About Kim Kyung-ho
Born 1971. Kim Kyung-ho is a South Korean singer and recording artist.
Kim Kyung-ho (; born June 7, 1971) is a South Korean singer who is often referred to as a "legend of rock" for his efforts in bringing rock music to South Korea and his four octave vocal range. He makes frequent appearances on South Korean variety shows.
Biography Kim was born in Mokpo, South Korea. He is known as the National Rock Star with charismatic presence on stage and later on called as Rock Unnie or National Sister because of his long hair and feminine look.
He made his first appearance on Korea's music scene in 1989 on an annual competition for talented youths hosted by KBS. In 1991, he also joined on MBC's University Music Festival where he got bronze award for his self-composed song Long Goodbye which was also included on his first album.
His debut album released in 1995 entitled Kim Kyung Ho, and while not commercially successful earned him some recognition among Korean rock music fans. His more novel second album, Kim:kyungho 1997 was much better received and the song "People Who Make Me Sorrow" topped on music charts which made him popular. Since then, he rose to mainstream success and released numerous hit songs such as "Forbidden Love", "Heartless", "Until the day we love beautifully", "My Love, Even In The Heavens", "Though I Love You", "Wine", and "Father".
He also collaborated to the soundtrack of the 2002 Korean drama series Empress Myeongseong and 2004 (of which he covered Within Temptation song; "Mother Earth").
After Several years of popularity things took a downturn for him in 2003 when he was diagnosed with cord nodules. In 2007, Kim was diagnosed with avascular necrosis.
Kim Kyung-ho renewed his popularity through his participation in variety shows, and numerous appearances in televised singing competitions as part of an entourage of industry-veteran vocalists. In September 2011, he joined the hit Show I Am a Singer and with his long hair and dance moves, he gained the title as "Rock Unnie". He was the fifth artist to graduate from the show, doing so in the final round. His popularity continued as he appeared on other variety shows such as Hidden Singer, Happy Together, and Running Man, In 2014, he joined the television music competition Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend, where he won the trophy several times.In May 15 and 22, 2016, he appeared on episodes 59โ60 of the singing competition King of Mask Singer.
Kim Kyung-ho married on November 8, 2014, with a Japanese woman working in finances. In August 2018, Kim announced that the couple had been divorced since June 2018.
Discography Studio albums Long Separation (๊ธด ์ด๋ณ) Freeman (์์ ์ธ) First Separation (์ฒซ ์ด๋ณ) Being A Man (๋จ์๋ผ๋ ๊ฑด) Life (๋ชฉ์จ) For the First Time (๋ ์ด์ ์์ผ) The Worst Day (์ต์ ์ ๋ ) A Boy Under the False Accusation (๋๋ช ์ด ์์ด) Fate Aria of the Sad Soul (for Elise) The Lord of All Creation AID & AIDS People Who Make Me Sorrow Our Son Late Regret Forbidden Love Last Prayer To Pinocchio Fly High to Follow Your Dreams Grief of Farewell The Name That I'd Call Out with My Last Breath The Voice of Conscience Unfullfilled Love The Castle of Eternity Exodus Vesuvius My Love, Even in the Heavens Through It Away! (๋ฒ๋ ค!) Inerasable Trace (ํ์ธ) Love Sadder than the Separation (์ด๋ณ๋ณด๋ค ์ฌํ ์ฌ๋) 1052 Non-Stop When My Love Calls You (๋ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋) Love That We Can Never Achieve (์ด๋ฃฐ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋) Come To Me (๋ด๊ฒ๋ก ์) Heartlessness (๋น์ ) Rock 'N Roll Wine (่ฟ ไบบ) Blood Delete Dear Freddie Asparagus Masquerade Always Waiting For You Shadow of My Passionate Affections Good-bye to my love Shout To you precious The Life Rock The Night sacrifice Yesterday My All I loved it but Sacrifice (Instrumental) Father Now Wisdom for you Time Is Up Open Your Eyes Break Free I would rather To the last one (To You) Hi How? Please Forgive Me Leave it I'll give you my love (Remake) Everybody I can not talk. (Remake) Night at night (Remake) Judgment Day Come to me (Live) Oasis (Live) I love you (Live) Now (Live) With Park Sang Min Father (Remix) Wisdom for you (Remastering) Remastering Warrior Love, in pain I believe you loved it. Guardian Angel Summer Candles Party My farewell A breathing love Working for the Weekend Season of Loss Road Movie As if it were you Habit Portrait of a young day Sad Song I, Who Cannot Forget You Insomnia Rain is Who You Are and Flow Nanana Make It Go Away Tunnel
Mini albums ๋ ์์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๋ด๊ฐ (Live) ๋ (ๆฏ) (Live) ๋ง์น ๋์ธ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ (Live) People Who Make Me Sorrow Reach for the Sky Too Hard Too Furious I want to bring her back (๋ฐ๋ ค์ค๊ณ ์ถ๋ค) Promise U Misty Rain (๋๊ฐ๋น) The Story of Rain And You (Featuring Park Wan-kyu) (๋น์ ๋น์ ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ) I wait for you Promise Sunset Tears of the Moon Get On Your Feet If you hear love (Inst.)
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Who is Kim Kyung-ho?
South Korean singer
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Kim Kyung-ho was born on 7 June 1971 in Mokpo.
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Kim Kyung-ho is a singer and recording artist.
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Kim Kyung-ho is South Korean.
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