Odisha’s Sriya Lenka, first Indian Okay-Pop star REVEALS how she joined Blackswan

Bhubaneswar: Sriya Lenka aka Shreya Lenka from the Indian state of Odisha drew headlines after she grew to become the primary Okay-pop star ever.

The 18-year-old lady Lenka, who has been chosen because the fifth member of the girl-Okay-pop band ‘Blackswan’, just lately returned to India.

Sriya Lenka was chosen from a world audition held by the South Korean music firm DR Music Leisure in an try so as to add members to the globally acknowledged multinational lady group Blackswan, which already has Okay-pop idols from Brazil and Belgium other than South Korea. Together with Sriya, Gabriela Dalcin from Brazil has additionally been chosen from the 6-month audition course of.

“When DR Musik had introduced auditions, all studios had been closed as a consequence of COVID. I needed to apply dancing on my roof. I used to be chosen for the primary spherical after which I centered on bettering my vocals. I began studying Hindu classical in Rourkela with the assistance of my grandmother. For the third spherical, we had been going to Korea, however no planes had been out there as a result of shutdown. However my firm helped me lots, ”she mentioned.

is a multinational Okay-pop lady band that debuted in 2020 beneath the Korean music label DR Music Leisure with a full album Goodbye Rania, adopted by its first single album Near Me in 2021. At present, the band consists of 4 members, together with its chief and Korean singer Go Younger Heun (Youngheun), Belgian Senegalese singer-rapper mannequin Fatou Samba (Fatou), Korean singer-dancer Kim Da Hye (Judy) and maknae Brazilian-Japanese singer Larissa Ayumi Cartes Sakata (Leia).