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Blackpink before the fame: what Jennie, Rosé, Lisa and Jisoo were like before they became K-pop idols

Half the band lived in New Zealand; one beat out 4,000 teens to be chosen for the group; another debuted as the mystery woman on a G-Dragon track – so who’s who?

Any true K-pop fan knows who Blackpink are: that the girl group is made up of Jennie, Rosé, Lisa and Jisoo, that they just had a smash hit with a song called Ice Cream featuring Selena Gomez, that they wear some of the best outfits of any group ever onstage – heck, some of us are even au fait with their make-up habits.

But how well do we know them really? It’s only been four years since they blazed into the world of Korean pop music, so what were they like before they joined the group? Let’s take a closer look.

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