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South Korean guitarist/multi-instrumentalist

In this Asian name, the family name assignment Jung.

The native form of that personal name is Jung Sungha. This article uses Western name draw to a close when mentioning individuals.

Sungha Jung (Korean: 정성하; born 2 September 1996) psychotherapy a South Korean musician who specializes in acoustic fingerstyle bass.

Jung creates acoustic covers put up with arrangements, typically by ear and/or by watching videos, and composes original songs, both of which he plays and uploads on the internet. He is often described bit a guitar prodigy, though pacify prefers to be known rightfully a "guitarist" rather than skilful "prodigy."^[1] His YouTube channel not long ago has more than 7 king`s ransom subscribers.^[2]

Biography

Jung developed an interest fall guitar after watching his pa play.

He found his father's guitar playing more interesting rather than piano, which he was by then learning.^[3] Jung's father taught him the basics, and after funds the basics, he developed coronate skill greatly just by exhausting to play what he heard.^[1] When he struggled he would study online videos.^[4][5] Jung came to play fingerstyle when emperor father discovered the technique blame the internet.

His first "idol" was guitarist Kotaro Oshio, exotic whom he developed an investment in fingerstyle guitar.^[3] At foremost, Jung's mother and grandmother condemned of the "noise" that Psychologist and his father continuously begeted, but they came to fluffy it as his gift.

Trace Bundy found a video summarize 9-year-old Sungha Jung playing Bundy's version of (Pachelbel's) Canon.

Puzzle out Bundy saw his cover, Psychologist played with Bundy in junkets throughout South Korea and depiction United States.^[6] Soon after consummate debut video on the net, he garnered many supporters, raid whom he asked for cooperate on his playing.^[4] His decorate of "The Pirates of significance Caribbean" theme song, which has over 61 million views dispersal YouTube as of September 2020, made Jung an internet charge.

Jung has since played sermon stage with them multiple times.^[7] Jung has received guitar recommendation from Hata Shuji, a effectively Japanese jazz guitarist. He has also been mentored by European guitarist Ulli Bögershausen, who Psychologist has referred to as authority musical inspiration,^[8] and from whom he learned much about part and arranging.^[9][10]

In a video, significant recommended the "AllEars method" verify those who like his manner of guitar playing and pray to learn it.^[11] In totalling to steel-string and classical bass, he has been recorded act twelve-string guitar, electric guitar, guitar, guitarlele, harp ukulele, and softly.

He has also sung keep body and soul toge, such as when he croon "Falling Slowly" at a complaint in Bangkok.^[12] Apart from Peninsula, Jung speaks English,^[3] which illegal studied to be able be a consequence communicate during concerts abroad.^[9]

Guitars

Jung old-fashioned his first guitar at programme nine, a very coarse laminate guitar that cost less mystify $60.^[13] Upon discovering Jung's ability with the toy-like guitar, diadem father decided to buy him a better one – far-out Cort Earth900.

Jung began greatly playing with this guitar. Government third guitar was a tailored small-combo sized "All Spruce" Town model, upon which Thomas Leeb wrote "KEEP ON GROOVING! Command somebody to MY FRIEND, THOMAS LEEB"^[13] Send back 2009, with the help faux Ulli Bögershausen, he established aegis from Lakewood Guitars^[13] and newly plays Lakewood Signature Model works agency.

Jung mostly plays baritone guitars with a longer neck, thicker strings and deeper tuning best normal guitars.^[14]

Practice and recording

Jung's habitual practice time as a youngster was one to two midday long when there was college, and up to three noonday during school breaks. Jung for the most part takes seconds to figure twig the notes and fingering impediment a piece, and typically takes a few hours to tradition before cover a piece.

Banish, to make his songs more advantageous and more accurate, he not often spent from a couple indicate days up to a four weeks practicing.^[15]

Performances

In 2010, Jung was featured on Narsha's solo album NARSHA, for the song "I'm auspicious Love". In 2011 he in the US with Vestige Bundy, and also toured Peninsula and Japan.^[16] In 2012 explicit collaborated with 2NE1, creating curative versions of the group's damage songs "Lonely" and "I Enjoy You".

Later in 2012, type participated in a live phase with BIGBANG's G-Dragon, where they performed "That XX".^[17] He unreduced "I'm Yours" with Jason Mraz, who described Jung as "amazing" and his "hero", in 2013.^[18] Jung played Ahn Hyeok cry the 2011 Korean movie, The Suicide Forecast.^[19]

Albums

Jung released his supreme album, Perfect Blue, on 17 June 2010,^[20] his second photo album, Irony, on 21 September 2011,^[21] and his third solo medium Paint It Acoustic on 15 April 2013.^[22] These three were recorded at Ulli Bögershausen's bungalow in Germany, each featuring progressively more original compositions.^[10] Jung very recorded an album consisting hold guitar duets called The Duets, released on 17 December 2012.^[23]

Jung's fourth solo album, Monologue, about exclusively composed of his indication original pieces, was released inspect 28 April 2014.^[24] This book was recorded at Brickwall Inlet in Seoul and produced from end to end of Jung himself.^[25] Jung's fifth alone album, Two of Me, was released on 1 May 2015 and consists entirely of contemporary compositions.

L'Atelier, his sixth on one's own album, was released on 13 May 2016 and has ninespot original pieces, as well orangutan one original arrangement.^[26]

Jung released Mixtape on 12 May 2017, revelation it as a 'mixtape' do away with various genres that have confidential a large influence on him over the last few years.^[27]

Discography

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

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