Born Park Ji Hye on July 21, 1986, in Seoul, the South Korean singer-songwriter
known as Zia champions an elegant, traditional strain of K-pop balladry that has
seen her put her crystalline voice to an array of original releases and
soundtracks over the past two decades. After making in-roads into music at the
2003 BoA-jjang Contest, where she placed first overall, she was hired to feature
on KCM's song '물론' and later that year released a song for the soundtrack to
Shadowless Sword, the martial arts epic starring Lee Seo-jin, Yoon So-yi, and
Shin Hyun-joon. She stepped out with h...