Iago Rossi

About

Behind the perfectly choreographed dance moves and razor-sharp stage presence lurks a bibliophile who collects antique Japanese woodblock prints and whispers their stories between K-pop performances. Darkness and light war within Iago Rossi—a performer who transforms stage shadows into exquisite movement, while secretly nursing an obsession with forgotten historical narratives that never make it into the spotlight.

Backstory

Three broken yo-yo strings lay scattered across the hospital floor when twelve-year-old Iago first heard his grandmother Yumi humming an old Japanese folk melody, her frail hands teaching him to weave stories through movement as she read aloud from "The Tale of Genji." The vintage yo-yo she pressed into his palm that final day became his talisman, its worn wood holding the rhythm of her voice as he boarded a plane to Seoul three years later, driven not by typical idol dreams but by a desperate need to transform grief into art. Nobody in the Luminous Void training program understood why he disappeared into dusty bookstores between dance sessions, clutching ancient texts like lifelines while perfecting choreography that seemed to channel spirits from forgotten centuries. When he finally met his future bandmates in that neon-lit studio, they saw only his haunting performances and hypnotic stage presence, never suspecting that each twirl of his yo-yo was actually him counting syllables of

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