Who is Sriya Lenka? The first K-pop star from India – Hindustan Times – FilmyVoice

India on Thursday obtained its first Ok-pop star as 18-year-old Sriya Lenka from Odisha was named the fifth member of famend group Blackswan. Lenka’s journey to Blackswan began in 2020 throughout the Covid-19 lockdown, when she began auditioning for a number of Ok-pop bands. After a sequence of auditions, she was lastly shortlisted for a coaching camp in Seoul the place she honed her inventive expertise in an intense 5-month programme. Aside from Lenka, Brazil’s 19-year-old Gabriela Dalcin was named because the sixth member of the group

Who’s Sriya Lenka: The primary Ok-pop star from India

> Sriya Lenka was born in Odisha’s Rourkela district in 2003. Since her childhood, she was within the music and humanities business. Lenka’s father, Avinash Lenka, works for a personal firm in Jharsuguda. He instructed the media that he was overjoyed after listening to that his daughter could be the primary Indian to be a Ok-pop star.

> Lenka is skilled in a number of dance types, together with Odissi classical kind, freestyle, hip-hop and modern. She has been constructing her dancing expertise for the reason that age of 12. Sriya Lenka determined to construct on her Ok-pop dream after she watched the video of Ok-pop hit ‘Growl MV’ by Exo band and tried to repeat the members’ strikes.

> Throughout the Covid-19 lockdown imposed in 2020, she began auditioning for Ok-pop teams. She learnt Korean on-line and watched plenty of Korean dramas to strengthen her grasp of Korean language and tradition.

> In December 2021, after months of practising and a number of other auditions, Sriya Lenka was shortlisted for coaching in Seoul to change into a member of the Korean pop band Blackswan, after its oldest member, Hyeme, left the group in November 2020. She was chosen from amongst 4,000 candidates by a YouTube audition programme.

> Within the final 5 months of her coaching she was put by an intense course of that ranged from commonplace vocal, rap, dance classes to non-public coaching, language, and musical devices.

> As Sriya Lenka efficiently accomplished her coaching, the Blackswan group introduced Thursday that she has been chosen because the fifth member of the group.

About Blackswan Ok-pop group

Blackswan was began as Rania in 2011. It later grew to become BP Rania earlier than getting its present title in October 2020. It’s at the moment a four-member Ok-pop woman band consisting of its chief and Korean singer Go Younger Heun (Youngheun), Belgium-based Senegalese singer-rapper-model Fatou Samba (Fatou), Korean singer-dancer Kim Da Hye (Judy) and maknae Brazilian-Japanese singer Larissa Ayumi Cartes Sakata (Leia). The group debuted in 2020 with a full album Goodbye Rania, adopted by its first single album Near Me in 2021.