Bebe Rexha is an American singer and songwriter. She received songwriting credits on Eminem’s single “The Monster” Rexha’s debut studio album, Expectations, reached number 13 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. She was nominated for Best New Artist and Best Country DuoGroup Performance at the 61st Grammy Awards.
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Bebe Rexha is an American singer and songwriter. She received songwriting credits on Eminem’s single “The Monster” Rexha’s debut studio album, Expectations, reached number 13 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. She was nominated for Best New Artist and Best Country DuoGroup Performance at the 61st Grammy Awards. In November 2014, Rexha was picked as Elvis Duran’s Artist of the Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. She has also contributed songwriting to songs recorded by Shinee, Selena Gomez, and Nick Jonas. Rexha lists Coldplay, the Cranberries, Lauryn Hill, Alanis Morissette, and Kanye West as musical influences. She also wrote the song “Take Me Home” which was featured on Cash Cash’s 2014 single “This Is a Drill” and was released as a single on August 12, 2014, The video was inspired by imagery from films such as Interrupted and Girl Interrupted. She is the daughter of an Albanian father and a mother from Gostivar, North Macedonia. Her father, Flamur Rexha, was born in Debar, North Macedon, and her mother, Bukurije Rexha,. was born in the U.S. and moved to nearby Staten Island when she was six. She attended Tottenville High School on Staten Island, where she took part in a variety of musicals.
She discovered that her voice was a coloratura soprano. In 2010, she met Fall Out Boy’s bassist Pete Wentz and began working with him at a recording studio in New York City. She became a member and a lead vocalist of Wentz’s new experimental project called Black Cards. In January 2012, Wentz announced that Rexha had left the band to pursue other endeavors. In 2013, she signed with Warner Bros. Records as a solo artist. She released her debut extended play in 2015, I Don’t Wanna Grow Up, which saw the moderate commercial success of the singles “I Can’t Stop Drinking About You” and “I’m Gonna Show You Crazy” In 2017, she released two additional extended plays, “All Your Fault: Pt. 1 and “The Way I Are” She has collaborated with several artists, including G-Eazy, Martin Garrix, and Florida Georgia Line. In the Albanian language, bletë means “bee”; and she explained that her parents are Albanian, and people started calling her ‘Bebe’ for short. In 2012, she was awarded the Able Olman Scholarship for her contributions as a songwriter later that year.
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