Super Junior & Leslie Grace Discuss How K-Pop and Latin Music Flourish Together at KCON 2018 NY
If someone wanted to place bets to the future of music, they may have needed to look no further than the KCON 2018 New York festival at the Prudential Center. The two-day convention-concert extravaganza brought 53,000 fans to the Newark, NJ arena who were treated to everything from workshops, panels, artist meet-and-greets as well as a live performance of the first-ever hit K-pop/Latin-pop collaboration in Super Junior and Leslie Grace's "Lo Siento." The trilingual Korean-Spanish-English track led Super Junior to become the first K-pop act to enter Billboard's Latin charts and brought the two seemingly opposite artists on tour throughout Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Peru, so far.
Backstage at KCON, where the artists were gearing up to give the first-ever stateside live performance of the track, there was nothing but appreciation and playfulness (read on) between everyone. Leslie cracked jokes with SuJu's Siwon, but smiled and interacted with each of the band's six members in attendance. The artists opened up to Fuse about what they've learned from one another and indicate yet another collab may be in the works very soon to further spread what they see as a mutually beneficial, musical relationship.
As Leslie shouted during her cameo in Super Junior's set later that night "This is only the beginning!" in both English and Spanish, indicating that their future is looking exciting and very multilingual. Read on for more and stay tuned for more from Fuse's time on the ground at KCON.
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