Lisa, born Pranpriya Manobal on 27 March 1997 in Buriram Province, Thailand, is the main dancer, lead rapper and only non-Korean member of the K-pop group BLACKPINK. She later adopted the name Lalisa, meaning “one who receives blessings”, on the advice of a fortune teller, and continues to perform under the shortened stage name Lisa. She was raised as an only child by her mother, Chitthip Brüschweiler, and her stepfather, chef Marco Brüschweiler, and showed an early passion for dance, competing in local contests and joining the dance crew We Zaa Cool alongside future GOT7 member BamBam. In 2010, at a global YG Entertainment audition held in Thailand, Lisa was the sole candidate selected from around 4,000 hopefuls, and at 14 she moved to Seoul to begin training, according to Biography.com’s profile of her life and career.

Lisa trained under YG Entertainment for five years and three months, one of the longest apprenticeships among her BLACKPINK bandmates, learning Korean alongside dance and vocal performance while adapting to life away from her family in Thailand. She debuted with BLACKPINK on 8 August 2016 alongside Jisoo, Jennie and Rose, quickly establishing herself as the group’s main dancer and a co-lead rapper, and becoming the first Thai idol to debut in a major Korean girl group, according to her Wikipedia biography, which draws on contemporaneous Korean and Thai entertainment coverage of the group’s rise. Within a few years BLACKPINK had become one of the best-selling girl groups in the world, giving Lisa a global platform well before she released any solo material of her own.

Lisa’s individual breakthrough came on 10 September 2021, when she released her debut solo single album “Lalisa”, becoming the first BLACKPINK member to go solo. The title track’s music video drew 73.6 million views within 24 hours, breaking the record for the most-viewed YouTube music video by a solo artist in that timeframe, previously held by Taylor Swift’s “Me!”, a result confirmed by Guinness World Records. The single also topped iTunes charts in dozens of territories, and Lisa became the first Thai artist, and among the first K-pop soloists, to command that level of immediate global attention outside a group setting, cementing her position as a viable commercial force independent of BLACKPINK.

Lisa’s chart and streaming records have continued to accumulate in the years since her solo debut. In 2023, “Money”, a track from the “Lalisa” single album, became the first solo K-pop song to surpass one billion streams on Spotify, while the “Lalisa” album itself became the first by a solo K-pop artist to cross the same billion-stream threshold, both confirmed by Guinness World Records. Her first full studio album, “Alter Ego”, released in February 2025 under her own label in partnership with RCA Records, debuted at number one on the US Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Billboard 200, while its lead single “Rockstar” reached the top five of the Billboard Global 200 and topped the charts in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Lisa’s crossover success has been reflected in recognition well beyond music charts. In May 2025, Forbes named her the sole K-pop idol among the honourees marking a decade of its “30 Under 30 Asia” list, having first appeared on the list with BLACKPINK in 2019. That same year Lisa made her acting debut in HBO’s “The White Lotus” Season 3, playing Mook, a resort employee at the show’s fictional Thailand property, a casting that drew widespread press attention as one of the most talked-about additions to the anthology series, according to Variety’s coverage of her role. The part made her the first BLACKPINK member, and one of the first K-pop idols of her stature, to headline a major English-language prestige drama.

Lisa built one of the most prominent luxury-fashion profiles of any K-pop artist through her long relationship with Celine. She became the brand’s muse in January 2019, and in September 2020 was appointed Celine’s first global brand ambassador in its 75-year history, a role later expanded in February 2022 to make her the sole face of Celine Haute Parfumerie, according to Vogue Hong Kong’s profile of her career and style. Lisa parted ways with Celine in mid-2024 after roughly three years as its ambassador, and has since been seen at Louis Vuitton shows, fuelling speculation about a new house partnership. She has also held global ambassador roles with MAC Cosmetics since 2020 and with Bulgari, the latter including appearances at the brand’s Aurora Awards and its Bulgari Studio events.

In February 2024, Lisa founded her own artist management and record company, LLOUD, structured separately from YG Entertainment even as she remained a BLACKPINK member under the group’s continuing YG contract. Two months later, LLOUD signed a solo recording partnership with RCA Records, part of Sony Music, under which Lisa retains full ownership of her master recordings, an unusually artist-favourable arrangement for a K-pop soloist, according to Variety’s report on the deal. The move followed BLACKPINK members’ collective decision in January 2024 not to renew their individual solo contracts with YG while staying together as a group, giving Lisa direct commercial control over her solo output for the first time, as detailed by Music Business Worldwide’s analysis of the arrangement.

In March 2024, Lisa purchased a home in Beverly Hills, California, for $3.95 million, a 1924-built, Spanish Mediterranean-style property on Coldwater Canyon Drive with roughly 3,387 square feet of living space, four bedrooms and a recently completed renovation by the design firm House of Rolison, according to Robb Report’s coverage of the purchase. The Beverly Hills home gives Lisa a base in Los Angeles to support her growing acting and solo-recording commitments in the United States, alongside property she and her family are reported to hold in Thailand and South Korea, though, in keeping with how most K-pop labels handle member finances individually, no consolidated register of her Asian property holdings has been made public.