Now a bona fide K-pop sensation, it’s hard to believe that bilingual
singer-songwriter Eddy Kim first started out as a violinist and a student of
classical music before taking to commercial, guitar-laden ballads. Born Kim
Jung-hwan on November 23rd, 1990 in Seoul, he spent much of his youth between
the capital’s Gangnam District and Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied at
the Berklee College of Music and gained a growing inclination toward pop music.
In 2012, while conscripted in the army, Kim entered the famed TV talent contest
Superstar K, in which he reached the top six alo...