Jessica obviously is most known for her gorgeous voice. Of course, this is expected from a main singer of the most successful girl group in South Korea, if not the world. Jessica’s high voice and wide vocal range beautifully add to any song she sings, and her trademark wails are always impressive. Even when just talking about her singing, Jessica is multi-talented, as she can take on many different genres, styles, groupings, and languages. She’s always featured no matter what piece she participates in, whether it’s the popular dance songs the girls are famous for, or the ballads the girls produce to slow things down. Jessica has contributed to the OSTs of “Romance Town” and “Wild Romance”, and she’s participated in duets or sung songs solo. In addition, who can forget her giving her all to a silly piece like “Naengmyun”?
Of course, Jessica has to dance along to many of these songs just like the other girls. While she may not always be spot-on, she tries her best each time, and concentrates no matter if it’s an actual performance or a rehearsal, or even if she’s just going through the moves one more time before having to perform them. However, Jessica doesn’t just dance because it’s required for the job. Jessica has professed her love of dancing before. In fact, she loves dancing so much that she’s mentioned that any potential love interest must like dancing as well. And while Jessica is known for her singing, it may surprise you that when the members of Girls’ Generation were first being introduced as part of SM’s new girl group, Jessica’s teaser included a video of her dancing:
There’s no question that watching Jessica dance is entertaining. But she definitely knows how to maintain our interest in other ways as well. Even though she previously had minimal live theater experience, she was able to take the lead role in “Legally Blonde”, acting as well as singing in front of a live audience multiple times. She’s also taken her turn acting on the small screen, recently completing her role as Kang Jonghee on the KBS 2TV drama “Wild Romance”. (What wasn’t entertaining, though, was her kiss scene. That was heartbreaking. Until the cat came along. Go cat.)
Another thing that Jessica takes quite earnestly is her modeling. She’s posed for many magazine photoshoots, including for “Dazed and Confused”, “Marie Claire”, “1st Look”, and “W”, and all of these in just this past year. She models clothes for Coming Step. She’s even walked down the fashion runway at Seoul Fashion Week last year, and each time Jessica works as a model, she looks as gorgeous as ever. Many models are required to have a serious look while on the job, and Jessica is no exception. She’s famous for looking serious when she’s not officially doing anything as well, though it has been said before that that’s because she can be quite shy. Sometimes, this can even morph into disinterest or sleepiness. Nevertheless, the nickname “Ice Princess” is well-deserved based solely on her perceived demeanor.
However, anybody who has gotten to know Jessica says that she is quite warm and caring, with Yuri once referring to her as “warm ice”. She watches over her little sister Krystal, constantly giving her tips on how to succeed as a singer and always cheering her on. She can also go to the opposite extreme of her famous nickname, being cute or hyper like the rest of the girls. Many times, she goes one step further, and becomes a bully or becomes violent, though of course it’s always in a playful way.
A cute and hyper Jessica may seem like a contradiction when compared to a serious and sleepy Jessica. On the surface, perhaps this is true. However, with Jessica Jung, this is not the case. This is merely Jessica being Jessica, and each of her many characteristics and talents add up to this wonderful, talented, and loveable person whom we all adore. She’s grown from the cute teenage girl we first got to know almost five years ago, into a beautiful young woman whom we can’t get enough of. But her talents and personality have remained the same, and there’s no reason that even though she’s becoming one year older today, they won’t continue to do so, giving us reason to love her even more.
Sources: Heavenly Forest, Coming Step, SBS, [email protected], KBS 2TV, Newsen, [email protected]
Written by: residentbenchwarmer@soshified
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Happy Birthday J-Jung! Our Ice Princess. Wish you another great year with much love and more blessings.
May 9 always be the number 1!
PS. Please say hi to your roommate for me :) kekeke….
Jessica, FIGHTING!!!!
“Naengmyun is my song!” So funny ;D Happy birthday Sica unnie! Have a great day with the rest of the members and stay healthy!
