(ACT) Korean singer Youn Sun Nah is a former French literature student who switched tracks to try her hand as a chanteuse in Paris, and climbed the jazz charts there with her debut album Voyage. She's an artist who mimics no obvious models (though there are hints of the lazy note-turns of Madeleine Peyroux), and she's unafraid of working with minimal backing. Her most expressive pieces are low key, but occasionally a raw power erupts into banshee wails. Though Youn Sun Nah visits jazz, pop, chan...
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