Hi everybody, today I would like to talk about one of
my favorite singers, Dua Lipa. In the latest years she has been one of the most
popular pop artists in the world. Here are ten curiosities you absolutely have
to know about her.
Dua was born in
London from Kosovar parents, then they moved to Kosovo in 2006. Wanting to make a career out
of music, Dua moved back from Kosovo to London and shared a flat with some friends
when she was just 15. In an interview she said: “The cooking and the
cleaning… that was tough. I mean, the realisation that no one was going to clean
up after me was tough!” “Stuff like that really made me grow up before
my time. My mum came to visit once, opened my wardrobe and said, ‘What are all
these clothes?” I was like, “Those are all the dirty clothes that I’ve
never washed!”
2. She worked on the door of a club in Mayfair
Dua had to hustle in non-music jobs like every artist trying to make it. A few years back in London, Dua Lipa might have been
allowing you entry into nightclubs. Either that, or she was denying you entry
like she had to do with friends who turned up rocking trainers. “It was
awful”, she says of the experience.
3. She’s ace at spelling
Other than
singing, Dua doesn’t think she has many talents, apart from being amazing at
spelling.
4. Her first name means ‘Love’ in Albanian
A lot of people think that Dua Lipa is a stage name,
but it isn’t. Even so, she said she hated her name when she was younger, it means “Love”
in Albanian.
5. Musical talent runs in the
family
Her own dad, Duakgjin Lipa,
was in an Albanian rock band and she grew up listening to his music. She’s said
he was one of her main influences.
6. She and a fan have matching tattoos
While she was in Madrid a fan
came up to her and revealed that they had the same angel tattoo she has on her
shoulder.
7. She thought playing basketball would help her grow
As a child Dua was really
short and took up basketball to try and make her taller. “I thought it would
help me grow but it didn’t,” she says. “The second I quit, I did grow.”
8. She once assaulted a police officer… kind of
When she was
fifteen, Dua and her mates were threatened with arrest after they threw excess
bubble-bath bubbles off a balcony without realising, they’d been hitting a
police officer who was walking underneath. “It came to the point where he
was like: ‘We’re gonna take you down to Scotland Yard'”, she says. “I
was in tears by that point. He was like: ‘How old are you? 15? We’ll just send
you a warning in the post.” She never got the warning, says Dua, and they never called her mum.
9. Her voice hasn’t always been appreciated
When Dua was eleven years old
she wanted to join her school choir but was told by her teacher that she
couldn’t sing because according to her she didn’t have a good voice. She’s now
a multi-platinum singer. This teaches us that we don’t have to trust people
that want to discourage us.
10. She really
cares about the community
Dua has always sang freely
about feminism and her hit New Rules is a hymn to the female brotherhood,
solidarity and emancipation, the video of the song has racked up more than 2 billion YouTube views since
the video's release in July 2017.
But that’s
not all. Dua has created, with her father, the Sunny Hill Foundation, a charity
organisation that helps the citizens of Kosovo devastated by the civil war in
the 90’s.
FRANCESCA
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