Vocal Range

Bb2 ~ F5 (2 Octaves, 3 notes & 1 semitone)

Supported Range

E3 ~ F4/F#4

Voice Type

Light Lyric Tenor

Strengths/Achievements Second strongest vocalist in 2PM Able to consistently support his voice up to F4/F#4 Shown very good improvement with support over the years Shows a good control of his lower range to about E3 Has a consistent flow of air, breath support is present Able to lift his soft palate when belting Pitch has improved quite a lot Vibrato has become more even throughout the years Good placement present in the upper mixed voice Weaknesses Vibrato is very wobbly and unstable Voice is often too airy Vocal runs are always sloppy and pitchy Does too many vocal runs Lower range is generally airy and unsupported Larynx raises above F#4 Nasality present in his singing Voice becomes thin and shrill above F#4 Mixed voice lacks power, normally quite head-dominant Registers Lower register: Under explored as a register overall, Jun.K barely actually sings below E3. Tone around E3 and F3 is generally well produced, connected and more full, but as he descends below E3, his voice starts to lose power, volume and becomes muffled. Mixed register: A register where improvement can be heard quite easily over the years. His voice has become more stable and he’s able to eliminate nasality in this register, however so he still strains with a high larynx anywhere above F#4. Upper register: The falsetto register may not be used often, but it’s developed well enough in terms of projection, even if stability and control may still be issues. Agility

Jun.K is a vocalist who specializes in singing more R&B oriented pop music and when he is able to release solo music and choose what songs he likes to perform, he shows clearly that he is influenced by R&B vocalists in his stylistic approach and musical ideas. One of the most prominent aspects of R&B music is vocal agility, ornamentations, melismas and trills. These vocal runs are often done to better explain the message of a song and highlight certain parts of a song. For less experienced R&B vocalists, runs often come as a way to show off, which is mostly what Jun.K does. However so, in Jun.K’s case his runs are yet to be fully developed and therefore most of his attempts end up sloppy and pitchy. In order for one to have good vocal agility, one must hit every note in a vocal run smoothly, clearly and well separated, while still connecting every note properly in one breath, but in his case he mostly sings runs with random note choices without a singular musical direction often resulting in runs that are more like slides from one note to another without any precision pitch or clean separation of note by note. This can be heard in performances such as “Love“, “아! 사랑아“, “I Can’t” and “이별공식“. Even in more moderate to slow tempo runs, his overall flow can lack smoothness, such as in “Stick Up Kid“.

Overall analysis

Debuting in 2008 as the main vocalist of 2PM, he is part of one of the longest running idol groups active today. As the main vocalist of a group whose image and music was never meant to be about being exceptionally technical vocalists, Jun.K had to come a long way in order to improve himself as a vocalist and being able to showcase the best out of what he’s worked on over the years. Vocally speaking, Jun.K’s voice is light and bright in tone, without much chest-resonance or chest voice development, resulting in an even softer vocal approach mixed in with the “half-air half-sound” technique JYP focuses on, his overall tone is often soft and does not carry much weight. His voice lies somewhat higher in terms of range and it can be assumed that he’d most likely be classified as a light lyric tenor.

The lower part of his voice is one that’s not often explored and quite underdeveloped. The tone in his voice has actually shown improvement from his debut days, whereas he’d struggle to project a