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Billie Eilish

Musician Billie Eilish became a pop superstar by way of her distinctive musical and fashion sensibilities and songs like “Ocean Eyes,” “Bad Guy,” and “Therefore I Am.”

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Latest News: Billie Eilish Makes History with Oscar Win

Billie Eilish made Academy Award history on March 10 with her win for Best Original Song for “What Was I Made For?”

Eilish and O’Connell performed the song live during the ceremony, drawing a standing ovation from the audience. “What Was I Made For?” also won Song of the Year earlier in 2024 at the Grammy Awards .

Listen to “What Was I Made For?” on Amazon Music , Apple Music , or Spotify .

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Billie Eilish was barely a teenager when her song “Ocean Eyes” became a viral hit. She teamed with her brother, Finneas O’Connell, to create the tracks for the breakout EP Don’t Smile at Me and the smash album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? , establishing the artist as a global sensation and seven-time Grammy winner before the age of 20. To date, she has won nine Grammy Awards and is known for the songs “Bad Guy,” “Everything I Wanted,” and “What Was I Made For?” from the Barbie movie soundtrack.

FULL NAME: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell BORN: December 18, 2001 BIRTHPLACE: Los Angeles, California ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Sagittarius

Billie Eilish was born on December 18, 2001, in Los Angeles. Her full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell. Her first name is in honor of her maternal grandfather, William; the second was inspired by a conjoined twin her parents saw in a documentary; and the third came from the insistence of her older brother, Finneas.

Billie’s parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, were longtime actors before joining their teenage daughter’s professional team. Raised in a two-bedroom house in Highland Park, where she and her brother were homeschooled, Eilish was encouraged to pursue her interests in dance, gymnastics, horseback riding and especially music. She learned to play the Beatles' "I Will" on the ukulele at age 6; joined Los Angeles Children's Chorus at age 8; and began writing songs in earnest by age 11, her talents nurtured through her mother's songwriting class. Eilish has said her first "real" song, "Fingers Crossed," was penned around that time after watching an episode of The Walking Dead.

The elder sibling by four-and-a-half years, Finneas became his sister's indispensable collaborator, co-writer and producer, the pair continuing to compose and record together from a bedroom in their Highland Park home even after Eilish's emergence as a global phenomenon.

"Probably 75-80 percent of the songs are written with us sitting next to each other at a piano or with a guitar, singing a melody together," he told Variety in 2019. "It's like a relay race — we really feel like we both have to kill our portion of it to get to the finish line."

Finneas, who released the solo EP Blood Harmony in October 2019, has also co-written and produced tracks for other popular artists like Justin Bieber , Selena Gomez and Camila Cabello.

“Ocean Eyes”

Originally written for Finneas' band, "Ocean Eyes" sprung to life when infused with a 13-year-old Eilish's ethereal vocals and became a viral sensation upon being uploaded to SoundCloud in November 2015. A second SoundCloud offering, "Six Feet Under," was followed by her summer 2016 signing with Darkroom Records, which re-released both tracks as singles later in the year.

Don’t Smile at Me

Eilish's popularity surged with the steady unveiling of singles from her August 2017 EP, Don't Smile at Me , with tracks like "Bellyache," "Copycat" and "My Boy" showcasing her willingness to explore dark and prickly terrain amid a stream of shifting but danceable electronic beats. Don't Smile at Me peaked at an impressive No. 14 on the Billboard 200 in January 2019, around which time Eilish became the youngest artist to top 1 billion streams on Spotify.

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and “Bad Guy”

The March 2019 arrival of Eilish's full-length album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? came with the simultaneous release of "Bad Guy," the song that became the first megahit of her career. Still, the chart-topping album retained the early hallmarks of her unique style, from the whispered ruminations on drug use in "Xanny" to the jarring imagery of "Bury a Friend." Eilish also displayed her theatrical sensibilities in the riveting videos for those and other tracks; "When the Party's Over" shows the artist singing through the black liquid pouring from her eyes, while "You Should See Me in a Crown" features a spider crawling from her mouth.

James Bond Soundtrack: “No Time to Die”

In January 2020, it was announced that the 18-year-old Eilish had become the youngest artist to write and record the title track for a James Bond movie. The ominous ballad "No Time to Die" landed the following month, before the film of the same name was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and became her first single to reach the top spot in the U.K. The song would eventually win the Oscar for Best Original song in 2022.

Eilish has also contributed to the soundtracks of other projects; "Bored" and "Lovely" appeared on the controversial Netflix teen series 13 Reasons Why , and "When I Was Older" was among the musical selections that accompanied Alfonso Cuarón's 2018 drama Roma .

“What Was I Made For?”

A collaboration with her brother, Finneas O’Connell, “What Was I Made For?” is Eilish’s latest hit. The song, written for the 2023 Barbie movie, reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the siblings earned Golden Globe, Grammy, and Academy Award nominations for their work.

Eilish began earning her first major accolades in 2019 when she claimed wins at the MTV Video Awards and American Music Awards and was named Billboard ’s Woman of the Year . But her big moment came at the January 2020 Grammys , when she became the first woman and the second artist overall to sweep the big four categories of Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist, adding Best Pop Vocal Album for good measure.

Eilish won two awards at the 2021 Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year for “Everything I Wanted.”

In January 2024, Eilish took home her second Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song - Motion Picture for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie (2023). At the 2024 Grammy Awards, the song earned Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, two trophies for Song of the Year and Best Song Written For Visual Media. “What Was I Made For?” was also nominated and won at the 2024 Academy Awards for Best Original Song.

Eilish became known for wearing oversized clothing, a style born from discomfort with her body that bolstered her appeal as the antithesis of the polished pop starlet. She met the demand for her signature apparel with the early 2018 launch of her online shop, Blohsh, and established her own niche in the fashion world by signing with Next Models later that year.

The artist embarked on her first headlining tour to back Don't Smile at Me in fall 2017 and returned to the road for much of the next two years, though her 2020 Where Do We Go? Tour was cut short and eventually canceled by the Covid-19 pandemic. Eilish has also drawn attention for performances at some of the industry's biggest festivals, including Coachella and Glastonbury in 2019.

Her whirlwind schedule and life inside the eye of the storm became the focal point of the February 2021 documentary Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry , which also features childhood footage, interviews with family members and the singer putting together her debut album.

A life-long vegetarian, Eilish made the transition to a vegan diet in 2014.

Eilish has been open about her struggles with mental health, telling Gayle King in early 2020 that she considered suicide even as she was being fêted the next big thing in pop music. The singer also revealed in November 2018 that she was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome as a child.

Outspoken in her concern for environmental issues, Eilish joined actor Woody Harrelson in 2019 for a video that highlighted the dangers of climate change. She has also urged her fan base to become active voters, notably pairing with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on an initiative to register high school students in 2018.

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Billie Eilish

• Born December 18 , 2001 · Los Angeles, California, USA
• Birth name Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell
• Height 5′ 3½″ (1.61 m)
• Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is an American musician, singer and actress from Los Angeles. She performed hit songs such as "Bad Guy" and "No Time to Die," which was used in the James Bond film of the same name. She provided ADR for Ramona and Beezus, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules and X-Men: Apocalypse. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian Frates
• Children No Children
• Parents Maggie Baird Patrick O'Connell
• Relatives Finneas O'Connell (Sibling) Brian Baird (Aunt or Uncle)
• Baggy clothing and chains
• On February 9, 2020, she performed at the Academy Awards during the In Memoriam sequence with a song "Yesterday" along with her elder brother Finneas O'Connell .
• Became the youngest artist in history to write and perform a James Bond theme, which she did for No Time to Die (2021) .
• She began singing at a young age and began writing songs at age 11, taking after her elder brother Finneas O'Connell , who was already writing, performing, and producing his own songs with his band.
• She won five Grammy Awards in 2020 becoming the second person (after Christopher Cross in 1981), first woman and the youngest person ever to win the four main Grammy categories, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year in the same year.
• Billie was named after her maternal grandfather, Bill Baird who died before she was born. Her middle name, Eilish is the Irish form of Elizabeth. Pirate came from Finneas because he really wanted her to be named that, Baird is her mother's maiden name and O'Connell is her paternal family surname. Originally, she was going to be named Eilish Pirate O'Connell.
• I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
• In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame.
• I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.
• Me and my brother get along super well. We're, like, best friends. So we'll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it's cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don't have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.
• In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

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Pop wunderkind Billie Eilish has already passed the litmus test of being the next big thing: young people hang on her every word and their parents have no clue who she is. But all of that changed in 2019.  Since releasing her viral hit ‘Ocean Eyes’ in 2015, Billie Eilish has become one of the biggest pop stars in the world following her debut album  WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?.  After becoming the voice of her generation, Eilish has been embraced by the old guard as well, as her numerous Grammy wins can attest to. Eilish has signalled a new path to fame in a post-genre landscape.

So how does one go from tinkering in your bedroom to racking up billions upon billions of music streams and over 45 million fans on Instagram? To celebrate her 18th birthday, we look back on Billie Eilish’s eight steps to fame…

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‘Ocean Eyes’ was a game-changer for Eilish, but it wasn’t the only song the sibling duo self-released before signing to the UK-based A&R company Platoon, and, later, Interscope in 2016. Even with major-label backing, however, Eilish continues to write and record with her brother in his bedroom studio, where they create her debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? She’s involved in all aspects of her career, from tour visuals to album cover and merch design, and maintaining her massive social-media presence.

Defy labels

Billie Eilish’s success is very much predicated on how streaming has influenced music tastes. It’s the reason she’s able to notch over a billon streams before even releasing her first album. From her first single to her 2017 EP Don’t Smile at Me, Eilish continues to defy convention and genre. She’s been painted a pop star, but what is pop nowadays and do her fans even care? From the macabre dance hit ‘bury a friend’ to the cowboy twang of ‘bellyache’ and the fragile ballad ‘lovely’, featuring R&B star Khalid, Eilish has found success delivering a new sound with each release while avoiding being pigeonholed. The beauty of Eilish is there is no Svengali-type manager or label executive trying to mould her image or sound to fit some preconceived idea of what a pop star should look or sound like.

Be an open book

Social media and a 24/7 news cycle have required all musicians to be more transparent with their lives than ever before. As Cardi B and Ariana Grande have proven, fans connect to an artist’s personality just as much as their musical output. In Eilish’s case, this is especially true due to her age. Her teenage fans see her more as a peer than an enigmatic idol. She talks about her struggles with Tourette syndrome, her increasing fame and losing friends like the late rapper XXXTentacion. Eilish has the aloofness and self-assurance of a SoundCloud rapper more than a groomed pop starlet. She often talks about letting her music speak for itself and allowing art to be open to interpretation. “One of my favourite parts about making music is that people take it in the way that they take it, and I have no control over that,” she told Hot Ones host Sean Evans.

Stay grounded

Even with the gruelling schedule of a global pop star and living under the constant scrutiny of the press, Billie maintains the silliness of being a teenager. From talking about her orthodontics to singing along in the car with her friends to Panic! At The Disco, Eilish retains some semblance of teenage life. That’s also allowed her to tap into her unbridled imagination and write songs about experiences she’s never had. “When you’re little, songwriting is the same thing as playing a game. You can be whatever you want,” she told Fader .

Be original

Citing influences like Tyler, The Creator, PARTYNEXTDOOR and 21 Savage, it’s clear that Billie Eilish aspires to carve out a singular career as a musician and creative at large. She’s extremely fashion-conscious in the sense that she’s aware of trends – and then does the opposite. Her expressive style reflects her love of Japanese anime, streetwear and 90s rave culture. Both visually and musically, Eilish stands apart from her peers. What other 18 year olds are singing about napalm skies and burying their friends? Inspired by her love of horror and actual nightmares, Eilish’s melancholic pop blurs the lines between reality and a dream state.

Absorb everything

From a young age the home-schooled Eilish had a lot of freedom to explore every creative impulse and was encouraged to consume all kinds of art. Her father would make her mixtapes featuring everything from Green Day to The Beatles, and, aged nine, Eilish would later perform ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun’ at her home-school talent show. As she grew up and developed her own musical tastes, she fell in love with hip-hop and other genre-defying artists like Earl Sweatshirt and Childish Gambino.

