Biography

She debuted at the MBC College Music Festival in 1988, singing another composer's song. At the time, she maintained a unisex look and she became popular, but she grew disenchanted with the entertainment business and went to Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 and the USA to study art.

Her second career as a musician began with 'Slow day' (1991), a short but impressive album with adolescent girl's feel to it. 'Begin' (1992) was a transitional album - it had an R&B or house sound with the producer Kim Hong-soon, but few fans appreciated the change.

The 5th and self-titled album 'Lee Sang-eun' (1993) showed more musical maturity. Soon she went to Japan and worked with Japanese musicians, most notably Takeda Hajimu (竹田元). She made her 6th album 'GongMuDoGaGa(公無渡河歌)' (1995) with an exotic and mysterious mood, and she received wide name recognition and was regarded as an artist rather than a pop idol. The rich and overlapped sound production showed her ambition as a music director. She returned to simple sounds in the 7th album 'OiRobGo UtGin GaGe' (1997). With her back-band, the Penguins (with Takeda Hajimu) she became a troubadour with a serene mood.

From the 8th and self titled 'Lee Tszche' (1997), she released albums aimed at the worldwide market with Toshiba EMI. Half of the tracks were English versions of her older songs, and the other half were new tracks in English. It led to a second English album 'Asian Prescription' (1999). In 2001 she featured on a song on CB Mass

CB Mass

CB Mass was a Korean hip hop group featuring members Choiza, , Gaeko and Curbin. Choiza and Gaeko originally met in the sixth grade but before forming CB Mass they began an underground hip hop group named kod along with Sixpoint and ZASON, who joined in 1998...

's album Massmatics, titled 흔적.

Discography

The Idol Era

• (1989) Happy Birthday
• (1989) SaRangHalGgeoYa

As Lee Sang-eun

• (1991) Slowdays
• (1992) Begin
• (1993) Lee Sang-eun
• (1995) GongMuDoHaGa
• (1997) OiRopGo UtGinGaGe

As Lee Tzsche

• (1997) Lee-Tzsche
  • English version compilation
• (1998) Give it All OST
• (1999) Asian Prescription
  • English version compilation
• (2000) She Wanted OST
• (2001) Endless Lay
• (2003) SinBiCheHeom
• (2005) Roman Topia
• (2008) The Third Place
• (2010) LeeSangEun 14th We Are Made of Stardust

External links

• Lee Tzsche - official site and biography, in Korean
• Mizz - unofficial site partly in English
• koreanrock.com - reviews in English