Kim Jung Bae

Kim, Jung-bae ’00 and his wife Kim Yeon-jung ’99 (aka Kenzie) have penned a number of chart-busting songs for K-pop artists. Kenzie has a coveted position as a staff songwriter for S.M. Entertainment, one of the three major labels in Korea. Together, they have collaborated on many hits for such K-pop idols as Girls’ Generation, Super Junior, Shinee, and others. The two met at Berklee and married in Seoul in 2004.

“I got to know her when she was an MP&E major, and I played guitar on a project she was engineering,” Jung-bae recalls. “She later asked me if I could write some music for a project.” Kenzie is very good at sequencing and making beats, and as it turns out, Jung-bae has a knack for lyric writing. “It’s funny,” he says. “She’s the big songwriter, but if you Google her songs, my name always shows up first because I wrote the lyrics.”