Gou was taught to DJ in 2009 by a friend from Korea. She had her first gig in Cirque Le Soir,
Soho, and later performed weekly at The Book Club,
East London. In 2013, she learned to use
Ableton Live and began to create her own tracks. Her first track, "Hungboo", was completed in 2014. Gou made her recording debut in January 2016 on Radio Slave's
Rekids label with
The Art of War Part 1, featuring a remix from Galcher Lustwerk. She next released four
EPs including
Seek for Maktoop, with hit track "It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)".
Maktoop was named after the Arabic word "maktoob", the equivalent to "written" or "destiny". This was followed by the EPs
Once in 2018, and
Moment in April 2019.
Once is the first time she has sung on a record. 2019 In 2017, Gou embarked on her first North American tour and made her
Boiler Room debut in
New York City. She became the first Korean DJ to play in Berlin's nightclub
Berghain. She plays more than one hundred live gigs in a year and has performed alongside the likes of
Moodymann,
The Blessed Madonna and
DJ Koze. She has since played gigs as a part of worldwide festival lineups including
Coachella,
Glastonbury, Sonus in
Croatia, Amsterdam's Dekmantel, London's
Printworks,
Ibiza,
Amsterdam Dance Event,
Primavera Sound in Portugal, Barcelona's
Sónar, as well as
Virgil Abloh's
Off-White fashion show among others. In an Interview with
Vice, she stated that she preferred to stay out of politics and would just perform for the people who want to hear her music. Gou released her music on record labels
Ninja Tune and
Phonica in 2018. That same year, "It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)" won Best Track at the
AIM Independent Music Awards. "It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)" was also listed on the tracklist for
FIFA 19. In 2019,
Forbes named Gou as one of the Asian leaders, pioneers and entrepreneurs under age 30. She launched her own fashion label KIRIN ("giraffe" in Korean), supported by Virgil Abloh, under the
New Guards Group in February, followed by her own independent record label, Gudu Records (gudu means "shoes" in Korean) in March. She next released
DJ-Kicks: Peggy Gou, the 69th installment of
!K7's
DJ-Kicks mix compilation in June. The album became her first
Billboard chart appearance, reaching number nine on the Dance/Electronic Album Sales chart, and the second compilation to reach the top 10 after
Moodymann's. In July, Gou released her first music video for her hit 2019 track "Starry Night" exclusively on
Apple Music, directed by Jonas Lindstroem, and once again featured
Yoo Ah-in, the lead actor in the award-winning South Korean film,
Burning. The music video was released worldwide on YouTube in September 2019. In December 2020, Gou joined Apple Music's ''New Year's Eve DJ Mixes'' with 21 other electronic music artists. She next released her seventh single "Nabi" in June 2021, featuring
Oh Hyuk from
Korean indie rock band
Hyukoh, followed by a tribute to her teenage years, "
I Go", that she called "My own reimagination of the sounds I grew up loving." In June 2023, Gou released "
(It Goes Like) Nanana" through
XL Recordings, featuring a sample from
André Tanneberger's 1998 song "
9 PM (Till I Come)". It was the lead single from her debut album,
I Hear You, which was released on 7 June 2024. "I Believe In Love Again" with Lenny Kravitz was released as the second single from the album in November 2023, followed by "1+1=11" in April 2024. == Discography ==