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Artist
λ€μ Dajung
2+ albums
Lo-Fiindie popbedroom pop
about
Jen Dajung Kim, known professionally as Dajung, was born and raised in the Korean city of Incheon. At the age of twelve, she moved to China and attended an international school where she met her friends from different parts of the world. It was there that she acquired her bizarre monicker β Jay Knife β from her English teacher. In an effort to deal with childhood trauma and teenage angst, she started writing songs like she was filling a journal. In that journal, she recorded herself ruminating on self-identity, culture, religion, doubt, anger, and love. From 2017 to 2018, Dajung uploaded her songs to various music streaming platforms under the name Jay Knife β written as βj.knifeβ at the time. When she came back home to Korea in the summer of 2019, she temporarily stopped making music. Struggling to find time to create music amid her rigorous school work, Dajung still wonders how her 14-year-old self ever managed to βjust be creative.β On her 2021 album Jay Knife, Dajung rips out the pages from her old journal and staples them together. She holds them in her hands and mourns the fading of her younger self. To her, Jay Knife is a recollection, but it also signals a new epoch of her musical world. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
