Eleven year old Kim Jung In appeared as a contestant on the currently airing MBC’s survival audition program, The Birth of a Star. This is a clip of her singing Jo Sumi’s “If I Leave” (from Empress Myung Sung OST) during her final audition before getting eliminated last week. Many singers, including Kim Bum Soo, Yangpa, and Kim Kyung Ho, have sung a version of this song. But I think Kim Jung In is the first and the only one to do justice to Jo Sumi’s original version. I don’t know what other way to introduce this 11 year old, but simply as “a voice of an angel.”
(For the lyrics and english translation to “If I Leave”, see below…)
나 가거든
If I Leave
쓸쓸한 달빛 아래
Under the lonely moonlight,
내 그림자 하나 생기거든
when my sole shadow forms,
그땐 말해볼까요 이 마음
Shall I tell you then what’s in my heart,
들어나 주라고
Will you please hear me out?
문득 새벽을 알리는
Alerting of the sudden dawn,
그 바람 하나가 지나거든
When that wind passes by,
그저 한숨쉬듯 물어볼까요
Shall I ask as I let out a sigh,
난 왜 살고 있는지
the reason as to why I live.
나 슬퍼도 살아야 하네
Though I may be sad, I must live on.
나 슬퍼서 살아야 하네
Because I’m sad, I must live on.
이 삶이 다하고 나야 알텐데
Only after my passing will I understand,
내가 이 세상을 다녀간 그 이유
The reason as to why I came to this world.
나 가고 기억하는 이
The one who will remember (me) after I leave
나 슬픔까지도 사랑했다 말해주길
may say that you loved even my sorrow.
Lyrics translated by Blue1004
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Softy
April 9, 2011 at 4:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Holy crap that was good – don’t know what got to me more- her beautiful voice and the way she sang it or those lyrics. Did she make that guy in the tan jacket cry? She almost brought me to tears too.
Loved this – thanks so much for sharing.
kerik
April 20, 2011 at 1:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
aaw thank you for sharing. it’s just so beautiful and pure and pleasing….idk how to describe it. hope she becomes a bona fide and great singer and not just typical member of a kpop group.
Melissa
April 30, 2011 at 7:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
goosebumps
i love this little girl!
and lol i love the reactions of all the other contestants. they’re like “damn, this little girl can sing!”
vikky
December 9, 2011 at 12:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Can you please translate the whole song. I know she only sing half but please translate the full song. I’ve been looking for the english translation and you have the best translation i found.