Youn Sun Nah

The daughter of a conductor father and a classical singer mother, Youn Sun Nah was born into and grew up a musical family in South Korea. She made her musical debut at 23 with a joint concert with the Korean Symphony Orchestra. In 1995 she moved to Paris to study jazz and French chanson at the CIM school and at the National Music Institute of Beauvais, and at the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Conservatory. This is also where she then started touring and in 2005 won the Grand Prize at the Juan Les Pins festival, an award dedicated to the best newcomer in the festival.