Kim Tae-won (김태원, 1965. 4. 12. - ) is a renowned Korean guitarist with over 30 years of experience in Korean music industry, currently leading one of the most successful rock bands in Korean music history, Boohwal.
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He was a talented billiards player, having achieved the level of 300 points as a highschool senior. His guitar skill was even more outstanding: He is said to have been able to play proficiently the guitar riff in Led Zeppelin’s “Babe I'm Gonna Leave You” in middle school and the guitar solo of (towards the end of the song) Deep Purple's "Highway Star" at a much faster speed than normal.. He slowly rose to fame among fellow students in the Seodaemun area, his home town. He was called “the best guitarist everybody knows”.[1]
At 20, he started a rock band "The End" with two colleagues, one of whom was Kim Jong-Seo who later left the band to join a then more established rock band Sinawe. With "The End", he performed covers of western rock songs for audiences in various places in Korea. It was when Kim Jong-Seo joined "The End" that the band changed its name into "Boohwal", which means resurrection in Korean. After Kim Jong-Seo left the band, Lee Seung-Cheol joined the band as a new lead vocal, who brought huge success to the band with Boohwal's first hit number, "Heeya (희야)."
Star's Diary: Kim Tae-Won (1) [1]
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| Preceded by Lee Seung Gi |
KBS Entertainment Awards for Best Entertainer 2009 |
Succeeded by Eun Ji Won Park Myeong-su |