Trot singer Yang Ji-eun (2021 SBS Radio Cultwo Show live) — Photo: SBS Radio 에라오 · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Debut
- 2021
- Birthday
- 01.091990
- Genre
- Trot
Basic info
Yang Ji-eun is a trot singer with a background in gugak who studied pansori. She became jin (眞) on TV Chosun's 《Miss Trot 2》 in 2021, and her signature songs include 〈사는 맛〉 and 〈나비당신〉.
- Debut
- 2021 · Debut song 사는 맛
- Birthday
- January 9, 1990
- Years active
- 2021–
- Genre
- Trot
- Real name
- 양지은
- Debut reference
- Listed by debut year rather than idol generation.
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She began studying pansori in her teens and won prizes at several gugak (Korean traditional music) competitions. She majored in gugak at Chonnam National University and is a certified successor (isuja) of the pansori Heungbo-ga.
On TV Chosun's 《Miss Trot 2》 she was eliminated before the semifinal but came back in to fill the place of a contestant who had withdrawn. In the final on March 4, 2021 she took first place overall as jin.
She made her official debut in May 2021 with 〈사는 맛〉, the song awarded as a winner's prize. Singing trot that draws on gugak vocal techniques, she released her first mini album 《듣다》 in May 2023.
She released her first full-length album 《소풍》 in November 2024 and her second full-length album 《석양》 in May 2026. In 2022 she also played Songhwa in the musical 《Seopyeonje》.
Signature songs
- 그 강을 건너지 마오 2021 YouTube Spotify
- 사는 맛 2021 YouTube Spotify
- 나비당신 2024 YouTube Spotify
- 잔치로구나 2024 YouTube Spotify
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Key releases
- 2021.05 사는 맛Digital singleMiss Trot 2 winner's prize song, official debut song
- 2021.11 소리꽃Special gugak album
- 2023.05 듣다1st mini album
- 2024.11 소풍1st studio albumTitle tracks 〈나비당신〉 and 〈잔치로구나〉
- 2026.05 석양2nd studio albumDouble title tracks 〈지금은 남이 된 타인〉 and 〈석양의 길목〉
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Major awards
- 2021 TV Chosun Miss Trot 2 jin (眞, winner)
- 2021 Seoul Success Awards Grand Prize for Trot Singer, Culture category
Key records and stories
- In March 2021 she finished first overall as jin in the final of TV Chosun's 《Miss Trot 2》.
- She majored in gugak at Chonnam National University and completed the pansori Heungbo-ga certification as an isuja (successor).
- She is from Jeju, and in 2021 she served as a publicity ambassador for Jeju Special Self-Governing Province.
- She played the lead role of Songhwa in the musical 《Seopyeonje》 in 2022.
- 〈잔치로구나〉, a track on her first full-length album, is the first song she tried composing herself.
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