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K-pop sensation BTS to return to US for in-person concerts
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Back on stage: Mid-dance, (from left to right) Suga, V, J-Hope, Jin, Jungkook, Jimin and RM of BTS perform onstage during the 2021 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on Nov. 21, 2021 in Los Angeles, California, the United States. The band will return to the US for a series of concerts in Las Vegas in April, their agency said on Wednesday. (Getty Images via AFP/Getty Images North America/Kevin Winter)
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outh Korean boy band BTS will return to the United States for a series of concerts in Las Vegas in April, their agency said on Wednesday.
The concerts, part of their Permission to Dance on Stage tour that has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held on April 8-9 and 15-16, with the last show live-streamed, Big Hit Music said in a statement.
Since debuting in 2013, BTS has spearheaded a global K-pop craze with catchy, upbeat music and dances, as well as lyrics and social campaigns aimed at empowering young people, many of whom have formed massive online fan bases.
The seven-member group played its first in-person concerts since the onset of the pandemic in November, in Los Angeles, and last week announced it would put on the first shows for their home fans since the pandemic began, with three concerts in the capital, Seoul, next month.
On Tuesday Big Hit said V, the band's singer and songwriter whose real name is Kim Tae-hyung, had recovered from a coronavirus infection.
He was the band's fifth member to contract COVID-19, including three who tested positive in December shortly after their return from the US shows.
As the pandemic spread in 2020, the band postponed and then called off what was meant to be their biggest international tour involving nearly 40 concerts. They held some online shows instead.
