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’.
Madonna revealed that she saw her late mother "on the other side" while she was in a medically induced coma in 2023.
In a conversation on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast on Monday, the Queen of Pop explained that she was treated in intensive care and remained in a coma for two days after doctors discovered a "serious bacterial infection" that developed after a mild fever.
Thinking back to the health scare, Madonna shared that she experienced a vision of her mother, also named Madonna Ciccone, who lost her life to breast cancer in December 1963.
"I was almost there on the other side, and I had a conscious moment," she said. "My mother appeared to me, and she said, 'Do you want to come with me?' And I said, 'No.'"
She added that her assistant was present in the room and heard her say the word, "No."
"And then, when I did eventually wake up, I realised that the 'no' was about me needing to forgive and make good with people that I still held grudges against," the 67-year-old explained.
One of the long-standing conflicts she chose to release was her troubled relationship with her brother Christopher Ciccone.
The artist passed away from pancreatic cancer at 63 in October 2024.
"For my brother, I didn't speak to him for, you know, for years, years, and years. And it was him being ill (and) reaching out to me and saying, 'I need your help.' And me having that moment like, 'Am I going to help my enemy?' You know, that's how it felt. And I just did," the Ray of Light singer said. "And I ended up (helping) and I felt so relieved. And it was such a load off my back, such a weight that was removed, baggage that I could put down to finally be able to be in a room with him and holding his hand, even if he was dying and saying, 'I love you and I forgive you.' That was really important."
