Peggy Gou
Peggy Gou was born in Incheon, South Korea on July 3rd, 1990 and is the DJ. At the age of 33, Peggy Gou biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Peggy Gou, a South Korean DJ, record producer, and fashion designer, based in Berlin.
Ninja Tune and Phonica have released seven EPs on record labels, including Ninja Tune and Phonica.
Peggy Gou's compilation, released on!k7 Records, in 2019. She formed her own independent record label, Gudu Records, and dropped DJ-Kicks: Peggy Gou.
Early life and education
Peggy Gou was born Kim Min-ji in Incheon, South Korea, on July 3rd 1991. Kim Chang-yong, the family's father, is a former journalist, a researcher of mass communications at Inje University, and standing commissioner of Korea's Communications Commission. At age 8, Gou began classical piano lessons. At the age of 14, her parents sent her to London, England, to study English. When she was 18 years old, she went back to Korea, but six months later she returned to London to study fashion at the London College of Fashion. She began working as the London reporter editor for Harper's Bazaar Korea and then moved to Berlin, Germany, after graduating.
Career
Gou was taught to DJ in 2009 by her friend from Korea. She had her first gig in Cirque Le Soir, Soho, and later performed weekly at The Book Club, East London. In 2013, she learned to use Ableton Live and began to create her own tracks. Her first track, Hungboo, was completed in 2014. Hungboo was named for the hero of a Korean fairy tale. She played the track in Korea for the first time at the 2016 Style Icon Awards opening show, featuring award-winning actor Yoo Ah-in in a visual art video.
Gou made her recording debut in January 2016 on Radio Slave's Rekids label with The Art of War Part 1, featuring a remix from Galcher Lustwerk. She next released four EPs including Seek for Maktoop, with hit track It Makes You Forget (Itgehane). Maktoop was named after the Arabic word "maktoob", the equivalent to "written" or "destiny". This was followed by EPs Once and Han Jan in 2018, and Moment in April 2019. Once is the first time she has sung on a record.
Gou embarked on her first North American tour and made a Boiler Room debut in NYC in 2017. She became the first Korean DJ to play in Berlin's nightclub Berghain. She plays more than one hundred live gigs in a year and has performed alongside the likes of Moodymann, The Blessed Madonna and DJ Koze. She has since had gigs in the worldwide festival sets at Coachella, Glastonbury, Sonus in Croatia, Amsterdam's Dekmantel, London's Printworks, Ibiza, Amsterdam Dance Event, Primavera Sound in Portugal, Barcelona's Sónar, as well as Virgil Abloh's Off-White fashion show among others. In an Interview with Vice, she stated that she preferred to stay out of politics and would just perform for the people who want to hear her music.
Gou released her music on record labels Ninja Tune and Phonica in 2018. That same year, It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) won Best Track at the AIM Independent Music Awards. It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) was also listed on the tracklist for FIFA 2019.
In 2019, Forbes named Gou as one of the Asian leaders, pioneers and entrepreneurs under age 30. She launched her own fashion label KIRIN ("giraffe" in Korean), supported by Virgil Abloh, under the New Guards Group in February, followed by her own independent record label, Gudu Records (gudu means "shoes" in Korean) in March. She has stated that she launched Gudu to give artists starting out better opportunities and treatment than she received at the beginning of her career. She next released DJ-Kicks: Peggy Gou, the 69th installment of !K7's DJ-Kicks mix compilation in June. The album became her first Billboard chart appearance, reaching 9th in Dance/Electronic Album Sales, and the second compilation that ever got into the top 10 after Moodymann's. In July, Gou released her first music video for her hit 2019 track Starry Night exclusively on Apple Music, directed by Jonas Lindstroem, and once again featured Yoo Ah-in, the lead actor in the award-winning South Korean film, Burning. The music video was released worldwide on YouTube in September 2019.
In December 2020, Gou joined Apple Music's New Year's Eve DJ Mixes with 21 other electronic artists. She next released her seventh single Nabi in June 2021, featuring Oh Hyuk from Korean indie rock band Hyukoh, followed by a tribute to her teenage years, I Go, that she called "My own reimagination of the sounds I grew up loving."