Real name : Choi Jung-chul 최정철 , known mostly as Jung Chul (정철). Date of birth : March 2nd, 1984 Physique : 175cm, 65kg Blood type : A Hobbies : Snow-boarding, water sports, sending text messages on cell phones Favorite color : White Education : Dept. of Digital Mass Media, Kyunggi University
BIOGRAPHY
At the age of 19, Jung Chul made his debut in the local pop music scene in 2003 with a song entitled ‘Now & Forever’. Unlike his young and smart appearance, his music bears heavy volume with his grave tone. Rarely as a newcomer, Jung Chul all the recording works for his debut album were done at the Studio Valley in LA, the U.S. Jung Chul’s music can be categorized in pop R&B. In calm and strongly appealing voice, Jung Chul sang about love, friendship and good-byes in his album. Jung made himself more well-known among pop music fans by participating in the O.S.T. of the television drama ‘Sangdoo, Let’s Go To School’ starring Bi. The songs ‘My Love’ sung by Jung Chul featured in the television drama gained good response from viewers and listeners. In March 2005, Jung released his second official album entitled ‘Listen’. This time, Jung Chul presented himself in a simpler and drier voice than in his debut album in which he added more techniques. Separating himself from soul music, the major trend of local pop music, Jung Chul focused on a masculine and rough way of singing strictly avoiding decorative elements in voice like vibrations. Jung Chul is known as the son of Nami, one of the top female Korean singers in the late 1980s and ’90s.
In the tired Album , Jung chul changed his name back to Choi Jung Chul for his third album, Identity, but there is a deeper significance to the name change. In his own declaration of independence, Choi Jung Chul now stands tall after many painstaking years of struggling to find his footing as a singer, overshadowed by his famous mother Nami’s colorful achievement in Korean music history. Pushing his own full name signifies his confidence in his music as well as in himself.
DISCOGRAPHY:
- Now & Forever (1st album / 2003)
- Participated in the O.S.T. of TV drama ‘Sangdoo, Let’s Go To School’ with the song ‘My Love’
- It Rains (Special edition album / 2004)
- Listen (2nd album / 2005-03-04)
- IF I COULD (Single / 2007-01-09)
- The Return Of The Prodigal Son - 돌아온 탕아 (Single / 2007-09-21)
- Identity (3rd album / 2007-10-09)
- Marriage (feat. Brown Eyed Girls)/ (Single / 2008-06-24)
- 그렇게 (Like That) (Zero Flawed Task Force OST) (Single / 06 March 2009)
