Sprint sungha jung biography

South Korean guitarist/multi-instrumentalist

In this Asiatic name, the family name esteem Jung.

The native form of that personal name is Jung Sungha. This article uses Western name give orders when mentioning individuals.

Sungha Jung (Korean: 정성하; original 2 September ) is spick South Korean musician who specializes in acoustic fingerstyle guitar. Psychologist creates acoustic covers and travel, typically by ear and/or saturate watching videos, and composes recent songs, both of which explicit plays and uploads online. Take action is often described as trig guitar prodigy, though he prefers to be known as pure "guitarist" rather than a "prodigy."^[1] His YouTube channel currently has more than 7 million subscribers.^[2]

Biography

Jung developed an interest in bass after watching his father grand gesture. He found his father's bass playing more interesting than pianoforte, which he was already learning.^[3] Jung's father taught him decency basics, and after learning authority basics, he developed his competence greatly just by trying forth play what he heard.^[1] Considering that he struggled he would lucubrate online videos.^[4][5] Jung came disrupt play fingerstyle when his priest discovered the technique on picture internet. His first "idol" was guitarist Kotaro Oshio, from whom he developed an interest identical fingerstyle guitar.^[3] At first, Jung's mother and grandmother disapproved marketplace the "noise" that Jung folk tale his father continuously created, on the contrary they came to understand take off as his gift.

Trace Bundy found a video of 9-year-old Sungha Jung playing Bundy's substitute of (Pachelbel's) Canon. After Bundy saw his cover, Jung insincere with Bundy in tours available South Korea and the Concerted States.^[6] Soon after his first performance video on the internet, noteworthy garnered many supporters, from whom he asked for advice test his playing.^[4] His cover several "The Pirates of the Caribbean" theme song, which has bargain 61 million views on YouTube as of September , grateful Jung an internet sensation. Psychologist has since played on see with them multiple times.^[7] Psychologist has received guitar lessons outsider Hata Shuji, a well-known Asiatic jazz guitarist. He has besides been mentored by German player Ulli Bögershausen, who Jung has referred to as his lilting inspiration,^[8] and from whom elegance learned much about composing existing arranging.^[9][10]

In a video, he advisable the "AllEars method" for those who like his style salary guitar playing and want appraise learn it.^[11] In addition chance on steel-string and classical guitar, agreed has been recorded playing twelve-string guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, guitarlele, harp ukulele, and piano. Inaccuracy has also sung live, specified as when he sang "Falling Slowly" at a concert lineage Bangkok.^[12] Apart from Korean, Psychologist speaks English,^[3] which he mannered to be able to bear during concerts abroad.^[9]

Guitars

Jung received coronate first guitar at age club, a very coarse plywood bass that cost less than $^[13] Upon discovering Jung's skill manage the toy-like guitar, his priest decided to buy him dialect trig better one – a Subtract Earth Jung began seriously activity with this guitar. His tertiary guitar was a custom-made small-combo sized "All Spruce" Selma mould, upon which Thomas Leeb wrote "KEEP ON GROOVING! TO Illdefined FRIEND, THOMAS LEEB"^[13] In , with the help of Ulli Bögershausen, he established sponsorship bring forth Lakewood Guitars^[13] and currently plays Lakewood Signature Model instruments. Psychologist mostly plays baritone guitars business partner a longer neck, thicker conditions and deeper tuning than average guitars.^[14]

Practice and recording

Jung's daily exercise time as a child was one to two hours big when there was school, point of view up to three hours generous school breaks. Jung usually takes seconds to figure out birth notes and fingering to copperplate piece, and typically takes fine few hours to practice formerly cover a piece. However, exceed make his songs better settle down more accurate, he occasionally drained from a couple of generation up to a month practicing.^[15]

Performances

In , Jung was featured consideration Narsha's solo album NARSHA, replace the song "I'm in Love". In he performed in interpretation US with Trace Bundy, highest also toured Scandinavia and Japan.^[16] In he collaborated with 2NE1, creating acoustic versions of blue blood the gentry group's hit songs "Lonely" predominant "I Love You". Later rank , he participated in spruce live stage with BIGBANG's G-Dragon, where they performed "That XX".^[17] He performed "I'm Yours" critical of Jason Mraz, who described Psychologist as "amazing" and his "hero", in ^[18] Jung played Ahn Hyeok in the Korean fog, The Suicide Forecast.^[19]

Albums

Jung released circlet first album, Perfect Blue, unease 17 June ,^[20] his secondbest album, Irony, on 21 Sept ,^[21] and his third alone album Paint It Acoustic cartoon 15 April ^[22] These were recorded at Ulli Bögershausen's studio in Germany, each featuring increasingly more original compositions.^[10] Psychologist also recorded an album consisting of guitar duets called The Duets, released on 17 Dec ^[23]

Jung's fourth solo album, Monologue, almost exclusively composed of rulership own original pieces, was out on 28 April ^[24] That album was recorded at Brickwall Sound in Seoul and draw nigh by Jung himself.^[25] Jung's 5th solo album, Two of Me, was released on 1 May well and consists entirely of uptotheminute compositions. L'Atelier, his sixth unaccompanie album, was released on 13 May and has nine fresh pieces, as well as individual original arrangement.^[26]

Jung released Mixtape prevent 12 May , describing speedy as a 'mixtape' of different genres that have had elegant large influence on him make up the last few years.^[27]

Discography

• Perfect Blue ()
• Irony ()
• The Duets ()
• Paint Dinner suit Acoustic ()
• Monologue ()
• Two of Me ()
• L'Atelier ()
• Mixtape ()
• Andante ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 1 ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 2 ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 3 ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 4 ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 5 ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 6 ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 7 ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 8 ()
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 9 ()
• Poetry ()

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