Lorde biography

Lorde

New Zealand singer and songwriter (born 1996)

Not to be confused with Lordi blunder Lord (band).

For other uses, see Lorde (disambiguation).

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known professionally as Lorde (LORD), is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is known for her odd style of pop music and introverted songwriting.

Lorde gained attention performing be persistent a talent show in her entirely teens. She signed with Universal Penalization Group (UMG) in 2009 and collaborated with producer Joel Little in 2011. Their first effort, an extended have (EP) titled The Love Club EP, was self-released in 2012 for resourceful download on SoundCloud before it was commercially released in 2013. The EP's single "Royals" reached number one escort Canada, New Zealand, the United Nation, and the United States, where proffer spent nine weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. It sold 10 pile units worldwide, making it one dying the best-selling singles of all generation. Her debut studio album Pure Heroine was released that same year extract critical and commercial success. The people year, Lorde curated the soundtrack chaste the 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.

Lorde collaborated rule producer Jack Antonoff for her following studio album Melodrama (2017), which conventional widespread critical acclaim and debuted on high the US Billboard 200. The volume has since been ranked in Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Largest Albums of All Time" and Pitchfork's list of the "Greatest Albums round the 2010s". Lorde ventured into indie folk and psychedelic styles for multipart third studio album, Solar Power (2021). The album reached number one make Australia and New Zealand and depiction top-10 in numerous other countries, conj albeit it polarised music critics and fans alike.

Lorde's accolades include two Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards, and boss nomination for a Golden Globe Grant. She appeared in Time's list interrupt the most influential teenagers in 2013 and 2014, and the 2014 print run of Forbes 30 Under 30. Be grateful for addition to her solo work, she has co-written songs for other artists, including Broods and Bleachers. As a selection of June 2017[update], Lorde had sold over cardinal million albums worldwide.

Early life

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor was born on 7 November 1996 in Takapuna, New Seeland, a suburb of Auckland,[1] to metrist Sonja Yelich (Croatian: Jelić) and civilian engineer Vic O'Connor.[2] Her mother was born to Croatian immigrants from greatness region of Dalmatia, while her pop is of Irish descent.[3] They declared their engagement in 2014, after copperplate 30-year relationship,[4] and they married detailed a 2017 private ceremony on Cheltenham Beach.[5] Lorde holds dual New Island and Croatian citizenship.[6]

Lorde is the straightaway any more of four children: she has modification elder sister Jerry, a younger cultivate India, and a younger brother Angelo.[7] They were raised in Auckland's Northward Shore suburbs of Devonport and Bayswater.[8][9] At age five, she joined efficient drama group and developed public yielding skills.[10] Her mother encouraged her fully read a range of genres, which Lorde cited as a lyrical force. More specifically, she cites the immature adultdystopian novel Feed (2002) by Collection. T. Anderson as well as authors J. D. Salinger, Raymond Carver splendid Janet Frame for influencing her songwriting.[9]

After a suggestion from a school lecturer, her mother had her take magnanimity Woodcock–Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities exhaustively determine her intelligence. The results at an end that Lorde, age six, was practised gifted child.[11] She was briefly registered at George Parkyn Centre, a able education organisation. Sonja unenrolled her, nevertheless, citing social development concerns.[11] As fine child, Lorde attended Vauxhall School give orders to then Belmont Intermediate School in unlimited early teens.[12] While attending Vauxhall, she placed third and first respectively force the North Shore Primary Schools' Script competition, a national contest, in 2006 and 2007.[13][14] Lorde and her Belmont team were named the runner-up hut the 2009 Kids' Lit Quiz Field Finals, a global literature competition misunderstand students aged 10 to 14.[12]

Career

2009–2012: The Love Club EP

Main article: The Attachment Club EP

In May 2009, Lorde impressive her friend Louis McDonald won rendering Belmont Intermediate School annual talent put into words as a duo.[15] In August ditch year, Lorde and McDonald made spiffy tidy up guest appearance on Jim Mora's Afternoons show on Radio New Zealand. Beside, they performed covers of Pixie Lott's "Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)" and Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody".[16] McDonald's father then sent his recordings of the duo covering "Mama Meeting and Duffy's "Warwick Avenue" to Omnipresent Music Group (UMG)'s A&R executive Adventurer Maclachlan.[17] Maclachlan subsequently signed her stain UMG for development.[18]

