Not your average girl group

[LG]

The text below is from the Asian Sex Gazette, but the news has been reported on by serious dailies like the Independent.

Asia falls for a 'girl' band

By Elizabeth Davies
October 25, 2005

They strut their stuff and shake their booties as well as any pop band worldwide, and their infectious dance tunes are taking the Asian music scene by storm.

But in one crucial respect Lady, the hottest music act to come out of South Korea in years, are not your average girl group. They may have looks that many women would die for - but none of these four singers was born as a lady.

Shinae, 29, Sahara, 25, Binu, 22, and Yoona, 21, have all undergone sex change operations and used their new, curvaceous physiques to propel them to stardom. Earlier this year, to a frenzied fanfare of television appearances, newspaper interviews and even the odd nude photo shoot, Lady became Korea's first transgender pop group.

"We love chocolate, shopping and gossip. Mentally we were always women, the only difference being that we changed something physical, simply we are women with an extra scar," one of the girls told Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

And with their debut album Attention flying off the shelves in their native country and concerts lined up in China, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Lady's risqué dance act is blowing a breath of fresh air into the traditionally conservative world of Asian music. The girls are seeking to follow in the footsteps of Harisu, Korea's most successful transgender singer, whose song "Foxy Lady" is popular from Bangkok to Beijing.

But the group's path to stardom hasn't been entirely smooth. Lady have come in for scathing criticism from the media, who accuse their record company of trying to cash in on the novelty of "sex change stars" and of manufacturing a pop act whose selling point, they claim, lies in sexual status rather than in musical talent.

The girls, however, remain defiant.

"Soon," they proclaim, "we'll show everyone what we've got on stage."

They're very pretty and their music's okay too.







For more info and links:
The official site with music videos and pics:http://www.ladyjjang.net/
A fans' page:http://asianfanatics.net/forum/lofiv...p/t119915.html

Can anyone here speak Korean? I wish I could.

[JenniferParisHusband]

LG, I never saw a follow up to this, but I don't know if you realized it or not Lady did a semi-nude photo book. It was for sale (Briefly) in Korea, Japan and Thailand. I've been looking for it for ages. Most of the scans are off the internet now, but I did save a few from back in the day. I'll post them here to archive them, until better scans come along. Unfortunately a few have been censored by the Chinese web site they were posted to. Sorry.

I guess I'll start off with my personal favorite of the group, Binu.

[JenniferParisHusband]

Next up is Sahara.

[JenniferParisHusband]

More of Sahara

[russtafa]

there is a Thai tgirl band

[JenniferParisHusband]

3rd member is Shinae (or Sinae, depending on who is translating it.)

[JenniferParisHusband]

And lastly, Yuna.

Hope this helps anyone who was looking for them. And if anyone has the entire scan set from their photo-book, send me a message.

[alpha2117]

Asia is funny, they are ultra conservative on the whole but they don't seem the least fazed by transsexuals. Japan, Thailand and Sth Korea seem totally cool with the idea and even China seems relatively mellow with it (the one child poilicy has led to a shortage in girl babies meaning many more available men than women and perhaps that has led to this).

[msharrow]

Beautiful girls ! Shame the Philippines doesnt have the acceptance of TS. So many lovely girls struggle to find any work, hence the rse in Phils escort/cam girls as the only work in town.

[Dino Velvet]

All that hairless yellow skin makes my head explode!

These girls can rock. Bass player is cute.