Lewis Park shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Lewis, so good to connect and we’re excited to share your story and insights with our audience. There’s a ton to learn from your story, but let’s start with a warm up before we get into the heart of the interview. Are you walking a path—or wandering?
I believe I’m finally walking my own path now.
Lately, I’ve been finding my own interesting stories to tell — my own sound, my own genre of music.
But to be honest, I’d say I’ve spent most of my life just wandering.
Literally, so many wanderings in a row.
I never really had my own direction — it was always something other people around me, or the society I belong to, pushed onto me.
And I think I’d been subconsciously following something that wasn’t really me.
That was my life until I finally found my own thing, music.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hi, VoyageKC readers! It feels good to be back here 🙂 I’m Lewis Park. I’m an alternative pop artist from South Korea telling stories about ‘time’, ‘memory’, and everything in between.
I moved around a lot growing up — about 10 times. That constant change made me sensitive to fleeting moments and made me question things like identity, home, and belonging from a young age. And that’s why I came to learn about the value of memories and relationships at an early age. And that’s why I’m so drawn to nostalgia and memory — because I’ve always been trying to hold onto something in the middle of all that movement.
My music blends ‘nostalgic, dreamy melodies’ with ‘raw, sincere lyrics’. I’m not tied to one genre — whether it’s alt-pop, emo-punk, or Korean-inspired sounds (plus, I love mixing sounds from different genres), I just try to be honest and tell stories that feel real. I spent a long time not knowing my own direction, always following what others expected of me. But music gave me a voice that finally felt like mine — and now I’m trying to build my own path with it.
Right now, I’m finally planning to release projects that I’ve been working on over the past couple years (for these songs and content, I really cannot wait to show you!). At the same time, I keep working on new music projects that dives deeper into the emotional in-betweens — late nights, unspoken feelings, and memories you can’t quite shake.
At the end of the day, I make music for people who feel a little lost, out of place, or wanna feel nostalgic — because that’s where we are at least sometimes, anyway.
Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What’s a moment that really shaped how you see the world?
It’s when I liberated myself from others, when I found what I genuinely love to do, and what I want to do for people.
I used to see the world as from the narrow one I did not really think is good to the one worth living with love.
And after this moment, I realized time to time that I can actually do a lot of things if I put my mind to and take action.
When I heard from other people that my music gave them some kind of value and they felt something strong out of it, the feelings I got that time made me more motivated and inspired.
Now, I try to see the world more wide now and see not only its dark sides but its good sides as well.
Cuz I believe that everything has both sides and it’s up to each person how he or she sees the world.
I’m trying to be on the good side.
What fear has held you back the most in your life?
The fear of a lot of what-ifs. They are potential failures like “What if I do this and fail?” “How would other people think of me if I don’t make it” “What if I ruin my life doing what I do now?”
In Korea where I was born and raised, people usually care a lot about how others see them and keep comparing them to others, which results in them spending a lot of their energy and time doing that. And they mostly put first others’ perspectives on them, not their own. I used to be one of them. I stepped out of it before I reached the point where I trust all that comparison game is the right way to live a life.
I went to a university in New York and I could broaden my view. I actually tried a lot of things and luckily found what I actually want to do for life, music. To be honest, I really didn’t try much at all before I went to the American university. In process of trying a variety of things, there have been many things I did that I thought I would never be able to do. For music, I’ve been always a big music fan but I had never ever thought that I would be a musician and make my own music.
I’m just so grateful that I work on my music and have some people in my journey with me. They are my people and the only people I want to satisfy by what I do besides myself.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What’s a belief you used to hold tightly but now think was naive or wrong?
I used to strongly believe that doing what I love to do for a living is gonna make me miserable and broke for life. Some of my teachers and my dad have tried to implant me that belief so hard many times.
But after I realized how passionate I am in when I do music and found out many people who have been going hard for what they love to do, very happy and super successful, I woke up from the bs and started to go harder and have a strong belief in what I do. Even none of those who said what my dad said to me didn’t seem happy, passionate, and successful in their own life. I was too naive to believe that what others around me told me to live my own life is important to my world and my life.
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: Are you doing what you were born to do—or what you were told to do?
If what I was born to do is what I love to do for no reason, I’m doing what I was born to do now: music.
Whether successful or not, doing what you truly love to do is such a blessing in life. Because that means you know who you are and you live your own life, not others’.
For me, for most of my life, I had been doing what I was told to do.
I didn’t really listen to my own voice inside me, but listen to what the outer world told me. I didn’t try hard to find, study or be myself. I didn’t know clearly what I love and what I dislike. I was only living to satisfy expectations of me from others.
In the past, I was even setting up my life goals that have nothing to do with me but others, which is crazy to me now.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://beacons.ai/lewstimelessmelody
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lewstimelessmelody/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lewstimelessmelody
Image Credits
The first profile photo I submitted was shot by photographer Ramin Habibi.
