Young Jin Park
Overview
Born in Gim-hae, South Korea, Young-Jin Park grew up with 60’s to 80’s music, which was the golden age of rock. He quickly fell in love with the intense drums, and started to play from his elementary school years. He learned many different genres of music around his main genre which was rock, and performed around with his student-band he formed. But as time went by, his thirst for knowledge of music grew stronger, so in his early 20’s, he moved to Seoul to expand his music career and capacity, Park met and worked with Jake Chang, who worked as a professional guitarist in the U.S. for about 20 years. Jake provided Park with an opportunity to shoot a video for electric drum performance that was to be premiered in Music China Shanghai Expo. Park also played on Jake’s solo album that linked to the beginning of the band called AFA. When Park turned 21 years old, Dae-Chul Shin, who is considered to be a legend and a rock icon, designated him as a new drummer on his band "Sinawe"(si-na-wee), to become the youngest member in the history of the band.
Park performed many scenes from concerts, TV shows to Seoul Drum Festival in 2015 as the drummer of Sinawe. During his career as Sianwe's drummer, he felt a huge gap between people and band music, in Korea especially as a drummer. So park came up with a name Boogie drum, and launched his own YouTube channel to show people that band music and drum is fun. Park plays famous BGMs, pop songs, K-pop songs, and songs that are not well known to public in Korea into rock and metal style of drumming. These attempts, brought park overall of 25 million views, and Over 160,000 subscribers, in culturally rock drum barren land of South Korea. Park also is continuously working on his many different offline gigs such as demonstrating at musical instrument exhibitions, playing at Busan International rock festival as member of AFA and Sinawe, and etc..