Dua Lipa (/ˈduːə ˈliːpə/ ⓘ DOO-ə LEE-pə, Albanian: [ˈdua ˈlipa]; born 22 August 1995) is an English and Albanian singer and songwriter. Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards. Time magazine incl
uded her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
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Dua Lipa worked as a model before signing a recording contract with Warner Bros. in 2014. She rose to prominence with her eponymous debut album in 2017, which peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the singles “Be the One”, “IDGAF”, and the UK number-one single “New Rules”. Lipa was honoured with the Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Her second number-one single, “One Kiss” with Calvin Harris, was the best-selling song of 2018 in the UK and won the Brit Award for Song of the Year. In 2019, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist and for Best Dance Recording for “Electricity”, her collaborative single with Silk City.
Lipa’s second album, Future Nostalgia (2020), became her first UK number-one album, and won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Its lead single, “Don’t Start Now”, scored the longest top-ten stay for a British female artist on the UK Singles Chart and ranked in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart of 2020. The album’s success continued with the follow-up singles “Physical”, “Break My Heart”, and “Levitating”, the last of which topped the Billboard year-end Hot 100 chart of 2021 and was certified diamond in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Lipa subsequently scored her third and fourth UK number-one singles with the 2021 Elton John duet “Cold Heart (Pnau remix)” and “Dance the Night” from the soundtrack of the film Barbie (2023), wherein she also made her acting debut.
In 2024, Lipa released her third studio album, Radical Optimism, which debuted atop the UK Albums Chart and was preceded by the UK top-ten singles “Houdini”, “Training Season”, and “Illusion”. She also had a supporting role in the spy film Argylle. Lipa, as one of the wealthiest people in the UK, was included in the Sunday Times Rich List for 2024, with an estimated net worth of £90 million.
Early life
Dua Lipa was born on 22 August 1995, in London, the eldest child of Kosovo Albanian parents Anesa (née Rexha) and Dukagjin Lipa from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo). Her maternal grandmother is of Bosniak descent.
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Lipa’s ancestry can be traced back to the city of Peja, Kosovo. Both of her grandfathers were historians. She has a sister, Rina, and a brother, Gjin. Lipa was musically influenced by her father, who was the lead singer and guitarist of the Kosovan rock band Oda. Her father continued to play music at home, including his own compositions and songs of artists such as David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Sting, the Police, and Stereophonics. Dua Lipa began singing at the age of five.
Lipa grew up in West Hampstead, London. She attended Fitzjohn’s Primary School and her music lessons there included the cello. When she auditioned to enter the school choir, the teacher told her that “she could not sing”. At the age of nine, she began weekend singing lessons at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. Lipa moved with her family to Pristina after Kosovo declared independence in 2008. There she attended Mileniumi i Tretë School, learned more about the Albanian language, and considered a music career.
At age 15, Lipa moved back alone to London and shared a flat with a family friend. At Parliament Hill School she passed her A-Levels, then re-entered Sylvia Young Theatre School part-time. She uploaded her own songs to SoundCloud and YouTube. She began posting videos of herself covering songs such as “If I Ain’t Got You” (2004) by Alicia Keys and “Beautiful” (2002) by Christina Aguilera on YouTube. Lipa modelled with Topshop and signed with a modelling agency, helping her land a role as a singer in an ITV advertisement for The X Factor in 2013, covering the song “Lost in Music” (1979). She acquired a producer and a manager.
Debut album
In 2017 Dua Lipa released her self-titled debut studio album, which is characterized by a combination of pop, dance, and R&B music. The single “New Rules” reached number one on the U.K. charts, while the song “IDGAF” earned her the Grammy Award for best new artist. At the BRIT Awards, Lipa won best British female solo artist and British breakthrough act.
Future Nostalgia and Radical Optimism
In 2020 Dua Lipa released her second studio album, Future Nostalgia. The singles “Levitating” and “Don’t Start Now” broke onto the U.S. charts, both peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2021 the album took home the Grammy for best pop vocal album and the BRIT Award for British album of the year.
