Most children audition as early as 10-years-old, so one can only imagine when they start to practise singing and dancing. Entertainment agencies hold online and live global auditions,... Here are 11 K-Pop groups that debuted in 2011 and will be turning all of 10 years old this year!
Start voice and dance training at an early age. You can audition as early as 12 years old at many Kpop auditions. Therefore, getting a full two years of experience in dancing and voice training is recommended before auditioning. That means at the earliest you should be training at age 10.
8–11 years old: Agents and managers love to find actors in this age range.
You go to the audition center and apply for an audition in one of the vocal, rap, dance, acting, or model categories. Those between 12 and 25 years old in Korean age can participate, and there are no other restrictions on gender, educational background, or nationality.
With K-pop's global ascent, more diverse groups are springing up on the Korean music scene. One such example is "kid idols," a term which refers to young singers mostly aged between 9 and 14.
Yes, anyone can become an idol if you can sing, dance, and have visuals. Those are the three most important factors to becoming a trainee. Once you get accepted into an entertainment company, the real training starts.
Under most contracts, trainees and K-pop idols are required to pay back their management agencies for the cost of singing and dancing lessons, their wardrobes and living costs, among other things. As a result, K-pop idols may not make large profits.
Yes, especially if you're foreign. Unless you are a legal adult, your parents have to sign a paper that you hand in along with your audition application. In some companies, Koreans older than a certain age don't need permission, but that is rare, and even in those foreigners still need their parents approval.
Start by finding a company that is most likely to accept you and focus your attention on their auditions. If you're under 14 years old, a legal guardian will need to attend the audition with you or sign-off on the audition on your behalf.
Unlike other talent shows, American Idol has a strict age window. All contestants must be at least 15 years old and no more than 29 at the time of their audition.
Find out where a local acting club is. Enquire at school and ask friends to share information on their acting classes. Taking a part time after school class or joining a local youth theatre is a great way to start. Classes will teach discipline and drama techniques that you can build on throughout the years.
As a kid just starting out, you should wind up getting at least 1-2 audition or self-tape invitations each week. Some of those auditions will result in bookings. You can expect to book 1 out of every 5-10 auditions you get (as long as your acting technique is good and you're decent at natural acting).
A great way to help your child prepare for an acting audition is to rehearse their material with them. Have your child or teen run their lines with you or another family member. Even if your child has never been to an audition before or has no acting experience, practice makes perfect!
This New Girl Group's Youngest Member Is 11 Years Old — The Rest Are Adults. The age gap between the youngest and oldest members is 14 years! As more K-Pop groups debut, the question of debuting minors comes up time and time again.
This is how trainees with poor singing abilities pass their evaluations. While some idols may be among the best singers the world has seen, some idols' specialties lay outside of being vocalists. Their main role in the group may include dancing and rapping.
It is not important that you have to be a Korean, many YG entertainment artists are non-Korean. But if you're a foreigner, you do have to speak fluent Korean along with at least one other language, to ensure that you will be able to be a true artist at YG entertainment.
Who are K-pop fans? The average age of a K-pop fan is 23 years old, and over half are female.
Some companies accept trainees as young as 7 years old. They like to be young. Ew haha. However, they do accept trainees up to about the age of 23.
The K-pop diet is all about cutting down on fried, oily and fat-loaded foods. It focuses on foods that are rich in protein and other essential nutrients. While red meat is one of the staples in Korean cuisines, chicken and seafood are the preferred source of protein in the country. These also help in losing weight.
The trainee process lasts for an indefinite period of time, ranging from months to years, and usually involves vocal, dance, and language classes taken while living together with other trainees, who sometimes attend school at the same time. However, some trainees drop out of school to focus on their careers.
The life as a trainee is known to be a difficult one with the tight schedules as a result of this some give up on their dreams to become a kpop idol. The average training period for a trainee is 2 to 4 years. After training for a while there's a chance that the trainee may debut. However not all trainees debut.
One of the allures of K-pop is the anticipation of change. And the colors are never picked at random. Stylists work closely with record labels for months to strategically decide on the next hair color for every member of a group.
If the group remains popular, its members usually renew their contracts. But if not, the group may disband. The exact reason for the seven-year limit is unknown. In 2009, the Fair Trade Commission announced its plan to create a standard contract with a validity period of less than seven years.
According to a survey, the average training cost per entertainment trainee in South Korea amounted to around 0.88 million South Korean won. Including the training costs, an average of 1.2 million South Korean won was spent by entertainment agencies for their trainees every month.
The 7 Year curse in K-Pop is a term that describes the disbandment of a group 7 years after their debut. The main cause of this seven-year-curse is that the maximum (and usual) contract of a debuting idol after the year 2010 is 7 years.