Born to a Croatian mother and Irish father, Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor He was born on November 7, 1996 in Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand, growing up in the suburbs of his hometown along with his two sisters and brother. Her poet mother encouraged her to immerse herself in reading different genres, and it was through her constant consumption of books that the seed of her lyricism began to grow.
In 2009, Lorde and her friend Louis McDonald won a school talent show and from there were invited to sing on a local radio show and sing covers. He eventually signed a development contract with Universal Music Group in his teens and began performing his own songs in 2011. That same year he teamed up with producer Joel Little and within a few weeks they produced their first EP, The Love Club.
The EP The Love Club quickly gained an audience, so Universal released it commercially in March 2013; it peaked on the New Zealand and Australian charts. The reason for its immediate success was “Royals“which was released as a single in the summer of 2013 and soon spread around the world, where it topped the charts in the US, UK, Canada and Italy, and reached the Top Ten in most of the other western countries.
Lorde He has won two Grammys, two Billboard Music Awards, 4 New Zealand Music Awards, and an MTV Music Award. In 2013, Time recognized her as one of the most influential teens in the world, and the following year Forbes included her on its “30 under 30” list.
In his personal life, Lorde was in a relationship with photographer James Lowe, but the couple split in 2015. The lead single “Greenlight“from the album Melodrama is based on the ending of their relationship.