Lipa planned to tour in 2020 to promote Future Nostalgia, but she postponed her concerts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead she offered a live-streamed concert she called Studio 2054. The performance included guest appearances by Elton John, Miley Cyrus, Bad Bunny, and Bukayo Saka of Arsenal Football Club. The show was a huge success, with some five million viewers.
In 2024 Lipa released her third studio album, Radical Optimism. Later that year she was scheduled to headline Glastonbury Festival in England.
Collaborations
In addition to contributing vocals to Silk City’s “Electricity” in 2018, Dua Lipa has frequently collaborated with other acts on such songs as “Prisoner” (2020) with Miley Cyrus; “Un Día (One Day)” (2020) with J Balvin, Bad Bunny, and Tainy; and “Sweetest Pie” (2022) with Megan Thee Stallion. She collaborated with Elton John on “Cold Heart” (2021), which remixes a few of his hits, including “Rocket Man” (1972) and “Sacrifice” (1989). The single reached number one on Billboard’s adult contemporary radio airplay chart.
Other projects: Sunny Hill music festival, Service95, and Barbie
After the success of her first album, Dua Lipa returned to Kosovo in 2018 and cofounded the Sunny Hill music festival with her father. Lipa, Action Bronson, and Martin Garrix headlined the inaugural event, and local musicians, including her father’s band, ODA, performed. Lipa planned for the festival to become an annual event, and in 2019 it featured sets by Miley Cyrus and Calvin Harris. After being canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival returned in 2022 in both Pristina, Kosovo, and Tirana, Albania. The 2023 festival was canceled, although the event was scheduled to return in 2024.
In 2022 Lipa launched Service95, a platform comprising not only a website but also a weekly newsletter, the podcast Dua Lipa: At Your Service, and a book club. All four offer advice, recommendations, stories, and other forms of conversations.
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Lipa made her film debut in 2023 playing Mermaid Barbie in the hit Barbie movie. She also released the single “Dance the Night” as a part of the film’s soundtrack; the single was nominated for two Grammys, including song of the year. That same year Lipa collaborated with Donatella Versace on a women’s summer collection called “La Vacanza.”
Personal life
Dua Lipa’s first name “Dua” was her grandmother’s suggestion and means “love” in Albanian. She is occasionally referred to affectionately by fans as “Dula Peep”, which originated as a mispronunciation by American talk show host Wendy Williams in 2018. Since then, she has positively embraced the nickname.
Lipa’s native language is Albanian. She was born and grew up mostly in London, and has a London accent when speaking English. Despite this, she can speak her native language fluently and described her “dual identity” as her “strength”.
Lipa has described herself as an “honorary Liverpool supporter”, after her song “One Kiss” was adopted by the football club’s fans in the wake of her performance at the 2018 UEFA Champions League final, since becoming a Reds anthem after significant Liverpool victories. On 27 November 2022, Lipa was granted Albanian citizenship by president Bajram Begaj, one day before the country’s 110th independence celebrations.
From June 2019 to December 2021, Lipa was in a relationship with model Anwar Hadid. Since January 2024, Lipa has been dating actor Callum Turner.
Accolades and achievements
Dua Lipa has received several accolades throughout her career, including seven Brit Awards from nineteen nominations, three Grammy Awards from ten nominations, one MTV Video Music Award from twenty-three nominations, two MTV Europe Music Awards from sixteen nominations, two American Music Award from seven nominations, three iHeartRadio Music Award from nineteen nominations, nine Spotify 1 BILLION streams plaques, and one Bambi Award. Lipa has received two Guinness World Records; in 2020 for most tickets sold for a live streamed concert by a solo female artist, and in 2021 for most monthly listeners on Spotify for a female artist, but without surpassing the all-time peak achieved by Ariana Grande the year prior.