Keep creating

Like many of her peers, Eilish is of the generation who finds her voice in real time. Instead of keeping everything confined to a journal, her artistic progression is chronicled online. Eilish is very much a product of the internet, both in what she has been exposed to and how she interacts with fans. In an era when artists are expected to be multi-hyphenate, Eilish is poised to conquer more than just the music world. She talks about starting her own fashion line and even directing her own music videos in the near future. Her collaboration with famed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami for the animated video ‘you should see me in a crown’ reveals an artist who likes to push buttons and has a whole career ahead of her to do so.

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How Billie Eilish Rode Teenage Weirdness to Stardom

By Jonah Weiner March 11, 2020

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She loves “bugging people out” — through macabre, melancholy pop that improbably tops the charts.

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Sometime during the night of Sept. 4, 2018, Billie Eilish took her own life — in a dream. “I jumped off a building,” she recalled recently. What was most alarming about it, as she looked back, was how little it alarmed her. “I was in a really bad place mentally,” Eilish said; the dream struck her less as a nightmare than as a grimly alluring fantasy. The next day, she approached her older brother, Finneas O’Connell, a songwriter and producer, and told him about it. They have collaborated on every piece of music she has put out, and she presented the dream to him as possible inspiration for a new song.

Eilish, whose full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell, was raised in a two-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot Craftsman bungalow in a modest neighborhood on Los Angeles’s east side. In 2018, Finneas bought a house of his own, but his childhood bedroom, abutting Billie’s, has long been their favorite place to make music. (Their parents, working actors who augmented their income with side jobs in construction and teaching, still sleep on a futon in the living room.) Finneas, facing a keyboard, listened as Billie talked about her dream, and together they figured out some chords to frame Billie’s deceptively upbeat opening line — “I had a dream I got everything I wanted.”

As they worked on the song, though, Finneas grew increasingly uncomfortable, then angry, and finally he refused to go any further. “We had this big argument,” Billie said. “Because I admitted something that I was, uh. It wasn’t a physical thing I was admitting. I don’t know how to put it without actually saying it, and I don’t want to actually say it. But it was me admitting to something that was very serious about my depression. A very serious step that I was admitting that I was planning on taking. And Finneas said, I don’t want to write a song about you killing yourself and how that’s everything you wanted!” Her parents caught wind of the argument and, along with Finneas, grew “insanely concerned,” Billie said. “It became this huge thing, and I locked myself in my room, and I was in there, just drawing on my wall.”

Recounting this episode, Billie sat cross-legged on the living-room couch at Finneas’s house, mashing her mismatched Air Jordan 1s into the cushions. Her hair was dyed ink-black with a seepage of acid green at the scalp, and she wore an all-black outfit: an oversize bowling shirt printed with an image of two women, wearing crowns, covered in blood and kissing, and cargo pants that, in their stylized profusion of straps and pockets, struck a compromise between goth and SWAT. As she spoke, I could see her left eyebrow twitching — Billie has been given a diagnosis of Tourette’s syndrome, which manifests mainly in facial tics and muscle tensing. She had barely finished the story when Finneas himself walked through the front door. In 2019, he moved to yet another house, with his girlfriend, and repurposed this one as a place to hang out and record — it has also served as a “safe spot,” as Billie put it, since the address of the family bungalow leaked online last year.

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Even for a place no one calls home anymore, Finneas’s house felt notably bare. On a table in the center of the living room were a computer and a microphone. Pressed against the far wall was an upright Kawai piano. The sole decorations other than a thirsty-looking potted plant were two black-and-white photos depicting the Yosemite Valley, of the sort you might find hanging above the Keurig machine at a business hotel, and a red neon sign spelling out “10,000 Hours” — the pop-science creative-labor catchphrase made famous by Malcolm Gladwell — that would fit in nicely above the kombucha tap at a co-working space.

Billie, 18, and Finneas, 22, have an easy, unabashed intimacy. They were home-schooled, and Billie likes to joke that had they ever attended public schools, Finneas — eccentric and sweet-natured — would have been bullied, whereas Billie — coolly charismatic and sharp-tongued — would have been a bully. In conversation, though, they’re more likely to pay each other compliments, plainly and earnestly, than to reroute their affection through the kinds of sarcastic needling siblings often engage in. Finneas, leaning over the couch in an extremely L.A. ensemble — multicolored camp shirt, skinny trousers, perforated brown loafers with no socks — gave Billie a hug. “Missed you,” he said, to which she replied, “You smell good.” He took a seat on a coffee table facing her, and she stretched out a leg so that her right foot rested on his left inside thigh.

Seeing Eilish interact so unguardedly with her brother, you can forget that she is one of the planet’s biggest pop stars, measured either by streaming-era metrics or the oldest, crustiest yardsticks in the business. Her songs have earned more than 15 billion combined streams worldwide, according to Spotify, and her five most-watched videos on YouTube have some 2.5 billion views in all. Eilish’s first album, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” made its debut last year at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and when her biggest single to date, “Bad Guy,” rose to No. 1 on the Hot 100 pop chart in August, it dethroned the epochal hit “Old Town Road,” by her fellow Generation Z luminary Lil Nas X. In January, Eilish swept the top categories at the Grammys , including song of the year, record of the year and album of the year. That same month, the Oscars booked her to sing during the In Memoriam section; MGM and Eon, meanwhile, asked her to write and sing the theme song for the next James Bond movie.

As today’s pop superstars go, Eilish is remarkable for her abiding interest in the grim and the upsetting. She has resuscitated an aesthetic of macabre transgression that has been almost entirely absent from the musical mainstream since the ’90s heyday of rock acts like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. In her lyrics, narrators murder their friends and liken lovers to hostages. In her music, bright singalong hooks are subsumed by bursts of distortion, and whisper-quiet verses are interrupted by shrieking samples of a dentist drill. In her videos, which she helps to devise and occasionally directs herself, she has cried black tears and released a large spider from her mouth. In one, faceless tormentors burn her with cigarette butts; in another, they jab her with syringes.

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All this reflects an entertainer’s conscious strategy to inspire titillated repulsion in audiences — to seduce and ensnare fans the way a horror auteur does. “I love bugging people out,” Eilish told me. “Freaking people out. I like being looked at. I like being in people’s heads. I feed off it.” But it also connects to her tendencies toward melancholy and depression, which Eilish says songwriting helps her to navigate and, ideally, helps listeners relate to her music that much more profoundly. “I want to be the voice of people,” she said at one point.

What she hadn’t considered when she brought her dream of suicide to Finneas, though, was the toll that hearing and helping to craft such music might take on those who love her most. “We haven’t really talked about this since, but Finneas was like, ‘I don’t want to keep making these songs that are only sad and they never get better,.” Eilish said. “He wanted to make songs that resolve in the end. I was like: ‘But Finneas, that’s not how things work in life. And I’m not going to lie in a song and talk about how I’m feeling good when I’m not.’”

Sitting on the coffee table, Finneas nodded, reaching over to pick up a piece of crud that Billie’s soles had deposited on the couch. “It was a period where I was really worried about my sister, and I felt like an enabler in helping her write a song as bleak as that song was,” he said. “Like the musical equivalent of giving an alcoholic another beer: ‘I’m not going to support this.’ A lot of songs are written in retrospect, but this one felt like it was being written in real time, and I was like: ‘This is something we’ve got to write on the other side of this hill. We have to go through this in real life. You can’t always solve your problems in a song.’”

When I first met Eilish at the family bungalow in December 2018, three days after her 17th birthday and three months before the release of “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” she was already a streaming sensation, with a major-label contract and a catalog of sparse, synthesizer-driven singles stretching back to her breakthrough, a lovely ballad called “Ocean Eyes,” which she and Finneas uploaded to SoundCloud in 2015. Her album was close to complete, but the final leg of the process had been excruciating — “an endless-limbo thing,” Eilish said. “Unfinished things are nice if you have an idea where you’re going to go with them, but if you have no clue?” She bugged her eyes in a pantomime of distress.

The bungalow was invitingly cluttered, with bric-a-brac on the mantles, musical instruments everywhere and friendly pets underfoot — a rescue cat named Misha, a shelter dog named Pepper. Eilish’s parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, zigzagged around, tending to household tasks, cheerfully checking in on Eilish, asking me if I needed another glass of water. Their backyard was spacious and sunny, occupied in one corner by a soundproof shed where Patrick sometimes recorded audiobook narrations and other voice-over gigs.

Finneas, a onetime actor whose résumé includes a role on “Glee,” told me that when he and Eilish were younger, money was often tight. “Our parents had enough trouble supporting themselves and our family, strictly off of income as artists,” he said. “Our dad worked as a carpenter, and our mom taught a ton of improv and aerial classes on the side. My hope was that they were doing things that gave them some level of satisfaction, like, our dad genuinely loves carpentry, but yeah, having struggling-artist parents was depressing.” He emphasized, though, that while “money was definitely a dictator of stress — we witnessed our parents stressed about, Man, if we don’t work this many hours this month, it’ll be really hard — money has absolutely not been the dictator of happiness in our lives. Our parents never presented it to us that way.”

Eilish showed me her room, a small space made to feel that much smaller by the reams of luxury apparel various fashion designers and athletics brands had sent her in the hope that she might wear them on TV or Instagram. “It’s too much,” she said. Case in point: Dozens and dozens of rare and in some cases unreleased sneakers — I lost count after the 49th pair — sat in tidy rows covering the floor with the narrowest of paths snaking between them. “Those go for, like, $2,000,” Eilish said, pointing downward.

Sidestepping Balenciaga Triple Ss and Travis Scott Jordans, Yeezys and Off-White Air Maxes, Eilish made it to the other end of the room to retrieve her notebook — “the most valuable thing I have,” she said, “because it’s where I’ve written down every idea.” Angling it for my benefit, Eilish flipped through the scrawled protolyrics and heavy black line drawings within — syringes, shadowy hallways. “These are intestines and stuff.” Flip. “This is a song we haven’t finished.” Flip. “This is the bridge of ‘Bury a Friend.” — one of Eilish’s biggest singles, whose darkest refrain, “I wanna end me,” she had written hundreds of times in tiny letters, the words piled into a tottering heap.

A few pages later, I caught the phrase “I feel I am dissolving.” Self-obliteration was a recurring theme in the notebook, as it is in Eilish’s music. So were sexual desire and body horror, and the slippage, as Eilish saw it, between them. She lingered a bit over two naked women she had drawn, one with a classically proportioned face and a deformed, reptilian body, the other with grotesque facial features and voluptuous curves. “This is an interpretation of the world,” Eilish said, “because they’d have sex with a monster if her body looked like that, but they wouldn’t have sex with a beautiful girl if her body looked like that.” She put down the notebook and raised a dark-colored curtain she had nailed up beside her bed, behind which, it emerged, her drawings and nihilistic scribblings had escaped the notebook and were spreading across the wall. Eilish laughed. “There’s a lot more behind the pillows,” she said.

Eilish’s history of depression began in early adolescence, when she ruptured the growth plate in her hip while dancing — something she loved doing so much she had joined a company, which, painfully and abruptly, she was then forced to quit. “My bone separated from the muscle, so that took me out,” she said. Eilish has long felt uncomfortable in her own skin, in ways both mental — feelings of body dysmorphia have contributed to her preference for oversize and obfuscatory outfits — and more purely physical: “My body’s prone to injuries,” she told me in her room. “I have two sprained ankles at the moment. My left foot is, like, twisted, I don’t know why. The right one has been sprained three times from doing basically nothing. I got tendinitis in it from my sleep — I was like 8 or 9, and I just woke up like this.” She shrugged and added: “I’ve always been really stoic. I never tell people when I’m in pain, and I’ve always been in some sort of pain.” Unable to dance, however, Eilish spiraled into a profound unhappiness. This manifested, at points, in acts of self-harm: When she was troubled by pain she couldn’t control, here was some pain she could.

During my visit, Eilish’s parents were easy­going and upbeat in a way that made the festering chaos on display in her bedroom feel less dire than it might have otherwise. At the time, it struck me as a funny, moody, sensitive kid’s messy creative workshop, rather than some poisonous pit of teenage gloom. Baird told me later that it “was a relief” to her when Eilish made it clear to the family “that the dark stuff she was putting out — writing songs, writing on her walls, whatever — was cathartic enough for her to not feel it so intensely; that she’s not writing it to feel worse, she’s writing it to feel better.”

