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K-pop tour brings genre’s hits to Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs Gazette·Jennifer Mulson·about 1 month ago
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K-pop is Oscar-approved. Earlier this year, for the first time in Oscar history, a K-pop song took home a statuette for original song, when “Golden,” from the Netflix animated 2025 film “KPop Demon Hunters,” performed by the group HUNTR/X, snagged the honors. It was inevitable, since K-pop, or Korean popular music, which emerged out of South Korea in the early 2000s, hit the American mainstream with Psy’s 2012 hit “Gangnam Style” and went gangbusters. The new tour, “Forever K-Pop – A Celebration Concert,” will feature K-pop hits, including “Golden,” on Tuesday at the Pikes Peak Center. Emily Anne Goes, a Filipino actor, singer,and dancer based in New York City, is part of a cast of four women, one of whom is a DJ, and two men. “It’s (K-pop) insanely impressive,” said Goes, a musical theater performer. “The stamina that it takes to sing and dance that K-pop idols are doing is crazy. Nobody on Broadway is doing the work they’re doing. On Broadway, if you’re singing lead, you can just focus on singing.…

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