Thousand years fingerstyle sungha jung biography

Simple yet a professional guitarist. Seongha Jeong (born on September 2, 1996) is a South Korean professional acoustic finger-style guitarist who has risen to fame on YouTube and other sites, mainly through the South Korean audience. As of 2011, his channel had over 14 million views, with his videos getting a total of over 306 million views, and also over 469,000 subscribers. Seongha typically takes three days to learn and practice a new piece, and video-record it for upload onto YouTube.  His genre selection is rather broad, as he learns and plays many pieces that are playable on guitar, therefore consequently spread across numerous genres. Seongha has won 13 awards on YouTube, including 6 “#1” awards. Also on YouTube, Seongha has 38 videos with over one million views. Seongha’s video with the most views is the shows him playing the theme from “Pirates Of The Caribbean”, at 21,428,457 views as of 22 August 2011. Seongha has composed 18 pieces as of February 2011, two of which are featured in his debut album, “Perfect Blue”. In 2011, he performed in the US with Trace Bundy, as well as touring in Scandinavia and Japan.

Sungha Jung – Wonderful Tonight 

Sungha Jung – Someone Like You (Adele)

Sungha Jung – Love Story (Taylor Swift)

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Sungha Jung – She will Beloved (Maroon 5)

Sungha Jung – Rolling in the Deep (Adele)

Sungha Jung – A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)

Sungha Jung – I’m Yours (Jason Mraz)

Sungha Jung – More Than Words 

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Sungha Jung is a real phenomenon! Who would have thought that a finger style guitarist, a string plucker, would one day need security guards to prevent him being mobbed by screaming teenage girls?
But it’s true; his concerts in Asia have a huge teen following for some of whom he has become a youth idol and for many others an example to look up to.
Sungha Jung has a cool, youthful appeal with which he has repositioned the acoustic guitar to a new status. His example has made the guitar suddenly really cool! He has developed serious credibility and now finds himself on the radar of many international heavyweights. His numerous concerts include European and American appearances with stars such as Jason Mraz, Paul Gilbert, Andy McKee and many others.

But what is his secret recipe?
It started with video clips which he posted on YouTube, in which he played his finger style* acoustic guitar arrangements of rock, pop or film sound tracks. As a result he popped up ever more frequently during searches not necessarily aimed at him. Of course when encountering a 9 year-old playing incredible guitar, one will tend to keep watching. This got around slowly at first but then more and more quickly. Obviously this was not just another case of smoke and mirrors – the guy was a really superb player! And, wait a minute, how old did you say he was? What, 9 years, or maybe 10? Unbelievable!
What’s more, he was uploading new material every week and improving every time. To cut a long story short, he has now had 500 million video clicks and 2 million subscribers on his YouTube account. And yet he remains the same relaxed, nice guy who still uploads at least one video clip every week, mostly from the same couch.

One of his most important mentors and examples (he no doubt has many others) who deserves mention, for without him history would have evolved differently, is: Ulli Bögershausen. He discovered Sungha Jung on the Internet very early and took him b

Sungha Jung (Korean: 정성하; born 2 September 1996) is a South Korean musician who specializes in acoustic fingerstyle guitar. Jung creates acoustic covers and arrangements, typically by ear and/or by watching videos, and has original music, which he plays and uploads online. He was often described as a guitar prodigy, though he prefers to be known as a ‘guitarist’ rather than a ‘prodigy’. His YouTube channel currently has more than 5 million subscribers.

Jung developed an interest in guitar after watching his father play. He found his father’s guitar playing more interesting than piano, which he was already learning. At first, Jung’s mother and grandmother disapproved of the ‘noise’ that Jung and his father continuously created, but they came to understand it as his gift.

His cover of “The Pirates of the Caribbean” theme song, which currently has over 55 million views on YouTube, made Jung an internet sensation, and his playing caught the attention of world-renowned guitarists, who found his covers of their songs impressive.

Apart from Korean, Jung speaks English,which he studied to be able to communicate during concerts abroad.

Please enjoy Sungha Jung’s Magical Guitar

1. (Movie Theme) Pirates Of The Caribbean

2. River Flow in You – Sungha Jung

1. (Titanic Theme) My Heart Will Go On

2. Kiss_The_Rain

3. (Jason Mraz) I’m Yours – Jason Mraz ft. Sungha Jung

4. (Michael Jackson) Beat It – Sungha Jung

5. (Carpenters) Top_of_the_World – Sungha Jung

6. (Carpenters) Yesterday_Once_More – Sungha Jung

7. (Christmas Carol) Jingle Bell – Sungha Jung

8. (Lady Gaga) Poker Face – Sungha Jung

9. (Andrew Lloyd Webber) The Phantom of the Opera – Sungha Jung

10. (Hisaishi Joe) Totoro Theme – Sungha Jung

11. (Frozen OST) Let It Go – Sungha Jung

12. (Henry Mancini) Moon River – Sungha Jung