Happy birthday Sica-unnie!!!! <3
its been really fantasdtic seeing her grow as a singer and trying on so many new challenges…love her hyper and bubbly personality that seems so different from the ice princess one i was first introduced to in SNSd….wishing u manymany nmore years as an awesome singer sica! <3! SNSD fighting!
Saengil Chukha Hamnida Jessica unnie^^ saranghaeyo ♥
Saengil Chukae, Unnie.
Hope you will be more success in this year
Wish you all the best
Multi talented GorJess, the Warm Ice Princess
Happy birthday ♥
Wish u all the best, our Ice Princess Jessica !!!!!
Stay healthy always !!! :)
Love love love you so much !!! <3 <3 <3
happy birthday ice princess jessica jung!we love you!!^^
Happy 233rd/24th Birthday to our Gongju-nim (Princess),
JUNG JESSICA!!!
생일 진심으로 축하드립니다~
항상 건강하세요~ 행복하세요~
May you have a blast and a happy birthday
Happy birthday Jessica!!!♥♥ Stay healthy and happy!!♥♥
saengil chukka hamnida ^_^
happy birthday and enjoy your vacation unnie ♥♥
these girls are getting older and older but it was still like yesterday when it all started. I just wish they could stay the way they are forever…. I wish her a Happy happy birthday!
“What wasn’t entertaining, though, was her kiss scene. That was heartbreaking. Until the cat came along. Go cat.” LOL. :D nice one there :D HAPPY BIRTHDYA JESSICA! :D
Nice portrait of Jessica. She’s multitalented, indeed. I love the fact that she involved in many magazine photoshoots, really glad to see her as the model and whatnot, not to mention the runaway. The runaway was an unforgettable thing to me because people who involves in runaway is just cool, like in every possible way, and Jessica did that. Do hope to see her doing it again. Another thing was her acting, she just acted naturally, really appreciated her acting in Wild Romance, though I was’t really into the storyline, but Jessica’s acting was pretty good for a newbie. As well, do hope to see her in another drama. And the last but not least, was her sense of humor. Jessica is somehow really really entertaining person with her good sense of humor. So today, hmm, is a very good day to celebrate the day of someone as talented as her. Happy birthday, Jung Jeshka. Stay classy…
Happy Birthday, Jessica! As a SONE, I’ve grown more fond of her the more I get to know her. She has many facets to her personality that you can’t help but make that special effort of getting to know more of her. She’s like one of those best-selling novels where every chapter takes you to a different turn and keeps you at the edge of your seat until you reach the end and you end up telling yourself that you need a sequel or you need to reread the book because it’s freakin’ awesome. That’s Jessica Jung to me. The ever enigmatic member of Soshi who never fails to surprise. :3 *Plus I love it when she trolls other people… kekeke.*
I love Jessica, I love Soshi! :3
Happy Birthday Jessica!!!
What I love about Jessica is how deep her personality is. She has so many different sides to her, a complex creature that ends up being so endearing to everyone who takes the time to learn about her. I hope Jessica has a wonderful birthday!
saegil chukka hae sica unnie…wish u the best of the best of luck !!!! saranghae snsd ….. himnae ~~~ from me malaysian sone ….
saegil chukka hae sica unnie…wish u the best of the best of luck !!!! saranghae snsd ….. himnae ~~~
Happy Birthday Jessica!@!@!@!@!@!
Jessica noona saengil chukkae~~ <3
I'm not good in expressing myself but i just wanna tell you that I really really, really love you and you are the source of strength, my vitamin, and my inspiration.
Wish you have a blast and wonderful day with the other members, stay healthy, eat more coz i love chubby sica LOL, and be as gorjess as ever, always follow your heart and don't run no matter or late you are! XD
Once again, happy birthday my lovely warm princess Jessica!!! <3<3<3<3<3
-From a Sone in Malaysia-
happy birthday Jung Sica.. all the best thing to you
we love you …<3 <3
Happy Birthday Jessicaaahhh~~<33!!!!! What an honor it is to share the same birth month as you XD…Hope you had a good birthday today and continue to have a good year as you dominate the world along side Girls' Generation ^___^~~~Get lots of rest and stay healthy!!