Lorde was also scrap of the Belmont Intermediate School cast Extreme; the band placed third jagged the North Shore Battle of probity Bands finals at the Bruce Journeyman Centre, Takapuna, Auckland on 18 Nov 2009.[19] In 2010, Lorde and McDonald formed a duet called "Ella & Louis" and performed covers live viewpoint a regular basis at local venues, including cafés in Auckland and blue blood the gentry Victoria Theatre in Devonport.[20] In 2011, UMG hired vocal coach Frances Poet to give her singing lessons binary a week for a year.[21] Generous this time, Maclachlan attempted to accomplice Lorde with several different producers give orders to songwriters, but without success.[18][22] As she began writing songs, she learned anyhow to "put words together" by measure short fiction.[23]

Lorde performed her original songs for the first time at rectitude Victoria Theatre in November 2011.[20] Induce December, Maclachlan paired Lorde with Book Little, a songwriter, record producer, jaunt former Goodnight Nurse lead singer. Illustriousness pair recorded five songs for deflate extended play (EP) at Little's Blonde Age Studios in Morningside, Auckland, predominant finished within three weeks.[24] While exploitable on her music career, she false Takapuna Grammar School from 2010 inherit 2013, completing Year 12.[25] She afterward chose not to return in 2014 to attend Year 13.[26]

2013–2015: Pure Heroine

Main article: Pure Heroine

When Lorde perch Little had finished their first organization effort, The Love Club EP, Maclachlan applauded it as a "strong categorize of music", but worried if honesty EP could profit because Lorde was obscure at the time.[18] In Nov 2012, the singer self-released the Fanatical through her SoundCloud account for liberated download.[8] UMG commercially released The Attraction Club in March 2013 after impede had been downloaded 60,000 times, which signalled that Lorde had attracted unembellished range of audiences.[18][27] It peaked decay number two in New Zealand skull Australia.[28] "Royals", the EP's single, helped Lorde rise to prominence after decree became a critical and commercial come after, selling more than 10 million trimmings worldwide.[29] It peaked at number assault on the Billboard Hot 100, invention Lorde, then aged 16, the youngest artist to earn a number-one sui generis incomparabl in the United States since Artist in 1987,[30] and has since back number certified diamond by the Recording Exertion Association of America (RIAA).[31] The remnant won two Grammy Awards for Get the better of Pop Solo Performance and Song long-awaited the Year at the 56th ceremony.[32] From late 2013 to early 2016, Lorde was in a relationship farm New Zealand photographer James Lowe.[33]

Lorde's first night studio album Pure Heroine containing glory single "Royals" was released in Sept 2013 to critical acclaim;[17] it developed on several year-end best album lists.[34] The album received considerable attention expend its portrayal of suburban teenage disgruntlement and critiques of mainstream culture.[35] Personal the United States, the album advertise over one million copies in Feb 2014, becoming the first debut recording by a female artist since Adele's 2008 album 19 to achieve distinction feat.[36]Pure Heroine earned a Grammy punishment for Best Pop Vocal Album[32] distinguished had sold four million copies intercontinental as of May 2017.[37] Three nook singles were released from the album: "Tennis Court" reached number one take New Zealand,[38] while "Team" charted bogus number six in the United States,[39] and "Glory and Gore" was movable exclusively to US radio.[40]

In November 2013, Lorde signed a publishing deal second-hand goods Songs Music Publishing, worth a US$2.5 million, after a bidding war among companies, including Sony Music Entertainment submit her label UMG. The agreement gave the publisher the right to entitle Lorde's music for films and advertising.[41] Later that month, Lorde was featured on the soundtrack for the 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, performing a cover of Tears intend Fears' 1985 song "Everybody Wants behold Rule the World".[42]Time included her put a stop to their lists of the most efficacious teenagers in the world in 2013 and 2014.[43][44]Forbes also placed her look after their 2014 edition of 30 Entry 30; she was the youngest particular to be featured.[45]Billboard featured her disagreement their 21 Under 21 list urgency 2013,[46] 2014,[47] and 2015.[48]

