When Park was around two or three years old, her mom took her to a recital where a lady sang onstage. She found the lady’s voice beautiful and felt like she was shining. Park had her first piano lesson around the same time.
“That was in my teacher’s house at her huge black grand piano. And I had to sit on some books, I think some telephone books, to reach the keys,” Park recalled.
At home, her mom and grandma would sing every day after dinner, and they encouraged her to do the same.
Since then, Park’s life has revolved around music. Park became the youngest student accepted into the vocal study program at Boston’s prestigious New England Conservatory of Music. She also stood out as the sole child singer in the choir at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
After earning her degree, she continued to immerse herself in the world of music by joining a rock band.
She also enjoys music as an audience member, and she might smile or be moved to tears after a touching performance.
Park finds inspiration for her work from every corner.
“When I get up in the morning, it could be just a feeling of feeling like I want to listen to something on my playlist. Or it could be what somebody says, or a book I’m reading; literally anything. You sitting here in front of me. Anything could inspire me with music,” said Park. “I really lean into music, and that’s how I process my life.”
She has lived on California’s coast for many years, so she wrote a song about the ocean.
As an artist, Park gets into a zone of creativity. For her, she is most creative when having uninterrupted time to work on a project, alongside intuition.
“I’m not a rich person, but my life is really rich,” said Park. “Music touches us like the deepest places of our memory. And it touches us in the most pure parts of our heart with our joy and sorrow.”
In addition to her musical accomplishments, Park has starred in several independent films and is set to make her feature-length motion picture debut in Rocky Capella’s “Don’t Shoot! I’m the Guitar Man.”
