Nice-Matin
29 March 2005
Jazz a juan revelation : This year’s concour has changed everything.
Korean female singer Nah Youn Sun has won the 3rd ‘Jazz a Juan Revelation’ Awards. Her astonishing talent for singing surprised all the jurors in the ‘Juan Revelation’ and as a result, the winner of the awards has been invited to the festival without a parallel.
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Disques d’émoi
October 2004
After her first and successful album in 2002 “Light for the people”, Nah Youn Sun certainly stands out (and again) with her second made-in-France quintet album “So I am” where her musical genuineness and quality vocality are clearly present. A true talented artist is she who doesn’t need the often overdosed and faked campaigns from media when being listened to.
Jazz magazine
With a fresh and fatally attractive voice having scrupulously mastered all the modulations and the innocent recomposition of the words, Nah Youn Sun scats and swings. Her voice has its own form and her words their own relief….
If a singer is someone who tells a story by means of the power of music and the grace of it, Nah Youn Sun is an undeniably attractive one who passionately runs on her own melodies. Isn’t this how stars are being born?
Jazzman
October 2004
Nah Youn Sun has an instinctual cleverness by which she stands out from the cliché of jazz; the “Black American” and/or “Dark and Obscure Club” cries or so… She expresses her world based on the well prepared self-discipline equipped with the dense team spirit. And now she enters into the big main gate of the contemporary music world requiring deep density and intense concision.
Jazz Notes
October 2004
This quintet album contains each member’s own talent and improvisation everywhere. Nah Youn Sun herself shows her deeper and wider vocality in a minimalist but touching-the-heart atmosphere.
In a word, it’s a fresh and superb CD objecting to our “The jazz must be…” way of seeing and saying.
Le Monde de la Musique
December 2004
Nah Youn Sun is a Korean vocalist who actively performs both in Korea and France.
Her quintet is composed of Benjamin Moussay for piano, David Neerman for vibraphone,
Yoni Zelnik for contrabass and David Georgelet for drum. Their music has great taste of
detail and an amazing concision.
Le Monde
23 October 2004
A UFO touching the universe of jazz with a magnificent voice and passionate originality
-Jubilation in triple time-
“So I am” is a wonderful album. It shows us a thoroughly original world of jazz music
leaving courageously the beaten track. Nah Youn Sun owns a surprisingly wide, deep
and flexible vocality. Coupled with a genuine sensibility and understanding of the music,
this outstanding artist turns her back without hesitation to the common jazz
vocalist market where many of contemporary female singers are born and disappear..
This young Korean singer is a UFO.
Nova
November 2004
There are music albums that you can feel in the way you contemplate a master piece of
painting. Nah Youn Sun quintet’s new album “So I am” attracts listeners with an
irresistible force born from the moon-like voice of Nah Youn Sun. A perfect harmony
between instruments firmly contributes to the perfection of the music.
Nova
December 2004
Nah Youn Sun, deemed the first class back in Korea chose to start from the scratch in
France. And her two new albums made her better than just known in here.
