Artist name: Khiem Tran
Genre of music: Jazz/NewAge/Classical
Influences: Kotaro Oshio, Tommy Emmanuel, Masaaki Kishibe.
Location: Boston, USA
Biography:
Khiem Tran is currently attending Boston University School of Management. He lives in a world filled with economic theories and numbers, so music is an escape for him. He finds peace and himself in his guitar. The way he sees music is that, there is no rule except for the restrictions you put on yourself. Music flows from within and it is undefined, which makes it so special in our conceptual world. He started out playing in D-suspended tuning and it became a special part of him. He wrote and experimented with a lot of contemporary classical and new age melodies. Soon he moved onto other tunings as well as standard. His interest in music is very broad; from classical, jazz, bossa, to house, indie folk, and hip hop.
What inspired you to be a musician?:
When he first picked up the guitar in high school, he was frustrated, studying it from a book and learning it himself. He soon realized that music isn't a defined language; it is a connection between the instrument and the artist. Since then, he just played how he felt, and it is an escape that he treasures.
