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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. Time now for the song that changed my life, a chance

to talk to artists who make great music about the music that made them. This week, it's

Eric Nam.

I guess you could call Eric a K-pop star. He's very, very successful in that world.

His headlined festivals like K-Con and the Soul Jazz Festival, he's a host personality

and interviewer for a bunch of different Korean TV networks. He's even been named Man of the

Year by GQ Korea. But he's also just, you know, a pop star. He's worked with Timberland

and Gallant and Craig David among a bunch of others. He's just wrapped up a solo tour

of the US where he sold out literally every venue he played, including in his hometown,

Atlanta.

And we asked him for the song that changed his life. Well, he took that pretty literally.

He picked a John Legend song, Ordinary People, that propelled him to start him. I'll let

Eric take it from here.

Hey, this is Eric Nam, and this is the song that changed my life.

I don't know if I remember the first time I heard Ordinary People, but I know that I was

in high school.

I was big on trying to find up and coming musicians or interesting musicians and

I think John Legend's album, it's the Get Lifted album, it had received so many accolades

and I think at that point it was probably playing on the radio a good bit and that's probably

how I discovered this song.

Yeah, I mean John Legend to me at that point, he was a new name.

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