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Get To Know: Kungs

Get to know Kungs in our exclusive interview...

Our next featured artist isKungs.

We caught up with himto find out a little but more about himand himmusic.

Check out our interview below:

1. For those who don’t know about you and your music, tell us a little bit about who you are and where you’re from…

My name is Kungs also known as Valentin Brunel, I’m a 20 year old DJ/producer from the south of France. I released my first single ‘This Girl’ in February 2016, and the track counts now more than 300 millions plays on Spotify - it literally changed my life! A few weeks ago I released my debut album Layers and my new single ‘I Feel So Bad’. In a few words, I’d say that my music is a mix between bluesy/jazzy vibes and electronic music. I love using brass instruments in my production!

2. Describe your sound in three words…

Happy, groovy, catchy.

3. Who inspired you to start a career in music?

Well, at the age of five my parents offered me a djembe! I immediately loved it and was always making rhythms with it! In the mean time, I loved the CDs my father was playing at home; it was mainly Rock’n’Roll & bluesy tunes from The Kooks, The Who or Indochine, for example. I discovered electronic music at the age of 16 through YouTube channels broadcasting deep house/melodic house productions or remixes from artists like Klingande, Kygo or Claptone. I really liked this vibe and it gave me the idea to start making my own beats. I immediately bought some production software and started playing with it on my computer in my student bedroom, and here I am now.

4. Who are your biggest musical influences?

In the electronic music word I’d say Diplo, David Guetta and Claptone but I’m also a big fan of The Kooks, Aloe Blacc and Bruno Mars.

5. Tell us about the writing and recording process for your new single/album…

It’s been hard to combine studio sessions and touring this summer as it’s been a super busy one for me, but I managed to have several studio sessions in Paris and London to make this album happen. I actually don’t have a single process for making music.

Sometimes I prefer working on an instrumental version first and then finding a good topline to put on it with a singer in a recording studio. I also like to start a session from scratch with a singer and songwriter, I love these moments of music, when everybody is able to bring their best ideas to a project. I also usually record real instruments during my sessions (guitars, trumpets, drums…). Anyway for both process, I always need to be home to finish a track, I love the atmosphere of my home studio (which is basically my bedroom, haha!).

6. What can we expect from your live shows?

Well first of all an intense and happy moment I hope! I’m always doing my best to make people smile and get wild while they are listening to my sets. I want to bring the groove back on the electronic scene, I think it’s important to make them dance and not only just jumping! That’s why I love to include some future house tracks melted with groovy old school stuff.

7. What has been your biggest career highlight so far?

I have two so far. The first one was in December 2015, ‘This Girl’ wasn’t even released yet and I had the opportunity to open for David Guetta in the biggest Paris venue. Playing in front of 14K people for the first time is a scary but amazing feeling! David has always supported me, I’m really thankful to him.The second moment was in Switzerland this summer, I was headlining a massive event so I had the chance to play in front of 50kpeople, fireworks at the end of my show… that was UNREAL!

8.Have you met anyone and been totally starstruck?

The first time I met David Guetta was really intense but he made it so cool and easy that everything was fine.

9.What’s on your iPod/playlists that people wouldn’t expect?

Oasis - 'Wonderwall'.

10.When can we see you live?

I can’t give you a precise date but I know that my team is working on it at the moment.I honestly can’t wait to be back in the UK as the last gigs I played over there were absolutely insane!

'Kungs debut album'Layers'is out now, get it here.'

'You can follow KungsonTwitterandInstagram- just follow the links.Let us know what you think of her over on Twitter@MTVMusicUK.'

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