The advent of fame complicated Eilish’s life in ways she felt ill equipped to deal with at first. Kids in a choir she had been part of since age 8 started making fun of her budding celebrity, she told me, cutting her down to size out of standard-issue adolescent meanness and jealousy. “I had to quit the choir, and I lost all my friends, then I didn’t want to do drugs, and I lost all my other friends because they did,” she said. “Then I had kind of no one.” Eilish no longer felt able to put unvarnished thoughts on Twitter or Instagram without fear of opprobrium and backlash, and she could no longer appear in public without being recognized, which started out fun but came to feel, she said, “like jail.”

In June 2018, XXXTentacion, a popular 20-year-old Florida rapper whom Eilish considered a confidant, was shot and killed. At the time of his death, he was awaiting trial for a 2016 domestic-abuse case involving an ex-girlfriend and had been charged with numerous acts of violence to which he pleaded not guilty. When Eilish mourned his death publicly, she was widely and loudly criticized as an abuse apologist. “My friend died,” she told me, “and then it just sucked for a year.”

Removing Billie ’ s foot from its perch on his leg, Finneas rose from his coffee table and moved to his computer. Four days later, at the Oscars, he would accompany Billie on piano during her performance of “Yesterday,” and he wanted to fine-tune a prerecorded element. “There’s a string arrangement,” he explained. “Live strings we recorded yesterday, so I’m trying to figure out how to put them in.”

“It’s really pretty,” Billie said of the song.

“There was a moment where people were like, ‘It’s too sad,.” Finneas said, “and I was like, ‘Uh, yeah!.”

“It’s In Memoriam!” Billie said. “They really wanted us to do ‘Moon River,’ which is a beautiful song, but we were like: We want people to be sad. It’s a sad thing. You should be sad when you think about people who died.”

In press coverage of Eilish’s career, much has been made of her oblique relationship to the cultural mainstream. The genuinely improbable fact that she made a smash album with just her brother, in his bedroom, and that that album is frequently creepy and morose, has been held up alongside Eilish’s outré outfit choices and constantly changing hair color as evidence of a subversive insurrection into — and even a paradigmatic shift in — the pop landscape. NPR called Eilish a “misfit,” and Billboard called her a “rebel.” Rolling Stone, putting her on the cover last July, celebrated her rise as “the Triumph of the Weird.” When Eilish appeared on the March cover of Vogue, the magazine referred to her as “the Outsider.”

Eilish, for her part, does not describe herself, much less seem to see herself, in these terms. To the extent it exists, her rebelliousness takes reverent and flexible forms. She decided that she wanted to be famous when she was 12, during a trip to New York, where she watched the crowd cheer the young star of “Matilda” on Broadway. Eilish often cites the influence on her art of the brash and iconoclastic L.A. rapper-producer Tyler, the Creator, but her musical idol growing up was far more chaste: angel-voiced, mop-topped Justin Bieber. Rather than disavow that idolatry today as an embarrassing artifact of adolescence, the way some teenagers might, Eilish instead got Bieber himself to sing on a remix of “Bad Guy” last year. To commemorate this collaboration, she posted a photo to Instagram of her younger self standing before four Bieber posters on her bedroom wall.

When I asked Eilish if she felt any wariness about the abundant approval she has won, as “an outsider,” from establishment show-business institutions like the Oscars, she said, “People keep trying to get something out of me that’s, like, ‘[Expletive] the Grammys, [expletive] the Oscars.'” She shook her head. “I have literally zero ambivalence. I’m like, ‘That’s fire.’”

From the start, her success has come not in spite of industry gatekeepers but with their help. After she and Finneas uploaded ‘‘Ocean Eyes” to SoundCloud, it received a boost from Hillydilly, a music blog with industry readers. Finneas parlayed a friendship with the artist manager Danny Rukasin, with whom he had connected as a musician, into representation for Eilish; Rukasin, who manages Eilish with Brandon Goodman, helped score Eilish a deal with the music-discovery platform Platoon and later a contract with Darkroom, a partner label of Interscope Records, the powerhouse that has been home over the years to Eminem and Gwen Stefani. Apple, which wound up buying Platoon in December 2018, supported Eilish early, booking her at a South by Southwest showcase in 2017 and including her in its UpNext series, in which the company gives a chosen artist ‘‘a huge boost in visibility,” as Billboard put it, “using their editorial team’s elusive resources.” Those resources included an Apple-exclusive live EP and an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1, the radio station that goes out to Apple Music’s more than 60 million subscribers. Spotify has given her special attention, too.

In 2018, Apple asked Eilish and Finneas to make an uncharacteristically uplifting song, built around a gentle acoustic-guitar riff that soars to a feel-good crescendo and lyrics about revealing your hidden gifts to the world — a vibe much closer to Ingrid Michaelson than Marilyn Manson. The song, “Come Out and Play,” scored an animated commercial that Apple broadcast during the holiday season. “We’ve never written a song that was ‘empowering,.” Eilish told me. “It was very different for us. It was weird. I was like, What the hell?” The song didn’t quite feel like her, she went on, “but it didn’t need to feel like me, ’cause it’s an ad, for Christmastime. It’s cute. It’s not me, but it’s adorable. I think you can have something that’s not you, but it works.”

Who Billie Eilish is and isn’t are categories in flux. This is true in differing degrees for any of us, but especially for a teenager growing up in the public eye. That was ultimately the lesson that she and Finneas learned last spring when they returned to the song about her suicide dream, which they put on ice the previous fall. Eilish’s phone contains hundreds of voice memos documenting songs in various stages of completion — a hummed melody, a turn of phrase, a half-formed chorus. “Sometimes we’ll go through each other’s old voice memos, because there are things we’ve completely forgotten about, and this was one of them,” Eilish said, showing me the folder as she scrolled through it, stopping at April 26, 2019.

On that day, they dug up the verse they had written. “We listened to it, and we were both like, ‘Ohhh — what’s that?.” Eilish recalled, emphasizing that by this point, emotionally, she “was in a better place.” She had been to see a therapist; she had figured out ways to make touring less punishing and less lonely, including flying friends out to meet her on the road; most simple, she said, she was that much older, with “things feeling more in your control, just your brain maturing and your mood changing.”

Of the new song, she went on, “my argument, which I think was the thing that made my mom and Finneas finally go, ‘Oh, OK,’ is I said: ‘This song is the way I can feel these things without doing something to myself.'” As Eilish and Finneas revisited it, its solitary fatalism gave way to themes of stability and fellowship: “Finneas and I both had the idea to make the song about each other, instead of just me and how I was feeling,” Eilish said. And whereas in the past Eilish’s default mode has been to unsettle listeners, in the finished lyric, images of aestheticized self-destruction (“thought I could fly, so I stepped off the Golden”) alternate with lines about finding comfort in a comrade’s reassurances. “We had a complete block,” Eilish said, “and the way we got through it was to make it about us as siblings and what we mean to each other.”

The song, “Everything I Wanted,” is a hushed piece of dance music — its piano riff sounds as if it’s faintly flickering, and its kick-drum pulse sounds as if it’s throbbing from the other side of a wall. Of his approach to song structure, Finneas said, “I think where a song doesn’t go is as interesting as where a song goes. Sometimes we’ll put a different verse in when it should go to the chorus, just for the slap in the face of, like, ‘Your brain has to stay awake for this.’” Among other considerations, this was a useful trick for standing out in crowded streaming playlists, Finneas said, where “I think we’ve benefited from being the odd one out. When you hear a truly generic pop song — and I don’t use that word with negative connotations, just in the sense of standard — by the time you get through the second verse, you know exactly what the rest of the song sounds like.”

On the subject of the generic, he added: “There’s a production philosophy around getting really bright and really forward in choruses, but I tend to get really bass-y with Billie. I’ve been doing that all the way back to ‘Ocean Eyes.’ If anything, it comes from going to concerts and hearing a 10-foot-tall subwoofer hit you, and just trying to recreate that on a microscopic level, so that it feels that way in an earbud.”

Eruptions of bass notwithstanding, “Everything I Wanted” resists anything resembling a traditional climax, building only to recede, over and over, until it’s done. Describing this dynamic, Finneas used a sexual metaphor — “Billie and I have a real fixation on musical edging” — to which Eilish, who had slumped over onto her side, looking at her phone, sprang to attention, contorted her face into a mask of disgust and cried out: “Finneas, God!”

Eilish sat on a stool in a hangar-size Burbank rehearsal space the next day, holding a wireless microphone and trying to figure out how best to put her fingerprints on a song as overwhelmingly familiar as “Yesterday,” which she would perform at the Oscars that weekend. First, though, there were technical difficulties to overcome. “The click is piercing my ears,” she said, pointing to her in-ear monitors, which played a metronomic beat audible to only her and Finneas, who was playing a keyboard beside her. This click was a necessity for keeping them in time, but it also functioned something like a shared secret — tethering the siblings to each other, even as the rooms around them grew big enough to swallow them whole.

Eilish was here to prepare for not only the Oscars performance but also her imminent, sold-out arena tour, which kicks off this month. According to the trade magazine Pollstar, the tour — which will include nights at Madison Square Garden, Rio de Janeiro’s Jeunesse Arena and Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes — sold a half-million tickets in the first hour they became available. Despite the tendency toward the small-scale and sparse in Eilish’s music, Finneas told me they were unconcerned about bringing her songs into such enormous venues: “Billie’s crowd is a real singalong crowd, so no matter how quiet the song is, there’s going to be 10, 20,000 kids screaming the whole time.”

She gave the cover a go, closing her eyes and throwing some R&B-indebted flourishes into her interpretation, from little humming vocal runs to melismatic bending on certain vowels. Facing her on a couch some 50 feet away were their parents, O’Connell and Baird. As the song ended, Eilish delivered a one-word verdict: “Yikes.” She looked at Finneas, who hadn’t given her much of a preamble before the first verse. “Do they not want me to do the little run at the start?” she asked. “I feel like it gets me into it better.”

Of the criticisms Eilish reads about herself online, one of the most irksome is that her spectral delivery hides a fundamental lack of technique and power — .‘She can’t sing, she just whispers,.” as she paraphrases it — and with this performance, it emerged, she planned to do a little showing off. Finneas told her that the cameras would be on her only at the start and finish of the song, cutting to the In Memoriam montage in between. “Everyone thinks I can’t sing on the internet,” she replied, “so I want to move the runs up to when I’m on camera.” From the couch, Baird reassured her: “Your voice is so beautiful. The internet are idiots.”

Going into rehearsals, I had imagined Eilish approaching “Yesterday” something like the way Johnny Cash approached his austere cover of Nine Inch Nails’s “Hurt,” or the way Cat Power approached “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” — reinterpreting it as something haunted and hollow, drained of affect to the point of near-monotone, the burn of the original reduced to a shivering ember. But for an artist who presents as idiosyncratically as Eilish, her ambition for this performance turned out to be unabashedly conventional, respectful both to the source material and to the gig at hand.

A pop star’s job, on a generic level, is to provide comfort — to situate listeners within an experience of familiar emotions communicated through familiar structures, which might be subverted or tweaked but only to the degree that they grab our attention and take up residence in our brains that much more effectively. From the start, Eilish’s appeal has relied on combining her taste for the radical with her strong sense of the classical. In “Everything I Wanted,” what started as a song about profound disorientation ended up as a song about profound stability. When you listen to that single, or watch Eilish sing “Yesterday,” it becomes clear that for her — for now, anyway — pop isn’t something to sabotage. It’s something to hold sacred.

It was time for another run-through, which Eilish festooned with more wordless acrobatics up top, and which was met with more clapping, cheering and another round of compliments. Through the applause, Eilish frowned and shook her head, and when it subsided, she rolled her eyes. “Blech,” she said, sneering. Maybe she was being hard on herself; maybe an eminently sane response to adulation is to doubt it. But later she told me it sounded pretty good to her too.

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Billie Eilish Biography

Birthday: December 18 , 2001 ( Sagittarius )

Born In: Los Angeles, California, United States

Billie Eilish is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for her successful debut single, Ocean Eyes . She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Belonging to a family of musicians, she was destined to make a career in performing arts. She joined a choir at the age of 8, and by the time she turned 11, she had begun writing and singing her own songs. Her elder brother, Finneas O’Connell, was the biggest influence in her life while she grew up. He had his own band and had written a song titled Ocean Eyes . Billie Eilish performed the song and released it online. It became a massive success. This turned out to be her first massive breakthrough. In 2017, her brother helped her record the single Bellyache . With the success of the song, Billie released her debut EP, Don’t Smile at Me , in August 2017. The EP appeared on several American and international music charts. In September 2017, Apple named her their newest Up Next artist. She then released her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? in March 2019, which was followed by Happier Than Ever , in July 2021.

