{"id":15998,"date":"2021-11-09T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=15998"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:27:28","slug":"blackswan-fatou-black-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/blackswan-fatou-black-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackswan&#8217;s Fatou, the black idol who fights discrimination in an ermetic industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an industry as restrictive as K-Pop, millions of fans have been delighted to see the <strong>Fatou<\/strong> getting recognition as an artist on a global level. She is known for being the first black female idol among his members, but the scandals for discrimination and favoritism sparked countless changes to the line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Since November 2020, they have known success as a four-girl group. Although there were five members during the group&#8217;s re-debut under the name <strong>Blackswan<\/strong>, the following month one of them was expelled for a scandal involving the theft of several tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3ooIu55bsow\" title=\"BLACKSWAN(\ube14\ub799\uc2a4\uc644) - Close to Me @\uc778\uae30\uac00\uc694 inkigayo 20211017\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ooIu55bsow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fans didn&#8217;t care, since the attention has always been focused on Fatou, the black <strong>member<\/strong> of the group. Her mind-blowing visuals and her ability to rap have made her an icon.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent comeback, \u2018<strong>Close to Me<\/strong>\u2019, premiered a couple of weeks ago, and the single&#8217;s promotions are getting high visibility on YouTube. <strong>TikTok<\/strong> has echoed the most striking of the members, and the group is attracting a large number of new fans, who want to support it to show that in K-Pop there is also a place for people of other ethnicities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NnW22WrN7g0\" title=\"[BLACKSWAN] &#039;Close to Me&#039; Official M\/V\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NnW22WrN7g0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her new song seeks to get as close as possible to the sound that has prevailed in the industry for years, with their particular touch and multicultural line-up: in addition to Fatou, who is from Senegal, they have <strong>Leia<\/strong>, of Japanese-Brazilian origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an industry as restrictive as K-Pop, millions of fans have been delighted to see the Fatou getting recognition as an artist on a global level. She is known for being the first black female idol among his members, but the scandals for discrimination and favoritism sparked countless changes to the line-up. Since November 2020, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":16009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}