Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa
Lipa on Sommarkrysset in August 2016
Background information
Born	(1995-08-22) 22 August 1995 (age 21) London, England
Genres	Pop indie pop dream pop synthpop R&B
Occupation(s)	Singer songwriter model
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2015–present
Labels	Dua Lipa Limited Warner Bros.
Website	dualipa.com

Dua Lipa (/ˈduːə ˈliːpə/; Albanian pronunciation: [dua liːpa]; born 22 August 1995) is an English singer, songwriter and model. . Her musical career began at age 14, when she began covering songs by artists such as Christina Aguilera and Nelly Furtado on YouTube. In 2015, she was signed with Warner Bros. Records, and released her first single soon after. In December 2016, a documentary about Lipa was commissioned by The Fader magazine, titled See in Blue. In January 2017 she won the EBBA Public Choice Award. Her self-titled debut studio album is scheduled to be released on 2 June 2017.

Lipa was born in London on 22 August 1995 to ethnic Albanian parents from Kosovo who had left Pristina in the 1990s. She attended Sylvia Young Theatre School, part-time, moving to Kosovo with her family in 2008. Lipa grew up listening to her father, the Kosovar Albanian rock singer Dukagjin Lipa. At the age of 14 she began posting covers of her favourite songs by artists such as Christina Aguilera and Nelly Furtado on YouTube. At the age of 16 she moved back to London with aspirations of becoming a singer. Shortly after, she began working as a model.