K-Pop star J-Hope to make music history at Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival

LOS ANGELES, July 19 (Reuters) – Okay-Pop star J-Hope of the boy band sensation BTS will carry out this month because the finale act at Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza present, changing into the primary South Korean artist to headline a serious U.S. musical pageant, organizers mentioned on Tuesday.

J-Hope, 28, who made his debut as a member of BTS in 2013 and launched his first solo mixtape 5 years later, is slated to shut the four-day Lollapalooza pageant with a main-stage efficiency on July 31, in keeping with Reside Nation Leisure.

The billing of J-Hope comes barely a month after the seven members of BTS (brief for the Korean phrase Bangtan Sonyeondan, or “Bulletproof Boys”) mentioned they had been taking a break from musical ventures as a bunch to pursue solo initiatives. learn extra

Reside Nation additionally introduced that the five-member South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Collectively, also referred to as TXT, are billed to carry out at Lollapalooza on July 30, marking their U.S. pageant debut.

Welcoming each acts to the “Lollapalooza household,” pageant founder Perry Farrell mentioned in a press release: “Their international viewers communicate totally different languages however possess an intense ardour for his or her music. … These are the superstars of the worldwide phenomenon of Okay-Pop.”

J-Hope, a rapper, songwriter and dancer, was the third member to hitch BTS, also referred to as the Bangtan Boys, as a trainee of the septet, after RM and Suga.

His 2018 debut solo mixtape, “Hope World,” peaked at No. 38 on the Billboard 200, making him the highest-ranking solo Korean artist on the U.S. album chart on the time, in keeping with Wikipedia.

Nonetheless, his solo following pales compared to the blockbuster international success of BTS, the best-selling act in South Korean historical past, with over 30 million albums bought, and one of many few recording teams for the reason that Beatles within the Nineteen Sixties to have charted 4 U.S. No. 1 albums in lower than two years.

Lollapalooza, which started as a touring present in 1991, has since made Chicago’s Grant Park its annual venue and ranks as one of many main occasions on the U.S. musical pageant circuit.

Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; enhancing by Jonathan Oatis

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