NIve

NIve was born Jisoo Park on June 9, 1993, in Seoul, South Korea.^[2] NIve listened to classical music as a child and he learned to play the clarinet in the fifth grade, which earned him prizes in competitions. During his first year in middle school, his family immigrated to the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Feeling lonely in a new country, he joined the school choir upon his teacher's suggestion where he began to sing. NIve attended high school in New Jersey and enrolled in Mannes School of Music as the only clarinet major in 2012.^[3] Upon completing his first year, NIve took a leave of absence to pursue contemporary music and began busking and uploading videos on the platform YouTube.^[4]

Using the name Brian Park, he was a contestant on the sixth season of the talent show series Superstar K in 2014.^[3] Due to his well-received solo and group vocal performances by the judge panel, the Top 10 was extended to a Top 11 and he advanced through the competition.^[5] According to the ratings agency TNmS, in the program's first live episode, Park's rendition of "Even If I Close My Eyes" (눈 감아봐도) by Park Jun-hee [ko] received the highest per-minute viewership in households with cable subscriptions among all competitors at 6.6%.^[6] Park progressed into the Top 9 and sang John Legend's "All of Me", leading the judges to criticize his song choice.^[7] He was ranked in the bottom three that episode along with Burstered and Lee Jun-hee [ko]. After calculations of the judges' scores and text votes were completed, Park received the lowest score and was eliminated from the competition.^[8]

He released his international debut single "Getaway" with American singer-songwriter JSMN in November 2018.^[9] He later signed with 153 Entertainment Group as a songwriter and wrote Chen's 2019 hit single "Beautiful Goodbye".^[4] In 2019, he released the singles "Who I Am", "Liberated" and "Tired".^[9] The following year, NIve released his single "Like a Fool" in collaboration with Sam Kim, for whom he had already written the song "Where's My Money", and wrote Paul Kim's "The Reason for My Spring". Following the song's release, he was contacted by V of BTS, with whom he wrote Blue & Grey for the band's fifth studio album Be.^[9][10] That same year, he released his first single album, titled Bandages, which included the songs "How Do I" and "New Light", and the single "2easy" in collaboration with Heize.^[11][10] He then wrote the song "My Everything" for NCT's second studio album, NCT 2020 Resonance, and participated in the online version of the JTBC television show Begin Again.^[12]

In June 2021, NIve released the song "Escape", which served as a pre-release single for his first extended play Broken Kaleidoscope, subsequently released in September.^[13] He released a documentary on his YouTube channel on August 13, 2023, describing his life after immigrating to Australia and how he started pursuing a career in the pop music scene as a classical clarinet player.^[14] Later that year, NIve released the digital single "Party Without U".^[15] On February 28, 2022, NIve released the single album Prolog?, which served as the first part of the LOG (Lessons on Growing) series.^[16]

NIve recorded the song "Alarm" for the soundtrack of the JTBC television series Agency (2023); "Alarm" was released on March 17, 2023.^[17] That year, NIve founded a record label, Chapter M, and released two singles, "Record Player" in November and "Till U Say I Go" in December.^[1] He released another single, "Eternity" (영원), on March 4, 2024, as part of the Chapter M Project.^[18]