Jihae speaks to sentient robot Bina 48 about illusions, the theme of her album, 'Illusion of You'.
About Jihae
Jihae is a South Korea-born singer-songwriter, actress and multimedia artist based in New York.
Her latest LP, ‘Illusion of You’ features her co-write with the legendary Leonard Cohen and Dave Stewart on the song, ‘It Just Feels.’ Illusion was lauded,
“Beautiful, mystical and poetic” - New York Times.
‘“Downtown cool from Lou Reed to Deborah Harry to The Strokes all in one.”
-The Wall Street Journal
“ David Bowie whispering to Velvet Underground” - Dave Stewart (Eurythmics, Songland)
As an actress, Jihae will recur on upcoming Season 3 of HBO's Emmy-winning drama SUCCESSION as PR consultant Berry Schneider. She guest starred in the 2020 Season 2 debut episode of Netlfix series ALTERED CARBON, in which she played a torch singer in the compelling opening sequence. She performed the title track of her album ‘Illusion of You’ (produced by Dave Stewart, Jean-Luc Sinclair and Stuart Matthewman), also played at the end credits. Her performance of ‘I Got You Under My Skin’ by Cole Porter is also featured in the opening episode.
In 2018 she starred in Peter Jackson’s MORTAL ENGINES as Anna Fang, a fierce resistance leader in the epic dystopian saga. David Ehrlich of ‘Indiewire’ raved about Jihae’s performance, stating that ‘the part (of Anna Fang) is so interesting because of Jihae’s unstudied energy, and the elusiveness it brings...’ She garnered critical acclaim by Rolling Stone who claimed, "Jihae has an illegal amount of screen presence. " V Magazine called her "a real life superhero." The film, co-starring Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, and Robert Sheehan, was released worldwide by MRC and Universal Pictures.
Jihae starred in the television series MARS in which she played a set of twin sisters: one the astronaut/pilot commander of the first human colony on Mars, the other, the Secretary General of Space Agency on earth produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Mars S2 aired on Nat Geo TV in November 2018 across 171 countries along with her a cover of David Bowie’s ‘Life on Mars’.
On Human Rights Day 2018, she released a single called ‘Lets Come Together.’ The song was written and performed by Jihae and was arranged by Oscar winning composer/producer Teese Gohl also performing on piano. The choir is sung by the students and faculty at The Putney School. ‘Let’s Come Together’ is a song to give a voice to the displaced people around the world. 100% songwriter's proceeds went to International Medical Corps' program for Children and Women's Health Including Gender Violence in over 80 countries around the world.
Jihae wrote and produced a multimedia rock opera based on her third LP, 'Fire Burning Rain' with Academy Award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. She has performed at the London Olympics, Cannes Film Festival and the United Nations, in addition to donating her time and performance to a variety of nonprofits, including Hillary Clinton’s Hours Against Hate, No Kid Hungry, Acumen Funds, and Let’s Come Together, a creative platform she founded to unite people for human rights.
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28 апр 2021
