All About Blackswan: Will The Group Feature India's First K-Pop Artist?

South Korean girl music band Blackswan is the talk of the town these days as it soon will be having an Indian member. Shreya Lenka, a dancer-singer from Odisha, will be India's first K-Pop idol. Let's know more about the girl group and its members.

Blackswan is a five-member girl music group of South Korea. The group will soon be joined by a new member for which the group's music company, DR Music, has been auditioning artists from all around the world. After several rounds of competition and evaluation, the label has finalised two artists, one of whom will be the 5th and final member of Blackswan. One of these two artists is Shreya Lenka, Indian dancer, singer and yoga practitioner from Odisha.

All About Blackswan: The K-Pop Group That India's First K-Pop Idol Shreya Lenka Will Join

Blackswan is a group under DR Music label that debuted as a five member group on October 16, 2020 with the album Goodbye Rania. The group consisted of Youngheun, Fatou, Judy, Leia and Hyeme, however, in November 2020, Hyeme was involved in a scandal in which she was accused of scamming a friend of 50 KRW post which the music label announced that she will be leaving the group.

After the departure of Hyeme, the group started looking for a fifth member for which DR Music announced auditions in May 2021. The group's second album and first single album Close To Me came out on October 14, 2021. The group faced many challenges during and before debut. Covid-19 delayed their debut and then there was Hyeme's scandal. Standing strong in these situations, the group will be joined by a fifth member in nearly a month which could possibly be the Indian artist Shreya Lenka.

Blackswan was renamed, transformed and has gone through several changes. The group originally debuted in 2011 as Rania, an eight-member girl group. Soon after the debut, one of the members left the group and the group's music label was posed with allegations of being unprofessional and irresponsible.

Rania's debut performances were called provocative which led to changes in their costume and choreography. The member was also rumoured to have an American debut but the plans were dropped. Soon more members started leaving and joining the group and by May 2016, all original members left the group. Rania was the group that had the first black woman as an official member of a K-Pop group, Alexander Reid in 2015.

The group made a comeback with seven members in late 2016 which was named BP Rania. The new group again went through a lot of challenges including delayed American debut, issues of music label, member changes and many other things. After that, yet another transformation took place and BP Rania became Blackswan in 2020 with five members.

Blackswan, till now, is going smooth except Hyeme's controversy. The group has released two albums that did well among the ">audience. The group is also the goodwill ambassador of Pyeongchang County since July, 2020 and also started a Korean travel series in March 2021 in collaboration with Korean Cultural Center Of Belgium. The group is looking forward to the addition of a new member this year which will be one among Shreya Lenka, Indian singer, dancer and yoga practitioner and Brazil's Gabriela Dalcin.

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