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Yoo Na-ul (Hangul: 유나얼, born September 23, 1978), better known by the mononym Naul (Hangul: 나얼), is a South Korean singer and member of Brown Eyed Soul, signed under In Next Music. He is a painter and a professor of Korea Nazarene University, as well. He released his debut solo album, Back to the Soul Flight, on January 8, 2005.

He made his first debut as a band called 'Anthem' in 1999. Then, he continued his career as a lead vocalist of 'Brown Eyes' and 'Brown Eyed Soul' after 'Anthem' disbanded. However, since 'Brown Eyes' on hiatus for many years, he mainly works as main vocalist of 'Brown Eyed Soul'. He not only releases a group album bu also his solo albums. his name 'Naul' is his real name, which means 'my(na) soul(ul)' in genuine Korean word named by his grandfather.

Before Debut
In 1996, in his high school year, he appeared on a radio program called ‘A starry night’ as an acapella group with his friends and advanced to the final.

Anthem (1999)
He made his first debut as Anthem - a group of four members. In 1998, he won the grand winner prize with a song called ‘letting you go’(Hangul: 너를 보내며) in ‘new era music competition’ by SBS. In the following year, he released the first album. However, Anthem did not gain much popularity as the public regarded their R&B music as ‘outdated’. As they were not profitable, the entertainment company committed atrocities on him which made him not to appear on the screen.

Brown Eyes (2001~ 2008)
Brown Eyes was comprised of Naul and Yoongun. Yoon gun was a sub-vocalist and mostly composed and produced their music, and Naul was a main-vocalist and worked on cover arts for their albums. Yoongun’s composing and producing abilities and Naul’s singing abilities were outstanding, which won a great deal of popularity. The title of their first album, ‘already one year’(Hangul: 벌써 일년),was on the top of the music chart for 21 weeks, which resulted in unprecedent hit and introduced a singer Naul to the public.

Brown Eyed Soul (2003~present)
Having a period of hiatus after 2nd album of 'Brown Eyes', Naul organized a band called 'Brown Eyed Soul' with three more people (Jungyub, Yongjun, Sung Hoon).

Solo
He released his first solo album between the first and second albums of Brown Eyed Soul. In 2005, he released ‘Back To The Soul Flight’, which was mostly composed of covers of old songs with the title track ‘one’s way back’(Hangul: 귀로). On September 20th, 2012, his solo album called ‘Principle of My Soul’ was released, which was not a covers album but composed of his original songs. The title ‘memories of wind’ (Hangul: 바람기억) won the first place of the chart and was listed on 82th on the chart even after three years.

On February 5th, 2015, he released ‘You from the same time’(Hangul: 같은 시간 속의 너) for the first single project by Brown Eyed soul, which won the first place on main streaming charts. On November 29th, 2017, his pre-released track called ‘Emptiness in memory’ (Hangul: 기억의 빈자리) from his 2nd album ‘Sound Doctrine’ ranked on the top of most music charts in South Korea as soon as it was released. Critics praised how it emotionalized the music style of 1980s and 1990s with sound of synthesizer. On March 28th, 2018, his 2nd full album, ‘Sound Doctrine’, was released with the title called ‘Feel Like’(Hangul: 널 부르는 밤).

Singing ability
He is often regarded as the best R&B singer in Korea with his outstanding vocal resonation. He is the only Asian singer who Stevie Wonder, Michael Bolton, and Boyz II Men proposed a collaboration. In addition, Eric Benet covered a track of Brown Eyed Soul called ‘Did we really love?’ (Hangul: 우리 정말 사랑했을까). He revealed on his interview that he was not gifted but put in a great deal of efforts to be a good singer. One of his friendly musician, Eco Bridge, said that Naul had a hard time with carrying a tone. Noticeable characteristics of his vocal style are a clear and soft tone, a splendid vocal technique such as vibration, and explosively high pitch. His voice is so unique that most of his listeners are able to recognize it. He has a grate range from low to high notes, spanning four octaves from 0 octave G2 to fourth octave C6.

Artistry
Although Naul said the way how he works as a painter (which prepares and presents a perfectly crafted piece of work) more fits to his personal tendency, he answered singing is his main job in his interview with Canon. In the interview, he told that he majored in art for his undergraduate and graduate diploma and still work on and exhibit his paintings. He also added that he never expected that he would be a singer. According to him, he was obsessed with music by black people and that made him to pursue his career in singer.

Most of his paintings are about black people and sometimes drawn on uncommon materials such as pieces of paper box. Some of his art pieces earned favorable evaluations from curators in an exhibition for charity by Barack Obama. Some of cover arts of Brown Eyed Soul albums are done by him, which he painted black people when he was traveling Jamaica.