Kenzie (songwriter)
Kim Yeon-jung, known professionally as Kenzie, is a South Korean songwriter and record producer signed under SM Entertainment. She has written and produced songs for SM artists such as BoA, Isak N Jiyeon, Super Junior, The Grace, TVXQ, Girls' Generation, Shinee, f(x), Exo, Red Velvet, SuperM, Aespa, NCT, Riize and Hearts2Hearts, as well as non-SM artists such as Twice, CIX, BAE173, The Boyz, Zerobaseone and TWS.
Biography
Kim is a 1999 Alumna of Berklee College of Music, having majored in music production and engineering. She moved to the US to further her studies, though her goal was still to be a music producer and composer in her native country ofSouth Korea. Although she had been trained in classical music and knew how to play the piano and trumpet, she acquainted herself with the pop scene, and through the knowledge of the success of S.M. Entertainment groups like S.E.S. and H.O.T., she set herself a goal to work with S.M., which she accomplished after graduating and meeting the CEO Lee Soo-man himself.Her favorite songs of her own are the top selling number 1 hits, BoA's "My Name" and Girls' Generation's debut song "Into The New World" and their song "Oh!", as well as f's debut song "LA chA tA". For future goals, she wants to expand her horizons in the music field and work with American and European artists to further explore and showcase the multi-cultural sound of her music, which includes Western and Eastern influences.
In 2018, she was also in charge of arranging the debut song for n.CH Entertainment's girl group Nature, titled "Allegro Cantabile". It was a remake of the anime opening title song "Nodame Cantabile".