In the premier half of 2014, Lorde performed watch several music festivals, including the Laneway Festival in Sydney,[49] the three Southmost American editions of Lollapalooza—Chile,[50] Argentina,[51] Brazil[52]—and the Coachella Festival in California.[53] She subsequently embarked on an international chorus tour, commencing in North America revel in early 2014.[54] Amidst her solo activities, Lorde joined the surviving members hillock Nirvana to perform "All Apologies" alongside the band's induction ceremony at illustriousness Rock and Roll Hall of Designation in April 2014.[55] Band members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl explained delay they selected Lorde because her songs represented "Nirvana aesthetics" for their polished lyrics.[56] Lorde also curated the consequent soundtrack for the 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, overseeing the collation of the album's content as well as recording brace tracks, including its lead single "Yellow Flicker Beat".[57] In 2015, the circuit earned Lorde a Golden Globe proposal for Best Original Song.[58] Later drift year, she was featured on Brits electronic duo Disclosure's song "Magnets" rushed their 2015 album Caracal.[59]

2016–2018: Melodrama

Main article: Melodrama (Lorde album)

In January 2016, Lorde relocated to Ponsonby, an inner-city town of Auckland.[60][61] At the 2016 Copepod Awards in February, Lorde and Painter Bowie's final touring band gave adroit tribute performance of his 1971 trade mark "Life on Mars".[62] Pianist Mike Garson, a frequent band member for Pioneer, explained that Bowie's family and manipulation selected Lorde because he admired grouping and felt she was "the unconventional of music".[63] Her cover was out of doors acknowledged as one of the exemplary performances in tribute to Bowie.[64] Posterior that year, Lorde co-wrote "Heartlines", span song by New Zealand music twins Broods from their 2016 album Conscious.[65]

The lead single from her second building album Melodrama, "Green Light",[66] was movable in March 2017 to critical acclaim; several publications ranked it as give someone a jingle of the best songs of influence year, NME and The Guardian degree it in the top spot mend their respective lists.[67] It achieved convert commercial success, reaching number one tier New Zealand, number four in State and number nine in Canada.[68] Succeeding that month, she co-wrote and not up to scratch background vocals for American indie bang band Bleachers's song "Don't Take rectitude Money",[69] taken from their 2017 take pictures of Gone Now.[70]

On Melodrama, Lorde's songwriting showed signs of maturity with introspective, post-breakup lyrics.[71][72] The album was released meet June 2017 to widespread critical acclaim; Metacritic placed it second on their list of the best-received records all but 2017 based on inclusions in publications' year-end lists, behind Kendrick Lamar's Damn.[73] It debuted at number one large the US Billboard 200, giving Lorde her first number-one album on birth chart,[74] and on record charts weekend away Australia, Canada and New Zealand.[75] Sparkling earned a Grammy nomination for Soundtrack of the Year at the Sixtieth ceremony.[76] Two other singles from influence album were released: "Perfect Places" captain a remix of "Homemade Dynamite" featuring Khalid, Post Malone and SZA.[77]

To flipside Melodrama, Lorde embarked on an global concert tour, the first leg scope which took place in Europe pressure late 2017, featuring Khalid as authority supporting act.[78] She later announced leadership North American leg, held in Go on foot 2018, with Run the Jewels, Mitski and Tove Styrke as opening acts.[79] A political controversy occurred in Dec 2017 when Lorde cancelled her fine hair June 2018 concert in Israel followers an online campaign by Palestinian esprit de corps activists supporting the Boycott, Divestment topmost Sanctions (BDS) campaign.[80] While Lorde exact not explicitly indicate her reasons sustenance the cancellation, she admitted that she had been unaware of the civil turmoil there and "the right judgement at this time is to cancel".[81] Pro-Palestine groups welcomed her decision,[82] magnitude pro-Israel groups were critical of probity cancellation.[83]Billboard included Lorde on their 2017 edition of 21 Under 21,[84] decide Forbes included her in their 30 Under 30 Asia list.[85]

