Lim Jeong-hyun
Jeong-Hyun Lim (임정현), also known by the online alias funtwo, is a 23-year-old South Korean guitarist known for his cover of JerryC's Canon Rock.
Jeong-Hyun Lim played and recorded his cover of Canon Rock during 2005. He uploaded his video onto the popular Korean music site called Mule.co.kr It was then snatched up by an amazed viewer, who promptly uploaded the video to youtube under the title "guitar". It was not long before it garnered popularity and speculation as to who was beneath the baseball cap.
Funtwo's cover of Canon Rock has been mentioned on CNN, 20/20, The New York Times, and National Public Radio in addition to MBC news, CBC Radio, KBS news, and other Korean news stations.
Many viewers have speculated and thought the video as fake since the music is not in proper sync with the video. Lim later stated to The New York Times that this had to do with the fact that "[…] he says he recorded the audio and video independently and then matched them inexactly."[1]
Due to the initial secrecy surrounding the guitar player in his video, several other people have claimed to be Funtwo. One of these was Alfonso Candra, a 12 year old classical pianist who performed 'Canon Rock' for a small crowd at the Indonesian Embassy in Washington, DC in August of 2006. [1]
Not only playing others he started to arrange well known musics by himself. He composed a holiday card to his fans, called Carol (Funtwo Is Coming to Town), a rock version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town. He also played Dream Theater's Overture 1928 and recently he posted a video of himself performing Antonio Vivaldi's Summer from the "Four Seasons," one of Vivaldi's most famous works.
Funtwo has expressed no wish to carry on playing guitar as a professional guitarist, however his online fame has allowed him to play to live audiences twice - once for the Korean ambassador in Washington DC and then again at the KORUS festival the same year. At the KORUS festival, funtwo played improvised, altered versions of the Korean national anthem, and the US national anthem. In the same interview in which he stated his wish to carry on playing guitar simply as a hobby, he also rated his own playing a moderate 50/60 out of 100.
Songs (as funtwo)
1. Canon Rock [1] [2]
3. Summer.
4. Carol (funtwo is coming to town)
References
- ^ a b Heffernan, Virginia; Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last. NY Times, 27 Aug 2006
See also
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