[케이팝] Korean Pop Singer: Gyubin [규빈] : SWAY: Quien Sera: Martin, Buble, Pussycat Dolls Hit [한국 팝]

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*Sweet Korean Gyubin with 'Sway' 

Pussycat Dolls: Cover by GyuBin (규빈)

YouTube Video: Gyubin - Official

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Yesterday:

SWAY is an old hit by the late Dean Martin in 1954. Then Michael Buble revived it in 2003 followed by the Pussycat Dolls in 2005. There are about a dozen versions that include pop singers like, Cliff Richard, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Rydell and Julie London.

The song was originally called QUIEN SERA and composed by Mexicans Luis Demetrio and Pablo Luiz. With English lyrics and recorded by Dean Martin it became an international hit at number 5five. 

Korean Pop with Gyubin

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Today:

Now, a pretty young lady from Korea covers it [video above] in the best style ever to suit her generation. *Gyubin revitalises the song with her own charisma and a cute Korean accent but with that gentle swing of oomph, fresh subtlety and scat.

Today, if the singer doesn't make it within the thr3ee minute life-span of a young person's patience and listening endurance on the smart phone... that's it!

But GYUBIN did! One million hits within 2two years on YouTube. And she's only 17 with a long career ahead. Wow!

Congratulations Gyubin. I hope the Seniors who read this blog will love your version as much as I do and add more viewers to your tally.

[축하해요 규빈님. 이 블로그를 읽는 선배들이 나만큼 귀하의 버전을 좋아하고 귀하의 집계에 더 많은 시청자를 추가하기를 바랍니다.]

Sway has been sung by Dean Martin [top], 

Michael Buble [centre], Pussycat Dolls [last]

Gyubin

Original Songs:

Satellite - Single. Satellite - Single. 2024.

Special - Single. Special - Single. 2024.

Really Like You (Spring Version) - Single.

 Really Like You (Spring Version) - Single. 2024.

Really Like You - Single. Really Like You - Single. 2024.

Start To Shine (feat. Gaeko) - Single. 

Scribble - Single. Scribble - Single.

Now in more pensive mood, it's flying to the moon...

'Fly Me To The Moon' : Cover by GyuBin (규빈) 

YouTube Video: 규빈 Gyubin_Official

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LWZokW_-Cc

Images from Google.

Blackpink [블랙핑크] K-Pop Girls In Your Area - A Singapore Perspective [Part 1]

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Watching K-pop girls on YouTube can be fascinating. To me it's visual art in motion and with their good looks, colourful, eye-catching apparel, referencing these ladies could be a problem.

Why... Because I cannot understand the lyrics. I don't need to, I know, especially with their delightful choreography, youthful music and exceptionally beautiful and imaginative video clips.

''Oh, wait til' I do what I (do)

Hit you with that ddu-du ddu-du du (ah yeah, ay yeah!)

Hit you with that ddu-du ddu-du du (ah yeah, ay yeah!)...''

But more than a BILLION viewers can't be wrong.  So I spoke to a special fan, a teenaged lady who is a blink [a Blackpink fan]. She's my grand daughter. And she tries to answer my questions. 

I told her, ''They are just eye-candy.'' She stared at me and promised to explain why Blackpink is so popular. 

Now, that would be nice...👍. After all Elvis was more than a pelvis...

Connect To Part 2:

https://singapore60smusic.blogspot.com/2021/07/blackpink-k-pop-group-teenage.html

BLACKPINK - ‘뚜두뚜두 (DDU-DU DDU-DU)’ M/V

1,605,004,486 views - during my download.

2.5 million-plus comments.

Image/Video from Blackpink sites. 

THANK YOU.

Blackpink is 5 years young. 

Happy Birthday On 8th August, 2021.

4 Generations: Sunny Low To Tasha Low Of SKarf

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The connection is simple and clear. Natasha Low or Tasha, from the current K-Pop group SKarf, is the grand daughter of Sunny Low the undisputed king of dance in Singapore from the late 1950s. Sunny learned the art from his father Low Poh San who had a dance studio at Tiong Bahru. Following his father's footsteps (pun intended) the present Sunny Low Dance Studio at The Riverwalk, 20 Upper Circular Road is his own making. 

The senior Low was the first to introduce ballroom dancing in Singapore and since the dance studio was a shop-house, the family lived and taught dancing at the same venue.   He participated in many dance competitions and later became the Singapore Professional Ballroom 

Champion in 1946, and from 1950 to 1953.

Sunny himself took up dancing at 14 and his younger sister Betty at 12.  They both started out by helping at the dance studio. Both became household names in the 1960s when they acquired the title Singapore’s Rock and Roll and Cha-Cha King and Queen in a dance competition. The win encouraged the siblings to form The Sunny Low Dancers which had performed regularly since on television, in theatres, cinemas and night clubs whenever they could.

Ballroom Dancing Competition in Singapore Today

From the Website:

"Singapore's Father of Ballroom Dancing, Low Poh San with his wife Jenny Quek started the Pohsan Dance Studio in 1937. His children Sunny Low and Betty Low, crowned the King and Queen of Rock n Roll in 1957. Sunny Low Dancers, the household name in the seventies and eighties, were featured in Radio Television Singapore and Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. His grandchildren and their wives, Alvyn and Lucy Low and Melvyn & Nancy Low were undefeated champions in Singapore and South East Asia. Today, the 4th Generation of the Low family is very much in the business of Dance."

SKarf:
Back to the future and Natasha, daughter of one of Sunny's son Alvyn, is now a celebrity dancer herself having been cast in the KPop hall of fame as one of only four dancers in the group called SKarf (the first two letters are obviously Singapore and Korea).

                              SKarf You Tube Video uploaded by alphaentkorea

Tasha's mother, Lucy Wang who is part of the Low family dancers, is an instructor too and according to an interview in late 2012 she misses Tasha during her training in Korea.  Eighteen years young Tasha and Ferlyn Wong (20) another Singaporean were successful candidates from 3,000 hopefuls in an audition held here two years ago to select members for this KPop group.  SKarf has two other band members, Koreans Jenny Lee Joo Young, 16, and Jeong Sol, 21.



Wow! Four generations of dancers, from Poh San to Sunny, then to Alvyn and now Natasha. These are the people who have formed permanent footprints on the ballroom floor, true blue Singaporeans who leave positive marks on our memory trail.

Sunny Low chats with 60's Music Makers:

https://singapore60smusic.blogspot.com/2019/11/andys-60s-music-sunny-low-dancers.html

SKarf with Natasha Low or Tasha (2nd right)

This post is dedicated to the late ALVYN LOW, Natasha's father, who had passed away on the 11th of January 2013.   

Larry Lai, friend Eddie and I paid our respects at the wake in Singapore on Sunday 13th January as we met Sunny, Lucy, Natasha and their families).

My thanks to *Lai Simin, who helped with the writing of this article.
You Tube video by: alphaentkorea.
Images: Google, Raffles Town Club Singapore, and
Sunny Low Dance Studios Websites.

A Quiz About K-Pop SKarf And Singapore 60s

Regular readers know pretty well that a quiz is seldom posted on this blog but here's one for 2013:

1. What has a 60s music blog to do with K-Pop? 
   
    Answer: It has a musical connection.

2. Yes, we all know that.  What is this connection?

    Please write in if you know the answer. No prizes but thank you for the response.

3. More clues? Natasha Low (2nd r) is family to a pop dance group from 60s Tiong
    Bahru.

    Image: Google.

NB:

4. SKarf disbanded around 2014/15.