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Originally Posted by bondingo
There's not a huge chance of it happening. Unfortunately there hasn't been a single fully Asian artist or group to make it in America (idk if you'd count Pink Lady's mild success in the 70s...can't think of any others).
But I am still very much hoping 2NE1 has a hit and possibly gets big. CL and Bom both obviously have great English and their sound is very current, so I think if anyone has a chance it's them.
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I think the Far East Movement has the distinction of being the only Asian-American musicians to have a very popular song, Like A G6. But, they are very much Americanized.
The problem, I feel, with non-American singers trying to make it in the US is that, unless they are from the UK or Canada they are just seen as "that weird foreign group". Tokio Hotel, Aqua, they were never major hits, they just had a fairly large fanbase in North America, but not enough to promote them to the stardom level of someone like Britney Spears. They were more a fad thing. That's not to say that
no non-American could make it or has made it, but they are fewer in numbers than domestic singers.