Who is lorde

She followed it up with another critically-acclaimed album, Melodrama , which was released in As she was doing a world tour to promote Melodrama, Lorde found herself caught up in a political controversy. At the end of , she scheduled a concert in Tel Aviv, but pro-Palestinian activists urged her to cancel the performance. This demand was part of a larger effort to use boycotts to pressure Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As her Melodrama world tour came to an end, Lorde shocked fans by removing almost everything from her social media accounts in the middle of She assured her fans that she was fine and just wanted a simpler, easier public persona.

Her poet mother encouraged Lorde to immerse herself in reading in a variety of genres, and it was through her constant consumption of books that the seeds of her lyricism began to grow. In , Lorde and her friend won their school's talent show and from there, they were invited to sing on a local radio show and sing covers.

She was eventually signed to a development deal with Universal Music Group in her early teens and began performing her own songs in A collection of five songs, including the hit "Royals," The Love Club EP was Lorde's first extended play, which she released at age 16, in collaboration with producer Little. Described as an indie-rock electronica album, it was highly praised by critics and reached no. In the United States, the EP reached no. Lorde's first studio album, Pure Heroine , is a dream pop electronica album about teenage suburban life and its views on mainstream culture.

In December , the song was certified diamond, after having sold 10 million units, a very rare feat in U. Lorde went on to release the single "Tennis Court," and the U.

The singer also took on the larger role of curating the film's soundtrack. Focused on the themes of heartbreak, loneliness and solitude under an electropop mood, Melodrama is Lorde's second studio album. Before releasing the album, Lorde posted a message to her fans on her Facebook page about the project: "Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this record — well, this one is about what comes next.

She decided to take on a stage name after she signed onto a development deal with Universal Music Group when she was just The singer chose the name Lorde because she had been fascinated with nobility and royalty for years, adding the 'e' to make it more feminine than the classic title "Lord. It's quite funny, because I'm like, wow, if I'd known I would be having that name for the rest of my life I probably would have spent more than two days on it," she told 60 Minutes of the decision in I'm quite proud of my year-old self for not messing that one up because if I'd given myself a cool, weird, hip name that I hated now that would be super annoying.

Lorde performs Solar Power, the first single from her album by the same name. Born on November 7, , Lorde is only 24 and already super accomplished for such a young artist. Her birthday in early November makes her a Scorpio, and she actually included a cheeky reference to her star sign in her song Mood Ring.

Her Pluto is actually believed to be in Capricorn though. Lorde appears in a blonde wig in her new music video for the song 'Mood Ring'. The singer is pretty private about her love life, but all signs point to her and American music producer Justin Warren being an item.