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藝人介紹 > 南西肯恩
南西肯恩Nancy Kenn
以溫暖真摯嗓音、細膩感性的創作,勾勒出年輕世代敏感而寬廣的心靈。南西肯恩無疑是近年音樂圈少見的一股療癒力量,聽眾群甚至從台灣延伸到廣大的華語世界。
在這個雙主唱組合中,女主唱南西(Neci)擔任團長與合聲編寫,男主唱兼吉他手肯恩(Ken)則負責主要的詞曲創作。兩人緣份始於大學時期的一場共演活動,隨即於 2017 年 6 月成軍。自此,他們的腳步踏遍各大校園與 Livehouse,磨練出往後音樂路上紮實沉穩的基礎。
任何音樂人邁向頂尖的過程,總少不了一鳴驚人的代表曲。對於南西肯恩來說,綻放青春成長悲喜的第一首自創曲〈煙花〉,就是為他們敲開生涯大門的關鍵。雖然 2017 年問世時,它還只是青澀的 Demo,卻如平地一聲雷在各大平台掀起搶聽潮,至今已在 YouTube 累積逾百萬次點聽。然而這並非曇花一現,其後〈練習一個人生活〉、〈大海〉等知名單曲一再超越自己的紀錄,2021 年首張全創作專輯《一個不屬於自己的地方》更獲得眾多專業樂評欽點為年度最佳。
2023 年南西肯恩帶來音樂生涯第二張專輯《你是平靜的》,專輯募資在短短 12 小時內突破百萬,最終達到原定目標的 10 倍,顯示其在樂迷中的強大影響力。這張專輯以自我和解、包容與愛為核心議題,南西肯恩不斷保持創作上的新鮮感與驚喜,並首次挑戰跨國合作英日文歌曲,進一步拓展了樂團的音樂版圖。單曲〈我也曾經想過這樣殺了我自己〉等作品在 YouTube 上表現亮眼,持續引起廣泛關注。
南西肯恩的音樂,可說是將閃耀著流行質地的極美旋律,賦予民謠搖滾的樸實溫潤,因此能夠深植人心、過耳不忘。他們總是以自己細心呵護的內心故事為原點,描寫出普世皆能同理的情感震盪,創造了與聽眾之間緊密而親近的覊絆。
自 2020 年起,南西肯恩的感染力遍地開花。無論專場與 EP 巡迴,著名的聖誕特別企劃演出,或串連台北、台中到高雄的千人等級舞台,南西肯恩至今幾乎每次開唱皆締造火速完售佳績、一票難求,就連週邊商品和實體專輯也被觀眾一掃而空。全場大合唱的感人畫面,已經是他們演出時的標配,從台灣各大音樂節,到香港、深圳的表演場館,都可以看到南西肯恩帶來直擊人心的不凡體驗。
南西肯恩這組獨立音樂圈備受期待的超新星,正一步步朝著當代最佳唱作團體的目標前進。他們純粹優美的聲音,勢必持續為這個世代劃下令人難以忘懷的驚歎號。
With his warm and sincere voice and delicate and emotional creation, he outlines the sensitive and broad mind of the young generation. Nancy Kenn is undoubtedly a rare healing force in the music industry in recent years, with an audience that even extends from Taiwan to the vast Chinese-speaking world.
In this dual-vocalist group, female vocalist Neci serves as the leader and chorus writer, while male vocalist and guitarist Ken is responsible for the main songwriting. The relationship between the two began at a performance event in college, and then they became an army in June 2017. Since then, they have traveled to major campuses and livehouses, honing a solid and steady foundation for their future music career.
Any musician's journey to the top is indispensable for a blockbuster representative song. For Nancy Kenn, the first self-composed song "Fireworks", which blooms the joys and sorrows of youthful growth, is the key to opening the door to their career. Although it was just a young demo when it came out in 2017, it set off a wave of listening on all major platforms like thunder, and has accumulated more than one million listens on YouTube so far. However, this is not a flash in the pan. Later, well-known singles such as "Practice to Live Alone" and "The Sea" have repeatedly surpassed their own records. The first fully composed album in 2021 "A Place That Doesn't Belong to Myself" has also been praised by many professional music critics. For the best of the year.
In 2023, Nancy Kenn released the second album of her music career "You Are Calm". The album's fundraising exceeded one million in just 12 hours, and eventually reached 10 times the original goal, showing its power among music fans. Influence. This album takes self-reconciliation, tolerance and love as its core themes. Nancy Kane continues to maintain freshness and surprises in creation, and for the first time challenges cross-border collaboration of English and Japanese songs, further expanding the band's musical territory. Works such as the single "I've Thought About Killing Myself Like This" have performed well on YouTube and continue to attract widespread attention.
Nancy Ken's music can be said to be a combination of beautiful melodies that shine with a pop texture and a simple warmth of folk rock, so it can be deeply rooted in people's hearts and remain unforgettable. They always use their own carefully guarded inner stories as the starting point to describe emotional shocks that are universally relatable, creating a close and intimate bond with the audience.
Since 2020, Nancy Kenn’s infectious energy has spread. Whether it is a special performance or EP tour, the famous Christmas special planned performance, or a thousand-person stage connecting Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung, Nansi Kean has achieved a rapid sell-out performance almost every time he performs so far, and it is hard to get a ticket. Peripheral merchandise and physical albums were also sold out by the audience. The touching scene of the full chorus has become a standard feature of their performances. From major music festivals in Taiwan to performance venues in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, you can see Nancy Kenn's extraordinary experience that directly touches people's hearts.
Nancy Kenn, the much-anticipated supernova in the independent music circle, is moving step by step towards the goal of becoming the best singer-songwriter group of our time. Their pure and beautiful voices are bound to continue to set an unforgettable exclamation point for this generation.
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