Dua Lipa (Дуа Липа; born August 22, 1995) is an English and Albanian singer and songwriter. Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards. Time magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.[2]
Lipa worked as a model before signing a recording contract with Warner Bros. in 2014. She rose to prominence with her eponymous debut album in 2017, which peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the singles "Be the One", "IDGAF", and the UK number-one single "New Rules". Lipa was honoured with the Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Her second number-one single, "One Kiss" with Calvin Harris, was the best-selling song of 2018 in the UK and won the Brit Award for Song of the Year. In 2019, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and for Best Dance Recording for "Electricity", her collaborative single with Silk City.
Lipa's second album, Future Nostalgia (2020), became her first UK number-one album, and won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Its lead single, "Don't Start Now", scored the longest top-ten stay for a British female artist on the UK Singles Chart and ranked in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart of 2020. The album's success continued with the follow-up singles "Physical", "Break My Heart", and "Levitating", the last of which topped the Billboard year-end Hot 100 chart of 2021 and was certified diamond in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Lipa subsequently scored her third and fourth UK number-one singles with the 2021 Elton John duet "Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" and "Dance the Night" from the soundtrack of the film Barbie (2023), wherein she also made her acting debut.
In 2024, Lipa released her third studio album, Radical Optimism, which debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and was preceded by the UK top-ten singles "Houdini", "Training Season", and "Illusion". She also had a supporting role in the spy film Argylle. Lipa, as one of the wealthiest people in the UK, was included in the Sunday Times Rich List for 2024, with an estimated net worth of £90 million.[3]
Early life[]
Dua Lipa was born on August 22, 1995,[4] in Westminster, London,[5] the eldest child of Kosovo Albanian parents Anesa (née Rexha) and Dukagjin Lipa from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo).[6] Her maternal grandmother is of Bosniak descent.[7][8]
Lipa's ancestry can be traced back to the city of Peja, Kosovo. Both of her grandfathers were historians.[9] She has a sister, Rina, and a brother, Gjin.[10][11] Lipa was musically influenced by her father,[12][13] who was the lead singer and guitarist of the Kosovan rock band ODA.[14] Her father continued to play music at home, including his own compositions and songs of artists such as David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Sting, The Police, and Stereophonics.[15][16] Dua Lipa began singing at the age of five.[17]
Lipa grew up in West Hampstead, London.[18] She attended Fitzjohn's Primary School and her music lessons there included the cello.[19][20] When she auditioned to enter the school choir, the teacher told her that "she could not sing".[21] At the age of nine, she began weekend singing lessons at the Sylvia Young Theatre School.[22] Lipa moved with her family to Pristina after Kosovo declared independence in 2008.[23] There she attended Mileniumi i Tretë School, learned more about the Albanian language, and considered a music career.[24][25]
At age 15, Lipa moved back alone to London and shared a flat with a family friend.[26][27] At Parliament Hill School she passed her A-Levels, then re-entered Sylvia Young Theatre School part-time.[28] She uploaded her own songs to SoundCloud and YouTube. She began posting videos of herself covering songs such as "If I Ain't Got You" (2004) by Alicia Keys and "Beautiful" (2002) by Christina Aguilera on YouTube.[29] Lipa modelled with Topshop and signed with a modelling agency, helping her land a role as a singer in an ITV advertisement for The X Factor in 2013, covering Sister Sledge's 1979 song "Lost in Music".[30][31] She acquired a producer and a manager.[32]
Tours[]
Headlining[]
- The Self-Titled Tour (2017–2018)
- Future Nostalgia Tour (2022)
Promotional[]
- 2016 UK Tour (2016)
- Hotter Than Hell Tour (2016)
- US and Europe Tour (2017)
Opening act[]
- Troye Sivan – Suburbia Tour (2016)
- Bruno Mars – 24K Magic World Tour (2017–2018)
- Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams Tour (2017)
Filmography[]
Films[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Barbie | Mermaid Barbie | Acting debut[33] |
| 2024 | Argylle | LaGrange | Post-production[34] |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018, 2020 | Saturday Night Live | Herself, musical guest | Two Episdoes |
| 2020 | Skavlan | Herself | Television Talk show |
Trivia[]
- Dua Lipa was born in London, England.
- Her Zodiac sign is Leo.
- She went to Parliament Hill School, a private girls school in Camden.
- Her family moved from London to Kosovo when she was age 11 until age 15 when she returned to London to pursue music.
- She has been active since 2014.
- Her song "Levitating" was one of the most played songs of 2021.
- Her song "Be The One" has played over a lot in the Live shows or concerts.
- She considered changing her name to Amber.
