Dua Lipa... This phantasmagoric name flaunts on blue screens, on the pages of local newspapers, on coated glossy pages... Dua's songs sing from irons and slow cookers. Critics call her a phenomenon and a unique one. Crowds of admirers sing the parts of her compositions in unison. And some ask in bewilderment: what is the phenomenon of Dua Lipa? Why is her fan base growing exponentially? There are 5 reasons for this, as Igor Nikolaev sang.
Dua - fresh blood
Dua Lipa (suddenly) is not a Disney child, like the pretty sensational Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and the list. The face of the singer did not grow tired to the point of insanity, it was not overgrown with childish mimimi-memories. As happened to Cyrus, who was known as the well-behaved Hannah Montana, dancing in sequined dresses. And having matured, she transformed into a fan of nudity and false noses in the form of a phallus. As a result, millions of hearts around the world flutter in horror!
But Dua Lipa stayed behind the scenes for a long time, plowing day and night in the recording studio. She appeared on YouTube only with covers of Christina Aguilera and Joss Stone. And it didn’t disturb the hearts of adult uncles and aunts with a criminal Disney past! Therefore, she had a medium-temperature reputation and did not get hold of haters.
By the way, little Dua didn’t even think about Disney. Her parents are natives of Kosovo, who, together with their daughter, left their native lands in the nineties. In London, the family had a hard time. Once, during an interview, the singer opened up: she said that her father plowed day shifts, and in the evenings attended a business school, and then mastered journalism. Mother, the owner of a doctorate in science, was also not shy about simple work. And she managed to combine it with the comprehension of the tourism industry!
Dua is not recorded for show
Dua Lipa is not about the assembly line production of songs. The performer spends a long time on each song. In honor of this, she even stuffed the word "Patience" on her arm.
Dua is old school
Linden is fighting for rebirth from the ashes of the 90s! Aguilera and Pink are her holiest landmarks in the world of music, and she would like to keep their foundations. In addition, the singer is very fond of those unusual cowboy tops and flared trousers, in which Aguilera once desperately flaunted on the red carpet.
Dua sings in an unusual style
Dua called her style of music and singing "dark pop", and so it happened ... This is such a salad of powerful ingredients: the sounds of pop music of the early 2000s + hip-hop motifs drawn from the legacy of Tupac, Kendrick Lamar and Jermaine Cole. Lipa seasons this charm with a pinch of rap - and voila - Dua's compositions simultaneously excite radiant nostalgia in the heart and motivate to shake the body on the dance floor.
And now - a minute of conspiracy theories! But what if Dua deliberately chose such an outlandish style - dark pop - in order to score many classes? Oh, likes. After all, we sketch what we are talking about when we hear "rock musician" or "rap diva". But the title "queen of dark pop" will excite interest even more. And it will make you look at YouTube. Vzhzhzhuh - and the song "New Rules" gets a billion two hundred and first views!
By the way, Lipa renounces the title of "goddess of dark pop" in favor of the singer Sia.
Dua makes awesome music
Each composition of the singer is truly her brainchild. With its own forces, it gives rise to meanings, texts and melodies. She doesn't use autotunes - her voice is just as viscous, full-sounding, charmingly dry live. In the texts, he does not mourn the betrothed, calling on the forces of nature to return him, but blessedly wishes all the best.
Dua motivates women to love themselves passionately, to be filled with power, to acquire armor that will turn away toxic partners.
And now enter "Dua Lipa" into the search bar on Youtube - and enjoy.
She has new rules, we have interesting facts.
Over the past few years, five-time Brit Music Award nominee and chart-topper Dua Lipa has easily earned her place in the pop music industry and gained thousands of fans around the world.
The star's career began with the fact that she posted on YouTube cover versions of many famous songs by Nelly Furtado and Christina Aguilera. In 2015, she signed with Warner Bros. Records, and last year her debut release "". Perhaps the top track from it was "New Rules" (Russian New Rules). The eponymous has already gained more than 1 billion views on YouTube.
Dua Lipa is definitely a singer with a lot of potential and we will be hearing more from her this year.
