Blackpink‘s Lisa is becoming a member of the 2024 World Citizen Pageant lineup.
The 27-year-old rapper and singer will carry out as a co-headliner of the music competition, the presenting group introduced Tuesday morning. She joins beforehand introduced headliners Submit Malone, Doja Cat, Jelly Roll and Rauw Alejandro.
Actor Hugh Jackman will host this yr’s competition, which is placed on by World Citizen, the world’s main worldwide advocacy group on a mission to finish excessive poverty. The star-studded live performance will happen on September 28 on the Central Park Nice Garden in New York.
The 2024 World Citizen Pageant marks Lisa’s first solo competition efficiency. As a member of the Ok-Pop supergroup Blackpink, Lisa and her fellow group members (Jennie, Jisoo and Rosé) headlined the 2023 Coachella Valley Music And Arts competition. The four-piece woman group, shaped beneath Korean leisure firm YG Leisure, have been the primary Ok-Pop act to headline the competition.
“Lisa isn’t solely an unimaginable performer, but additionally a robust advocate, leveraging her voice and platform to drive motion on a number of the most pressing challenges our world is going through,” World Citizen’s svp and head of music, leisure and artist relations Katie Hill stated in a press release.
“We look ahead to welcoming Lisa, and naturally Lilies and Blinks, to Central Park in September,” Hill added, name-checking the worldwide star’s fanbases.
Lisa just lately launched her newest solo single, “Rockstar,” on the finish of June. The only is the primary to return from her just lately shaped solo partnership with RCA Data. In December 2023, it was introduced that Blackpink had renewed their unique contracts for group actions with YG Leisure, nonetheless, it was later introduced that every one 4 members determined to half methods with the label for solo actions.
In February, Lisa introduced the formation of her new firm LLOUD, which she described in an Instagram submit as a “platform to showcase my imaginative and prescient in music and leisure.” In April, RCA Data introduced that Lisa and LLOUD have been getting into a partnership with the report label. Based on a launch from the label, the deal permits Lisa to launch new solo music beneath RCA Data whereas sustaining full possession of all her recordings.
Timed to the UN’s Common Meeting, which can finish simply days earlier than the live performance, the World Citizen Pageant will “advocate for the fairness of all folks, calling on governments, philanthropists and the non-public sector to make sure the essential wants of the world’s marginalized communities are fulfilled, together with immunizations and robust well being methods, high quality schooling, and nutritious meals,” based on a launch.
Tickets to the competition are free and will be earned via actions on the World Citizen app or the competition’s web site.