The 2020 Netflix documentary Blackpink: Light Up the Sky introduces Rosé stealing time after-hours, strumming a guitar on the floor. “Sometimes I actually miss my trainee days because back then, we were surrounded by music all the time,” she says. “But these days, we’ve got a lot of work, so I actually have to make time for this.” The implication is that these nighttime jam sessions provided some personal relief at odds with the activities of Blackpink, the brash, world-touring, hip-hop-heavy girl group she belongs to. While her onstage persona, Rosé — real name Roseanne Park — has superhero swagger, her own musical tendencies flicker around private moments like this.

Rosé, 28, was born in Auckland and moved to Melbourne when she was 8. At 15, she went to Sydney for an open-call auditio

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