He's Famous

If the young gentleman in this pic hadn't been the famous person he is today I would have never posted this bizarre prom pic. My biggest question is what's up with the girl? An odder couple I've never seen. She seems to be looking at her date with adoring eyes. Wonder what was going through her head? "Hmmm, I wish I could do my makeup that good," or "It sucks not being able to attract normal guys" or "Let me take a good look at him because I won't be buying any prom pictures" or "I hope this pic never gets on the internet."

Have you guessed who the superstar is on the left? Yep, it's RuPaul, baby, in all his splendor.

May Doni Kim

I was scrolling thru YouTube and came across this video of a 14 year-old Korean girl singing an Alicia Keyes' song "If I Ain't Got You." I got goosebumps listening to her voice, watching her movements and the way she was really feeling and delivering the song. This little girl has a lot of charisma:





Well, as it turns out she sent this very video to a record company in Korea called Yang Goon Entertainment and they immediately signed her up. This was in 2006, when she was 15. The record producers decided to groom her, kinda like the Korean version of Motown. They gave her a makeover: fixed her teeth, plucked her eyebrows and styled her hair. They taught her dance steps, rehearsed her songs and put her in shows. She transformed from a snaggle-tooth little girl with a big voice to a professional entertainer. Her transformation reminds me of Clay Aikens when he went from geek to Mr. Entertainment.

Here she is practicing for a show. As you will see, she can dance as well as she sings:



And she can rap TOO!! Here she is rehearsing her rapping:

Here is May Doni performing in a show last year, 2007, when she was sixteen - the first song is a Korean song but just fast forward to 1:06 and get ready to be amazed as she dances to Beyonce ft. Jay-Z - "Crazy In Love." This girl is a real entertainer (oh yeah, she can play the piano too):

Well, after two years she felt the company was taking too long to put a debut record out so she left them in 2007. Evidently a number of their artists leave for the same reason. May Doni is so talented seems she was ready to debut after about 6 months of rehearsals. YGE felt differently so she left. Seems like that would have been kinda painful seeing that YGE had put so much time in her. But for May Doni it was great to get the kind of experience she got with YGE.

She switched to Nega Networks in late 2007 or early 2008 and finally made her debut on KBS as a feature for Cho PD of PDIS on March 8, 2008.