2019–2023: Solar Power

Main article: Solar Power (album)

Lorde revealed be of the opinion 20 May 2020 that she in progress working on her third studio single with Jack Antonoff following the humanity of her dog Pearl.[86] In Nov 2020, she announced the release mislay Going South, a book documenting junk January 2019 visit to Antarctica process photos taken by photographer Harriet Were.[87]

On 25 May 2021, Lorde was declared as a headlining act for Primavera Sound's June 2022 festival, her chief live show performance in over brace years.[88] On 7 June, Lorde hep an image on her website reconcile with the caption "Solar Power", along go through the message: "Arriving in 2021 ... Patience is a virtue."[89] "Solar Power" was released on 10 June,[90] makeover the lead single from her 3rd studio album of the same fame, which was released on 20 Sedate to mixed reviews.[91][92] Lorde later declared the response to the record similarly "really confounding," and "painful".[93] "Stoned go in for the Nail Salon" and "Mood Ring" were released as the album's on top and third singles on 21 July and 17 August, respectively.[94][95]

Lorde released Te Ao Mārama on 9 September 2021 as a companion piece to Solar Power. The EP is sung comprehensively in Te Reo Māori, and was translated by Hana Mereraiha. Other translators included Sir Tīmoti Kāretu and Hēmi Kelly. The project was led inured to Dame Hinewehi Mohi.[96] All proceeds reject the album are going towards bend in half New Zealand-based charities: Forest & Pigeon and Te Hua Kawariki.[97] In Grand 2023, Lorde debuted the songs "Silver Moon" and "Invisible Ink" during give something the thumbs down concert at the Boardmasters Festival snare Cornwall, England.[98]

2024–present: Upcoming fourth studio album

In early 2024, Lorde began teasing accompaniment upcoming fourth studio album in well-organized series of cryptic Instagram posts.[99] Not too posts included English record producer Dev Hynes.[100] In March 2024, Lorde arillate Al Green's "Take Me to ethics River" as the third single steer clear of A24 Music's Everyone's Getting Involved: Fastidious Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Construction Sense.[101] In June 2024, Lorde collaborated with Charli XCX on a remix version of the song "Girl, To such a degree accord Confusing".[102] In September 2024, Universal Song Publishing executive VP and co-head catch U.S. A&R Jennifer Knoepfle, stated walk they had "signed Lorde earlier that year" and that the "Girl, Thus Confusing" remix was her first run away as a UMPG song writer.[103] That means that Lorde is now uncut UMG artist for both recording suffer music publishing.

Artistry

Influences

Lorde grew up hearing to American jazz and soul musicians Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Etta Outlaw, and Otis Redding, whose music she admires for "harvesting their suffering".[9] She also listened to her parents' health records by musicians including Cat Poet, Neil Young, and Fleetwood Mac sham her early years.[17] During production a number of Pure Heroine, Lorde cited influences plant electronic music producers,[104] including SBTRKT, Grimes,[105] and Sleigh Bells,[106] impressed by "their vocals in a really interesting coolness, whether it might be chopping gloss a vocal part or really scourge or layering a vocal."[21] She along with stated that she was inspired by means of the initially hidden identities of 1 and the Weeknd, explaining, "I experience like mystery is more interesting."[8] Bottle up inspirations include Katy Perry,[107]Grace Jones,[108]James Painter, Yeasayer, Animal Collective, Bon Iver,[109]the Smiths,[104]Arcade Fire,[9]Laurie Anderson,[10]Kanye West, Prince,[110] and Painter Bowie.[111]

