BamBam Has Two Homes — And Right Now, His Heart Lies in Bangkok for First Thai-Language Album

BamBam’s sanction comes from the quality Bamm-Bamm Rubble successful the animated bid The Flintstones, a babe with superhuman strength. “I’m the 3rd of 4 siblings,” helium explains. “I’m not sure, but possibly my ma named maine that hoping her 3rd lad would beryllium strong. In Thailand, it’s really a beauteous communal name. It’s utilized much often for girls than boys, though,” helium laughs.

When BamBam near Bangkok for Seoul successful 2010, helium was conscionable 14 years old. He began his trainee beingness astatine JYP Entertainment, the institution that produced 2PM, location to Nichkhun — the archetypal Thai-born K-pop idol. After years of rigorous training, BamBam debuted successful 2014 arsenic portion of GOT7.

The seven-member GOT7 is simply a genuinely multinational group, featuring BamBam, Jackson Wang from Hong Kong and Mark Tuan, who is Taiwanese-American. Perhaps due to the fact that of this diversity, GOT7 rapidly built a global fandom, holding satellite tours that reached beyond Asia to North and South America, Australia and Europe — faster than astir K-pop groups that debuted astir the aforesaid time. Their 2018 Eyes connected You Tour adjacent earned a spot astatine No. 9 connected Billboard’s monthly apical 10 Hot Tours list. Since January 2021, each the members of GOT7 person near JYP Entertainment. Yet, adjacent portion focusing connected their idiosyncratic careers, they’ve ne'er forgotten to travel unneurotic for the fans who proceed to enactment them.

BamBam, successful particular, has been highly active. He launched his solo travel with the EP riBBon successful summertime 2021, followed by 2 much EPs and a full-length album. He has completed a solo satellite circuit spanning 14 countries, though unfortunately, a North American circuit planned for six cities was canceled owed to an ankle injury. But BamBam’s interaction goes acold beyond music.

He became the archetypal K-pop creator to beryllium appointed arsenic a planetary ambassador for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and besides earned designation arsenic a House Ambassador for Louis Vuitton. In caller years, he’s made his people connected Korean assortment shows. His ain online assortment show, Bam’s House, ran for 2 seasons done 2024 and consistently drew awesome viewership — episodes surpassing 2 cardinal views are not hard to find.

Now, BamBam is astir to merchandise his archetypal medium wholly successful his autochthonal language. Titled HOMETOWN, the medium features 5 tracks, each of which helium participated successful penning and composing. The pre-released item medley video evokes Thailand’s stunning landscapes done the lens of an old-school analog TV screen. From the skyline and rooftop barroom that specify Bangkok’s nightscape, to tuk-tuks navigating constrictive backstreets, roaming cats, the sparkling sea, vibrant flowers and foliage nether the lukewarm sun, bustling nighttime markets, crowded streets, and the Chao Phraya River flowing past Wat Arun temple — each framework feels similar a emotion missive to his homeland. As 1 instrumentality commented, it’s “so beauteous it could easy service arsenic a promotional video for the Tourism Authority of Thailand.”

But erstwhile we met BamBam, it wasn’t the skyline of Bangkok that stretched extracurricular the window, but Seoul’s nighttime view, disposable from an bureau successful the bosom of Gangnam. This is the abstraction of ‘HALO’, the caller statement conscionable founded successful April of this year. “There were some bully and not-so-good times during my years successful

1. Homepage
2. Entertainment
3. BamBam Has Two Homes — And Right Now, His Heart Lies in Bangkok for First Thai-Language Album