Donnerstag, 31. März 2011

Sungha Jung

Seongha Jeong (정성하) (colloquially: Sungha Jung) (born September 2, 1996) is a South Korean prodigy guitarist who has risen to fame on YouTube and other sites, mainly through the South Korean audience.

Seongha typically takes three days to learn and practice a new song, and video-record it for upload onto YouTube. His genre selection is rather broad, as he learns and plays many songs 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 "Pirates Of The Caribbean", at 15,319,305 views as of March 21, 2011.

Seongha has composed 18 songs as of February 2011, two of which are featured in his debut album, Perfect Blue.

Lately, Seongha has been performing together with Mr. Big. He is currently on tour with Trace Bundy.

Sungha Jung - I´m Yours (Jason Mraz) (Ukulele)



Arranged and played by Sungha Jung.
"I'm Yours" is the first single released by Jason Mraz from his third studio album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The song was originally released on a limited edition EP called Extra Credit as a demo in 2005 to promote his second studio album Mr. A–Z. It was performed in his 2004 and 2005 gigs and already became a crowd favorite before its release. "I'm Yours" was nominated for Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards. It was also used for the Australian Seven Network's promotion of the season premiere of Packed to the Rafters.
"I'm Yours" was immensely successful in the U.S. on the Billboard charts. At 76 weeks on the Hot 100, it holds the record for most weeks spent on the chart, breaking the previous record set by LeAnn Rimes' song "How Do I Live" in 1998. It is currently the sixth best selling digital song of all time in the U.S., selling in excess of 5 million downloads. It remains Mraz's biggest hit single in the USA to date, and his only one to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and The Single Most total weeks on the Hot 100 history. Mraz even sung a version of the song on Sesame Street, instead of "I'm Yours" the song was titled, "Outdoors." (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia)

 Sungha Jung - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles) (Ukulele)





Arranged by Jake Shimabukur.
Played by Sungha Jung.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song written by George Harrison. It was first performed by The Beatles for their double album The Beatles (also known as The White Album), featuring the lead guitar of Eric Clapton.
The song was ranked #135 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", #7 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time, and #10 on their list of The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia)

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