Lorde
Lorde ( / lɔrd /, * November 7, 1996 in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand; actual name Ella Maria Lani Yelich - O'Connor ) is a New Zealand musician.
Biography
In the intermediate ( 7/8 class) Lorde participated in her school in Belmont at the talent show. A video recording of them came to Universal Music, who received contact with her when she was only 12 years old. They took them under contract and supported their development. At 15, her music career then began to take shape. She presented her first ready right songs, especially the lyrics. Your preference for language also comes from her mother, who writes poems themselves. Together with Joel Little as a producer then she put them to music. Little was during the 2000s singer of pop-punk band Goodnight Nurse and had previously written and produced songs already for the electropop band Kids of 88. The stage name Lorde with a silent e at the end she chose out of her interest in aristocracy and royalty.
The end of 2012 they released their first EP titled The Love Club, first released on the Internet. Within a short time the five titles were accessed 20,000 times and Lorde was known throughout New Zealand as well. In the spring of 2013, the EP was officially available on iTunes. It reached number two on the New Zealand album charts. The song Royals of the EP was even a number -one hit in the singles charts. Three weeks the song remained at the top and was awarded with triple platinum. On YouTube the related video was called up to that over twenty million times, on Soundcloud came a further three- quarters of a million to retrieve it.
Only then, in May, they had their first performances in New Zealand and Australia, which were all sold out. Shortly thereafter, two new songs in New Zealand published. Tennis Court again reached number one. Early July, her first song Royals was published in the U.S. and also developed there to hit. The song rose steadily in the charts and Lorde took the end of September as the first artist from New Zealand number one on the U.S. singles charts. With nine weeks at the chart peak, it was the second most successful song of the year in the States. On YouTube, the number of hits rose to the video world more than 15 million.
At the same time the debut album Pure Heroine has been released, except for the two number - one hits contained only new songs. Before coming to the song could place team in the charts. The album then rose early October at number one in New Zealand and Australia, and in third place in the USA, Team developed in New Zealand and the USA Top Ten hit.
The end of 2013 was nominated for four Grammy Awards, three times for the Royals and once for the album Pure Heroine Lorde. At the Grammy Awards in 2014, in which she also appeared with the song itself Royals, they then got two awards: in the main category Song of the Year and Best Pop performance.
Discography
Studio albums
EPs
Singles
Promo Media
More promo Media:
- 2013: Bravado
- 2013: Buzzcut Season
- 2013: No Better