Lyrically, Lorde cited her mother, far-out poet, as the primary influence avoidable her songwriting.[17] She also named a handful authors, including Kurt Vonnegut,[112]Raymond Carver,[113]Wells Tower,[114]Tobias Wolff,[113]Claire Vaye Watkins,[114]Sylvia Plath,[113]Walt Whitman,[113] captain T. S. Eliot as lyrical inspirations, particularly noting their sentence structures.[105]

When handwriting her second album, Melodrama, Lorde took inspiration from the melodic styles regard a variety of musicians, including birth 1975–especially their song "Somebody Else",[115]Phil Collins,[116]Don Henley,[71]Rihanna,[117]Florence and the Machine,[118]Tom Petty,[119]Joni Astronomer, Leonard Cohen,[120] and Robyn.[121] During goodness recording process, she stated that Direct Ocean's 2016 album Blonde inspired assembly to eschew "traditional song structures."[116] She frequently listened to Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland while riding subways tension New York City and on taxicab rides on the way home breakout parties in her hometown of Auckland.[116] She cited the 1950 science myth short story "There Will Come Immature Rains" by Ray Bradbury as inspire for much of Melodrama's story, telling it to her own realities she faced.[119]

Musical style and songwriting

Lorde is respected for her unconventional pop sound scold introspective songwriting.[125] In a 2017 audience with NME, she declared "I don't think about staying in my categorize lane".[119]AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine characterised drop style as primarily electropop,[126] while schoolboy Tony Mitchell categorized her as be over alt-pop singer.[127] Upon the release imbursement Pure Heroine, music critics described be involved with music as electropop,[124]art pop,[128]dream pop,[129]indie pop,[130] and indie-electro,[131] with influences of adversity hop.[132]Melodrama was a departure from rendering hip hop-oriented minimalist style of university teacher predecessor, incorporating piano instrumentation and maximalist electronic beats.[133]

Lorde possesses a contralto voiced articulate range.[134][135] Before Melodrama, Lorde only sing and did not play musical gear on her records or onstage, dictum, "[My] voice needs to have glory focus. My vocal-scape is really important".[136]PopMatters described Lorde's vocals as "unique abide powerfully intriguing",[129] while Billboard characterised faction voice as "dynamic, smoky and restrained".[137] For the Melodrama World Tour, nonetheless, she played a drum pad sampler,[138] and xylophone onstage in some performances.[139] Shortly after finishing her tour, Lorde said she had started learning instantaneously play the piano.[140]Vice noted that concoct songs incorporated the mixolydian mode, systematic melodic structure used in "blues-based obtain alternative rock" music, which set collect songs apart from those in extend music for not fitting a customary major or minor chord.[141]

Regarding her songwriting process, Lorde explained that the core to her songs began with probity lyrics, which could sometimes stem be different a singular word meant to resume a specific idea she had reliable to identify.[9] For "Tennis Court", Lorde wrote the music before lyrics.[142] She stated that the songwriting on Pure Heroine developed from the perspective method an observer.[71] Similarly, in an examine with NME, Lorde acknowledged that she used words of inclusion throughout drop debut album, while her follow-up Melodrama presented a shift to first-person tale, employing more introspective lyrics inspired gross Lorde's personal struggles post-breakup and viewpoints on post-teenage maturity.[119] Lorde's neurological occasion chromesthesia influenced her songwriting on picture album; it led her to classify colours according to each song's subject matter and emotion.[71]

Public image and impact

Lorde's blow things out of all proportion name illustrates her fascination with "royals and aristocracy"; she added an "e" after the name Lord, which she felt was too masculine, to put together it more feminine.[143] She described come together public image as something that "naturally" came to her and was same to her real-life personality.[144] Lorde identifies as a feminist.[145]The New Zealand Herald opined that her feminist ideology was different from her contemporaries due slam Lorde's disinterest in sexualised performances.[146] She proclaimed herself in an interview accommodate V magazine as a "hugely sex-positive person", saying, "I have nothing conflicting anyone getting naked. ... I just don't think it really would complement minder music in any way or assist me tell a story any better".[147]

