| Lau Mun Leng | Externaldatabase | Links | Research Network Malaysia Artists Archive Jerome Kugan www.myspace.com/jkugan �About�Jerome Kugan 10 Things About Jerome: 1. Jerome sings and plays guitar, shakers and sometimes has a laptop as his band. He is a self-taught musician and can't read notes for shit. 2. He originally comes from Kota Kinabalu, which is situated on the island of Borneo. He's been based in KL since 2000. 3. He started writing poetry from the age of 14 and still does. 4. His early idols include Tina Turner, Tracy Chapman and Suzanne Vega. 5. His current idols are Bjork, David Sylvian, Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Kate Bush. 6. He started making music in 1996, at age 20, when he was studying in Australia, with band called C.U.N.T. which was a Casio-based punk band. It lasted for four gigs then imploded. 7. He currently works as managing editor for KLue magazine. 8. He won two Cameronian Arts Awards in 2005 for music he composed for Ops Ophelia, a play directed by Rohaizad Suaidi. 9. He is one-third of Troubadours Enterprise, a company that organises singer songwriter gigs around KL. The other two thirds are singer songwriters Azmyl Yunor and Tan Sei Hon. They joke a lot. 10. He is currently recording songs for his solo debut album tentatively entitled Warp & Weft. Will probably be released sometime next year. You Tube-Jerome Kugan www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMhclqBgUE www.youtube.com/watch?v=yly6xfyz0lY& mode=related&search= |