Fans gathered on a Friday afternoon to finally celebrate one of the most awaited concerts in the K-Pop scene in Puerto Rico. KARD, a four member co-ed group, consist of: J.Seph, BM, Somin, and Jiwoo. They officially debuted on July 19, 2017, with their first mini album, “Hola Hola” under DSP Media. However, leading up to this, they released three project singles "Oh NaNa", "Don't Recall," and "RUMOR" which awakened the interest of many people, specially Latin American fans.
KARD, well known for their sounds inspired by reggaeton and moombahton, had a big following in the island long before their official debut.
Prior to taking the stage of their sold-out show, they hosted a press conference with local media outlets to talk about their tour and relationship with Latin American music.
K Fuse: Recently you have been uploading more covers of Latin American songs to your SNS, do you have anyone helping you with the Spanish pronunciation (because it's so good!)? And has your interest for the language grown in any way after this?
BM: Yes we have someone! I have a friend called "Big Shot" who's a Korean rapper from the 1st generation. This friend lived in Latin America for many years when he was younger so he speaks Spanish and helped me to learn the language. He advised that since there's many countries and accents in Latin America, it would be best for me to choose one to learn their accent from and he guided me through it.
KARD also shared how excited they were to play a sold-out show in Puerto Rico, the homeland of reggaeton.
As previously proved, Puerto Rico is known for being a loud and welcoming crowd. Even more so after waiting for them for so long. People's requests for a KARD concert in the island go back as early as their first tour, that's why the fans were more eager than ever to see them perform. KARD opened the concert with "Tell My Momma", part of their 7th Mini Album “Where To Now? (Part.1: Yellow Light)”. The crowd's reaction reached new levels as they saw the members perform for the first time. KARD followed with "Ring The Alarm" and their debut "Hola Hola" warming up the crowd further. The whole venue, almost two thousand fans, were singing along to every lyric. They did a brief introduction and talked about how happy they were to be playing the show. After that, for the next segment, they asked the audience if they were able to see them if they came closer to sing to them. The fans went crazy and were the most excited when KARD actually did. Between KARD’s songs BM, who has his own discography apart from the group, performed from his repertoire for the fans to enjoy. In the meantime, the rest of the group were doing an outfit change to prepare for the second half of the concert. During this time the group performed a couple of Latin American songs as a gift for their fans — known as Hidden Kards. Some of the songs they performed were Bad Bunny ft. JHAYCO's "Dákiti", Becky G ft. Natti Natasha's "Sin Pinama", Becky G ft. Bad Bunny's "Mayores", and Trueno's "Dance Crip".
It's an understatement to say KARD were loving the Puerto Rican crowd's enthusiasm as they pointed out the fans clapping during one of their VCR's (which was the first time people did that during the tour) and chanting their famous "Yo soy boricua, pa' que tu lo sepas". BM took it a step further and added that he might be in love with the Puerto Rican accent, making the crowd go wild. They wrapped up the concert with "Red Moon" and a double encore for "Dumb Litty" while wearing Puerto Rican national baseball jerseys (personalized for each member), matching caps and waving the Puerto Rican flag.
Although this was KARD's last performance of the Latin American leg of their tour, the will continue in the United States for their <KARD: NEW ERA 2025 NORTH AMERICA TOUR> stopping in Nashville, Dallas, Toronto, Miami, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Special thanks to N2O4 Entertainment and DSP Media for the opportunity.
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