After a long trainee life, G.NA debuted last year with ‘I’ll Back off So You Can Live Better.’ Her unmatchable vocal ability, dancing talent, nine-part proportioned and amazing body got her hand-picked as the new-generation diva. In six months, she revealed her first full-length album ‘Black & White.’ With this album, she set down her heavier image and is speeding to the top with this playful melody. As a singer, she’s on the track to the top. With her Canadian origin, her English is quite proficient and she is getting countless love calls for overseas promotion, making the possibility of growth high. Anyone who saw G.NA would say she’s flawless but even G.NA has her complexes.
“D-cup Chest Complex, They Whisper About It..”
G.NA gained lots of attention for a while on the Internet about her nine proportioned body. Also the fact that her extremely voluptuous silhouette has caused her to be unable to buy underwear in Korea, even with her arms, legs and height of 168cm caused much buzz. However, this truth has become a kind of complex for her.
“When I was in Canada, I’ve never been concerned about it. Coming to Korea, that was when I felt it.” It wasn’t a complex G.NA already had, but more like something that appeared on its own.
“They can always ask me about it and I’ll answer confidently but they always choose to whisper strange things about me behind my back. When I hear those strange things, I unconsciously just shrink. Having done that, my back began to slouch. When I promoted ‘I’ll Back Off So You Can Live Better’ and had to express sadness on stage, Ii think that position became even more severe for me.”
The emotional concept is similar but the song feeling in itself is definitely different with ‘Black & White.’ With that song, she dropped this complex.
“Because they tell me up front, it is more comfortable and makes me feel good. My personality usually doesn’t care about these kind of things.”
“Did you come back from farming?”
G.NA, with her big eyes, sharp nose, red lips, protruding forehead and flawless white skin makes her a unique beauty. However, her rather tan skin and clear-cut face is definitely one of her charms. This, of course, was also one of G.NA’s complexes.
“People like Han Yeaseul senior, Kim Heesun senior have white skin and are really pretty. I know this too. How pretty those people are. But people say my skin is on the tan side. Haha.”
It seems that it was harder to shake off the opinions and judgments of the people around her, unlike other situations.
I heard lots of people ask me if I cam back from farming. At the time, I didn’t even know what they meant by farming so I looked for it in the dictionary. I had kept asking myself what it meant and pained myself inwardly.”
It’s typical to have thought about so-called skin whitening procedures.
“Of course I did. But nothing really worked out. It wasn’t that my skin would be whiter. It was that my skin would get brighter. Instead of being a person that people see as pretty, I think I should just become a person who gets more charming by the day. So to gain some confidence, I dieted really hard.”
“I really want to say this but there’s no way”
G.NA’s parents are Korean but having been raised in Canada, she is more familiar with English more than Korean. In actuality, what G.NA was saying before about her complexes didn’t communicate well and there were times we misheard her.
“I always get frustrated when it comes to language. Even if I’m sad about something, I can’t say it and I don’t know how to say it. And having no other way than to explain myself was really difficult.”
As an entertainer, the importance of expressing one’s self became an even larger stress.
“Of course it is most important that as a singer that you express yourself on stage. But I realized that that’s not all. It was because ‘I’ll Back Off So You Can Live Better’ got a certain amount of people but there are still lots of people who don’t know a person named G.NA.”
In my debut song, I was uncertain if I would get as much love as anticipated.
“Whether I appear on a variety show or a radio show, if it’s a opportunity to let people know of my existence and if people remember that for me, that memory can become anticipation for my next song. It’s like that but my skill is not up to that. Things like that frustrate me.”
Of course this is groundless. Compared to six months ago, G.NA’s Korean skills have advanced so much. In her recent Singapore showcase, G.NA received much favor for her natural English skill.
There are no flawless people in our world. Those so-called complexes we regard as shortcomings can become the things that make us grow. It was true in G.NA’s case.
[Daily Economy StarToday Reporter Lee Hyunwoo nobodyin@mk.co.kr]
CREDITS: NATE NEWS (SOURCE); hyunnypoo@ROYALGNA (TRANS)