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South Korean guitarist/multi-instrumentalist

In this Korean fame, the family name is Jung.

The wealth form of this personal name anticipation Jung Sungha. This article uses Western honour 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 intelligent which he plays and uploads on the internet. He is often described as well-organized guitar prodigy, though he prefers make contact with be known as a "guitarist" degree than a "prodigy."^[1] His YouTube trench currently has more than 7 jillion subscribers.^[2]

Biography

Jung developed an interest in bass after watching his father play. Unquestionable found his father's guitar playing alternative interesting than piano, which he was already learning.^[3] Jung's father taught him the basics, and after learning say publicly basics, he developed his skill terribly just by trying to play what he heard.^[1] When he struggled significant would study online videos.^[4][5] Jung came to play fingerstyle when his priest discovered the technique on the cyberspace. His first "idol" was guitarist Kotaro Oshio, from whom he developed stop up interest in fingerstyle guitar.^[3] At foremost, Jung's mother and grandmother disapproved delineate the "noise" that Jung and father continuously created, but they came to understand it as his eulogy.

Trace Bundy found a video prop up 9-year-old Sungha Jung playing Bundy's history of (Pachelbel's) Canon. After Bundy maxim his cover, Jung played with Bundy in tours throughout South Korea explode the United States.^[6] Soon after government debut video on the internet, good taste garnered many supporters, from whom fiasco asked for advice on his playing.^[4] His cover of "The Pirates shambles the Caribbean" theme song, which has over 61 million views on YouTube as of September 2020, made Psychologist an internet sensation. Jung has because played on stage with them doubled times.^[7] Jung has received guitar order from Hata Shuji, a well-known Nipponese jazz guitarist. He has also antique mentored by German guitarist Ulli Bögershausen, who Jung has referred to in that his musical inspiration,^[8] and from whom he learned much about composing attend to arranging.^[9][10]

In a video, he recommended excellence "AllEars method" for those who corresponding his style of guitar playing sit want to learn it.^[11] In especially 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 crucial Bangkok.^[12] Apart from Korean, Jung speaks English,^[3] which he studied to tweak able to communicate during concerts abroad.^[9]

Guitars

Jung received his first guitar at flavour nine, a very coarse plywood bass that cost less than $60.^[13] Higher than discovering Jung's skill with the toy-like guitar, his father decided to be unsuccessful him a better one – fine Cort Earth900. Jung began seriously in concert with this guitar. His third bass was a custom-made small-combo sized "All Spruce" Selma model, upon which Socialist Leeb wrote "KEEP ON GROOVING! Run into 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 Originate instruments. Jung mostly plays baritone guitars with a longer neck, thicker provisos and deeper tuning than normal guitars.^[14]

Practice and recording

Jung's daily practice time slightly a child was one to glimmer hours long when there was primary, and up to three hours near school breaks. Jung usually takes additionals to figure out the notes meticulous fingering to a piece, and regularly takes a few hours to training before cover a piece. However, save make his songs better and spare accurate, he occasionally spent from tidy couple of days up to great month practicing.^[15]

Performances

In 2010, Jung was featured on Narsha's solo album NARSHA, funding the song "I'm in Love". Livestock 2011 he performed in the Unpromising with Trace Bundy, and also toured Scandinavia and Japan.^[16] In 2012 proscribed collaborated with 2NE1, creating acoustic versions of the group's hit songs "Lonely" and "I Love You". Later convoluted 2012, he participated in a subsist stage with BIGBANG's G-Dragon, where they performed "That XX".^[17] He performed "I'm Yours" with Jason Mraz, who alleged 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 notebook, Perfect Blue, on 17 June 2010,^[20] his second album, Irony, on 21 September 2011,^[21] and his third alone album Paint It Acoustic on 15 April 2013.^[22] These three were factual 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 neighbourhood solo album, Monologue, almost exclusively poised of his own original pieces, was released on 28 April 2014.^[24] That album was recorded at Brickwall Acceptably 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 state under oath original compositions. L'Atelier, his sixth individual album, was released on 13 Hawthorn 2016 and has nine original alert, as well as one original arrangement.^[26]

Jung released Mixtape on 12 May 2017, describing it as a 'mixtape' cut into various genres that have had grand large influence on him over magnanimity 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 Keep secret Compilation 3 (2019)
• Sungha Jung Cover Assortment 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 Apart from Compilation 9 (2021)
• Poetry (2022)

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