Moonbin, a member of the Korean k-pop band Astro and one-half of the musical duo Moonbin & Sanha, has died. He was 25.
Police in South Korea mentioned the singer’s physique was found at his residence in Seoul’s Gangnam-gu district by the band’s supervisor on Wednesday night, The Korea Instances reported. Police mentioned they’re nonetheless investigating the reason for dying, however consider Moonbin died by suicide.
Astro’s document label Fantagio Music confirmed Moonbin’s dying in a press release posted to social media. “Astro’s Moonbin has all of the sudden left us to develop into a star within the sky,” Fantagio mentioned within the assertion. “All the different Astro members, his colleague artists and staff at Fantagio are deeply mourning him with nice grief and shock.”
Moonbin was born Moon Bin in 1998 within the provincial metropolis of Cheongju, South Korea. He entered the leisure trade at an early age, first as a toddler mannequin after which as a singer. His youthful sister Moon Sua, would go on to be a member of the k-pop lady group Billlie.
Signed by Fantagio’s expertise arm in his teenagers, Moonbin would be a part of the group Astro, with the six-man act making their debut in February 2016 shortly after showing on the MBC Music actuality TV present Astro OK! Prepared.
Of their first 12 months, the band launched three seasonally named EPs, together with the debut Spring Up, Summer season Vibes and Autumn Story. After attaining some success at residence and in Japan, helped by additional appearances within the net collection and actuality exhibits, Astro launched a lot of mini albums till they launched their first full studio album, All Gentle, in January 2019.
In November 2019, Moonbin took a step again from Astro, with Fantagio revealing that the singer was fighting well being points. He would return in early 2020 and would characteristic on the band’s 2021 album All Yours and the 2022 launch Drive to the Starry Highway.
Moonbin and fellow Astro member Sanha would mix to kind the duo Moonbin & Sanha and launch three EPs, starting with In-Out in 2020, which was adopted by Refuge (2022) and Incense which was launched in January.
Outdoors of music, very like different k-pop stars, Moonbin was a daily on actuality TV and competitors exhibits. He co-hosted the MBC collection Present Champion and appeared in Saturday Evening Dwell Korea. As an actor he appeared in a lot of net dramas and had important roles within the tv collection Boys Over Flowers (2009) and Second of Eighteen (2019).
For those who or anybody is having ideas of suicide, please name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
