Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa was born on 22 August 1995 in London to Kosovar Albanian parents. She moved to Kosovo with her family in 2006 when her father accepted a job offer there. At the age of 14, Lipa began posting YouTube covers of her favourite songs by artists such as Pink and Nelly Furtado. In 2013, she starred in a television advertisement for The X Factor. In 2015, she signed a record deal with Warner Music Group. She released her self-titled debut album in 2017. In 2018, she won the Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. In 2019, she was also awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her second studio album, Future Nostalgia, was
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Dua Lipa was born on 22 August 1995 in London to Kosovar Albanian parents who had moved from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia in 1992. She moved to Kosovo with her family in 2006 when her father accepted a job offer there. At the age of 14, Lipa began posting YouTube covers of her favourite songs by artists such as Pink and Nelly Furtado. She began working as a model for the online catalogue ASOS Marketplace when she was 16, with the goal of meeting people who could help her pursue a music career. In 2013, she starred in a television advertisement for The X Factor. In 2015, she signed a record deal with Warner Music Group. She released her self-titled debut album in 2017. In 2018, she won the Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. In 2019, she was also awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her second studio album, Future Nostalgia, was released in March 2020 to critical acclaim, earning Lipa six Grammy nominations, including in the category Album of the Year. It became her first UK number-one album, spending four weeks at number one; its lead single \”Don’t Start Now\” became one of the most commercially successful songs of 2020; it is one of four songs, and the only song by a female artist, that has spent all of 2020 on the Billboard Hot 100. Lipa has received various accolades, including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award, and an American Music Award.
She has a younger sister Rina and a younger brother Gjin. She attended Sylvia Young Theatre School part-time before moving to Kosovo in 2006. In August 2015, LipA released her first single, New Love, produced by Emile Haynie and Andrew Wyatt. In November 2015 she was revealed as the first act on the BBC Sound of 2016 long list. In 2016, her second single, Be One, was issued to European success, reaching number one in Belgium, Poland and Slovakia, as well as charting within the top ten in over eleven European territories. In March 2016, she became an airplay song on New Zealand, New Zealand and Australia, reaching numbers 6 and 20, respectively. In April 2016, the single \”One Kiss\” with Calvin Harris peaked at number 1 in the UK and became the longest-running number-1 single for afemale artist in 2018. In July 2016, Lip a co-wrote the song \”Hotter than Hell\”, which would eventually lead to her signing a recorddeal with Warner music Group in the summer of 2015. In October 2016, she was announced as the long list of acts on BBC Sound Of 2016. In November 2016, she was named as one of long-list acts on The Sound of Sound of Europe. In January 2017, she released her debut album, which reached number three on the UK Albums Chart, and produced nine singles, including \”Be the One\” and \”IDGAF\”, and the UK number one single \”New Rules\”, which also peaked at six in the US.
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