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Halsey

Halsey is an American singer-songwriter whose personal lyrics and visual worlds span alternative pop, electronic music and rock, from Badlands to The Great Impersonator.

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Overview

Born
September 29, 1994, in Edison, New Jersey
Name
Ashley Nicolette Frangipane
Work
Singer-songwriter and actress
First spark
Ghost, released online before her Astralwerks deal
Debut album
Badlands (2015)
Beyond music
Founder of about-face beauty

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How it started.

Raised in New Jersey, Ashley Frangipane found her first audience online. In a 2015 interview, she recalled uploading Ghost without representation and hearing from five record companies that night. An Astralwerks deal and the Room 93 EP followed, before her debut album Badlands arrived in 2015.

Finding her voice.

Badlands introduced an imagined world that Halsey described as a metaphor for her own mind. Her audience grew through songs such as Colors and New Americana, then expanded further with The Chainsmokers collaboration Closer. Hopeless Fountain Kingdom became her first US No. 1 album, and Without Me her first Hot 100 No. 1 as a lead artist.

Changing the picture.

Halsey worked with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, exploring pregnancy and motherhood through a darker sound and a companion film. The Great Impersonator later used musical homage to explore identity and mortality. Away from records, she founded about-face as a self-taught makeup artist.

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Quotes

And for me, I just don’t know that it’s fun unless I’m reinventing.Halsey, speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe

Discussing her changing creative identity in the album notes for The Great Impersonator.

Trivia

  1. Halsey is an anagram of Ashley and a reference to Brooklyn’s Halsey Street subway stop.
  2. Room 93 drew inspiration from hotel rooms and travel along the East Coast.
  3. She founded about-face as a self-taught makeup artist.
  4. She told Interview in 2015 that writing a song usually took her 20 to 90 minutes.

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