by Maria, who made it to the semi-finals of ‘Miss Trot 2’, is attracting attention.
Maria’s full name is Maria Elizabeth Rees, and she was born in Connecticut, USA. She was born to a Polish-American mother and an Irish-American father. She was born in 2000, and she is 21 this year.
In 2017, you won first place at the New Jersey Korean American Association Chuseok Big Feast Singing Contest and came to Korea by getting a flight ticket to Korea. Tomorrow in 2021, she will participate in Miss Trot 2 as a college team and advance to the semi-finals for the first time as a foreigner, collecting her topic.
Maria said that she first fell in love with K-pop after seeing the group ‘EXO’ music video and that she entered K-trot after seeing Hyunmi Joo’s stage.
Maria, fluent in Korean, was particularly sorry that her grandfather was a veteran of the Korean War and was devastated during the war.
Maria appeared in ‘King of Mask Singer’ last year under the name of Tortilla.
At that time, Maria said that she had come to Korea to become an idol. Still, after watching the movie ‘Homecoming’, she became interested in Korean music, and she fell in love with Joo Hyun-mi and became a trot singer.
Maria also said, “When my parents came to Korea, I was walking down the street, and people recognized me so I succeeded. I thought that I had done filial piety properly.” She also revealed her aspirations that she wanted to make trot known to the world like K-pop.
