M.C the MAX Lee Soo's "Winter stay" has once again established itself as a representative winter performance.
M.C the MAX Lee Soo successfully concluded the 2025–26 solo concert tour "Winter stay" nationwide after the Ilsan performance on the 28th of last month.
The tour began with the Gwangju performance on Dec. 24 last year and continued for about two months across seven cities nationwide — Seoul, Busan, Incheon, Daegu, Daejeon and Ilsan — as a long-term project spanning the end of the year and the new year. "Winter stay," returning after three years, continued to receive enthusiastic responses at every performance, once again proving its presence as Lee Soo's signature branded concert.
As Lee Soo had announced before the concert, he presented his signature ballads "Unfailingly," "Nowhere," and "You are tearful" arranged to preserve the original songs' sensibilities, delivering the songs' inherent emotions more vividly. Instead of exaggerated Director, he filled the stage with his vocals and demonstrated high-quality live performance throughout the concert with stable vocal power and delicate control.
He also placed energetic songs such as "Insanity" and "Returns" in the middle of the set to instantly raise the concert's temperature, and the audience responded with standing ovations and group singing. Sections that focused on emotion contrasted sharply with sections that exploded with energy, providing a variety of pleasures. He also narrowed the distance between music and audience with "Poem of love," "One Love," "I'll just sing," "Red Noul," "White night," and "Goodbye for a moment," maintaining the concert's intensity until the end.
In particular, Lee Soo chose to fill the entire concert with his own music without guests for this "Winter stay." The set list was designed to be experienced as a single complete work by remaining largely unchanged throughout the tour, and it drew praise from audiences for its unwavering live quality over time.
The stage direction also emphasized the scale unique to winter performances. Amid grand lighting and video production, Lee Soo filled the space with unwavering live vocals, naturally raising the venue's temperature from ballad sections that built emotions layer by layer to moments when the entire audience rose to match the breath. In fact, the highlight video released on the official YouTube channel captured waves of light sticks and scenes of the entire audience standing and responding with group singing, conveying the vivid energy of the现场 exactly.
Through this tour, Lee Soo once again reaffirmed the symbolic nature of "Winter stay" as a performance that represents the end of the year and the new year. Praised as a concert that makes people look forward to every winter, Lee Soo proved the essence of performance with his unchanged vocals, stage presence and deep synchronization with the audience.
Meanwhile, Lee Soo completed the 2025–26 solo concert "Winter stay" grand tour across seven cities nationwide, and he plans to continue meeting fans through various musical activities in the future.
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