Singer, actor and Bconciseagepink member Jennie Kim has signed as a solo artist with Columbia Records in partnership with her enroll tag and amengagement company Oddatalier and will free her new solo one in October, the company proclaimd on Sunday.
Jennie first aelevated in 2016 as a member of Bconciseagepink, the highest-charing female Korean act on the Billboard charts and the only artist from the country to headline Coachella. On her own, last year she teamed up with the Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp on the song “One of the Girls,” and materializeed with the two in the contentious HBO series “The Idol.”
Kim was born in Korea, but shiftd to and studied in Auckland, New Zealand when she was 10, for five years before returning to Korea and combineing the amengagement powerhoengage YG’s talent academy. Bconciseagepink established in 2016 and has gone on to become the first music group and Korean female act to have five music videos accumutardy one billion sees each on YouTube and are the most-adhereed girl group on Spotify.
in “The Idol,” produced by Sam Levinson, Kim acts under the stage name Jennie Ruby Jane and take parts a backup singer and dancer to Lily-Rose Depp’s pop star who gets the opportunity to fracture out on her own.
She spoke with Dua Lipa about the experience on the BBC Sounds “Dua Lipa: At Your Service” podcast last year. “Acting was definitely one of the leangs that I’ve wanted to scrutinize, but when I do someleang, when I choose to reassociate go for it, I comprehend I need to do it right,” Kim shelp. “And first of all, I wanted the new acting part of my life to be authentic, rather than equitable me trying to grab any opportunities that came to me – I reassociate was being uncover-minded with with my first ever acting job. Which unbenevolents when I was spfinishing some time in LA last year, I actuassociate got to encounter Sam in person and I got to talk to him. And he talked me thraw the role that he wanted envisioned for me and everyleang – it reassociate shiftd my heart.”