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Also Known As: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell

Age: 22 Years , 22 Year Old Females

father: Patrick O'Connell

mother: Maggie Baird

siblings: Finneas O'Connell

Born Country: United States

Musicians Pop Singers

Height: 5'3" (160 cm ), 5'3" Females

Ancestry: Irish American

U.S. State: California

City: Los Angeles

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Billie Eilish was born Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell, on December 18, 2001, in Los Angeles, California. She was born into a family of musicians and actors. She grew up with her elder brother. Her parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, were popular figures in the American entertainment industry.

While growing up, she saw her elder brother, Finneas O’Connell, fall in love with music. Additionally, her mother wrote songs and her father played instruments such as the piano and the ukulele. The musical vibe in the house inspired little Billie to make a career in music.

She grew up listening to the music of The Beatles and ‘Avril Lavigne’. Her father loved making mixtapes of various artists.

She was home-schooled for most of her early years, but that did not stop her from participating in extracurricular activities. She loved acting in homemade films and also sang and danced whenever she found the chance.

When Billie Eilish turned eight, she joined a choir and sang with them for three years. By the time she was 11 years old, she was already writing and composing songs of her own. She also made several short films. She shot them on a camera and edited them on ‘iMovie’, Apple’s video-editing app.

Other than acting and music, dance was another passion of hers. She took dance classes in her early teenage years. With a plethora of skills, she aimed at making a big career in the show business.

Her elder brother had a band of his own. He had written a song named Ocean Eyes and asked his sister to record it in her voice. This accidental song turned out to be the breakthrough success for Billie and boosted her career.

The song Ocean Eyes was recorded in Novemeber 2015. It was initially meant for Billie’s dance classes. She handed over the song to her dance teacher and meant it to be featured in her next dance routine. The song turned out to be good, and the siblings decided that it must be up on the music-sharing platform ‘SoundCloud.’

The song was uploaded on ‘SoundCloud’ in November 2015, and by March 2016, the music video was released. It was later re-released commercially in November 2016. The song shot up and registered more than 10 million hits within a short period of time. This success was unexpected and made way for many more versions. In November 2016, a music video with Billie dancing on the song was released. It turned out to be another success.

Several major record labels came ahead to buy the rights for the song. The song was released worldwide by ‘Darkroom’ and’ Interscope Records.’ It immediately became a critical and commercial success. Toward the end of the year, Billie Eilish released another single, Six Feet Under .

Inspired by the success of her debut single, Ocean Eyes , Billie Eilsih recorded four remixes of the song and compiled them all in an EP titled Ocean Eyes . All the remixes became big hits and gave Billie enough courage to carry on with her future projects.

In February 2017, Billie Eilish released the single, Bellyache , which was produced and co-written by her brother. The music video for the song, directed by Miles and AJ, was released in March 2017.

Billie Eilish then recorded a song titled Bored , which was included in the official soundtrack of the famous ‘Netflix’ series,  13 Reasons Why. Two more singles, Watch and Copycat , were subsequently released. In July 2017, Billie announced her highly awaited debut EP, Don’t Smile at Me .

Before the official release of the EP, Billie Eilish released two singles from the same; My Boy and Idontwannabeyouanymore . Leading up to the release of the EP, she added new songs every Friday. The EP was eventually released on August 11 , 2017.

The same year, she collaborated with Vince Staples and released a remix of her song Watch , which was renamed &Burn . In order to promote herself more, she went on two headlining tours: Don’t smile at me Tour in October 2017 and Where’s my mind Tour from February-April 2018.

She also collaborated with famous American singer Khalid and worked with him on a single titled Lovely , which was released in mid-2018. The song became immensely popular and made the producers of 13 Reasons Why ’ buy its rights and feature it in the second season of the series.

In 2018, Billie Eilish released the singles Bitches Broken Hearts , and You Should See me in a Crown . She then released a single titled When the Party’s Over and later that year was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 .

Her much awaited debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was released on March 29, 2019. The album peaked at the Billboard 200 and UK albums chart making her the first millennial to achieve this feat in US and youngest female ever to have a number-one album in the UK.

In September 2019, she headed the Where Do We Go? World Tour but it got postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In January 2020 she performed the title track on the 25th James Bond movie, No Time to Die , which was written and produced by her brother.

Her second studio album, Happier Than Ever was released on July 30, 2021 by Darkroom and Interscope Records. She hit the number-one spot at the Billboard 200 and UK album charts with her second album as well.

Billie Eilish became the youngest person to get featured in Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2020

She has won seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, one BRIT Award.  

Billie Eilish is the youngest female artist ever to win the Prestigious Album of the year award. She won it for her album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? , in 2020.

Billie Eilish has been criticized for never smiling in photographs. She has responded to such criticism by saying that she does not like smiling because it makes her feel weak and powerless.

She is known for her eccentric dress sense. She is often criticized for it but does not pay attention to the criticism.

Billie has been diagnosed with Tourette syndrome and synaesthesia. She has confessed to have suffered from depression as well.

Billie Eilish was previously in a relationship with rapper Brandon Adams a.k.a 7:AMP.

She has been accused of queerbaiting to promote her song and became a target of cancel culture for using anti-Asian slur. She has apologised profusely on social media for both the accusations.

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At just 22, singer Billie Eilish has achieved more in her short music career than many aspiring artists do in their entire lives – including performing at the Olympics.

She was among the slew of American stars who appeared for the Paris 2024 closing ceremony, kicking off the new Olympic era for Los Angeles 2028.

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And it's no wonder she was chosen to star alongside the likes of Tom Cruise, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg and more on the world stage.

At the time of writing, Eilish has won nine Grammys, two Golden Globes, and two Oscars, as well as setting two Guinness World Records, and topping the charts more times than artists twice her age.

Now she's gearing up for an Australian tour and fans Down Under can't wait, especially since one of her breakout hits has a cheeky Aussie tribute in it.

Keep reading to learn all about how Eilish went from a homeschooled kid living in LA to one of the biggest rising stars on the planet.

How did Billie Eilish get discovered?

Born in December, 2001, Eilish grew up in Los Angeles, California with her older brother Finneas O'Connell and their parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell.

Baird and Patrick are both actors and musicians, so Eilish was exposed to the arts from a young age and was always encouraged to pursue her creative interests.

She and Finneas were both homeschooled by their mother, who was also a teacher, and music was a big part of their education.

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By age six, Eilish was playing the ukelele; at eight, she joined a children's choir; by age 11, she'd written her first song inspired by the TV show The Walking Dead; and at 13, she and Finneas started recording music together.

One of the songs they worked on together was called  Ocean Eyes, which Finneas originally wrote for his band only to realise it would suit his little sister's vocals better.

They recorded it and uploaded it to SoundCloud "just for fun" on November 18, 2015.

Two weeks later, it had racked up hundreds of thousands of streams. With a single song, the 13-year-old singer had caught the attention of the music industry.

How did Billie Eilish get famous so fast?

While it seems like Eilish became a star overnight, a lot of work actually went into her rise to fame between when she was discovered in 2015 and her first album being released in 2019.

By the start of 2016, Eilish had a manager, a deal with Apple Music, a publicist, and a stylist all working with her to fasttrack her music career.

In March she released an official music video for Ocean Eyes , which had become a hit, followed by a second single with Finneas called Six Feet Under in June .

Eilish signed a record deal with Darkroom and Interscope Records the next month, released her debut EP Don't Smile at Me in in August 2017, and toured for the first time in October.

The biggest part of her team's success plan, however, was working with Spotify to promote her music on its 'Today's Top Hits' playlist, which really boosted Eilish's profile online and saw some of her tracks - like You Should See Me in a Crown, from July 2018 - go viral on platforms like TikTok.

She toured, collaborated with other artists, signed a beauty and fashion endorsement deal, and emerged as a new kind of fashion 'It girl' with her signature baggy, tomboy style.

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In January 2019, when Eilish was just 17, Don't Smile at Me surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify and Eilish became the youngest artist ever to hit 1 billion streams on a single project.

A few months later, she released her debut album  When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and with it, Eilish became the first artist born in the 21st century to have a number-one album in the US.

The biggest single off the record was undoubtedly Bad Guy , which peaked at number one in the US and featured a subtle nod to Australia; the sound that plays under the chorus is an altered recording of the sound a pedestrian crossing makes when it turns green in Sydney.

Watch the video below.

"My mum and I went for a walk in Sydney, we were like across the street from the hotel and the crosswalk is this little – you press it and it's like 'doop, doop,'" she told Rolling Stone in 2019.

"And I was like, 'That's hard!' That's the sound that it makes when you have to wait."

With that song, Eilish became a household name around the world, cementing her celebrity status and paving the way for even more musical success over the next five years.

Why is Billie Eilish so popular?

The singer-songwriter's popularity can be attributed to a whole host of things, from her unique sound, to her status as an emerging style icon, and her work on massive movie projects like No Time To Die and Barbie .

Social media has also played a massive role in Eilish's success, as she has connected with her audience in a way few mainstream artists were able to in the era before Instagram and TikTok.

With over 119 million Instagram followers and almost 69 million more on TikTok at the time of writing, her online influence is practically unheard of for an artist who only broke into the music industry a few years ago.

Fans also credit Eilish's authenticity as a reason they love her so much, pointing to the fact that she doesn't change style or sound just to suit what's currently trending.

It's safe to say that early support from Apple Music and Spotify also helped Eilish shoot to fame, as did having relatives who already worked in the music industry.

How old was Billie Eilish when she went on her first tour?

Eilish toured for the first time in October 2017 in support of her EP Don't Smile at Me , which she released a few months prior.

Not even 16 at the time, it was a massive undertaking for the teen but her family were hugely supportive.

How did Billie Eilish go viral?

As mentioned, social media has played a huge role in Eilish's rise to fame, particularly the video app TikTok, where many of her songs have gone viral.

Bad Guy was the first to become a trending sound on the app, followed by tracks like Therefore I Am in 2020, Happier Than Ever in 2021, What Was I Made For? in 2023, as well as Lunch and BIRDS OF A FEATHER in 2024.

Her songs often go viral because they appeal to a Gen Z demographic and usually feature catchy choruses or bridges that can perfectly soundtrack the short clips TikTok users post on the daily.

What is Billie Eilish's real name?

While Eilish technically is part of the singer's real name, it's not the surname on her birth certificate - that's actually O'Connell.

Her full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell, but she chose to go by her first name and one of her middle names professionally

Originally, her parents intended to name her just Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell, but gave her the first name Billie for her grandfather William Baird, who died shortly before she was born.

Who are Billie Eilish's exes?

Like many young female celebrities, there's intense interest around Eilish's personal life and dating history, but the 22-year-old prefers to keep her love life private.

"I definitely want to keep [relationships] private. I've had relationships and kept them private, and even the ones that I've had, with the tiny amount that I've let the world see, I regret," she told Capital Breakfast With Roman Kemp in September 2020.

"I think about the people that have made their relationships public, and then they break up, and it's like, 'What if it goes bad?' "

Publicly, we know that she dated fellow musician Brandon Quention Adams (who goes by the stage name 7:AMP) from 2018 until June 2019, and reportedly had a romance with actor Matthew Tyler Vorce from April 2021 until May 2022.

Eilish's biggest public relationship was with The Neighbourhood's lead singer Jesse Rutherford, who is 11 years her senior; Eilish was 20 and he was 31 when they made their romance official.

Some fans questioned the age gap, but their romance didn't last and the couple called it quits in May 2023 after just eight months together.

Later that year, Eilish confirmed she's also attracted to women, expanding on her sexuality in a Rolling Stone interview in 2024.

"I've been in love with girls for my whole life," she said. "But I just didn't understand ... I was never planning on talking about my sexuality ever, in a million years."

Has Billie Eilish performed at the Olympics?

In 2024, Eilish surprised millions with a thrilling performance for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 closing ceremony.

