Dua Lipa is the popstar who knows how to punctuate our summers. The eldest daughter of three children, born to Albanian parents who fled Kosovo to settle in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, the young Englishwoman experienced a meteoric musical rise. An artistic passion that she owes in particular to her father.
“In Kosovo, my father was a musician”, confided the star (whose first name means Love in Albanian) in the pages of Paris Match in 2019. “He was rock’n’roll and lived from day to day. He understands my love music even if he, at the time, did not live at the same pace as me today”. After a childhood spent between Pristina, the Kosovar capital, and London, Dua Lipa regularly posts musical covers on her YouTube channel. Juggling between her studies and her odd jobs, she also took her first steps in modeling in 2011.
A hit machine with his first two albums
Four years later, Dua Lipa signed a contract with the music label Warner Records. On her 20th birthday, she released her successful debut single New Love. After the song Be the One, it is with the pop tube New Rules that the British star is revealed to the whole world. And, a cult clip that now has more than 2.7 billion views on the web. With her first self-titled album released in 2017, she continued with the songs IDGAF, One Kiss (with Calvin Harris) and Electricity.
In 2020, when the whole world is confined due to the global pandemic, Dua Lipa unveils her second opus Future Nostalgia. An album with disco and eighties sounds proving to be the miracle remedy to counter the gloom, of which she wrote all the songs, which confirms her star status with the public. “This record was very similar to me and you can hear different sounds by which I was inspired. Over the years, I wanted to present something more coherent,” she told the Swiss daily Le Matin. 2021.
Memorable duets with Elton John and Angèle
Don’t Start Now, Physical, without forgetting Levitating and Break My Heart… Dua Lipa’s hits made the planet dance during (and especially after) confinement. Distinguished at prestigious award ceremonies (Brit Awards in the United Kingdom, Grammy Awards in the United States and the NRJ Music Awards, in France), the British star also distinguished herself thanks to her duets. You must have hummed or listened to songs on the radio like Cold Heart with Elton John or Fever with his friend, the Belgian singer Angèle.
Currently on a break from her triumphant “Future Nostalgia Tour”, Dua Lipa is taking the opportunity to spend quality time with her family and friends on vacation. The star followed by 86 million subscribers on Instagram had started the festivities this weekend, as evidenced by the photos and stories published by his relatives. “27 years old is heaven. Thank you for the birthday wishes“, she thanked by sharing a hot photo of her in the sun. Focus on her most beautiful shots in our slideshow.