Singer Lee Sun-hee to hold concert at New York's Carnegie Hall

Singer Lee Sun-hee [Hook Entertainment]

Lee Sun-hee, one of Korea’s most famed diva singers, will hold a concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York next month, announced her agency Hook Entertainment on Wednesday.

Hook's press release said today that Lee, 46, and celebrating the 27th anniversary of her singing career this year, is set to hold a concert in February at the Stern Auditorium's Perelman Stage of the prestigious hall that accommodates a total 2,800 viewers.

She will be the third Korean singer, following famed artists Cho Yong-pil and Insooni, to be performing at Carnegie Hall.

Among her many hit songs, several ballads such as “Prayer of A Girl,” “I Always, For You,” “Turn A Page of Memory,” “If You Love Me,” and “To J,” will be rearranged to be performend with a 30-member orchestra while a few tunes including “A Gust of Laughter” “Oh, Old Times,” “Fate,” and “Beautiful Scenery” will be played in their original format.

During the performance Lee also plans to sing some of her favorite pop songs, namely Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were” and “Memory.”

“It is such a great delight and honor to perform at Carnegie Hall, a place that so many singers around the world dream of singing at. I wish to create a wonderful memory with audience in New York through the performance and hope this becomes an opportunity to further upgrade our popular culture,” Lee was quoted as saying in the statement.

Two actors from her agency will accompany her on stage; actor Lee Seo-jin, the star of many popular MBC dramas including “Damo” (2003) and “Yi San” (2009) will spice up the opening and Lee Seung-gi, Lee Sun-hee's music pupil whose singing career in 2004 took off to a successful start but rose to stardom after starring in hit drama “Brilliant Legacy” (SBS, 2009).

Lee Sun-hee debuted in 1984 with song “To J” at annual singing contest Gangbyun Gayoje and has since released many hit songs that have become classic in the realm of popular culture.

She recently started to sing the soundtracks to films and dramas as well, singing main theme songs such as “In-yeon” (Fate) for movie “The King And The Clown” (2005), “Yeo-woo Bi” (Fox Rain) for TV series “My Girlfriend is Gumiho” (SBS, 2010) and “Don’t Leave Me” for drama “The President” (SBS, 2010), which all added to her hit collection.

Aside from her music career, the veteran singer has also appeared in musicals, is a professor of Keimyung College University in Daegu City, a lawmaker of Seoul Metropolitan City, a promotional ambassador for the Seoul Metropolitan Council and she has taken part in various charity projects to help teenage breadwinners, sex slaves from WWII and is a promotional ambassador for charity organization Good Neighbors.

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