Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (English: Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, November 7, 1996 -), stage name Lorde (Lorde, /ˈlɔːrd/) , is a New Zealand female singer-songwriter. She was born in Takapuna in the Auckland metropolitan area and grew up in Devonport in the same metropolitan area. She began singing and performing in plays at school as a child, and was signed to Universal Music when she was 13 years old. Her stage name "Lorde" comes from the English word "Lord". She took this stage name because she was obsessed with "royalty and nobility", but the word "Lord" itself is too masculine, so she He added a feminine suffix "e" as his stage name.
lorde's childhood photos
In November 2012, Lorde released his first mini album called "Love Club". His first single "Noble" topped the New Zealand singles chart as soon as it was released. In 2013, the single topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her the first New Zealand solo singer to win a number one single in the United States. In September 2013, she released her first album "Pure Heroine", which received widespread acclaim around the world and was a great commercial success.
Lorde has received many different awards and honors around the world. At the 56th Grammy Awards in January 2014, Lorde received four nominations and won two of them, "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Vocal Performance", becoming one of the youngest winners in the history of the award. one. In February of the same year, she also won the "Best International Female Artist" award at the Brit Awards.
Early life
Ella Yelich-O'Connor was born on November 7, 1996 in Takapuna, Auckland metropolitan area, New Zealand. Her mother, Sonia Yelich, is a famous New Zealand award-winning poet, and her father, Vic O'Connor, is a civil engineer. ] His mother's Yelic family is of Croatian descent, while his father's O'Connor's family is of Irish descent. She grew up in Devonport, a suburb of Auckland, with her sister Jerry, her brother Angelo and her sister India.
Lord discovered his love for singing and acting when he joined the school drama club with his friends at the age of 5. She expressed that she really enjoys the process of "showing another side of herself and becoming a different self" when performing. Encouraged by her poet mother, she read a lot and developed a quiet personality, but was also comfortable speaking in public when performing.
Lord attended Belmont Preparatory School. While at school in 2009, she participated in the school's talent competition with her friend Louis McDonald, singing Delphi's "Warwick Avenue" and Pixie Lott's "What Will Mother Be?" Two songs and won the school talent competition. After MacDonald's father saw Lorde perform at the competition, he sent a video of her covering the two songs to several talent scouts. When Lorde was 13 years old, AR staffer Scott Maclachlan signed her to Universal Music after seeing the video, launching her career as a singer-songwriter, but her career was not successful at the beginning. In an interview with the music media HitQuarters, McLachlan said: "...she (referring to Lorde) understood that she wanted to create her own music, but she still needed someone to help her with the production." It was also during this period that When he was around twelve or thirteen, Lorde began writing his own songs on guitar. She eventually teamed up with songwriter and producer Joel Little. The collaboration between and was "very in tune" and they created three songs including "royals" within a week.
Career
2012-2015: "Pure Heroine" and "The Hunger Games" Original Soundtracks
In November 2012, Lorde released his first mini-album "The Love Club", which is available for free download on SoundCloud.Her manager McLachlan said: "We felt that this was a very powerful piece of music and thought, so we wanted to release it first and worry about money later... But after it was downloaded more than 60,000 times, ( The record company said) We can't continue like this (offering free downloads)." After hearing the mini album, an American music director, Natalia Romiszewski, recommended it to Universal. Jason Fromm, CEO of Lava Records, a record label subsidiary. After hearing this, Fromm decided to meet Lorde in person and sign her to his company. Subsequently, the song "Royals" from the album quickly became famous on Spotify. Fromm said: "...the world immediately responded enthusiastically... ("royals") This song was a spark that ignited active attention around the world. , which ultimately led to the release of Lorde's remarkable debut album. "
In 2013, Lorde's cover of Tears for Fears' song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was featured on the soundtrack to the film "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." On September 29, 2014, Lorde released the song "Yellow Flicker Beat", which is also the first single from the soundtrack of the movie "The Hunger Games: Free Fantasy I". Lorde was responsible for the entire soundtrack album. She was responsible for coordinating the collaboration between artists and the production of the album. She also sang many songs on the album.
In 2014, Lorde performed the single "royals" at the 56th Grammy Awards and won two awards. A month later, she won the "Best International Female Artist" award at the Brit Awards. At the Billboard Music Awards in the same year, Lorde received 14 nominations, becoming one of the most nominated artists in the award that year.
2016 to present: "Rhapsody"-Melodrama
Melodrama album cover
In December 2013, Lorde announced that he had begun writing the material required for his second studio album. In June 2014, she stated that pre-production had begun on her second album, which so far was "completely different" from her first album. In August 2016, the album entered post-production. In February of the following year, Lorde released a new music video trailer. On March 3, she released the first single of the new album "green light". She performed the song for the first time on the American variety show "Saturday Night Live" on March 11, and also participated in the Coachella Music Festival that year. Performance. On June 16 of the same year, Lorde officially released his new album "Melodrama" through Republic Records. She collaborated with artists such as Jack Andorff, Tovero , Joel Little, etc. on the album, and participated in the creation of all songs. The album received widespread praise upon its release, with music review media such as New Music Express, Entertainment Weekly, and Pitchfork all giving it full or high scores. The album topped the album charts in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Canada. The music media "New Music Express" and Consequence of Sound both rated it as the No. 1 album in 2017.
Lorde considers herself an "absolutely wholehearted" feminist. Feminism, she says, is nothing surprising and is just "a natural part of being a girl." She has caused huge controversy for her outspoken criticism of other artists. She once criticized Selena Gomez, Lana Del Rey, and others for their lack of respect for women in their lyrics, their inability to provide correct guidance to female teenagers, and expressed dissatisfaction with the female images portrayed in their lyrics. He has also publicly expressed his disgust at Miley Cyrus's excessive sexual hints during stage performances; he has called Taylor Swift "unattainable" and has not played a positive role in teenage girls, etc. But then she said that these criticisms were mostly misunderstood and exaggerated by the media, and she had no intention of attacking these artists themselves. Later he became good friends with Taylor Swift.
At the end of 2013, the media exposed Lorde’s relationship with James Lowe, a New Zealand Asian photographer who is 7 years older than her. The two knew each other before she became famous. After their relationship became public, the two received a lot of verbal attacks on the Internet because of Lowe's Asian identity and appearance. The two later broke up at the end of 2015.
song recommendation
royals
Team
Green Light
Perfect Places
Yellow Flicker Beat
