{"id":514988,"date":"2026-06-23T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514988\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:27:10","slug":"why-lisa-changed-her-name-at-age-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514988\/","title":{"rendered":"Why LISA Changed Her Name at Age 13\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> BLACKPINK\u2019S Lisa Reveals She Changed Her Name at Age 13 After Meeting a Fortune Teller<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s her name? What\u2019s her name?<\/p>\n<p>While the world knows LISA by her mononymous stage name, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/blackpink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">BLACKPINK<\/a>\u00a0alum was born Pranpriya Manobal. But it wasn\u2019t until she was 13 years old that the White Lotus alum legally changed her first name to Lalisa, which translates to \u201cone who is praised\u201d in her native Thai.<\/p>\n<p>Although she eventually shortened her moniker professionally, the initial name change came at the behest of a fortune teller.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know about the culture here,\u201d LISA explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/story\/lisa-cover-story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a> in an interview published June 23, \u201cbut in Thailand, it\u2019s fun to go see a fortune teller.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trip came after the young K-pop hopeful had auditioned to join South Korean talent agency and record label YG Entertainment. Indeed, the \u201cMoney\u201d rapper asked the fortune teller for guidance on her future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the woman suggested LISA change her name to something more auspicious, the singer recalled saying, \u201c\u2018You know what? I\u2019ll do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK\u2019S Lisa Reveals She Changed Her Name at Age 13 After Meeting a Fortune Teller What\u2019s her name?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-514988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}