She sang BIRDS OF A FEATHER in front of the official LA '28 sign on Venice Beach, where she was joined by artists like Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre as they hyped up the crowd ahead of the Olympics being hosted in LA in four years' time.

Billie Eilish's net worth

Eilish was just 18 when she made the Forbes ' '30 Under 30' list for the first time in 2019, and with so many achievements and awards under her belt, it's no wonder she's worth a fortune.

Her net worth is currently estimated to be around US$53 million - or $80 million AUD.

The average life expectancy of a woman in the US is 79, according to CDC data from 2021, meaning that if Eilish retired right now she could still spend about $1.4 million every year for the rest of her life.

Despite her wealth, the young singer is grounded when it comes to her fame.

"There's a lot in fame that's f--king gross and horrible and just miserable," she told Vanity Fair in 2019.

"But I'm very grateful for it, and it's really rare and I'm very lucky, so I'm done with complaining about it."

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(born 2001). American pop singer and songwriter Billie Eilish skyrocketed onto the music scene in the late 2010s when she was still a teenager. Her mix of angsty lyrics, dark humor, and soulful vocals spoke to a new generation of young fans. Her multiple wins at the 2020 Grammy Awards helped to expand her popularity to a wider audience.

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell was born on December 18, 2001, in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were part-time actors as well as musicians, as was her elder brother, Finneas O’Connell. Both Eilish and O’Connell were homeschooled.

In 2015 Eilish recorded the pop ballad “Ocean Eyes,” which O’Connell had written. Her dance teacher was looking for a song to use in a recital, so in 2016 Eilish uploaded it on SoundCloud. SoundCloud is an international audio platform through which subscribers can share music. The song gained a larger audience than just her dance teacher. Shortly thereafter, Darkroom/Interscope Records bought the rights and released the song worldwide. It became an instant success, both critically and commercially.

Eilish released her first EP (extended play) album, Don’t Smile at Me , in 2017. The album contained “Ocean Eyes” as well as songs such as “Bellyache,” “Party Favor,” and “My Boy.” Eilish and O’Connell, who performs under the name FINNEAS, wrote all the songs together, except for “Watch,” which O’Connell wrote by himself. He also produced the songs in a studio in his bedroom. The duo followed the same formula for Eilish’s first full-length album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019). It includes such popular singles as “Bad Guy,” “When the Party’s Over,” and “Bury a Friend.” The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Eilish subsequently embarked on a world tour to promote her music.

Eilish won five awards at the 2019 Grammy Awards, which were held in January 2020. She became the first female and the youngest person to win the four top Grammy Awards—new artist, record of the year and song of the year (both for “Bad Guy”), and album of the year (for When We All Fall Asleep )—in one night. She also won best pop vocal album. Besides winning for record, song, and album of the year, O’Connell won two additional Grammys. One was for engineering When We All Fall Asleep and the other was for producer of the year in the nonclassical category.

At the 2020 Grammy Awards, Eilish and O’Connell won for best record of the year for “Everything I Wanted.” The song was released as a single in 2019. The duo also won the award for best song written for visual media. The song, “No Time to Die,” was released in 2020 as the title song for the 2021 James Bond movie of the same name. It also received an Academy Award for best original song in 2022. Eilish released her second studio album, Happier Than Ever , in 2021. It was noted for its confessional songs, a number of which deal with the downside of her celebrity.

In 2022 Eilish and O’Connell wrote three original songs for the soundtrack for the animated film Turning Red . The following year Eilish collaborated with rapper and singer-songwriter Labrinth on the ballad “Never Felt So Alone.” Eilish and O’Connell also recorded the single “What Was I Made For?” for the film Barbie (2023). In 2024 it won song of the year at the Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe for best original song. In addition, it was nominated for an Academy Award for best song.

During her time in the spotlight, Eilish shared her experiences with depression and self-harm and tried to bring awareness to mental health issues. She also revealed her struggles with Tourette syndrome . A documentary about her life, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry , was released in 2021.

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• 1 Early Life
• 2.1 First Official Releases
• 2.2 "Ocean Eyes"
• 2.3 "DSAM"- First EP
• 2.4 "WWAFAWDWG"- First Album
• 2.5 "No Time to Die"
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• 2.7 Rosalía Collaboration
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• 2.11 "HIT ME HARD AND SOFT"- Third Studio Album
• 3 Personal Life
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• 6 References

Billie Eilish (pronounced Bil-lee eye-lish) was born on December 18, 2001 to Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell , and raised in Los Angeles within a family of actors and musicians of Irish and Scottish descent. She was homeschooled along with her brother Finneas O'Connell , who would later go on to become Eilish's songwriting partner and producer. Eilish joined the Los Angeles Children's Chorus at age eight, where she honed her vocal abilities and, according to her, gained all her singing technique. [1] At age eleven, Eilish began writing and singing her own songs, taking after Finneas who was already performing his own songs with his band.

First Official Releases

In 2015, the siblings released two songs on SoundCloud, titled " sHE'S brOKen " and " Fingers Crossed ". "We had no intention for them," said Eilish later, saying that the songs were released "for fun and for our friends to listen to". [2]

"Ocean Eyes"

In October 2015, Finneas informed Eilish of a song he had been playing with his band titled " Ocean Eyes ". Eilish recorded the song and sent it to her dance teacher, who hoped to choreograph a dance to it. "Ocean Eyes", the debut single under the name Billie Eilish, was released on SoundCloud in 2016 and was a viral hit, much to the surprise of Eilish and Finneas. A music video was released on March 24, 2016, and a video of Eilish performing a dance to the song was released on November 22, 2016. That year, she also released " Six Feet Under ", which was not nearly as successful as "Ocean Eyes", but got attention from listeners and was a success among the small fanbase that Eilish had earned. "Ocean Eyes" was released worldwide through Darkroom and on November 18, 2016 to positive critical reviews. "Ocean Eyes" is "a ballad about longing for reconciliation with an ex. I can imagine it becoming a major hit," said Chris DeVille of  Stereogum . On January 13, 2017, Eilish released an EP with four remixes of "Ocean Eyes" by the likes of Blackbear and Astronomyy. The Astronomyy remix took off immediately, becoming even more popular than the original track on Spotify.

"DSAM"- First EP

Following the success of the "Ocean Eyes" remixes, Eilish released the single " Bellyache " on February 24, 2017. "Bellyache" was produced and co-written by Finneas O'Connell , with a music video directed by Miles and AJ being released on March 22nd, 2017. Since its release, the song has been remixed by the likes of duo  Marian Hill . Just over a week later, on March 30th, Eilish released the track " Bored " as part of the soundtrack to the television series 13 Reasons Why. On June 30th, 2017, Eilish released the single " Watch " with a follow-up single, " COPYCAT " arriving on July 11th, 2017, along with the announcement of her debut EP,  Don't Smile at Me . Each Friday in July, Eilish would add another single to the EP. It was in this manner that the singles " Idontwannabeyouanymore " and " My Boy " were released. Don't Smile at Me was later released on August 11th, 2017.

After the release of don't smile at me , Eilish collaborated with American rapper Vince Staples for a remix of " watch " titled " &burn ". Later, in January of 2018, Eilish announced the Where's My Mind Tour , which would end in August of 2018. For the 2018 record store day, Eilish has announced that she would be selling a 7" vinyl which features an acoustic version of her song " Party Favor " and an acoustic cover of " Hotline Bling " by Drake. Eilish collaborated with American singer Khalid for the single " Lovely " in April of 2018. The single was later announced as part of the soundtrack for the second season of 13 Reasons Why .

"WWAFAWDWG"- First Album

On July 18th, 2018, Eilish released a single from her debut album , " You Should See Me in a Crown ". She also released a stand-alone single, titled " Bitches Broken Hearts ". "you should see me in a crown" was first premiered on BBC Radio 1 with Annie Mac before its official release. Eilish had also teased the song several times before releasing it. Finneas confirmed the album would arrive in 2019. [3] The second single from the album, " When the Party's Over ", was released on October 16th, 2018.

On November 20th, 2018, Eilish released the single " Come Out and Play " for Apple's animated Holiday short Share Your Gifts . " WHEN I WAS OLDER " was released on January 9th, 2019 for the album Music Inspired by the Film Roma .

In January 2019, Eilish released " Bury a Friend " as the third single from her debut album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? , along with " WHEN I WAS OLDER ", a single inspired by the 2018 film Roma, which appeared on the compilation album Music Inspired by the Film Roma . "Bury a Friend" peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her fourth single from the album, " Wish You Were Gay ", was released in March 2019, and debuted and peaked at number 31 in the US and was certified platinum by the RIAA.

WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? was released on March 29, 2019. [4] The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 as well as on the UK Albums Chart, making Eilish the first artist born in the 2000s to have a number one album in the United States, and the youngest female ever to have a number one album in the United Kingdom. Upon the album's debut, Eilish broke the record for most simultaneously charting Hot 100 songs by a female artist, with 14, after every song from the album, excluding " Goodbye ", charted on the Hot 100. The fifth single from the album, " Bad Guy ", was released in conjunction with the album, and peaked at number one in the US, ending Lil Nas X's record-breaking 19 weeks at number one with "Old Town Road". She is the first artist born in the 2000s and the youngest artist since Lorde (with "Royals") to have a number-one single. A remix of the song featuring Justin Bieber was released in July 2019.

She began her When We All Fall Asleep World Tour at Coachella Festival in April 2019. [5] The tour concluded in Mexico City on November 17, 2019. On September 27, 2019, she announced her Where Do We Go? World Tour via her Instagram page. The tour was set to begin in Miami on March 9, 2020, and was to conclude in London on July 27, 2020, however it was unfortunately eventually postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

On November 7, 2019, Jack White's Third Man Records announced the label would be releasing an acoustic live album of Eilish's performance from the record label's Blue Room. The album will be available exclusively on vinyl at Third Man retail locations in Nashville, Tennessee, and Detroit, Michigan. [6] On November 13, 2019, she released her next single, " Everything I Wanted ".

On November 20, 2019, Eilish was nominated for six Grammy Awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Bad Guy" as well as Album of the Year and Best New Artist. At the age of 17, she is the youngest artist to be nominated in all four General Field categories. In the same month, Eilish was crowned 2019 Billboard Woman of the Year.

In January of 2020, Eilish won five Grammys. Including the main four, making her the youngest person ever to collect all four at once.

"No Time to Die"

She announced in January of 2020 that she would be writing the theme song for the new James Bond movie, " No Time to Die ". This makes her the youngest artist ever to write a Bond theme song. [7] The song was released on February 13th, 2020, at 4 pm ET. [8]

Near the beginning of January 2021, Eilish announced that she would be releasing her first book, a photobook which is self-titled . [9] It was released later that year in May, published by Grand Central Publishing and Hachette's Children's Group.

Rosalía Collaboration

In mid-January of 2021, she released the long-awaited collab with Rosalía entitled " Lo Vas a Olvidar ". It was also featured in HBO's original show Euphoria .

"HTE"- Sophomore Album

On April 27, 2021, Eilish announced via her Instagram that she would be releasing her second album titled, Happier Than Ever , on July 30 of the same year. The album cover and tracklist were also revealed on this date, consisting of 16 songs. It was made available for preorder soon after. It was announced that the album would be available in various formats, including collectable vinyl and cassette colours: brown, opaque pale blue, pale yellow, golden yellow, cool grey vinyl, and pink and brown cassette. On April 29, 2021, Eilish released the third single from the upcoming album, titled " Your Power " , having previously released two earlier singles, " my future " and " Therefore I Am " respectively, in 2020. The single release was accompanied by a self-directed music video. On June 2, Eilish released "Lost Cause" as the fourth single from Happier Than Ever, with “ NDA ” as the fifth single dropping on July 9.

Guitar Songs

Eilish's second extended play was released digitally as a surprise on July 21, 2022 with no prior announcement by Darkroom and Interscope Records. It consists of two tracks, " TV " and " The 30th ", both released by Eilish in a decision to share new music with fans as soon as possible. "TV" had previously debuted during the Happier Than Ever, The World Tour in a concert in Manchester, UK and the final released version features audio taken from one of the concerts on tour. Both were written by Eilish and her brother Finneas, the latter of which who also produced the tracks for the EP.

"What Was I Made For?"

