# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shin-jung-hyeon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:40:54.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shin-jung-hyeon"
name: "Shin Jung-hyeon"
slug: "shin-jung-hyeon"
description: "Shin Joong-hyun, also transliterated as Shin Jung-hyeon or Sin Junghyeon, is a South Korean rock guitarist and singer-songwriter often referred to as Korea's \"Godfather of Rock.\" A pioneer of Korean rock music, Shin is known for forming South Korea's first rock band, Add4, in 1962 and for being at the forefront of the country's psychedelic rock scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote his most famous song, \"Beautiful Rivers and Mountains,\" in protest of the military dictatorship of Park Chung Hee in 1972. Shin was later imprisoned and tortured by Park's regime, and his music was banned until the 1980s. He experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 1990s and has since received numerous accolades recognizing his contributions to South Korean popular music."
tagline: "South Korean rock guitarist and singer-songwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/upGyUTbov5wi93HZZQPpcNWJT9.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.78830533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1142700/"
    handle:    "nm1142700"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "شين جونج هيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Joong-hyun"
    title: "Shin Joong-hyun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Jung-hyeon"
    title: "Shin Jung-hyeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Jung-hyeon"
    title: "Shin Jung-hyeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Jung-hyeon"
    title: "Shin Jung-hyeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A0%EC%A4%91%ED%98%84"
    title: "신중현"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Jung-hyeon"
    title: "Shin Jung-hyeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Jung-hyeon"
    title: "Shin Jung-hyeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%85%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Шин Чунхьон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B3%E9%87%8D%E9%89%89"
    title: "申重鉉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c514eedb-5220-403f-b135-4482de90604a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q494290"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1907741"
    title: "Shin Joong-hyun"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump