Vocal Range

B2 ~ F6 (3 Octaves and 3 notes)

Supported Range

E3 ~ G#4/A4

E3 ~ C5/C#5 (with head voice)

Voice Type

Light Lyric Tenor

Strengths/Achievements Strongest vocalist in 2AM Voice is opened and placement is good even outside his supported range Resonance is present up to G4/G#4 consistently and at times up to A4 Lower range has good placement and support down to E3 Doesn’t try to sing far outside his supported range Able to produce a connected head voice Vocal runs can at time have good rhythmic separation Healthy vibrato is often produced Pitch and dynamics are well executed Good harmonization skills Weaknesses Speed of the vibrato can create constriction and reduce size of resonance Vocal runs are often slides and sloppy/pitchy Head voice may be connected but is under-explored and often weak in support Lower range is weakly supported below E3 Mixed voice becomes tight and squeezed above A4 A4’s can show much inconsistency in support Head voice becomes strained above C5/C#5 Shown little to no improvement throughout the years after his debut Registers Lower register: His weakest register, very underdeveloped and not well explored. Shows issues with stability in pitch, development, extension and larynx position. Mixed register: Resonance and openness are often kept up to G4 and resonance can be achieved up to A4, although with less consistency. Support is still present up to G#4/A4. Above A4 voice becomes shrill and shaky. Upper register: Head voice register is produced but with inconsistency in pitch and control. Head voice is connected in his range, but transitions may become sloppy and strain and shallow support become apparent in the fifth octave. Agility

With a very light sound approach and a voice placed high in range and tone, Jokwon possesses the lightness that allows his voice to naturally flow with more ease in vocal runs as opposed to heavier voices with less flexibility. Having said that, Jokwon often shows ease with slow paced simple runs with accuracy in tone and separation of notes very well showcased, such as in “Slow Motion” and “U Got It Bad“. However, when runs become slightly more challenging with more added notes and a faster tempo, he has a bad habit of creating more or less pitch accurate slides around the musical ideas he has for his runs, often creating messy, sloppy or even pitchy runs in his vocal performances. This is due to his voice having an understanding of the muscle memory necessary to bounce off each individual note when doing vocal runs, but then struggling to speed that process up when trying to sing harder runs and often closing his throat in the process, such as in “Slow Motion“, “대낮에 한 이별“, “남과 여” and “10점 만점에 10점“.

Overall analysis

Debuting as a member of 2AM in 2008 and standing today as the only member still active under JYP Entertainment, Jokwon has been a long time vocalist and trainee under the company. After years of experience and training, he has proven that he’s learned more than just the basics of singing as a vocalist. His voice also has always been a reason for his uniqueness, possessing a delicate and bright tone for a male, with a high tessitura and light sound, Light Lyric Tenor is the easiest to describe his voice fach. Although he may sing with a lighter tone than his natural fach, when he sings Musical Theatre, he tends to create a more true tone to his actual vocal weight, as opposed to the range where he usually speaks.

The lowest part of his range is by far the most unexplored part of his voice. By having a high sounding voice and generally speaking very high, Jokwon never truly speaks down in his chest voice low enough to allow freedom of tone and projection in his lower range. In most of his vocal perfo