to do a duet together 3 years ago?

The youngest member of Big Bang, Seungri, will be releasing a solo mini album on the 20th and have sung a duet together with IU and is gaining a lot attention.

On the 10th on YG’s blog, Seungri’s mini album, VVIP, release was confirmed to be on the 20th and will be releasing a teaser video of ‘So What’. On the 20th, when the album is releasing, 2 music videos will be released for the double title songs on the album.

There’s a total of 7 tracks on this album and Seungri worked on most of the songs. Among the tracks, track 5, ‘I Know’, is gaining a lot of attention because the female solo singer, IU, is featured in the song.

IU have sung duets with 2 A.M.’s Im Seulong with the song, ‘Nagging’ and ‘It’s You’ with Sung Shikyung. Through these songs, she have shown her skills and the music charts prove that as well. She is currently the female singer that is getting a lot offers to sing a duet with.

A representative said:
“It was before IU debuted 3 years ago and she happened to meet the members of Big Bang. After that, she’s been keeping in touch with the members and during that time, Seungri offered to IU that when she debuted that they should sing a duet together. Currently, IU is getting a lot of offers to sing duet songs but among those, she decided to do a duet with Seungri in order to keep the promise she made with Seungri.”

In IU’s duet songs, her voice wraps around the other person’s voice giving it a warm feeling and it has been said that Seungri has a unique voice when he sings. A representative said:
“IU’s husky voice and Seungri’s unique voice work well together and it’s a new partnership that makes the song sound fresh and cute. They’re the same age and seemed comfortable around each other so they were able to finish the recording well.”

Seungri has improved as a musician as he took part in creating his solo mini album. YG Entertainment’s president, Yang Hyun Seok, expressed his enthusiasm as the release date is approaching and said that he’s expecting a lot from this album. Seungri is planning on doing activities with his two title songs, ‘VVIP’ and ‘So What’

Source: Osen
Translated By: solshin3@21BANGS.com

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