Eric Nam

Eric Nam is very secretive when it comes to his love life. He maintains a very low profile as an individual and reveals no details about his love life to the media.

Eric Nam was born on November 17, 1988, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. His father is Nam Beom-jin and his brothers are Eddie Nam and Brian.

He was passionate about music from a very young age. He started playing the piano when he was four and switched to the cello when he was about nine. He would memorize Korean folk songs from the beginning to end. When he was in school, he was a part of the Atlanta Boy Choir and toured in Italy, where sang at the St. Peter’s Basilica mass in Rome.

While in middle school, he started listening to K-Pop and followed musicians like Shinhwa, BoA, Fly to the Sky, etc. He watched shows like ‘Music Bank,’ ‘Inkigayo,’ and ‘Music Core.’

Eric went to Mexico after 9th grade, and spent two months in Panama in a rural village, where he did community development services. Next summer he worked a few weeks in Guatemala in a soup kitchen for the elderly and homeless people, and also taught trade skills to elementary kids.

As a teenager he recorded cover songs and posted them on YouTube. A JYP representative called him after watching his cover songs, and asked him to participate in a JYP audition in New York. However, he decided finish his studies first.

Eric Nam obtained the position of a Business Analyst at Deloitte Consulting in New York City after completing his studies. After sometime, one of his YouTube covers went viral, and Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation invited him to Seoul to take part in a competition program, ‘Birth of a Great Star 2’. He was placed in the Top 5 contestants. After the show was over in April 2012, he got an offer from a music company to start his career in South Korea.

After resigning from his New York job, he moved to South Korea in June 2012, and started meeting more companies. He released a digital single ‘Blue Night in Jeju Island’ with a project group named ‘Namaste’ through his mentor’s label during this period.

In September 2012, he signed with B2M Entertainment, a South Korean management agency and music label, as a solo artist. In January 2013, he released his first mini-album ‘Cloud 9’, with the title track ‘Heaven's Door’.

For 2013 to 2016, he served as the MC of Arirang TV's popular live programs, ‘After School Club’, and its spinoff, ‘The ASC After Show’, a show for K-pop artists and their fans, which was broadcast in 188 countries.

He interviewed several celebrities in South Korea like Miranda Kerr, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Andrew Garfield, Jamie Foxx, Emma Stone, Noel Gallagher, and many others while he was on MBC's Section TV, ‘Entertainment Relay’. His international and Korean interviews have garnered positive reviews due to his wit and ability to connect with the interviewees on a personal level.

Eric Nam’s first US single ‘Into You’ peaked at number 1 on the music blog aggregator ‘Hype Machine.’ After the success of the track, he received coverage from media houses like Buzzfeed, TIME Magazine, LA Times, NBC News, Hypebeast, Fuse TVFusion, USA Today, and many others.

His single ‘Cave Me In’ was premiered worldwide on Zayn Lowe's Beats 1 Radio Show in January 2017. It trended globally on YouTube and Facebook for over 72 hours immediately after its release.