Eilish was approached by director Greta Gerwig about writing a song for the soundtrack of the 2023 hit movie " Barbie ". Having seen a rough cut of the film at Warner Bros. Studios, Eilish, and her brother Finneas [10] , were inspired. [11] Having struggled with writer's block prior to this, the pair immediately found themselves writing the single. As artists featured on the movie's soundtrack were beginning to be announced towards the end of June 2023, Eilish fueled speculation that she would also be appearing by posting a pink neon sign showcasing the sillhouette of the iconic character. [12] On July 6, 2023 the single was finally announced by Eilish, who shared the news on her official social media accounts. [13]

The song received widespread critical acclaim, and went on to win Eilish her second Academy Award , making her the youngest two-time winner.

"HIT ME HARD AND SOFT"- Third Studio Album

Eilish, along with her brother Finneas, has previously confirmed that work on a third studio album had begun. She announced in an interview with 102.7 KIIS FM in October 2023 that the album was reportedly 80% finished and ‘in the fourth quarter’. [14] Following that, Eilish would tease the album several times, notably on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" in December 2023 [15] , before finally revealing on February 22, 2024 that the album had been mastered. [16] Promotional material started appearing on billboards around the world in early April 2024, teasing the new album. [17] A few days later on April 8, 2024, Eilish officially confirmed the title of the album as HIT ME HARD AND SOFT , revealing the release date to be May 17, 2024. [18] The full tracklisting for the album was leaked by the popular American magazine Rolling Stone on the same day, which Eilish vocally criticized online. [19] Merchandise was also released on Eilish's website for pre-order, including numerous items of clothing and several variations of physical media for the release, including vinyl records, compact discs, and cassettes. Snippets of songs were teased by Eilish in the run-up to release, including in a surprise Coachella set and while being interviewed by Zane Lowe for Apple Music. It was in this interview with Lowe that Eilish also confirmed that a music video for " LUNCH " had been shot. Upon release on May 17, 2024, "LUNCH" was released as the lead single of the album, with the music video premiering on YouTube the same day.

Personal Life

Eilish is bisexual; having previously dated Brandon Adams and Jesse Rutherford publicly, she has stated she is attracted to both men and women. She experienced sexual abuse as a child.

Eilish stated in an interview in March of 2019 that she has never used drugs or smoked. [20] She has Tourette’s syndrome and synesthesia , [21] [22] and has experienced depression. [23] She was raised vegetarian and went vegan in 2014. [24] [25]

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15 Facts About Billie Eilish That Will Make You Even More Obsessed With Her

She's an original Belieber.

She is the youngest person to win all four top awards at the Grammys in one year.

At the 2020 Grammy Awards, Billie Eilish made history as only the second artist and the youngest in history to win the top four awards: Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year.

She has her own documentary.

In February 2021, Billie released her first official documentary film, Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry on Apple TV+. The film follows Billie as she worked on her hit album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and made it big.

One of her middle names might totally surprise you.

While we all know and love her as Billie Eilish, her full name is actually Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell. According to Insider , it was actually her older brother, Finneas' idea to add Pirate because thats what he wanted to call her.

She's naturally blonde.

The singer might be known for her iconic green locks and several other colors that she's sported over the years, but he hair is actually blonde, as seen in some of her throwback photos.

Her favorite movie hasn't changed in years.

For the past four years, Billie has done Vanity Fair's Same Interview series and she notes that her favorite film in Fruitvale Station starring Michael B. Jordan.

She released her debut album in March 2019.

Her debut album When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? made her the first artist born in the 2000s to have a number one album in the United States, according to CNN . She's also the youngest female artist ever to have a number 1 album in the UK.

Billie Eilish WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

Billie's been writing music since she was 11.

Billie told Vogue that she was a member of the Los Angeles Children's Choir. She said her time in the choir is what helped her develop her singing skills. "It’s [the choir] helped me learn the proper way to sing and not ruin my voice completely. But I’ve just always sung, all the time. I sang so much that my family had to shush me." She said singing naturally led to her writing music.

Billie originally recorded the song "Ocean Eyes" for the dance company she used to be a part of.

Billie's brother, Finneas, wrote the song in 2015 and Billie decided to sing it. The song compares falling in love to feeling like you're falling off of a cliff. Billie originally recorded the song so that her dance teacher could choreograph a contemporary dance to it, but the siblings liked the song so much that they ended up uploading it to SoundCloud. On Soundcloud, the song started gaining traction and attention from record labels to buy the rights for the song.

Billie's brother, Finneas, helps her make her music.

Finneas helps Billie writer her music and produces her songs. He produced all 14 tracks on When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. Finneas talked to Atwood Magazine about his experience writing music for Billie saying, "Well for Billie, if I’m writing a song alone for Billie like “Ocean Eyes” or “watch” or “Six Feet Under,” I want to write a song that I think she’ll relate to and enjoy singing and empathize with the lyrics and make her own. And if I’m writing a song with Billie, I’m just trying to help her tell whatever story she’s trying to tell, bounce ideas off of her, listen to her ideas."

Billie also spoke about her experience working with her brother and said they have great give and take. “There’s so much time wasted working with people you don’t know, where if you don’t like something, you’re like: ‘You could, maybe, I don’t know, maybe try something where it’s a little different.’ Whereas, with Finneas it’s just like, ‘No, that sucks, let’s move on.’ We just know each other so we can do that," she told Clash .

Billie's know for her streetwear-like style.

Billie's known for wearing a lot of baggy clothes and track suits. She described her personal style as being pretty weird to Harper's Bazaar . But Billie also said that the reason she wears baggy clothes is so that people won't be able to judge her. She opened up about her style choices in her campaign ad for Calvin Klein saying, “Nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath. Nobody can be like, ‘she’s slim-thick,’ ‘she’s not slim-thick,’ ‘she’s got a flat a**,’ ‘she’s got a fat a**.’ No one can say any of that because they don’t know," she said.

Billie's been open about having Tourette Syndrome.

As Billie started gaining more exposure for her music, people started creating and uploading compilation videos of what they believed to be Billie's physical tics related to Tourette Syndrome. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that's characterized by involuntary movements and vocalizations known as tics. The compilation videos moved Billie to open up about her experience living with the disorder in her own Instagram stories, but she also talked about her experience while visiting Ellen . Billie said opening up about the disorder has helped her better connect with fans. "I think I also really learned that a lot of my fans have it, which made me feel kind of more at home with saying it, and also I felt like there was a connection there," she said.

Billie's a Belieber.

Billie has been open about being in love with Justin Bieber since she was about 12. "That was like my first love. That was the person I was in love with, in my head he was in love with me, it was like a relationship with a person," Billie said about Justin in a radio interview with KROQ .

She met him for the first time at Coachella and the moment was as cute as you probably imagined it to be.

As revealed in her documentary, Justin even sent her a text after meeting her writing , "Your love for me touched my heart. You are so special, not for what you can do but for who you are—remember that. I’m so impressed by your aura and presence. You carry a heavy calling. You are an idol to so many and I'm excited to watch you flourish. Thank you for tonight. It meant as much to me as it did to you. It feels like yesterday I was 15 singing 'One Time.' It flew by in a flash. Now I'm 25. Embrace it all, Billie. You are great but not greater than anyone."

Billie's obsessed with The Office .

Billie's made it clear that The Office is her favorite show of all time. She even used samples from the episode "Threat Level Midnight" in her song, "My Strange Addiction." Billie proved just how much of a stan she is when getting quizzed by actor Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute on the show.

Billie's been vocal about issues she cares about.

In 2018, she appeared in a campaign with the mayor of Los Angeles to try to get young people to register to vote. "As young people we have to own and use our power to make a difference. When we go into the voting booth, it's about deciding who will lead America into the future," she said in the Facebook ad.

Billie's also been vocal about the U.S. changing abortion laws, saying women should have the choice to do whatever they want with their bodies. "Women should say, should do, and feel, and be exactly what they want. There should be nobody else telling them how to live their life, how to do shit. It just makes me so mad that if I start talking about it, I won’t stop. Men should not make women’s choices — that’s all I have to say," she told Variety during the ASCAP Pop Music Awards.

Billie's songs made it onto the 13 Reasons Why soundtracks.

Billie's song "bored" is featured on the season 1 soundtrack, while her collaboration with Khalid, "lovely," is featured on the second.