Meet 10 interesting facts about Dua Lipa that you might not know:
1. She and a fan have the same tattoo
It's about the word "angel" on the shoulder. One day, in Madrid, a fan approached Dua Lipa and said that he had made the same tattoo before her.
2. She is practically invincible at the word game.
We are talking about that popular English-language game Spelling Bee, where you need to spell the word completely.
3. A few years ago she worked at the doors of the Mayfair Club in London.
Perhaps she was one of those who once did not let you into the club. If you, of course, were in London at that time and visited Mayfair. “It was terrible,” she recalls now.
4. Her name means "Love" in Albanian
Despite this, she hated her name when she was younger.
Photo: Clash Mag 5. She left home at 15
At this age, young Dua Lipa moved from Kosovo to London and began to work hard, only to not return to low-paid work in her homeland.
6. She went to the same music school as Amy Winehouse
It was the Sylvia Young Theater School in London. Other notable alumni of this institution are Rita Ora, Tom Fletcher and Jesse Nielsen of Little Mix.
7. She thought playing basketball would help her get taller.
As a child, Dua Lipa was short and went to the basketball section to grow up. But her height has not changed a bit in all the time that she spent on the court. “The truth is that I only started growing when I left basketball,” Dua Lipa said in an interview.
Photo: Warner Music 8. She once attacked a police officer...or something like that.
When Dua Lipa was 15 years old, she and her friends were blowing soap bubbles from a balcony in London and all the soap suds flew right at the policeman standing below. “I remember he threatened to arrest us and take us to Scotland Yard. By that time, I was already in tears. When he found out that we were only 15-16 years old, he simply said that he would send us a fine by mail. I never received any fine, ”recalls the artist.
9. Her father was a rock musician in Albania
Duakgjin Lipa's father Duakgjin Lipa played in one of the Albanian rock bands and she grew up listening to his music.
10. As a child, she was not accepted into the school choir.
At the age of 11, Dua Lipa really wanted to join the school's musical choir. The music teacher severely refused her, arguing that she had no voice at all. Well, now Dua Lipa is a multiple platinum award winner and wins the hearts of millions with her voice. We can say that she won this round.
On June 2, Dua Lipa, one of the most talked about young pop singers in the world, will give her first solo Russian concert at the Crocus City Hall. Her super hit New Rules has garnered over a billion views on YouTube, and her debut album Dua Lipa has topped sales in several countries. What you need to know about Dua Lipa?
The singer's parents are from Kosovo, she herself spent most of her life in London, and her name means "love" in Albanian. So Dua called father - rock singer Dukazhin Lipa. The Albanian expression "te dua" when addressed to someone means "I love you", "I want you" and "I need you" at the same time. As a child, Dua Lipa was shy about her name, but over time she got used to it.
As a child, Dua Lipa was not taken to the school choir: at the age of 11, the future superstar was rejected by a music teacher. Her voice was lower than that of her peers, so she was told that she was not suitable for the ensemble.
Her love for music was instilled in her by her father. According to the singer, her childhood was spent listening to the music of David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Stereophonics, Sting and Radiohead. In 2016, the singer teamed up with her father for a good cause: they created the Sunny Hill Foundation, aimed at helping the residents of Kosovo, the hometown of the singer's parents.
Dua with parents
At the age of 15, Dow Lipa began to live apart from her family and rent an apartment with friends in London. A year later, she began to earn her first money: from the age of 16 she worked as a model. 
The singer's career began thanks to self-made videos on YouTube. At the age of 14, the singer began to upload videos on the Internet with her versions of the songs of her favorite singers: Christina Aguilera, P!NK, Nelly Furtado. Thanks to these videos, Warner Music record company found out about her and offered her a contract. Already her second song Be The One became a hit - Dua Lipa was 19 years old at the time of its release.
Dua Lipa is the youngest female artist to have a song with more than a billion views on YouTube. At the time of the release of the song New Rules, she was only 21 years old. This song is currently ranked 64th on YouTube's Top 100 Most Viewed Videos.
In addition, she is also the record holder for the number of nominations at the Brit Awards. This year, Dua Lipa was nominated for 5 out of 10 prestigious British music awards. She left with two awards: in the nominations for "Best Female Singer" and "British Breakthrough of the Year". 
