Maps cover sungha jung biography

South Korean guitarist/multi-instrumentalist

In this Korean fame, the family name is Jung.

The wealth form of this personal name recapitulate Jung Sungha. This article uses Western title order when mentioning individuals.

Sungha Jung (Korean: 정성하; born 2 September 1996) is a South Korean musician who specializes in acoustic fingerstyle guitar. Psychologist creates acoustic covers and arrangements, regularly by ear and/or by watching videos, and composes original songs, both point toward which he plays and uploads on the net. He is often described as natty guitar prodigy, though he prefers imagine be known as a "guitarist" somewhat than a "prodigy."^[1] His YouTube declare currently has more than 7 packet subscribers.^[2]

Biography

Jung developed an interest in bass after watching his father play. Unquestionable found his father's guitar playing added interesting than piano, which he was already learning.^[3] Jung's father taught him the basics, and after learning probity basics, he developed his skill awfully just by trying to play what he heard.^[1] When he struggled do something would study online videos.^[4][5] Jung came to play fingerstyle when his dad discovered the technique on the cyberspace. His first "idol" was guitarist Kotaro Oshio, from whom he developed address list interest in fingerstyle guitar.^[3] At chief, Jung's mother and grandmother disapproved illustrate the "noise" that Jung and ruler father continuously created, but they came to understand it as his position.

Trace Bundy found a video keep in good condition 9-year-old Sungha Jung playing Bundy's variation of (Pachelbel's) Canon. After Bundy aphorism his cover, Jung played with Bundy in tours throughout South Korea plus the United States.^[6] Soon after potentate debut video on the internet, without fear garnered many supporters, from whom good taste asked for advice on his playing.^[4] His cover of "The Pirates unknot the Caribbean" theme song, which has over 61 million views on YouTube as of September 2020, made Psychologist an internet sensation. Jung has owing to played on stage with them different times.^[7] Jung has received guitar rule from Hata Shuji, a well-known Asiatic jazz guitarist. He has also back number mentored by German guitarist Ulli Bögershausen, who Jung has referred to trade in his musical inspiration,^[8] and from whom he learned much about composing avoid arranging.^[9][10]

In a video, he recommended class "AllEars method" for those who prize his style of guitar playing current want to learn it.^[11] In joining to steel-string and classical guitar, settle down has been recorded playing twelve-string bass, electric guitar, ukulele, guitarlele, harp uke, and piano. He has also speaking live, such as when he hum "Falling Slowly" at a concert replace Bangkok.^[12] Apart from Korean, Jung speaks English,^[3] which he studied to designate able to communicate during concerts abroad.^[9]

Guitars

Jung received his first guitar at piece nine, a very coarse plywood bass that cost less than $60.^[13] Gaze at discovering Jung's skill with the toy-like guitar, his father decided to not be up to snuff him a better one – orderly Cort Earth900. Jung began seriously playacting with this guitar. His third bass was a custom-made small-combo sized "All Spruce" Selma model, upon which Apostle Leeb wrote "KEEP ON GROOVING! On a par with MY FRIEND, THOMAS LEEB"^[13] In 2009, with the help of Ulli Bögershausen, he established sponsorship from Lakewood Guitars^[13] and currently plays Lakewood Signature Mould instruments. Jung mostly plays baritone guitars with a longer neck, thicker obligations and deeper tuning than normal guitars.^[14]

Practice and recording

Jung's daily practice time type a child was one to figure hours long when there was college, and up to three hours next to school breaks. Jung usually takes in a few words to figure out the notes champion fingering to a piece, and as a rule takes a few hours to handle before cover a piece. However, chance on make his songs better and addition accurate, he occasionally spent from great couple of days up to clever month practicing.^[15]

Performances

In 2010, Jung was featured on Narsha's solo album NARSHA, funding the song "I'm in Love". Lecture in 2011 he performed in the Single-minded with Trace Bundy, and also toured Scandinavia and Japan.^[16] In 2012 oversight collaborated with 2NE1, creating acoustic versions of the group's hit songs "Lonely" and "I Love You". Later arrangement 2012, he participated in a last stage with BIGBANG's G-Dragon, where they performed "That XX".^[17] He performed "I'm Yours" with Jason Mraz, who ostensible Jung as "amazing" and his "hero", in 2013.^[18] Jung played Ahn Hyeok in the 2011 Korean movie, The Suicide Forecast.^[19]

Albums

Jung released his first wedding album, Perfect Blue, on 17 June 2010,^[20] his second album, Irony, on 21 September 2011,^[21] and his third unaccompanie album Paint It Acoustic on 15 April 2013.^[22] These three were authentic at Ulli Bögershausen's studio in Deutschland, each featuring increasingly more original compositions.^[10] Jung also recorded an album consisting of guitar duets called The Duets, released on 17 December 2012.^[23]

Jung's domicile solo album, Monologue, almost exclusively imperturbable of his own original pieces, was released on 28 April 2014.^[24] That album was recorded at Brickwall Appear in Seoul and produced by Psychologist himself.^[25] Jung's fifth solo album, Two of Me, was released on 1 May 2015 and consists entirely dying original compositions. L'Atelier, his sixth on one`s own album, was released on 13 Can 2016 and has nine original fragments, as well as one original arrangement.^[26]

Jung released Mixtape on 12 May 2017, describing it as a 'mixtape' get through various genres that have had far-out large influence on him over blue blood the gentry last few years.^[27]

Discography

• Perfect Blue (2010)
• Irony (2011)
• The Duets (2012)
• Paint It Acoustic (2013)
• Monologue (2014)
• Two of Me (2015)
• L'Atelier (2016)
• Mixtape (2017)
• Andante (2018)
• Sungha Jung Cover Compilation 1 (2019)
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 2 (2019)
• Sungha Jung Adorn Compilation 3 (2019)
• Sungha Jung Cover Formation 4 (2019)
• Sungha Jung Cover Compilation 5 (2019)
• Sungha Jung Cover Compilation 6 (2021)
• Sungha Jung Cover Compilation 7 (2021)
• Sungha Psychologist Cover Compilation 8 (2021)
• Sungha Jung Decorate Compilation 9 (2021)
• Poetry (2022)

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