Kim Sohee

In a musical world that seems intent on blowing an audience's mind with epic productions that can last eight hours, this virtuoso Korean classical vocalist might just be the supreme being. Her legend begins at the age of 19, when it is said she reduced an audience to a plate of pickled cabbage with her mastery of p'ansori, which is a highly challenging performance in which one singer creates voices for and otherwise impersonates an entire cast of characters in a folk tale, and we're not talking about Hansel and Gretel. These stories are veritable mazes with a long series of de...