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<\/p>\n\u201cIt shows me that anything can happen when you put your mind to it,\u201d said Towers.<\/p>\n
Canterbury Girls\u2019 head of senior school Amanda Jackson said she knew Ros\u00e9 when she was attending the school.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember when Ros\u00e9 was in year 10, she came to see me and told me she was going to Korea to pursue a career in singing,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember being surprised about that news, and I wished her well at the time. Now we are so proud of what she has achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Principal Mary Cannon said the school was happy Ros\u00e9 had been so successful. \u201cIt is always pleasing to see former students achieve what they want to achieve,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Year 12 music captain Sophia Hamilton said it was inspiring to know that such determination in pursuing music could \u201ctake you so far\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Ros\u00e9\u2019s solo pivot has already spawned a chart-topping smash with her Bruno Mars collaboration, APT.<\/p>\n
The pop star\u2019s time at the school is a drawcard for new students, too. Acting principal Georgina Padula said Ros\u00e9\u2019s success had created quite a buzz among parents and students.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven on school tours, last week we got asked \u2013 even by younger students \u2013 is it true this is the school Ros\u00e9 came to?\u201d<\/p>\n
Kew East Primary School principal Matt O\u2019Hern said that while he wasn\u2019t at the school when Ros\u00e9 was there, the pupils were \u201cpretty impressed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean we\u2019re obviously rapt that a past student has achieved such an amazing and significant award within the music industry,\u201d O\u2019Hern said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can definitely see a number of the students are really inspired by the feats that she\u2019s achieved.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think having that connection to someone, you can see that it\u2019s possible, even for someone that\u2019s at a primary school, and at Kew East primary school you can obviously make it on the global stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ros\u00e9 was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia with her family when she was seven. Within two months of passing her audition, the then-16-year-old flew to Seoul to train at one of Korea\u2019s big music companies, YG Entertainment.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn Australia, I didn\u2019t think that there was much of a chance for me to become a singer \u2013 especially to become a K-pop star … I was living so far from the country that it never really occurred to me as a possibility,\u201d Park told this masthead in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n She spent four years training and ended up at the top of iTunes charts in 18 countries with one of the best-selling groups of all time, K-pop band Blackpink. <\/p>\n In 2021, she premiered her solo single, On the Ground, and has amassed millions of fans worldwide. She also became a fashion ambassador for Saint Laurent, Tiffany&Co, Rimowa and Puma.<\/p>\n When she\u2019s back in Melbourne, Ros\u00e9 says she does \u201cthe whole nostalgic thing\u201d.<\/p>\n She drives past her old house in Bulleen, her old school, sometimes she drops in and says \u201chi\u201d to her favourite school teachers, she told Nova FM in 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t really have friends around me who became singers or anything. It\u2019s just like normal, I went to school and I really didn\u2019t think of it as a possibility,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI always liked music, but [it] was never my dream to become a singer, because I just didn\u2019t think it was possible and so it kind of all happened one day.\u201d<\/p>\n