Dua Lipa at Brit Awards 2018
Rumors about Dua Lipa's new novels are constantly circulating on the network. Among the heroes of these articles are Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, with whom the singer wrote the song Homesick for her first album, and electronic superstar Calvin Harris, with whom she recently recorded the single One Kiss. , thanks to anonymous sources of The Sun, it became known that Dua broke up with her (already real) boyfriend, Lany frontman Paul Klein after 5 months of romance and resumed communication with her former lover, fashion model Isaac Carew. 
Dua Lipa speaks out against gender inequality. In her interviews, she repeatedly raised the issue of the position of women in the world of show business. According to her, if you are a girl, it is much more difficult for you to make people around you take yourself more seriously, unless, of course, you perform an author's song with a guitar or piano.
Dua Lipa is a control freak. The singer strictly checks the posters of her concerts, materials related to her in the media and prefers to manage her career herself. This also applies to music: 10 of the 12 songs released on her debut album, she wrote herself.
The creative biography of Dua Lipa is impressive: the rising star of the British show business, the performer of songs in the style of dark pop has quickly won a place in the sun. The compositions performed by her are heard on the air of world radio stations, and some of the songs linger in the top.
By some magic, almost all singles automatically turn into hits. The artist already has an album sold with a circulation of 1.5 million copies, and collaboration with famous representatives of the music world.
Childhood and youth
Dua Lipa was born in 1995 in the capital of England, where her Albanian parents had moved from Kosovo a little earlier. The name of the girl was chosen carefully: Dua is translated as "I love" or "I want." When the future pop star turned 12, the family returned to their homeland. But after three years, the girl decided to leave again for London, where great opportunities for creativity opened up. In the city of her childhood, Dua settled with friends.
Lipa grew up in a musical environment. Father Dukagzhin Lipa is a former rock performer, her daughter loved listening to his songs and also dreamed of a singing career. But in the school choir, the teachers rejected the girl's "low and ugly" voice. She continued to study vocals at home, at the same time she went to a theater studio, where she was taught to feel confident on stage.
At the age of 16, a girl with a bright appearance, tall and slender (her height is 173 cm and her weight is 58 kg), became a model, participated in promotions, starred in promotional videos and television commercials.
Music and creativity
Dua Lipa stubbornly walked towards her dream. As a teenager, she began recording covers of popular hits, which she posted on YouTube video hosting. The girl sang her favorites,.
Dua Lipa's song "Be The One"The first author's demo track called "New Love" was released when the girl was 20 years old. Soon, Dua presented the listeners with the second single "Be The One", which hit the top ten popular songs in 11 European countries. Lucy "Pous" Taylor helped the singer create this composition.
In 2015, the young performer began writing her first album, in which the song "Be The One" became the only one whose authorship belongs to an outsider. She got into the release due to the fact that Lipe really liked it.
Representatives of show business were struck by the rapid ascent of the Albanian to the musical Olympus. With the release of "Be The One", each next song of the young artist immediately appeared at the top of the charts, and the performer herself was called one of the promising singers. Dua Lipa was immediately nominated for the "Sound of ..." list, in 2016 she already went on a big tour of Europe, including cities in the UK.
In early 2017, Dua, together with a young but already popular DJ from Holland, recorded the track "Scared To Be Lonely". Young musicians raised the theme of loneliness together in the song.
Dua Lipa and Martin Garrix's Scared To Be LonelyAnd a little later, they presented the fans with a video for this composition, where both of them appeared. Music lovers noted the professionalism of the musicians and the incredible sensuality of the video clip. On the first day it was watched by a million YouTube users.
By the middle of the year, Lipa presented her debut album to fans. Apparently, she did not think about the name for a long time - the disc bears the name of the singer "Dua Lipa". At the same time, there was another breakthrough in his career. The song "New Rules" became a super hit, confidently taking first place in the English charts.
Dua Lipa's song "New Rules"Thus, the performer managed to repeat the success of the singer, whose song "Hello" in 2015 was in the lead on radio stations - in two years only these female performers managed to climb so high. In the summer, the video for "New Rules" was watched by a billion "residents" of the Network. The popularity of the song spread far beyond the UK, the single hit the top radio stations in a dozen countries around the world.
