Bae ho died at 29years old due to chronic renal failure but he looked like 40~50years old in this picture depicted because the disease he suffered made his face and body swollen seriously.
Bae ho released 50 hit songs and 200 other songs during 6 years, but his golden ages were just three years.
One day, Bae ho became drummer under the influence of his uncle who was a bandmaster, at that time Bae ho became popular very much because he sang songs drumming at the same time.
He went all over the country taking buses or trains singing and drumming, and he skipped even meals many times and drank the cheap alcohols and smoked the cheap cigarettes. So those kind of habits couldn't help but lead to ill health of him.
The debut song of Bae hoe is "returning triangle" , which was composed by Bea sang tae , who finally found out him as a proper singer after trying to search for long time.
Due to his illness, Bae ho's mother tried to dissuade him from singing. but He successfully recorded "returning triangle" after only a one hour.
Since then, When he was at the peak of popularity , His condition became worse, and he practiced the song " a fog shrouded jangchundan park" in the hospital and released it.
At that times, Bae ho was a third large taxpayer among korean singers and earned money very much to the extent of being able to buy ten apartment one month.
When He buy her mother a two-story house, he used to say "I can become popular only when I am sick, but I am not for sure if I can become popular like this days If am healthy guy."
Suffering from chronic renal failure, he repeatedly said to people around him that he was going to die at the stage.
One time when he appeared on television, he was so weak that the MC of the show had to help him stand up but he coughed the blood during singing.
And one day when he sang at the oscar theater, he fell down and got out of there, but he came back in wheelchair and resumed the song.
He tried to heal his disease attempting many therapies including both of oriental, western medicine, and finally he decided to be at rest. but the mass media wrote the distorted article articles spreading rumor of death.
Bae ho was selected as one of great singer among 10th singers, but he gave notice he could not be in television but he was compelled to sing three songs on television. At that time, he wore a long coat to hide ascites, but MC forced him to take off his coat and to sing, Three fellow singers helped him finish in tears, And the audience also cried. Bae ho went to hospital and thanks to his fiancee he finally stood his own foot, and walked. but because of prediction of death, he behaved coldly toward her on purpose and let her leave. and after two days from then, he died.
he was 29 years old and it was at 7 November, 1971.
After one week of his death, released was his posthumous songs "The last leaf" and "Farewell at midnight".
Recently, the one of jazz groups in france, began to shed new light on Bae's arts.
-returning triangle-