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Español NEW Billie Eilish facts for kids Born (2001-12-18) December 18, 2001 (age 22) Occupation Years active 2015–present Parent(s) Relatives (brother) Brian Baird (uncle) Awards Full list Genres Instruments Labels Signature Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell ( / ˈ aɪ l ɪ ʃ / EYE -lish ; born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and songwriter. She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes", written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell , with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. In 2017, she released her debut extended play (EP), Don't Smile at Me . Commercially successful, it reached the top 15 of record charts in numerous countries, including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Eilish's first studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart . It was one of the year's best-selling albums, buoyed by the success of its fifth single, "Bad Guy", Eilish's first number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100 . This made her the first artist born in the 21st century to release a chart-topping single. The next year, Eilish performed the theme song " No Time to Die " for the James Bond film of the same name, which topped the UK Singles Chart and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2022. Her subsequent singles "Everything I Wanted", "My Future", "Therefore I Am", and "Your Power" peaked in the top 10 in the US and UK. Her second studio album, Happier Than Ever (2021), topped the charts in 25 countries. She wrote and performed "What Was I Made For?" for the fantasy film Barbie (2023), which became her second number-one single in the UK and earned her a second Academy Award. In 2024, she released her third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft , to critical acclaim. Eilish has received multiple accolades, including nine Grammy Awards , two American Music Awards , two Guinness World Records , three MTV Video Music Awards , three Brit Awards , two Golden Globe Awards , and two Academy Awards . She is the second artist in Grammy history to win all four general field categories— Record of the Year , Album of the Year , Song of the Year , as well as Best New Artist—in the same year. Eilish is also the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award and the youngest ever two-time winner. She was featured on Time magazine's inaugural Time 100 Next list in 2019 and the Time 100 in 2021. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Billboard , Eilish is the 26th-highest-certified digital singles artist and one of the most successful artists of the 2010s. She was honored as one of the BBC 100 Women in December 2022. Eilish has a history of political activism, focusing on climate change awareness , women's reproductive rights, gender equality , and animal rights . 2015–2017: Don't Smile at Me 2018–2020: when we all fall asleep, where do we go, 2021–2023: happier than ever and guitar songs, 2024–present: hit me hard and soft, musical style, songwriting, and music videos, personal life, studio albums, opening act, filmography. Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 18, 2001. She is the daughter of actress and teacher Maggie Baird and actor Patrick O'Connell, both of whom are also musicians and work on Eilish's tours. Eilish is of Irish and Scottish descent. She was conceived via in vitro fertilization . Her middle name, Eilish, was originally meant to be her first name, while Pirate was to be her middle name. She was raised in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Eilish and her brother Finneas were homeschooled by Baird, a decision their parents made to spend time with them and give them the freedom to pursue their interests. Baird taught Eilish and Finneas the basics of songwriting. Eilish said her brother and mother inspired her to get into music. Their parents encouraged the siblings to express themselves and explore whatever they wanted, including art, dancing, and acting. Eilish performed at talent shows and joined the Los Angeles Children's Chorus at age eight. At age six, she started playing the ukulele. She wrote her first "real" song at age 11 for her mother's songwriting class. The song is about the zombie apocalypse, inspired by the television series The Walking Dead , from which she took script lines and episode titles. Eilish took some acting auditions, which she disliked, but she enjoyed recording background dialogue for crowd scenes and worked on the films Diary of a Wimpy Kid , Ramona and Beezus , and the X-Men series. Eilish also took dance classes until 2016, when a growth plate injury ended her dance career and she focused on recording music. In 2015, 13-year-old Eilish began working on songs with her brother Finneas, who had been writing and producing for several years and had his own band. The first songs they recorded together were called "She's Broken" and "Fingers Crossed", the former written by Finneas and the latter by Eilish. "We recorded them and put them out on SoundCloud, just for fun," she recalled. On November 18, 2015, Eilish released the song "Ocean Eyes". The track was written, mixed, and produced by Finneas, who had originally created it for his band the Slightlys, before deciding it would be a better fit for Eilish's vocals. He gave it to Eilish when her dance teacher at the Revolution Dance Center asked them to write a song for choreography. The siblings uploaded the song to SoundCloud, where Diaz could access and download it. The song received several hundred thousand listens in two weeks, and Finneas's manager, Danny Rukasin, reached out to him to discuss Eilish's potential. In Rukasin's opinion, she could achieve significant success with Finneas's help. In January 2016, Finneas and his manager arranged a deal in which Apple Music signed Eilish to A&R company Platoon, specializing in packaging emerging artists before they get a major-label contract. Eilish then got a publicist, who connected her to the luxury fashion brand Chanel , and a stylist, both of whom helped shape her image. On March 24, 2016, a music video for "Ocean Eyes" directed by Megan Thompson was premiered on Eilish's official YouTube channel. "Ocean Eyes" and Eilish would receive praise and promotion from various media outlets and marketers, including radio stations and music supervisors such as Beats 1, KCRW, BBC One , Zane Lowe , Jason Kramer, Annie Mac , and Chris Douridas. On June 23, 2016, Eilish and Finneas released "Six Feet Under" through SoundCloud as her second single. A homemade music video for the song was released on June 30, 2016. It was directed by Eilish and edited by her mother, Maggie Baird. In August 2016, Justin Lubliner, who had noticed Eilish's talent back in 2015 when he first heard "Ocean Eyes", signed her to Darkroom and Interscope Records . He developed her rollout as an artist, taking inspiration from the model of hip hop artists such as Travis Scott and Chance the Rapper, not relying on one big single and focusing on creating a "persona and distinct aesthetic". Darkroom and Interscope Records re-released "Six Feet Under" and "Ocean Eyes" as singles for digital download and streaming on November 17 and 18, 2016, respectively. On November 22, 2016, a dance performance music video for "Ocean Eyes" was uploaded to Eilish's YouTube channel. On January 14, 2017, Eilish released an EP with four remixes by Astronomyy, Blackbear, Goldhouse, and Cautious Clay for "Ocean Eyes", and released another EP for "Six Feet Under" featuring remixes by Blu J, Gazzo, Jerry Folk, and Aire Atlantica. Following the success of the "Ocean Eyes" remixes, Eilish released "Bellyache" on February 24, 2017, A music video for the song was released on March 22, 2017, and was directed by Miles and AJ. Eilish later released "Bored" on March 30, 2017, as part of the soundtrack to the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why . A music video for "Bored" was later released on June 26, 2017. In March of the same year, Apple Music showcased Eilish at the South by Southwest music festival. On June 30, 2017, Eilish released "Watch". Eilish later released another single, "Copycat", which was released on July 14, 2017, and announced the release of her debut EP, Don't Smile at Me . Eilish later released "Idontwannabeyouanymore" and "My Boy". On August 11, 2017, Eilish released Don't Smile at Me . The EP was a sleeper hit, reaching number 14 on the US Billboard 200 . Eilish embarked on the Don't Smile at Me Tour throughout October 2017 in support of her EP. Eilish's team worked with Spotify , which promoted her on its most popular playlist, "Today's Top Hits". The Baffler described Eilish's sound as fitting into the "streambait" genre consisting of largely "mid-tempo, melancholy pop" influenced by Lana Del Rey , whose "singing style, bleakness, and... hip-hop influenced production" shaped the aesthetic. Eilish's commercial success expanded with her Spotify promotion. In September 2017, Apple Music named Eilish their Up Next artist, which followed with a short documentary, a live session EP and an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music's radio station Beats 1. That month, the live EP titled Up Next Session: Billie Eilish was released. On December 15, 2017, Eilish released her collaboration with American rapper Vince Staples titled "&Burn", which is a remix of her previously released single "Watch". It was later included on the expanded edition of Don't Smile at Me. In February 2018, Eilish embarked on her second headlining concert tour, the Where's My Mind Tour, which concluded in April 2018. For Record Store Day 2018, Eilish released "Party Favor" on a pink 7-inch vinyl , along with a cover of "Hotline Bling", written by Canadian rapper Drake as the B-side. Eilish collaborated with American singer Khalid for the single "Lovely", which was released on April 19, 2018, and added to the soundtrack for the second season of 13 Reasons Why . She later released "You Should See Me in a Crown", in July 2018, In July of the same year, Eilish performed at the Mo Pop Festival. On the day of release for her single "When the Party's Over", Eilish was featured in Vanity Fair ' s "73 Questions" rapid-fire questionnaire video series by Joe Sabia who revisited a previous interview from October 2017. The resulting video was a side-by-side time capsule of both interviews showing her growth in popularity over one year. She signed a talent contract with Next Management for fashion and beauty endorsements in October 2018. She was placed on the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in November of that year, and released the single "Come Out and Play" in November 2018, which was written for a holiday-themed Apple commercial. In early January 2019, Don't Smile at Me reached 1 billion streams on Spotify, making her the youngest artist to top 1 billion streams on a project. That month, Eilish released "Bury a Friend" as the third single from her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? , along with "When I Was Older", a single inspired by the 2018 film Roma , which appeared on the compilation album Music Inspired by the Film Roma . In February, Eilish partnered with YouTube for a documentary mini-series titled "A Snippet Into Billie's Mind". "Wish You Were Gay", her fourth single from the album, was released on March 4, 2019. When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was released on March 29, 2019. Spotify launched a "multi-level campaign behind the album", creating a multi-media playlist and "new product features" that Spotify stated "allow for vertical video content, custom assets, and editorial storylines all with the goal of creating more meaningful and engaging context for [Eilish's] fans." In Los Angeles, Spotify set up a "pop-up enhanced album experience", which included different artwork and a "multi-sensory" experience of each track for fans. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 as well as on the UK Albums Chart , making Eilish the first artist born in the 2000s to have a number-one album in the United States, and the youngest female ever to have a number-one album in the United Kingdom. Upon the album's debut, Eilish broke the record for most simultaneously charting Hot 100 songs by a female artist, with 14, after every song from the album, excluding "Goodbye", charted on the Hot 100. The fifth single from the album, "Bad Guy", was released in conjunction with the album. A remix of the song featuring Justin Bieber was released in July 2019. In August, Bad Guy peaked at number-one in the US, ending Lil Nas X 's record-breaking 19 weeks at number-one with "Old Town Road". She is the first artist born in the 2000s and the youngest artist since Lorde (with "Royals") to have a number-one single. Eilish began her When We All Fall Asleep Tour at Coachella Festival in April 2019, with the tour concluding on November 17, 2019, in Mexico City . In August 2019, Eilish partnered with Apple Music for Music Lab: Remix Billie Eilish, part of Apple Stores' Music Lab sessions during which fans deconstruct her song "You Should See Me In A Crown" and learn how to create their own remix on Apple devices and GarageBand . On September 27, 2019, Eilish announced her Where Do We Go? World Tour. The tour began in Miami on March 9, 2020, and ran for two more shows on March 10 in Orlando and March 12 in Raleigh respectively, before Eilish ended the tour prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The tour was set to conclude in Jakarta on September 7. On November 7, 2019, Jack White 's Third Man Records announced that the label would be releasing an acoustic live album of Eilish's performance from the record label's Blue Room, exclusively sold on vinyl at Third Man retail locations in Nashville , Tennessee , and Detroit , Michigan . On November 13, 2019, she released her next single, "Everything I Wanted". On November 20, 2019, Eilish was nominated for six Grammy Awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Bad Guy" as well as Album of the Year and Best New Artist. At age 17, she became the youngest artist to be nominated in all four General Field categories. In the same month, Eilish was crowned 2019's Billboard Woman of the Year. On January 14, 2020, Eilish was announced as performer of the title track for the 25th installment in the James Bond film franchise, No Time to Die , written and produced with her brother. With this announcement, Eilish became the youngest artist to write and perform a James Bond theme song. Shortly after, it became the second Bond theme song to top the British official charts and the first Bond theme performed by a female artist to do so. It was also Eilish's first number-one single in the UK. At the 62nd Grammy Awards, she became the youngest person to win the four main Grammy categories – Best New Artist, Record of the Year , Song of the Year , and Album of the Year – in the same year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Eilish and her brother performed for both iHeart Media's Living Room Concert for America, and Global Citizen's Together at Home concert series, singing a cover of Bobby Hebb 's "Sunny" for the latter. Both virtual concerts were an effort to raise awareness and funds towards fighting the disease. On April 10, 2020, "Ilomilo" was sent to Italian contemporary hit radio stations by Universal Music Group , as When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ' s seventh and final single. On July 30, 2020, Eilish released "My Future", her first original release since "No Time to Die", along with an animated video. In 2020, she became the youngest person to feature on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list, with earnings of $53 million. In September 2020, Eilish released a collection of branded ukuleles with guitar manufacturer Fender. In October 2020, Eilish announced a livestream concert titled Where Do We Go? The Livestream set to air from Los Angeles on October 24 of that same year, with proceeds from the show's merchandise raising funds to support event crew members affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a Vanity Fair interview, Eilish said she was working on "sixteen new songs and lov[ing] them all", revealing an upcoming musical project. Eilish won three Billboard Music Awards on October 24— Billboard Music Award for Top Female Artist, Billboard Music Award for Top Billboard 200 Album ( When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ), and Billboard Music Award for Top New Artist—out of the 12 that she was nominated for. In that same month, she also announced a new single, entitled "Therefore I Am", which was released along with its music video on November 12, 2020. Eilish performed "Therefore I Am" and "My Future" at the Jingle Ball in December 2020. "Lo Vas a Olvidar", a single featuring Rosalía as a part of HBO 's Euphoria soundtrack, was released in January 2021, almost two years after initially teasing the song. The R. J. Cutler–directed documentary film Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry was released on Apple TV+ and in select movie theaters. The film was praised by critics and fans for its in-depth look at Eilish's personal life during her ascent to fame. At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, Eilish took home two awards: the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for her Bond theme and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Everything I Wanted". In her acceptance speech for Record of the Year, Eilish said that Megan Thee Stallion "deserved to win", but still thanked her fans and her brother for her award. 