“Been speaking w many people about this and considering all options. Thank u for educating me i am learning all the time too,”
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Lorde
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, known professionally as Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is known for her unconventional style of pop music and introspective songwriting.
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entertainment · New Zealand singer-songwriter (born 1996) · singer-songwriter · composer · lyricist · singer · author · musician · also Lorde, Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, Ella Marija Lani Jelić-O'Connor
Born 7 November 1996 · Q13476175
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2026· 3 entries
“I’m not too proud to admit I didn’t make the right call on this one.”
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Public attention spiked: 9,592 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 2,356, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 14 entries
Published video “Virgin out now”.
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Published video “Hammer. Directed by Renell Medrano. Shot on location in Hampstead Heath. Out now”.
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Published video “Lorde - Clearblue (Visualiser)”.
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Published video “Lorde - Shapeshifter (Visualiser)”.
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Published video “Lorde - David (Visualiser)”.
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Published video “Lorde - If She Could See Me Now (Visualiser)”.
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Published video “Lorde - GRWM (Visualiser)”.
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Published video “Lorde - Current Affairs (Visualiser)”.
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Published video “Lorde - Favourite Daughter (Visualiser)”.
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Published video “Lorde - Broken Glass (Visualiser)”.
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The Guardian: Lorde at Glastonbury review – new album playthrough is bold but a little foolhardy
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Released album “2025-06-27: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts”.
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Released album “Virgin”.
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Yahoo: Lorde's new album 'Virgin' inspired by feeling her 'gender broadening'
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2024· 1 entry
Lorde released a cover of Talking Heads' "Take Me to the River" as the third single from the A24 Music tribute album Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “2022-11-06: Primavera Sound Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil”.
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2022· 2 entries
Released album “2022-06-26: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts”.
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Released album “2022-06-10: Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain”.
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2021· 2 entries
Released ep “Te ao mārama”.
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Released album “Solar Power”.
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2018· 1 entry
Donated NZ$5,000 to Starship Hospital to fund the purchase of "five new portable neurology monitors"
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “2017-08-13: Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival”.
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Released album “Melodrama”.
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2015· 3 entries
Lorde recorded "Team Ball Player Thing", a charity single, as part of the supergroup Kiwis Cure Batten
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Received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song as a songwriter for "Yellow Flicker Beat"
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The track earned Lorde a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song, and won Single of the Year at the 2015 New Zealand Music Awards, marking her third consecutive win in the category
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Billboard 21 Under 21 (2014).
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After a 30-year relationship, and they married in a 2017 private ceremony on Cheltenham Beach
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2013· 6 entries
Released ep “Live in Concert”.
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Released album “Pure Heroine”.
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Released ep “Tennis Court EP”.
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And 2014, and the 2014 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30
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“about me trying to figure out how to put myself back together”
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Released ep “Lorde”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released ep “The Love Club EP”.
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For free download on SoundCloud before it was commercially released in 2013
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2011· 1 entry
UMG hired vocal coach Frances Dickinson to give her singing lessons twice a week for a year
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2010· 1 entry
Lorde and McDonald formed a duet called "Ella & Louis" and performed covers live on a regular basis at local venues, including cafés in Auckland and the Victoria Theatre in Devonport
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2009· 1 entry
And began collaborating with producer Joel Little in 2011
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1996· 1 entry
Born 1996-11-07.
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