Lorde

Lorde grew up in Devonport, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Her mother, Sonja Yelich, is a Croatian poet; her father, Vic O'Connor, is an Irish-born civil engineer. She attended the public Takapuna Grammar School and holds dual nationality, New Zealand and Croatian. Her real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, and she was born on November 7, 1996.Everything started when she was 12 years old: Scott Maclachlan, who later became her manager, received a video of her singing Warwick Avenue, by Duffy, in a school talent contest. That was enough for her to sign with Universal Music Group that same year, in 2008.

Soon after, she started writing her own songs together with the producer Joel Little. And about the stage name: she wanted to be called Lord, but it seemed too masculine to her. She added an 'E' at the end. She also mentioned that as a girl she was fascinated by royalty and aristocracy, and that for her 'Lorde' is almost a character she turns to when she gets on stage, because outside of it she is someone quite reserved.In November 2012, she uploaded her debut EP, The Love Club, for free on SoundCloud. More than 60 thousand people downloaded it, and Universal officially released it on iTunes on March 8, 2013. She debuted at number two in New Zealand and entered the top 25 of the Billboard 200 in the United States.

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The first single, Royals, reached number one in her country and the top 10 in more than twenty countries. In 2014, at the 56th Grammy Awards, Royals received three nominations: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance. She won the last two. At 17 years old, she became the youngest New Zealand artist to win a Grammy and the third youngest in the history of the award.On September 27, 2013, her first studio album, Pure Heroine, was released. It received good reviews from both critics and the public: by the end of that year she had already sold nearly 1.5 million copies worldwide. Tennis Court, the first single, debuted straight at number one in New Zealand.

Team, the next single, surpassed two million copies sold just in the United States.In 2014 she recorded Yellow Flicker Beat for the soundtrack of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Part 1, and also took charge of selecting the other artists who participated in the project. The song received nominations at the Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song and at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards in the same category. By November of that year, Lorde had accumulated around 17 million singles sold worldwide.

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Nacimiento: 7 nov 1996
País: 🇳🇿 New Zealand
Género: alternative pop

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