Billie Eilish Baird O’Connell is an American singer-songwriter. She is the youngest person and second person in history to win the four main Grammy categories in the same year. Her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? debuted atop the Billboard 200 and became one of the best-selling albums of 2019. In 2020, she performed the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name, which became her first number-one single in the UK.
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Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell is an American singer-songwriter. She is the youngest person and second person in history to win the four main Grammy categories in the same year. Her debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? debuted atop the Billboard 200 and became one of the best-selling albums of 2019. In 2020, she performed the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name, which became her first number-one single in the UK. Her accolades include five Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, and two Guinness World Records. She has also won three MTV Video Music Awards and one Brit Award. In 2019, Time magazine placed her on their inaugural Time 100 Next list. The singer is the 23rd biggest artist of the digital singles era, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, selling 40 million singles in the US alone. She was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 18, 2001, and is the daughter of teacher, actress, and screenwriter Maggie Baird, and construction worker Patrick O’Connell, who worked part-time as an actor, appearing in films like Iron Man. Both her parents are amateur musicians, and she is of Irish and Scottish descent. She performed at talent shows and joined the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus at age eight. In 2015, aged 13 at the time, started working on songs with her brother, Finneas O’ McConnell, who had been writing and producing for several years and had his own band.
The first songs they recorded together were called “She’s Broken” and “Fingers Crossed” The song “Ocean Eyes” was written and produced by her brother and mixed byFinneas and Billie. The song received several hundred thousand listens in two weeks, where Fredasin Rukasin’s manager, Danny Rukasin, reached out to him to help her achieve significant success with her music. On November 18, 2015, she released the song “Slightly Slightly Slightly” on SoundCloud. The track is about the zombie apocalypse, inspired by the television series The Walking Dead, from which she took script lines and episode titles that she added to the song as part of the assignment. The album’s fifth single, “Bad Guy,” became herfirst number-1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. In January 2016, she wrote and produced a song for choreography for her dance teacher at the Revolution Dance Center, where he asked them to write a song. She said she and her brother had worked together on some music, while he had been written and producing his own songs and performing with his band. In November 2016, the siblings recorded a song called “Finger Crossed,” which was written by Finnea and mixed and recorded by Billie, and was uploaded to SoundCloud, where it received several thousand listens. In February 2017, the song was released by the Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom.
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