🇰🇷 Rosé

Roseanne Park was born on February 11, 1997, in Auckland, New Zealand, to Korean parents who emigrated from Seoul. The family relocated to Melbourne, Australia, when she was eight. She attended Canterbury Girls' Secondary College in Melbourne and grew up singing in church choirs and at school assemblies. In May 2012, at the age of fifteen, she auditioned for a YG Entertainment scout who had travelled to Sydney; she was, of seven hundred auditioners that day, the only one offered a trainee contract.

She moved to Seoul alone and trained at YG Entertainment for four years before her debut with BLACKPINK on August 8, 2016, as the group's main vocalist and lead dancer. Her vocal range — a clear soprano with a marked vibrato register on her upper notes — became the central vocal signature of the group, particularly on tracks like "Stay," "Don't Know What To Do," and the second-verse bridges of "DDU-DU DDU-DU."

Within BLACKPINK, Rosé developed a parallel identity as the group's musician — the member most strongly associated with the guitar, with acoustic performance, with singer-songwriter material. Her acoustic covers ("Coming Home," "You & I") on the group's Asia and world tours became a recurring set element. The musician identity informed her solo work: her debut solo single album "R" (March 2021) and its lead track "On the Ground" presented her as a guitar-led pop artist rather than a hip-hop or dance-pop performer.

"On the Ground" debuted at number one on the Billboard Global 200 chart on its release and reached number 70 on the US Billboard Hot 100 — at the time the highest debut by a Korean female soloist on the chart. The accompanying B-side, "Gone," charted across Asia.

In 2021, Yves Saint Laurent named Rosé its Global Ambassador, the first Asian woman to hold the position. The Saint Laurent campaigns, shot by Anthony Vaccarello, presented Rosé as a Saint Laurent woman in a way that mirrored the brand's classical positioning around the work of Catherine Deneuve and Jane Birkin. Tiffany & Co. and Puma followed with global ambassadorships in 2022 and 2023.

In late 2023, Rosé signed with Atlantic Records and The Black Label, departing from full YG management for her solo work while remaining contracted with YG for group activities. The Atlantic signing — like Lisa's RCA signing the same year — represented a structural breakthrough for K-pop solo artists into Anglophone major-label distribution.

Her first studio album, "Rosie," was released by Atlantic Records on December 6, 2024. The lead single "APT.," a duet with Bruno Mars released two months earlier in October 2024, became, by year-end, the highest-charting Hot 100 song by a Korean female soloist in history, peaking at number three on the Hot 100 in January 2025 and number one on the Billboard Global 200. The follow-up single "Number One Girl" charted in multiple regions through early 2025.

The Rosé of 2026 occupies an unusual position in the global music industry: an Australian-raised Korean soprano who has crossed structurally from K-pop into Anglophone mainstream music in a way that no female Asian artist had previously managed. The "APT." peak at Hot 100 #3 placed her, briefly, in the position of the highest-charting Asian female solo artist on the American chart in the chart's history. The position is hers to extend.

Her guitar — a battered acoustic she has played since her Melbourne secondary-school years — has become one of BLACKPINK's identifying visual elements. The Atlantic Records team, in the lead-up to "Rosie," structured the album around the singer-songwriter positioning the guitar enabled, building the press cycle around her status as the rare Anglophone-fluent K-pop solo artist who could plausibly carry an acoustic Late Show booking. "APT." was, by the album's standards, the loudest track; the remainder of "Rosie" leaned intentionally toward the quieter end of the singer-songwriter register. Inside the BLACKPINK quartet, Rosé is the member whose career has crossed most fully into Anglophone-music structure — the Atlantic deal, the Saint Laurent ambassadorship, the Hot 100 peak, the Bruno Mars co-writing partnership — and her portfolio is, by 2026, the principal reference case for any Asian female pop artist planning a long Anglophone career.