BTS' J-Hope set to perform as finale act at Chicago's annual Lollapalooza show this month
K-pop star J-Hope, from mega-hit band BTS, is set to perform as the finale act at Chicago's annual Lollapalooza show this month, becoming the first South Korean artist to headline a major US music festival. Gone, Reuters reported.
J-Hope, 28, who debuted as a member of BTS in 2013 and released her first solo mixtape five years later, is set to kick off the four-day Lollapalooza festival with a main stage performance on July 31, live. According to Nation Entertainment.
J-Hope's billing comes barely a month after seven members of BTS (short for the Korean phrase Bangtan Sonyeondan, or "Bulletproof Boys") said that they would pursue musical ventures as a group to pursue solo projects. were taking a break.
Live Nation also announced that five-member South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together, also known as TXT, are billed to perform at Lollapalooza on July 30, marking their US festival debut. is a symbol.
Welcoming both acts into the "Lollapalooza family", festival founder Perry Farrell said in a statement: "Their global audiences speak different languages, but they have an intense passion for their music. ... The superstar of pop's global phenomenon."
J-Hope, a rapper, songwriter and dancer, was the third member to join BTS, after RM and Suga, also known as the Bangtan Boys, as a septet's apprentice.
His first solo mixtape of 2018, Hope World, peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200, making him the highest-ranking solo Korean artist on the US album chart at the time, according to Wikipedia.
Nevertheless, BTS's blockbuster global success, the best-selling act in South Korean history, with more than 30 million albums sold, and their solo following exceeded that of one of the few recording groups since the Beatles in the 1960s. who made four charts. 1 album in less than two years.
Lollapalooza, which began as a touring show in 1991, has since made Chicago's Grant Park its annual venue and ranks as one of the major events on the US musical festival circuit.—Reuters