BLACKPINK’s Rosé says YouTubers inspired her to pick up the guitar: “I was like, ‘I want to be like them’”
Rosé, solo artist and member of K-pop outfit BLACKPINK, says it was players on YouTube who inspired her to learn guitar.
The New Zealand-born artist, who began learning guitar as a teenager and is now 27, has just released an acoustically-laced solo record titled Rosie. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, becoming the highest-charting album by a K-pop female solo artist in the US, and it also ranked at number four on the UK Albums Chart.
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Appearing on The Tonight Show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Rosé says she began learning around the same time she fell in love with singing and went to audition for BLACKPINK: “YouTube was kind of hitting off back then, and all these YouTubers online, they looked really cool, and so I was like, ‘I want to be like them’ and just picked it up,” she says.
Of her first guitar, she recalls, “It was blue. It was $70. My dad bought it for me, and I remember it was a cheap one. So like, my fingers hurt so much… I got together all my pocket money that I’d saved up my whole life, I was probably 14 by then, and I still have it. It’s still my favourite guitar, [I bought a] Taylor GS Mini.”
Rosé used the guitar at her audition for the K-pop group, for which she performed a rendition of Jason Mraz’s I Won’t Give Up, and the rest is history. Watch her interview below:
Rosé teamed up with Bruno Mars earlier this year for the release of APT., the lead single from her Rosie album. It topped the charts in numerous countries, including South Korea, Australia, and more. It marked her first single in three years as a solo artist.
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