Sungha Jung

With 2010's Perfect Blue, Sungha Jung launched his reputation as a prodigious guitarist and budding songwriter. He was only a teenager at the time, having been born in Cheongju, South Korea, on September 2, 1996. After developing remarkable skills as a fingerstyle guitarist at a young age, he began taking lessons from the legendary instrumentalist Ulli Bögershausen, who produced Perfect Blue and became a long-term mentor for the adolescent musician. The two continued working together on 2011's Irony and 2013's Paint It Acoustic, with each album featuring a mix of cover material and originals. 2014's Monologue marked Sungha Jung's debut as a producer, while also serving as his first album to feature nothing but original material. 2015's Two of Me and 2016's L'Atelier also prioritized his own compositions. Even so, it was Sungha Jung's versions of other artists' material — including his recording of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song, which became a viral hit on video-sharing platforms — that helped popularize his music beyond a niche audience of fingerstyle guitar fans. Accordingly, he began releasing multiple volumes of his ongoing Sungha Jung Cover Compilation series in 2019, with eight different volumes arriving between 2019 and 2021. He then earned his first chart hit with "Canon Rock - Sungha Jung (Live)," which became a Top 40 hit in Singapore and the Philippines in 2022.

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