Korean American artist achieves success in Korea

Korean American artist & Korea success: Lets talk Ailee!

With the help of Youtube, the popular video sharing website Asian America is successfully displaying  talents that has been repeatedly overlooked and frequently ignored in our mainstream media for decades. Despite of the recent successes of Asian American artist on the internet, it is still hard to be of Asian ancestry in the United States and pursue a career in the Entertainment industry.  In an industry were an Asian American have a low chance in infiltrating, some Asian Americans seek acceptance in the industry in their place of nationality that puts the "Asian" in Asian American.  

Singer, Ailee, a young Korean American female who was born in New Jersey has achieve recent success in South Korea after appearing on an MBC's special for the holiday autum harvest, Chuseok called "Singer and Trainee" with her mentor Wheesung in September 2011. This special provided a chance for mentees to display skills their mentor helped develop. Aliee, mentee of Wheesung, the South Korean R&B artist who's been in the industry for over a decade, gave both a winning and touching performance. Since then she has been featured in alot of songs for big Kpop artist, recently in Feburary she released her first video debut a song called Heaven for her first album in South Korea.  Although, she was associated with a label in the U.S, she did not recieve much attention or sucess which lead to her partnering up with Wheesung.

I came across the talented singer on Youtube while watching a series of Kpop music videos and viewed the debut video and song Heaven. Amazed and wanting to know more about this new artist I discovered that she had a youtube channel in which she covered popular R&B songs from artist that ranged from Alicia Keys to Mariah Carey getting around 20,000 views. Now her Heaven video has 3,106,809 views! This once amatuer Korean American youtube cover artist is now an award winning Korean pop star!
    

Here is a link to Ailee's first debut single called Heaven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ro1KjkJMg

Here is a link to Ailee's performance of Beyonce's Halo for the MBC Special: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfeQXZRhvRc&feature=endscreen&NR=1