Zayn Malik may have found fame in a boy band, but his daughter, Khai, is all about a certain girl group: BLACKPINK.
As shared by the former One Direction star Sunday night (July 27) on Instagram Stories, he and his 4-year-old little girl — whom he shares with ex-girlfriend Gigi Hadid — attended one of the K-pop foursome’s recent concerts. Most recently, BLACKPINK played two back-to-back nights at New York City’s Citi Field starting Saturday (July 26).
“@BLACKPINKOFFICIAL THANK YOU :)” Malik wrote, sharing a photo of himself in the crowd, holding Khai in his arms as they both raise a hand in the air. “ME & KHAI LOVED IT.”
After more than a year of break time as members ROSÉ, JENNIE, LISA and JISOO pursued solo projects, BLACKPINK finally reunited earlier in July for a global trek called the Deadline World Tour. So far, the quartet has played shows in Goyang, South Korea; Los Angeles; Chicago; Toronto; and now, NYC.
Malik’s special father-daughter date with Khai comes just a couple of months ahead of her fifth birthday. Last year, the former celebrated his little one turning 4 with an emotional post on Instagram, writing at the time, “Beyond proud to call you my daughter … grateful for every second I get to spend next to you, as you become the incredible person I know you already are.”
The singer welcomed Khai with Hadid in September 2020. The former couple dated on and off beginning in 2015 before calling it quits in 2021 following a dispute between Malik and the model’s mother, Yolanda Hadid. Nevertheless, Gigi recently said that she and her ex retain only “love and a feeling of camaraderie” for one another.
“Zayn and I do our custody schedules months in advance,” she told Vogue in a March cover story. “That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t change here and there, but we help each other out and have each other’s backs.”
Now past the 10-year mark since he left One Direction, Malik currently seems to be gearing up to release new music. Earlier in July, he shared a teaser for a song on which he raps about facing racism during his boy band days, spitting, “I’m a convert to the concert, and I did that for inflation/ ‘Cause I worked hard in a white band, and they still laughed at the Asian.”
His last album, Room Under the Stairs, dropped in May 2024 and reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200.