Blackpink shall be first Okay-pop act to headline Coachella music pageant

SEOUL – Blackpink would be the first Okay-pop act to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant in 2023.

The South Korean quartet will carry out on April 15 and 22 as headliners for the pageant that takes place on the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California, in accordance with the pageant’s promoter Goldenvoice on Tuesday.

Others headlining Coachella embrace Unhealthy Bunny, the Puerto Rican singer who would be the first Latino artiste to take action, and the feted different R&B singer-songwriter Frank Ocean.

Coachella, the biggest music pageant in North America that started in 1999, is held for 2 weeks and hosts round 300,000 attendees yearly. The pageant has sought to current a extra diversified line-up lately.

In 2019, Blackpink was the primary Okay-pop woman group to carry out at Coachella.

The primary South Korean act to participate within the celebrated music pageant was the duo EE in 2011, adopted by hip-hop group Epik Excessive in 2016. Indie band Hyukoh and rock band Jambinai had been invited to Coachella in 2019 together with Blackpink.

In 2020, Okay-pop bigwigs Bigbang had been set to play on the pageant however the mission foundered as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.

in 2022, the second-generation Okay-pop woman group 2NE1 carried out at Coachella as a full unit for the primary time in six years. Fourth-generation Okay-pop woman group Aespa additionally took the stage that very same 12 months.

For Blackpink, their 2019 Coachella debut helped the group garner reputation in the USA. Shortly after, the ladies peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and topped the identical chart in September 2022 with their second full-length album, Born Pink.

Blackpink will even be the primary Okay-pop artistes to headline the British Summer time Time pageant held at Hyde Park in London on July 2. THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK