Lorde

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. She is known for employing unconventional musical styles and introspective songwriting. Her music is primarily electropop and contains elements of subgenres such as dream pop and indie-electro. She signed with Universal Music Group in 2009 and collaborated with producer Joel Little in 2011 to start recording material. Her debut studio album Pure Heroine was released that same year. Her second studio album Melodrama received widespread critical acclaim and debuted atop the US Billboard 200.

About Lorde in brief

Summary Lorde Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. She is known for employing unconventional musical styles and introspective songwriting. Her music is primarily electropop and contains elements of subgenres such as dream pop and indie-electro. She signed with Universal Music Group in 2009 and collaborated with producer Joel Little in 2011 to start recording material. Her debut studio album Pure Heroine was released that same year to critical and commercial success. Her second studio album Melodrama received widespread critical acclaim and debuted atop the US Billboard 200. Lorde’s accolades include two Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards and a Golden Globe nomination. She appeared in Time’s list of the most influential teenagers in 2013 and 2014, and the 2014 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30. As of June 2017, Lorde has sold over five million albums worldwide. Her mother was born to Croatian immigrants from the region of Dalmatia, while her father is of Irish descent. She was born in Takapuna, Auckland, to poet Sonja Yelich and civil engineer Vic O’Connor. She has three siblings: older sister Jerry, younger sister India, and younger brother Angelo. In May 2009, she and her friend Louis McDonald won the Belmont Intermediate School annual talent show as a duo. They announced their engagement in 2014, after a 30-year relationship, and in 2017, they married in a private ceremony in Cheltenham Beach. She cites the young adult dystopian novel Feed by M.

T. Anderson as well as authors J. D. Salinger, Raymond Carver and Janet Frame for influencing her song writing. At age five, she joined a drama group and developed public speaking skills, which Lorde cited as a lyrical influence. In 2010, she formed a duet called \”lla & Louis\” and performed covers on a regular basis at local venues, including cafés in Devonport and the Victoria Theatre in Auckland. In 2011, UMG hired vocal coach Frances Dickinson to give her singing lessons twice a week. In August that year, she performed covers of Pixie Lott’s \”Mama Do \” and Kings of Leon’s \”Use Somebody\”. In August 2013, she made a guest appearance on Jim Mora’s Afternoons show on Radio New Zealand. She also curated the soundtrack for the 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and recorded several tracks, including the single \”Yellow Flicker Beat\”. Her mother encouraged her to read a range of genres, which she cites as an influence. As a child, she was briefly enrolled at George Parkyn Centre, a gifted education organisation, but Sonja, unenrolled her, citing social development concerns. She placed third and first respectively in the North Shore Primary Schools’ Speech competition, a national contest, in 2006 and 2007. While attending Vauxhall School, she placed third in the Battle of Bands finals at the Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland on November 18, 2009.