Park Ji-hoon to release his seventh album 'Blank or Black' on April 12

Teaser image for Park Ji-hoon's upcoming album ″Black or Black″ [MARU ENTERTAINMENT]

Singer and actor Park Ji-hoon is set to release his seventh album “Blank or Black” on April 12, announced his agency Maroo Entertainment on Friday.

The first teaser image released on Friday showed the singer posing in a sepia-colored photo with the text “U Can’t Fill Ma ‘___’” written above the name of his upcoming album “Blank or Black.” It has not been revealed if the text on the teaser is the title of the lead track.

The upcoming album will be Park’s first music since the EP “The Answer” released six months ago.

Park debuted as a member of project boy band Wanna One in 2017 after finishing in second place on cable network Mnet’s audition program “Produce 101.” He made his solo debut in the year the project group disbanded, in 2019, with his first EP “O’Clock.”

Park has also been pursuing his acting career from an early age, where he first appeared on the MBC hit drama, Jumong in 2006, more than a decade before his debut in Wanna One.

He appeared in JTBC drama “Flower Crew” (2019), Kakao TV web drama “Love Revolution” (2020), KBS2 drama “At a Distance Spring is Green” (2021) and wavve original drama “Weak Hero Class 1” (2022), and will make his cinema debut this year with the upcoming movie “Audrey.”

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]