Lena Junghyun Park, commonly known as Lena Park, (born March 23 1976, Los Angeles, California) is a Korean American R&B singer. Park showed talent for singing early in her life, mainly while she was singing in the choir of her father's church. She learned to play saxophone and piano.
Lena Park won several singing contests in United States before recording a Gospel album in 1993. She continued her studies while doing many performances. Her professional singer career began with her first Korean album, "Piece " in 1998. She was quickly noticed for her strong but sweet voice, and her top track "PS. I Love You". Her first album sold more than 500,000 copies despite Ms. Park not being comfortable enough to do a lot of promotions in talk shows. The album was also a critical success.
In 1999, she released "A Second Helping ". It also was well received by both fans and the critics. Her third album "Naturally " was both mixed in Korea and USA.
After a year of break due to her studies in USA, she came back in 2002 with her album called "Op.4". More comfortable with the media, she was much more accessible for talk shows and performances.
In 2002 Lena Park's, song "Kkume (In Dream)" was a big success and enabled her to enter foreign markets like Singapore. The Korean government selected Ms. Park to represent Korea in the opening and closing ceremony of the Football World Cup 2002. In the end of 2002, a "best of" album was released and Ms. Park played a series of concerts.
She released a song for an international collective album called "The Voice Of Love" made in Japan in 2003, Then in 2004, she worked on her 5th Korean album for release early in 2005. In fall 2004 she worked on a Japanese single and album and she was involved in the new Korean-Wave concerts in Japan that summer.
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