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J-Hope, 28, who made his debut as a member of
BTS in 2013 and released his first solo mixtape five years
later, is slated to close the four-day Lollapalooza festival
with a main-stage performance on July 31, according to Live
Nation Entertainment.
The billing of J-Hope comes barely a month after the seven
members of BTS (short for the Korean phrase Bangtan Sonyeondan,
or "Bulletproof Boys") said they were taking a break from
musical ventures as a group to pursue solo projects.
Live Nation also announced that the five-member South Korean boy
band Tomorrow X Together, also known as TXT, are billed to
perform at Lollapalooza on July 30, marking their U.S. festival
debut.
Welcoming both acts to the "Lollapalooza family,” festival
founder Perry Farrell said in a statement: “Their global
audience speak different languages but possess an intense
passion for their music. ... These are the superstars of the
global phenomenon of K-Pop."
J-Hope, a rapper, songwriter and dancer, was the third member to
join BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, as a trainee of the
septet, after RM and Suga.
His 2018 debut solo mixtape, "Hope World," peaked at No. 38 on
the Billboard 200, making him the highest-ranking solo Korean
artist on the U.S. album chart at the time, according to
Wikipedia.
Still, his solo following pales in comparison to the blockbuster
global success of BTS, the best-selling act in South Korean
history, with over 30 million albums sold, and one of the few
recording groups since the Beatles in the 1960s to have charted
four U.S. No. 1 albums in less than two years.
Lollapalooza, which began as a touring show in 1991, has since
made Chicago's Grant Park its annual venue and ranks as one of
the leading events on the U.S. musical festival circuit.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; editing by Jonathan
Oatis)
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