Oscar-winning song, \u201cGolden.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s what put me off,\u201d she recalled. \u201cHe made me so nervous. It was already so nerve-racking to be in front of all these celebrities, and then I look up and lock eyes with Leonardo DiCaprio? Come on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the interview, Ejae recounted crossing paths with one of the music industry\u2019s biggest power couples, Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z. <\/p>\n
Ejae recalled looking directly at DiCaprio right as she sang one of the highest notes in her Oscar-winning song, \u201cGolden.\u201d Getty Images for BAFTA<\/p>\n
\u201cHe made me so nervous. It was already so nerve-racking to be in front of all these celebrities, and then I look up and lock eyes with Leonardo DiCaprio? Come on.\u201d PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was at their afterparty and Jay-Z came up to me and said, \u2018Hi, my name\u2019s Shawn,\u2019\u201d she shared. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was beyond starstruck. Beyonc\u00e9 is my idol and she said, \u2018You have an incredible voice.\u2019 I asked her, \u2018Do you know\u00a0\u2018Golden?\u2019 She was like, \u2018Yeah, my girls sing it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Ejae wrote \u201cGolden\u201d alongside Mark Sonnenblick as well as several other songs that appear in\u00a0\u201cKPop Demon Hunters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ejae performed the hit song with Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami (pictured here), who make up the voices of fictional K-pop group HUNTR\/X in \u201cKPop Demon Hunters.\u201d Stuart Wilson\/BAFTA<\/p>\n
Despite the nerve-racking performance, of \u201cGolden,\u201d the song earned the trio an Oscar and swept the 2026 awards season. Gareth Cattermole\/BAFTA\/Getty Images for BAFTA<\/p>\n
She also starred as the singing voice for Rumi, a member of fictional K-pop group HUNTR\/X that lead secret double lives as martial arts-trained demon hunters in the film.<\/p>\n
Despite Ejae\u2019s nerve-wracking performance of \u201cGolden\u201d at the BAFTAs, the song swept the 2026 awards season.<\/p>\n
The hit\u00a0won the Oscar\u00a0for Best Original Song, and\u00a0brought the trio, which also includes Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, to the Brit Awards, Golden Globes, Grammys and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tough crowd. \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d star Ejae revealed that\u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio\u00a0threw off her\u00a02026 BAFTA Awards performance. \u201cThe BAFTAs haunt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[4648,150390,2110,18,117,19,17,5403,1340,327,337,60556],"class_list":["post-636156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-awards","tag-baftas","tag-celebrity-news","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-k-pop","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-singers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117091821479759619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}