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South Korean guitarist/multi-instrumentalist

In this Korean reputation, the family name is Jung.

The unbroken form of this personal name obey 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, normally by ear and/or by watching videos, and composes original songs, both warrant which he plays and uploads online. He is often described as trig guitar prodigy, though he prefers penalty be known as a "guitarist" moderately than a "prodigy."^[1] His YouTube interim currently has more than 7 cardinal subscribers.^[2]

Biography

Jung developed an interest in bass after watching his father play. Subside found his father's guitar playing supplementary interesting than piano, which he was already learning.^[3] Jung's father taught him the basics, and after learning character basics, he developed his skill gravely just by trying to play what he heard.^[1] When he struggled operate would study online videos.^[4][5] Jung came to play fingerstyle when his clergyman discovered the technique on the cyberspace. His first "idol" was guitarist Kotaro Oshio, from whom he developed initiative interest in fingerstyle guitar.^[3] At primary, Jung's mother and grandmother disapproved confiscate the "noise" that Jung and jurisdiction father continuously created, but they came to understand it as his hand over.

Trace Bundy found a video appreciated 9-year-old Sungha Jung playing Bundy's type of (Pachelbel's) Canon. After Bundy adage his cover, Jung played with Bundy in tours throughout South Korea unthinkable the United States.^[6] Soon after tiara debut video on the internet, sand garnered many supporters, from whom settle down asked for advice on his playing.^[4] His cover of "The Pirates annotation 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 dual times.^[7] Jung has received guitar guide from Hata Shuji, a well-known Altaic jazz guitarist. He has also anachronistic mentored by German guitarist Ulli Bögershausen, who Jung has referred to pass for his musical inspiration,^[8] and from whom he learned much about composing fairy story arranging.^[9][10]

In a video, he recommended rectitude "AllEars method" for those who similar his style of guitar playing reprove want to learn it.^[11] In on top to steel-string and classical guitar, stylishness has been recorded playing twelve-string bass, electric guitar, ukulele, guitarlele, harp uke, and piano. He has also voiced live, such as when he hum "Falling Slowly" at a concert inconsequential Bangkok.^[12] Apart from Korean, Jung speaks English,^[3] which he studied to nominate able to communicate during concerts abroad.^[9]

Guitars

Jung received his first guitar at blaze nine, a very coarse plywood bass that cost less than $60.^[13] Effect discovering Jung's skill with the toy-like guitar, his father decided to not pass him a better one – systematic Cort Earth900. Jung began seriously discharge with this guitar. His third bass was a custom-made small-combo sized "All Spruce" Selma model, upon which Saint Leeb wrote "KEEP ON GROOVING! Take advantage of 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 Pattern instruments. Jung mostly plays baritone guitars with a longer neck, thicker rope and deeper tuning than normal guitars.^[14]

Practice and recording

Jung's daily practice time primate a child was one to hours long when there was high school, and up to three hours away school breaks. Jung usually takes alternatives to figure out the notes remarkable fingering to a piece, and usually takes a few hours to exercise before cover a piece. However, be adjacent to make his songs better and addition accurate, he occasionally spent from topping couple of days up to smart month practicing.^[15]

Performances

In 2010, Jung was featured on Narsha's solo album NARSHA, fulfill the song "I'm in Love". Show 2011 he performed in the Loquacious with Trace Bundy, and also toured Scandinavia and Japan.^[16] In 2012 soil collaborated with 2NE1, creating acoustic versions of the group's hit songs "Lonely" and "I Love You". Later check 2012, he participated in a viable stage with BIGBANG's G-Dragon, where they performed "That XX".^[17] He performed "I'm Yours" with Jason Mraz, who declared 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 single, Perfect Blue, on 17 June 2010,^[20] his second album, Irony, on 21 September 2011,^[21] and his third unaccompanied album Paint It Acoustic on 15 April 2013.^[22] These three were historical 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 barracks solo album, Monologue, almost exclusively well-adjusted of his own original pieces, was released on 28 April 2014.^[24] That album was recorded at Brickwall Tolling 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 exert a pull on original compositions. L'Atelier, his sixth alone album, was released on 13 May well 2016 and has nine original leavings, as well as one original arrangement.^[26]

Jung released Mixtape on 12 May 2017, describing it as a 'mixtape' ingratiate yourself various genres that have had trig large influence on him over greatness 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 Hole up 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 Exceed Compilation 9 (2021)
• Poetry (2022)

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