Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards. Lipa worked as a model before venturing into music and signing with Warner Bros. Lipa's second album, Future Nostalgia , became her first UK number-one album and peaked in the top-three in the US. Lipa subsequently scored her third and fourth UK number-one singles with the Elton John duet " Cold Heart Pnau remix " and " Dance the Night " from the soundtrack of the film Barbie , wherein she also made her acting debut.
She also had a supporting role in the spy film Argylle. Lipa's ancestry can be traced back to the city of Peja , Kosovo. Both of her grandfathers were historians. Lipa grew up in West Hampstead , London. At age 15, Lipa moved back alone to London and shared a flat with a family friend. In , Lipa signed a contract with Tap Management, directed by Ben Mawson and Ed Millett, while working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.
Lipa was introduced to Mawson by her lawyer, who discouraged her from signing another publishing deal that was offered to her. They then offered her a monthly salary to leave her job and focus on recording music. Records in They really wanted her, so she had the focus of the team from day one. In Australia and New Zealand, the song became an airplay success, reaching numbers 6 and 20 respectively. We've seen artists who might get half a good song out of 10 writing sessions; with Dua, one in five or one in four is a banger.
She gets results out of other people as well, because her personality is so engaging and she is so charismatic. She definitely has that special something. Her first tour in the UK and Europe began in January , [ 13 ] and concluded in early December The latter was successful particularly in the UK, where it peaked at number As of [update] , the music video has streamed over three billion views on YouTube.
In January , Lipa received nominations in five categories at the Brit Awards , more nominations than any other artist that year. Lipa performed at the awards ceremony held on 21 February at the O2 Arena in London. The single went on to become the biggest selling song in the UK of and topped the chart for eight consecutive weeks.