In general, 2017 was a busy year for Lipa. The girl was invited to participate in the main event of the musical year in England - the Glastonbury Festival. And in December, the singer became the winner of the rating of the Spotify audio streaming service: music lovers in the UK most often listened to her work.
Personal life
For a long time, the girl's personal life remained hidden from prying eyes. Fans gossiped that she had tender feelings for Lipa, but the singer allegedly did not reciprocate. Fans also attributed to the idol novels with, the frontman of the Coldplay group, who helped the girl create one of the songs. It was also said that Dua met with Martin Garrix. The assumptions were not confirmed.
In 2017, Lipa revealed her cards: Paul Klein, a member of the Lany musical group from Los Angeles, became the chosen one. However, the affair lasted several months. Now, it seems, the heart of the Albanian beauty is free, the press, like her page in "Instagram", are silent.
The artist loves tattoos; by the age of 20, five drawings flaunted on the girl’s body. It is not going to stop there. Dua Lipa, at the dawn of her fame, began to do charity work - together with her father, the singer organized a fund to help the people of Kosovo.
Dua Lipa now
2018 began with a triumph: Dua Lipa won the BRIT Awards music award in two categories. The girl was named the best British solo artist and the "Best British Breakthrough of the Year".
In the spring, it became known that Lipa had begun work on her second studio album. This time the assistant was a Nigerian, British singer and composer Uzo Emenike, known to music lovers under the pseudonym MNEK.
The girl has already collaborated with the pop star - together the guys wrote the song "IDGAF". Lipa often works with outside musicians. In April, for example, she presented a new single "One Kiss", to which Scottish singer Calvin Harris had a hand.
In early June, the English singer delighted Russian fans - Dua Lipa's concert took place in Moscow for the first time.
Briton Dua Lipa is ready to blow up the NSC "Olympic"! On May 26, the singer will open the 2018 Champions League final in Kyiv. Let's get to know the beauty closer.
1. How old is Dua Lipa?
2. What is Dua Lipa's real name?
... Dua Lipa. Contrary to popular belief, the girl performs under her real name. And the mystery of its unusualness lies in the origin of the singer - Dua's parents are from Albania. "Dua" is translated from Albanian as "I love", "I want" or "I need".
3. How tall is Dua Lipa?
Don't ask how we found out, but she is 175 centimeters tall. It is interesting that our favorite Ed Sheeran is in the same "growth" category.
4. How did Dua Lipa's career start?
You will not believe it, but the girl came to music thanks to YouTube. On her page, she posted covers of songs by Alessia Cara, Justin Bieber, Christina Aguilera and Jamie xx.
5. Does Dia Lipa have a boyfriend?
At the moment, we only know that the singer was in a serious relationship with LANY lead singer Paul Klein. Unfortunately, in January 2018, the couple announced a breakup.
6. What is the nationality of Dua Lipa?
The girl was born in London (Great Britain), but it is impossible to call her a purebred British - we have already said above that her parents are from Albania. And to be more precise - from Kosovo, and even more precisely - from Pristina. Before the birth of their daughter, they moved to London, but in 2008 they returned to Kosovo. At the age of 15, Dua decided to return to the British capital to fulfill her dream of making music. In addition, her father, Dukagzhina Lipa, is a famous singer in his homeland.
Dua Lipa: photo of the British singer
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7. What is Dua Lipa's second job?
If you didn't know, Dua Lipa worked as a model. Her career began at the age of 16, but she did not consider it successful, despite contracts with several divisions of Next Model Management, and decided to focus on her musical career:
I was offered to become a model when I was still very young, but the problem was that I never fit.
8. What is the name of Dua Lipa's debut album?
Nothing original - "Dua Lipa". It came out in 2017. The album included the hits "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)", "Be The One", and "Hotter Than Hell".
9. What is the name of Dua Lipa's performance style?
Do not think that everything here is predictable. The singer herself calls it "dark pop". I wonder what the music critics think about it?
10. What did you not know about Dua Lipa yet?
Dua Lipa is the subject of a documentary called "See in Blue" produced by The FADER and YouTube Music. The singer talks about her childhood, gives a tour of the city, lets her into a recording studio ... In general, this is a must see:
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