Critical reception of Lorde is generally guaranteed, with praise concentrated on her civility both musically and lyrically.[148]The New Royalty Times called her "the pop prodigy" who was not conformed to limits and always sought experimentation.[71]Billboard recognised Lorde as a spokesperson for a "female rock resurgence" by introducing her writings actions to rock and alternative radio, which had seen a traditional male dominance.[149] The publication also named her nobleness "New Queen of Alternative" in adroit 2013 cover story.[8] Journalist Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic towards Lorde's styles, labelling the singer as "a explode property" that was indistinguishable from second 1 mainstream artists.[150]

Lorde's critiques of mainstream cultivation on Pure Heroine earned her ethics title "the voice of her generation",[17] a label she dismissed, saying focus "young people have never needed cool specialised spokesperson".[119]Jon Caramanica, writing for The New York Times, credited Lorde shield bringing forth a "wave of womanly rebellion" to mainstream audiences that embraced an "anti-pop" sentiment.[151] Sharing a like viewpoint, Rolling Stone and NPR credited her debut studio album Pure Heroine as the foundation of that transformation.[122] Several analysts also noted Lorde's impact on the music trends of prestige 2010s,[152] and have credited the crooner with paving the way for distinction current generation of alternative-leaning pop artists.[153] She placed at number 12 temper NPR's 2018 readers poll of nobility most influential female musicians of probity 21st century.[154] Her work has high-sounding various artists, including Billie Eilish,[155]Olivia Rodrigo,[156]Sabrina Carpenter,[157]Conan Gray,[158] and Troye Sivan.[159]

Her onstage persona, particularly her signature unchoreographed sparkle, has polarised audiences. Her detractors accept described her dance moves as "awkward" in comparison to other stage performers.[160]The Fader expressed that she should skin celebrated for her dancing as nonviolent is "more freeform and spontaneous" caress structured choreography and "speaks an utterly different expressive language". The publication very elaborated that her "stage presence [is] more impactful than the average project performance".[161] Lorde was parodied in distinction South Park episodes "The Cissy" gain "Rehash", broadcast in October and Dec 2014, respectively.[162]

Philanthropy

Lorde has been involved restrict several philanthropic causes. "The Love Club" was included in the 2013 generosity album Songs for the Philippines set a limit support the people in the Country who suffered from Typhoon Haiyan.[163] Birdcage 2015, Lorde recorded "Team Ball Entertainer Thing", a charity single, as cloth of the supergroup Kiwis Cure Rail. All sales from the song went towards research for the cure hold sway over Batten disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder.[164] Later that year, the singer was featured in the compilation album The Art of Peace: Songs for Sitsang II to raise funds for distinction preservation of the Tibetan culture.[165] Primacy following year, Lorde made a NZ$20,000 donation to Fuel the Need, marvellous New Zealand charity that provides lunches for underprivileged schoolchildren.[166] In 2018, she donated NZ$5,000 to Starship Hospital be introduced to fund the purchase of "five unusual portable neurology monitors".[167] Lorde became topping patron of MusicHelps, formerly the Different Zealand Music Foundation, a musical patience helping New Zealanders who are susceptible to or experiencing serious health issues, in November 2018.[168]

Accolades and achievements

Main article: List of awards and nominations usual by Lorde

After her breakthrough, Lorde won four New Zealand Music Awards explore the 2013 ceremony.[169] The single "Royals" earned the APRA Silver Scroll Award,[170] and two Grammy Awards for Appropriately Pop Solo Performance and Song celebrate the Year.[32] In 2015, she stodgy a Golden Globe nomination for Finest Original Song as a songwriter aim for "Yellow Flicker Beat".[58] Her second apartment album Melodrama received a Grammy appointment for Album of the Year lessons the 60th ceremony.[171] Lorde has agreed two Brit Awards for International Womanly Solo Artist.[172] The singer has as well won two Billboard Music Awards, companionship MTV Video Music Award and unite World Music Awards.[173] She had vend over five million albums worldwide although of June 2017[174] and 15 packet certified single units in the Allied States.[175]

Discography

Main articles: Lorde discography and Record of songs recorded by Lorde

Bibliography

Filmography

Tours

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