Lee Ho-yang, a noticeable K-pop author and manufacturer much better understood by his expert name of “Shinsadong Tiger,”talks throughout a display in Seoul, South Korea, on April 12, 2015. Lee was located dead on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, South Korean authorities claimed. Yang Ji-ung/Yonhap/AP
Shinsadong Tiger, a chart-topping and acclaimed K-pop manufacturer and songwriter, has actually died, his home entertainment tag validated on Friday (Feb. 23). The reason of fatality is presently unidentified. He was 40.
Following neighborhood records that Shinsadong Tiger (neé Lee Ho-yang, additionally understood skillfully as S.Tiger) was located fallen down in his Seoul work environment, his depictive firm TR Entertainment validated the information that “Producer Shinsadong Tiger suddenly left our side on February 23, 2024.”
In the statement on social media, TR Entertainment asked for avoiding “speculative reports for the bereaved families” which funeral service process will certainly be held silently just by family members, family members and associates.
TR Entertainment additionally stands for TRI.BE, Universal Music Korea’s initial K-pop team crafted in cooperation with Shinsadong Tiger and authorized with Republic Records in the U.S. On Tuesday (Feb. 20), TRI.BE launched a brand-new solitary “Diamond” and b-side track “Run,” both generated and co-written by the late manufacturer. TR shared that TRI.BE is terminating and delaying its marketing timetable while guaranteeing to return for even more tv efficiencies “since it is the last album that Shinsadong Tiger prepared and released with TRI.BE during his lifetime.”
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TRI.BE was Shinsadong Tiger’s most recent act after formerly crafting and generating lady team EXID, that all of a sudden took off in appeal 2 years right into its profession with the S.Tiger-generated solitary “Up & Down” in 2014 after a fan-recorded online efficiency went viral. Shinsadong Tiger generated 7 EXID tracks that charted on Billboard‘s World Digital Song Sales graph up until the team took place respite in 2020.
Lee Ho-yang started his job as a songwriter in 2005 and involved helm some specifying tracks of the category throughout his virtually twenty years of deal with musicians. With a noise that might mix electro-pop and Korea’s typical trot category to songs that welcomed every little thing from instrumental manufacturing to Afrobeat, his jobs are difficult to determine musically yet indicate K-pop’s advancement.
Between 2011-2013, Lee generated 4 No. Ones on the (now-discontinued) K-Pop Hot 100 in T-ara’s “Roly-Poly” and “Lovey Dovey,” Trouble Maker’s “Now” and Ailee’s “U&I.” Meanwhile, his job like “Fiction” by young boy band Beast won Song of the Year at the 2011 KBS Song Festival honors, while numerous of his developments with EXID, T-ara, HyunA and WJSN all were called in Billboard‘s 100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s.
Shinsadong Tiger’s manufacturings additionally had a propensity for getting to broader target markets past Korean-songs followers. In enhancement to EXID’s previously mentioned outbreak hit, HyunA’s “Bubble Pop!” from 2011 was a very early YouTube hit and made the celebrity the initial K-pop musician to damage 100 million sights on a video. Later, “Bboom Bboom” by MOMOLAND aided damage the climbing lady team to the top of the graphes in 2018, while its 626 million YouTube sights make it among the system’s most-viewed K-pop video clips ever before.
Dalsooobin, a participant of the lady team Dal Shabet whose songs like “B.B.B (Big Baby Baby)” and “Fri. Sat. Sun.” were generated by Shinsadong Tiger, shared her acknowledgements and the previous solitary’s cd cover on her YouTube channel. Damjun, a participant and songwriter-composer for his young boy band LIONESSES, composed “Thank you for your masterpieces” on Threads.
U.K. manufacturer duo LDN Noise (that have actually helmed tracks with the similarity EXO, Chris Brown, NCT and NMIXX), Los Angeles-based Softserveboy (SEVENTEEN, Gwen Stefani, ENHYPEN, P1Harmony) and Damuer H. Leffridge (whose customers have actually consisted of T-ara and B2K) all shared their acknowledgements on Instagram. At the exact same time, L.A.-born Jae Chong (Uhm Junghwa, BoA, JYJ, Jolin Tsai, BIBI) called it “truly sad news” on the system.
