Biography
Kyung Tae Kang (naru) took a keen interest in music from a young age, learning various instruments during his childhood. He first discovered the guitar when his cousin played it, after showing enthusiasm for the instrument his father gave him his first guitar. With this he listened to American bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage and learned to play their songs. When he was at university, he played in an emocore band until 2007 when, naru started writing material by himself for the first time.
He recorded a demo which was discovered by Happy Robot Records and recorded his debut album Jagadangchak, while still at university. On this album he had the honour of working alongside Jeong Mujin (ex-Unnine Ibalgwan) and Choe Jae Hyok (Deli Spice) as well as producing and recording the album himself. The album was released in March 2008.
While naru performs as a solo artist at the moment, he has plans in the future to perform his material as a three-piece, hiring two musicians to play bass and drums. He also intends to do more production work.
Profile
Sound clips are available from the Happy Robot Records album site. They took forever to load on my computer though but they sounded pretty good!
Interview in English
Interview in German
Interview in French
Interview in Finnish