South Korean singer Yoon Sanha of K-pop boyband ASTRO will make his solo debut next month, his label Fantagio has confirmed.
Today (July 5), Fantagio announced that ASTRO singer Yoon Sanha will be the next member of ASTRO to embark on a solo career. The K-pop agency confirmed that he is “currently preparing his first solo album with the goal of releasing it in early August”, per Osen.
His upcoming solo release comes half a year after fellow ASTRO member Cha Eun-woo made his official solo debut with his first mini-album ‘Entity’ and its title track ‘Stay’. Prior to that the group’s leader MJ debuted as a trot artist in 2021 with his single ‘Get Set Yo’.
Sanha debuted as a member of ASTRO in 2016. In 2020, he and late-bandmate Moonbin debuted as a duo with the mini-album ‘In-Out’. They went on to release two more mini-albums, ‘Refuge’ and ‘Incense’, before Moonbin’s passing in April 2023.
Last March, Fantagio announced that original member Rocky had left the boyband following the expiration of his contract. Sanha, along with JinJin, Cha Eunwoo and Moonbin renewed their contracts with the agency. Leader MJ was serving his mandatory military service at the time.
ASTRO’s last release as a complete group was their 2022 studio album ‘Drive To The Starry Road’, which featured the title track ‘Candy Sugar Pop’.
In other K-pop news, rookie boyband ALL(H)OURS made their first-ever comeback earlier this week with their second mini-album ‘Witness’, which features the single ‘Shock’. The seven-member group debuted back in January with their mini-album, ‘All Yours’.
10cc drummer Paul Burgess has announced that he is leaving the band because the demands of touring have become too much for him.
The 75-year-old musician, who also spent time performing with Jethro Tull, Camel, Magna Carta, and The Icicle Works, has chosen to walk away from the legendary rock group after more than five decades.
He shared: “After so many wonderful years with 10cc, I must admit that the rigours of touring are no longer manageable for me as I get older, and I feel it’s time to let go of the long hours in airports and endless travel on buses.
“I’m not planning to stop playing altogether. I will still perform but at a pace that feels right, working alongside old friends and a new group of fellow musicians called The Guilty Men.”
Frontman Graham Gouldman confessed that it will feel unusual to perform without his “longest-running musical associate.”
He explained: “When Paul and I first joined forces in 10cc, we never could have imagined that we’d still be at it after 30 years, let alone 52.
“Paul has been my longest musical partner and it will feel different to turn around and see another drummer, but I completely understand why he no longer wants to sit on a plane for 14 hours or wake up in a new hotel every day for weeks at a time.”
Ben Stone, who has previously played with Mike and The Mechanics and Bonnie Tyler, will be taking over on drums.
Paul, who had several runs with 10cc after joining in 1973, performed his final show with the I’m Not In Love band in Alexandria, Virginia this past September.
The group is set to continue their And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour in the UK next year.
