“Big Mama” is the beautiful harmony of four people.”

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[The Fact | [Reporter Gong Mina] Group Big Mama celebrates their 20th debut anniversary, looks back at the past and talks about their new album.

On the 11th, Big Mama shared her thoughts on releasing an album after 1 year and 9 months and holding a year-end concert to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut. They reflected back on the past 20 years, expressing their overwhelming emotions: “It feels unreal” and “I'm so grateful to be able to celebrate 20 years.”

Big Mama debuted in 2003 and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. When asked about the most memorable moment, Shin Yuna answered, "It was the moment I burst into tears when I saw the posters secretly prepared by fans during the first nationwide concert tour after resuming work". “When I received the New Artist Award at the Korean Music Awards,” said Jiyoung Lee, “The moment we reunited for the first time in 9 years to record 'Dingo Killing Voice'” and Minhye Park said, “The moment I burst into tears that I had been holding back since the first day on the last day of last year's concert.” Every moment is selected as unforgettable and full of memories.

In Big Mama's view, 'Big Mama-ness' is actually "four people with different voices coming together to deliver beautiful harmony." The members said: "We have discussed this issue a lot before, but when we saw the four of us perfectly expressing each person's personality on the solo stage and completing the song in harmony when singing together I couldn't. don't think, 'This is Big Mama.'" said about

When asked to choose her favorite song among many hit songs, Shin Yuna chose her debut song Break Away and said, "It gave birth to Big Mama and it is still the song that represents Big Mama ''. Lee Young-hyun and Park Min-hye choose 'Just One More Day', the song they released as a complete group for the first time in 9 years, and brought special meaning by saying: " This is the song that creates Big Mama's presence." known to the world again after a long time.`` In addition, Lee Ji-young chose the title song for her 2nd album, 'Song Expressing the Greatest Love for Women'.

They also introduced a new song, 'You'll Live Well Without Me', which will be released on the 12th to commemorate their 20th anniversary. Shin Yu-na and Lee Ji-young explained, "It seems like this is music that Big Mama can perform well as it is a moderate ballad song with addictive lyrics and a catchy melody reminiscent of their debut song 'Break Away'." Lee Young-hyun said, "While preparing for the new song, I received a lot of songs and there were many ballads suitable for a female solo. Among them, the song stands out as a group and has a sound that is second to none." The generation we grew up hearing was 'You'll Live Well Without Me.' "That's right," he added.

He also revealed that he enjoys listening to songs by many young singers, including his idols. Shin Yuna mentioned the names of many junior singers such as IU, Jannabi, BTOB and Heize, while Lee Ji-young said among idol groups, "New Jeans' music is very fresh and good", and Lee Young-hyun said that she and her 6-year-old daughter, Ive, Le Seraphim, (female) He said that he often listens to music by girl groups such as Children and New Jeans. Park Min-hye also said that she likes idol music that is easy to sing along to and chose Seventeen's 'Darl+ing' as her favorite song.

Finally, when asked about their plans for future activities, the members said: "First of all, I think the most urgent priority is to successfully complete the 20th anniversary concert held at the end of the year." . Through future activities, we will bring good music to everyone." many people and highlight our presence as a girl group." “I want to meet my fans through my albums,” he said.

Big Mama's first new song in 1 year and 9 months, 'You'll Live Well Without Me', will be released at 6 pm on the 12th. After the album release, Big Mama will hold a concert ' 2023 Big Mama Concert [ACT20]' to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its debut at Jangchung Gymnasium in Seoul for three days starting on the 23rd.