K-pop singer Lisa of Blackpink, full of confidence, talks about embracing her identity as Lalisa and her Thai heritage on her first solo single

Lisa is not only the most popular K-pop star on Instagram (with 61.9 million followers) but a brand ambassador for some of the world’s biggest fashion houses

She talks to the Post about her debut solo single Lalisa, the message she hopes fans will take away from hearing it and what she would say to her younger self

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Blackpink’s Lisa talks to the Post about confidence, what she’d tell her past self and being a singer that fans can be proud of.

Published: 7:45am, 8 Oct 2021Updated: 10:31am, 8 Oct 2021

“From Thailand to Korea, and now here, went for the throat/Being the greatest of all time ain’t fantasy,” sings Lisa of Blackpink on her first solo single, Lalisa.

Lalisa Manobal, better known as Lisa, is one of the world’s biggest Asian stars, and she hypes herself up as such on the hip-hop-fuelled dance track and its B-side, Money – released together as a single album.

“I have been preparing for a long time,” she tells the Post. “I couldn’t believe it at first. I kept thinking, ‘Is this real?’ I think it hit me more when I started filming the music video.”

Lisa, a member of one of K-pop’s biggest acts, Blackpink, has become not only the most popular K-pop star on Instagram (with 61.9 million followers) but a brand ambassador for some of the world’s biggest fashion houses, including Celine and Bulgari.

Lisa is a brand ambassador for some of the world’s biggest fashion houses, including Celine and Bulgari.

Her debut on September 10 came soon after the band’s fifth anniversary in August. Both as a quartet and as individuals (Jennie and Rosé have also released solo music and, along with Jisoo, have well over 45 million Instagram followers each), the women of Blackpink are some of the most prominent Gen Z pop stars and fashion icons in the world.