Coming to Korea and becoming a singer, I always had two big goals personally. One was to be able to make it at some point so that I could do good things – I was always raised with an interest in social impact, philanthropy. The other thing was to be able to take my music and do it on a global scale. Eric Nam Read Quote
I feel like I’ve always been drawn to a very diverse range of music and I’ve always enjoyed experimenting, so I’m not quite sure where exactly my music will go. Eric Nam Read Quote
So the first thing I do when I get out of bed, I will check my phone real quick because I live in Korea, but my stuff is split between L.A. and Korea. Eric Nam Read Quote
For the first four or five years I was in Korea, I took a lot of direction from my management and label in terms of what people want. I found myself trying to fit into that thing I never felt comfortable with because the critique I got was that I was too American, and too sophisticated and polished in terms of my musicality and it won’t sell. Eric Nam Read Quote
It’s become hard for me to trust people and though I’m the type to go, ‘everybody is born good,’ you come to question that. Eric Nam Read Quote
I want to position myself as a great singer/songwriter in Korea, then jump off that into different markets. South-east Asia, China, Japan – I’ve done nothing even though I speak four languages – English, Korean, Spanish, and a little bit of Mandarin. Eric Nam Read Quote
Even if you look at ‘American Idol,’ or ‘X-Factor,’ or ‘The Voice’ or anything, it was always difficult to see an Asian or an Asian-American make it to a certain point. Eric Nam Read Quote