- She doesn't have a middle name.
- Her name is Albanian and means "love, prayer".
- Her first song was "New Love".
- Dua has three Grammys.
- She is an honorary Liverpool supporter.
- She likes anime.
- Her favorite anime is Ponyo.
- She doesn't play guitar.
- She used to play the cello in school, and she got bullied about all the time, so she quit.
- She has a manager named Ben.
- Dua Lipa is tall girl (or girl of average height) with slim figure, she stands at 173 cm (5 feet and 8 inches) tall (she has same height with Ulti from One Piece) and weighs 58-65 kg.
- On occasion, Dua buys a lot of hair and glue it in her head, other than that, she struggles to make it lot nice.
- Bad hair days are kind of her thing.
- Her rules are work hard and be nice.
- Dua hates singing at Karaoke.
- She's learning how to sing high notes.
- She has a younger brother and a younger sister, and their the loves of her life.
- She loves Bebe Rexha's music.
- She and Taylor Swift are friends.
- She's a fan of Iann Dior.
- Her favourite color is pink.
- She loves k-pop having worked with superstar girl group BLɅCKPINK and popular idol Hwasa. She also wrote for Twice, another popular group.
- Dua Lipa has a criminal record, she and a few friends over ran a bubble bath deliberately and it struck an officer so she got charred with assault.[35]
References[]
- ↑ Variety: Dua Lipa Regains Her Publishing Rights From TaP Music
- ↑ Time: "Dua Lipa Manifested All of This"
- ↑ The Times: "Dua Lipa net worth – Sunday Times Rich List 2024"
- ↑ Billboard: "Dua Lipa Takes Fans Inside Birthday Dinner With Boyfriend Romain Gavras"
- ↑ Allmusic: "Dua Lipa | Biography & History"
- ↑ BBC News: "Dua Lipa: A pop star in waiting"
- ↑ The Guardian: "Dua Lipa: 'Pop has to be fun. You can't get upset about every little thing'"
- ↑ NME: "Dua Lipa speaks on Brexit, Trump and her family history in new interview"
- ↑ RTV21: "Peja's ambassadors"
- ↑ The Guardian: "Dua Lipa: 'You have to be made of steel to not let words get to you'"
- ↑ Capital FM: "Dua Lipa's Family: From Her Mum Anesa & Dad Dukagjin To Her Siblings"
- ↑ Nylon: "Band Crush: Dua Lipa"
- ↑ Hunger TV: "Dua Lipa On Falling in Love With Music and Growing Up Fast"
- ↑ Telegrafi: "'Era' dhe 'ODA': Rikthim, sukses, pasion!"
- ↑ Digital Spy: "Meet your new favourite popstar Dua Lipa – just don't call her the new Lana Del Rey"
- ↑ Clash: "The Realest It Gets: Dua Lipa"
- ↑ The Cut: "Dua Lipa Is the Anti–Pop Star"
- ↑ The Guardian: "Dua Lipa's father stages music festival for 'peace-loving' Kosovo"
- ↑ Camden New Journal: "Dua Lipa's former school plays New Rules to pupils each morning"
- ↑ Evening Standard: "Londoner's Diary: How Shulman is filling the void left by Vogue"
- ↑ The New York Times: "Dua Lipa Was Raised on Pop Bangers. Now She Writes Them"
- ↑ Elle: "Dua Lipa Is the Future of Pop Music"
- ↑ The Line of Best Fit: "A Tale of Two Cities"
- ↑ The West Australian: "From Kosovo to the world, Dua Lipa is on the rise"
- ↑ Evening Standard: "Dua Lipa: meet pop's hottest property"
- ↑ Rolling Stone: "Dua Lipa: Dancing in the Dark"
- ↑ YouTube: "How Dua Lipa Moved to London Alone at 15"
- ↑ Harper's Bazaar: "Dua Lipa Recovered from a Rough Modeling Career to Become a Pop Sensation"
- ↑ Warner Records: "Global Press Kit"
- ↑ entertainment.ie: "Watch: Turns out Dua Lipa appeared on an ad for The X Factor back in 2013"
- ↑ Crack Magazine: "Dua Lipa – 'Future Nostalgia' review"
- ↑ Evening Standard: "Dua Lipa talks about her teen years in Kosovo and why it's tough for new music artists to break through"
- ↑ Dua Lipa joins the cast of Greta Gerwig's Barbie film alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling | Official Charts
- ↑ Henry Cavill, Dua Lipa, John Cena To Star In Spy Movie ‘Argylle’ – Deadline
- ↑ Dua Lipa Nearly Got Arrested For Assaulting A Police Officer At 15