PRYVT 'BACK TO REALITY' World Tour in Singapore

PRYVT combines the limitless talents of lead vocalist Haneul and producer/ guitarist JT. Blending both English and Korean lyrics into their songs, the duo first formed the band through Discord in 2023, posting a track on Soundcloud. This launched their careers as a duo, amassing over 20 million streams and earning them a place on Spotify’s Viral 50 charts.

The duo’s most recognizable and most popular songs “tell me, how will we survive?” and “if it’s not you” have serenaded the hearts of listeners, a true testament to the craft of making music that can transcend languages and have the emotions within resonate with audiences. Their newest album, BACK TO REALITY, is available to stream on all platforms now.

On their first release, &SCENE, PRYVT created an album where each song felt like an episode of a TV show. On BACK TO REALITY, Hanuel and JT are taking a more unified approach, with imagery rooted in the natural world and songs that evoke the nostalgia of music from different eras, blended into one overarching creative vision.

“It pairs with our overall message of the power of love and how its tight grip on us can control the good, the bad, the ugly and the beauty,” Hanuel says. “Moments are captured like Polaroids, freezing emotions exactly as they were felt in that instant. It’s this gut feeling that fuels our visual imagery, with intentional details woven into everything from the music videos to the album’s design.”

Formed online in 2023, PRYVT met virtually and started making music together on a Discord server. Hailing from Vancouver, the two members came from strikingly different backgrounds: Hanuel was a child of pastors who grew up listening almost exclusively to worship music and old Korean ballads while Justin “JT” Tecson studied jazz in high school before discovering a passion for producing and DJing. By the time they connected on Discord, though, they shared a similar sense of burnout from their solo careers.

In the months that followed, the duo would go on to release five singles, treating each as a chapter in a larger story, which they conveyed through their debut album &Scene. With little information available on the group, listeners began coming up with their own theories, examining the band’s social media for clues and spreading their music like wildfire.

At times, the lyrics slip between English and Korean, but the emotions they convey transcend language, tapping into universal feelings of longing and desire, heartbreak and confusion, growth and acceptance. Last year, PRYVT performed alongside slchld and opened forwave to earth on their extensive North American fall tour.