Ted Park

Ted Taewon Park (born December 4, 1994), better known by his stage name Ted Park, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter from Madison, Wisconsin. He released his single "Hello (Who is this)" on September 15, 2016 which made its way onto the Top 10 on Billboard and Spotify's Viral 50 Charts, landing him a deal with Capitol Fr, Universal. Hello has received nationwide radio play, and is currently over 120,000 streams on Spotify.

Early life

Park was born December 4, 1994 in Madison Wisconsin. Although born in the quiet city of Madison, Park grew up traveling with his parents many times, seeing 46 states before the age of 12. Park's family took trips frequently to give him an experience and understanding of the United States. Park placed 6th in the US out of 200,000+ students in Kumon's Math program. Although no one foresaw a career in music for Ted, Ted started playing the piano at 4 years old and advanced quickly, playing Beethoven's "Fur Elise" piece in whole at 9 years old. Ted's interested slowly shifted to sports, and after playing basketball and football from his 6th to 7th grade years, Park's family decided to make the move back to South Korea at the beginning of his 8th grade year.

Life in Korea was not easy for Park, being monolingual in English. Being isolated and being alone, Park found a love for writing and eventually creating records, with his dad's webcam microphone and Audacity recording software. After uploading low quality recordings to Myspace, Ted upgraded to a UFO USB microphone and started uploading his records to YouTube. During this time, Ted wanted to pursue a music career in America and be reunited with his hometown, and Ted made the move back to America right before Freshman year. Ted made a lot of friends, and also received a lot of critics during his high school years in Madison at Madison West and Middleton High school. Deciding to take his talents elsewhere, Ted knew it was time to get ouf madison. Ted signed to an indie label at the end of 2013, and was moved out to Charlotte North Carolina in January 2014. Realizing it wasn't the right situation, Ted parted with the label that July, and made the move to New York City in September that year.

Music career

2015 (Slamhouse Music, Soulspazm) In March 2015, Ted got linked with Neal Foggie and Mike Authentik of in house label/management group Slamhouse Music, and they took Ted to Soulspazm Digital and got him a distribution deal. June 11, Ted's first single "Go" premiered through DJBooth.net and charted at #1 on their top 20 indie chart. Ted's follow up was "Held it Down" featuring Taylor Gang artist Chevy Woods. The Two records started getting Ted some momentum and circulation on soundcloud. Ted met Muhamadaou Saho (Known as Saho) at a hotel party in Tribeca, and the two stayed in touch and eventually linked up to start their collective and movement, Plugged In

2016 (Hello Who is this, Billboard, Signing to Capitol Fr / Universal)

After kicking off the year with two singles "fake hoes" and "Varsity" with Atlanta stars Rich the Kid and OG Maco, Ted's single "I Know" premiered through NYC based media mammoth Complex and began to bring in momentum to Ted on the internet.

When the record released Ted was back home in Madison when he linked with mentor and colleague multi platinum producer DJ Pain 1, and they created the record "Hello (Who is this)" Released September 15, 2016. Hello received radio play through Wiz Khalifa's DJ and Power 106 dj DJ Bonics on Power 106 LA, Power 96.1 Atlanta & more. had hit Spotify's viral chart by October, and then hit Billboard's viral chart as well, landing him a deal with Capitol France / Universal Music Group. Ted was asked to headline Wazzup Media Groups Launch Party in Manhattan, New York by WMG CEO and Konvict Muzik A&R Director Dwayne D Teck Grant. Then Ted Park headlined Rendevou, an event created by Max Cho & Allah Joseph at the legendary Webster Hall and nearly sold it out, at 300+ capacity. Ted is currently getting ready to re-release "Hello (Who is this)" through Capitol Fr, and working on his debut project

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

List of albums, with selected information

Title

Album details

Something Out of Nothing
  • Released: 2015
  • Label: Slam House Music Group, Soulspazm
  • Formats: CD, digital download

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles as lead performer, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name

Title

Year

Peak chart positions

US

US
R&B

US
Rap

"Held It Down"

2015

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"Hello (Who Is This?)"

2016

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"I Know"

2016

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References