2021 saw the publication of her personally selected comprehensive book of photographs that shared "an intimate window into her life" on and off stage, By - Billie Eilish. On April 27, 2021, Eilish announced on her Instagram account that her second album, Happier Than Ever , would be released on July 30, and the tracklist was made available on Apple Music. The album was released in various formats, including collectible vinyl and cassette colors. The album's release was preceded by five singles: "My Future", "Therefore I Am", "Your Power", "Lost Cause", and "NDA", and was accompanied by the title track. On December 2, 2021, Eilish announced an eco-friendly limited-edition vinyl version of Happier Than Ever made from recycled vinyl scraps. The collector's item was available only at a number of Gucci stores around the world and included Gucci-branded nail stickers designed by the brand's creative director, Alessandro Michele. To further promote the album, Eilish worked with Disney+ on the concert film Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles , released in September 2021, and embarked on the Happier Than Ever, The World Tour in February 2022, concluding it in April 2023. Eilish started formulating ideas for her third studio album's songs with Finneas in December 2021. In a July 2022 interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, she said she hoped to start writing the album in 2023. In 2022, Eilish won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song " No Time to Die " from the film of the same name, becoming the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award. That same year, she became the youngest headliner to date for two festivals, specifically Glastonbury and Coachella . The Pixar film Turning Red was released that year, for which she and Finneas wrote three songs, "Nobody Like U", "U Know What's Up" and "1 True Love", performed by Turning Red 's fictional boy band 4*Town. In June 2022, during her world tour's Manchester show, Eilish debuted the then-unreleased ballad "TV". The next month, on July 21, she surprise-released the two-track EP Guitar Songs , which includes "TV" alongside "The 30th". Eilish explained her decision to surprise-release the EP during the interview with Lowe. She told him that while work on her third studio album was coming soon, she refused to wait until that time to put "TV" and "The 30th" on a track list. She wanted to spread their messages to her fans as soon as possible, noting the immediacy of its lyrics: "These songs are really current for me, and they're songs that I want to have said right now." Another reason was Eilish had grown tired of doing heavy, traditional promotion for upcoming music. She wanted to release songs like she had early in her career, previewing them for fans in live concerts before releasing them without much marketing. Eilish worked with Apple Music to exclusively host a film of one of the Happier Than Ever tour concerts, specifically one of her shows at The O2 Arena in London. She billed the film as a way for fans who missed out on tickets to experience the tour, wanting more people to recognize her showmanship live. Three concerts, titled Happier Than Ever, The Hometown Encore, were held at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California , from December 13 to 16, 2022, as part of the tour. In 2023, Eilish made her acting debut in the Amazon Prime Video satirical thriller series Swarm . She starred as Eva, the leader of a cult inspired by NXIVM, and received positive reviews for her performance. Eilish wrote the song "What Was I Made For?" for the soundtrack of the 2023 film Barbie . According to statements posted on her social media, she was inspired to write the song after seeing unfinished scenes of the movie during its production. In 2024, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and two Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Song Written for Visual Media . It became the tenth song in history to win both an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, and Eilish became the youngest person ever to win two Academy Awards in any category. On April 8, 2024, Eilish announced her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft , which was released on May 17, 2024. She announced a tour to support the album, Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour, on April 29, 2024, with concerts in North America, Oceania and Europe between September 2024 and July 2025. Also in April, Eilish was announced to be the next 'featured artist' inside of Fortnite spin-off game, Fortnite Festival , along with an unlockable outfit in the game. Eilish possesses a soprano vocal range. Avery Stone of Noisey described her vocals as "ethereal", and Maura Johnston of Rolling Stone characterized them as "whispery". Doreen St. Félix of The New Yorker opined that she has a "husky, slurring voice that she can thin out to reedy". Music critic Robert Christgau wrote that while Eilish is musically and commercially pop, her brand also "reminds us how amorphous [pop] has become", describing her soprano as "too diminutive for vocal calisthenics", adding that her "playful version of teen- goth angst" and "electro-saturated debut album" captivated a diverse audience. Her music incorporates pop , dark pop, electropop , emo pop, experimental pop, goth-pop , indie pop , teen pop , and alt-pop . Eilish and her brother, Finneas, collaborate on songwriting. Finneas writes for Eilish's albums, produces her music, and also performs in live shows. Eilish and Finneas "like to completely make up things and become characters" and "have songs that are really fictional". Eilish said a number of the songs also derive from her and Finneas' experiences. They try to write "really interesting and conversational" lyrics: "We try to say stuff that doesn't have to be that deep [...] but you say something way deeper in a certain way that makes sense, but you haven't really thought about." Finneas has stated that when he writes for his sister, he aims to "write [songs] that I think she'll relate to and enjoy singing and empathise with the lyrics and make her own". When he writes with Eilish, he tries "to help her tell whatever story she's trying to tell, bounce ideas off of her, listen to her ideas", and use a language that fits her voice telling the story. Eilish had wanted to direct her own music videos since age 14 but was initially not given the opportunity due to lack of experience. In 2019, she made her directorial debut with the video for her song "Xanny". Eilish grew up listening to the Beatles , Justin Bieber , Green Day , Arctic Monkeys , Linkin Park and Lana Del Rey . She has said that stumbling upon Aurora 's "Runaway" on YouTube inspired her to pursue a music career. Hip hop is her favorite genre and biggest inspiration. Eilish has cited Tyler, the Creator , Childish Gambino , and Avril Lavigne as major musical and style influences for her. Other influences include Adele , Earl Sweatshirt, James Blake , Amy Winehouse , the Spice Girls , Lorde , Marina and the Diamonds , Britney Spears , Taylor Swift , Nicki Minaj , XXXTentacion , and Twenty One Pilots. Eilish has also named Rihanna as an inspiration for her style choices after she called fashion her "defense mechanism" during an acceptance speech. She has also credited Damon Albarn for changing the way she views art and music creation. Eilish has been compared in the media to Lavigne, Lorde and Del Rey, the last of whom she says she does not want to be compared to, stating, "That woman [Del Rey] has made her brand so perfect for her whole career and she shouldn't have to hear that." Eilish said that Ariana Grande 's 2019 album Thank U, Next inspired her to continue making music. Eilish has a history of political activism, publicly expressing her views on a multitude of political issues. She has been vocal with regard to environmental causes, including climate change awareness. Among other pursuits, Eilish signed an open letter to world leaders urging them to take action against climate-induced poverty, embarked on an ad campaign encouraging young people to use technology for environmental advocacy, and hosted a six-day climate seminar in London titled Overheated to discuss topics such as sustainable fashion and youth activism. Her 2019 single "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" and its subsequent video center around climate change and use heaven-and-hell imagery to criticize ignorance of rising sea levels, and she permitted the nonprofit CoralWatch to use "Ocean Eyes" as part of an online awareness campaign about Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Eilish was raised as a vegetarian, and became vegan in 2014. She is a regular advocate on social media for animal rights and veganism , and has criticized the dairy, wool , and mink fur industries. In 2023, Eilish stated she refuses to travel by private jet. Eilish has spoken in multiple occasions about women's rights . A supporter of body positivity, she wrote and produced the 2020 short film Not My Responsibility as a response to body shaming toward her and the double standards placed upon women's appearances. In March 2020, Eilish encouraged fans online to register to vote for the 2020 US presidential election. In August 2020, she performed at the 2020 Democratic National Convention and announced her endorsement of Joe Biden's presidential campaign . In 2023, Eilish worked with others to start and fund REVERB's Music Decarbonization Project, and as part of a decarbonization project used solar powered stage lights. At the 2024 Academy Awards, Eilish wore an Artists4Ceasefire pin which calls for a ceasefire in the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Eilish lived with her parents in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles until 2019, when she moved out. She said in 2021 that she still spends many nights in her childhood bedroom to be close to her parents. She said she received a diagnosis of Tourette syndrome when she was 11; and that she has synesthesia and has experienced depression. Eilish previously dated rapper Brandon Adams, who goes by the stage name 7:AMP. She dated singer Jesse Rutherford from October 2022 to May 2023. She has said that she is attracted to both men and women. Eilish has stated that she is agnostic . Discography When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) Happier Than Ever (2021) Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024) Don't Smile at Me Tour (2017) Where's My Mind Tour (2018) 1 by 1 Tour (2018–2019) When We All Fall Asleep Tour (2019) Where Do We Go? World Tour (2020) Happier Than Ever, The World Tour (2022–2023) Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (2024–2025) Florence and the Machine – High as Hope Tour (2018–2019) Film Year Title Role Notes 2020 Herself Short film; also writer and producer Documentary 2021 Documentary Concert film 2022 Voice; short film Television Year Title Role Notes 2019 Herself Episode: "Woody Harrelson/Billie Eilish" 2020 Episode: "The Finale" 2021 Episode: "Billie Eilish" 2022 Episode: "Elmo's Number Adventure" 2023 Eva Episode: "Running Scared" Herself Episode: "Kate McKinnon/Billie Eilish" List of artists who reached number one in the United States List of American Grammy Award winners and nominees List of most-followed Instagram accounts List of most-streamed artists on Spotify List of vegans This page was last modified on 9 August 2024, at 02:05. Suggest an edit . 30 Eclectic Facts About Billie Eilish Did you know that Billie Eilish is the first artist born in the 2000's to have a number one album? Billie Eilish has established a name and solid reputation for herself before she even turned 18. Known for her eccentric and outlandish style, her music and videos are sure to stick in your mind. Check out these top 30 facts about this popular icon! Her full name is Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell. She is 22 years old and was born on December 18 , 2001. Eilish was born to Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, both of which are in the entertainment industry. Her heritage is Irish and Scottish. Surprisingly enough, Billie was homeschooled. However, she joined the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus when she was 8, which she attributes to helping her sing properly. When she was only 11 years old, Billie Eilish started writing songs. Billie’s first single was “ Ocean Eyes ” which was released in 2016 on SoundCloud with the help of her brother Finneas, who is also a musician. It wasn’t until a few years later, in 2019 , that the song reached certified platinum by the RIAA, and peaked at number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100. Billie Eilish has songs on both of the “ 13 Reasons Why ” soundtracks. Her song “ Bored ” is on the Season 1 soundtrack, while on Season 2 she collaborated with Khalid on the track “ Lovely .” Most of Billie’s songs are written by or with her brother Finneas. Finneas also produces her music and performs with her for live shows. Billie has credited Lana Del Rey as being a huge musical influence, along with artists like The Beatles , Avril Lavigne, and Justin Bieber. Eilish dresses in clothing that is hugely over-sized because she wants to prevent people from body-shaming her. Her style is also inspired by Tyler the Creator. Billie Eilish has been vegan since around 2014. The entire O’Connell family is very musical. Billie’s brother and mother are songwriters, and her dad plays both the piano and ukulele . Billie’s favorite TV show is “ The Office ,” and she even used samples from one of the episodes in her song “ My Strange Addiction ”. Surprisingly enough, Billie Eilish has Tourette syndrome, which she has learned to mostly control in public. Not being one to give in to peer pressure, Eilish has never used drugs or smoked. Billie Eilish is the first artist born in the 2000s to have a number one album. As a fan of horror, some of Billie Eilish’s favorite movies and TV shows are The Babadook , American Horror Story , and The Walking Dead . In fact, her first real composition is about the apocalypse inspired by The Walking Dead , called “ Fingers Crossed .” In 2016, Billie Eilish was dancing with seniors in her dance class, when her bone separated from her hip muscle and her bone popped. Billie Eilish never smiles in photographs because she says it makes her feel “weak and powerless.” In just one year, Billie went from performing for a crowd of 500 people to playing for a crowd of 40,000 people when she was just 16. One of her fans drew a picture of her with blacked-out eyes crewing black tears. Billie loved it so much, that she gave it to her director to draw inspiration for a music video which ended up being “ When the Party’s Over ”. Billie Eilish demands almost full control in terms of her style, music, videos, and social media. She says she would rather die than let someone else take over just to make things easier. Even though she realizes the responsibility of being a role model due to her level of fame, she says she isn’t going to let that change the way she is. Even though she has over 12 million followers on her Instagram, she is reluctant about her use of social media and considers it to be a dangerous tool. Growing up in Highland Park, California , the level of crime was questionable. Their neighbors even got arrested by the FBI for money laundering. Even before she was able to vote, Billie teamed up with a Los Angeles mayor to encourage people to vote in 2018. Billie’s first tour was the “ Don’t Smile at Me ” tour in 2017. The “ Don’t Smile at Me ” album was named after the fact that Billie hates when people smile at her and she feels an obligation to smile back. Billie Eilish’s Instagram handle @wherearetheavocados was made as a joke based on when she was 10 making grilled cheese but she couldn’t find any avocados to go with it. So of course Billie Eilish may be somewhat of a “bad guy” but she is also an incredibly talented artist. Gaining the attention of fans all over the world, she has made a massive name for herself while also gaining a tidy net worth in the process. I don’t know about you but our favorite track is “Ocean Eyes.” Tell us yours in the comments below! 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Share on Facebook Share to Flipboard Show more sharing options Post to Tumblr Submit to Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Print This Page On screen, we’ve seen him come to rescue of his love interests countless times—whether as Maverick in Top Gun or Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise—but in real life, Tom Cruise’s dating history might as well be a blockbuster saga of its own. Related: Get to know Tom Cruise’s kids with Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes Cruise has been one of Hollywood’s golden boys for decades, and unsurprisingly, his romantic resume reads like a Who’s Who of the entertainment industry. From quick flings to multiple “I do’s,” the actor’s love life has already had more twists and turns than a Mission: Impossible plot—and even into his 60s, it doesn’t look like the Golden Globe-winner has any intentions of stopping his search for romance. In a candid interview with Rolling Stone in 1986, a young Cruise shared his thoughts on dating. “ Relationships are hard ,” he admitted to the magazine. “You have to know when you’re going to be in a different place from someone else, you have to have the strength to separate. People are more prone to stay together for the security, which is something in my life that I have really not done, in relationships or even in business. If something’s not working, you’ve got to face it and move on.” It looks like Tom was already giving us a sneak peek into the love life philosophy that would guide him throughout his career. Decades later, it has led to a dating history about as long as his filmography. A look back at Tom Cruise’s girlfriends and dating history Up ahead, we’re taking a look back at Tom Cruise’s dating history—from his early days in Hollywood to his high-profile marriages with Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes, and beyond. Melissa Gilbert (1981-1983) Long before his Mission Impossible days, Tom Cruise was like any other struggling actor with dreams of making it big. He was still going by his real name, Tom Mapother, when he met Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert. Their relationship was a teenage romance—and Gilbert still remembers it fondly.  “Actually, when I dated him, he was Tom Mapother still,” Gilbert revealed on an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in 2014. She was about 16 or 17 when they met, and their relationship was more innocent than anything. “I did not have sex with him. We made out, but honestly, there was no sex,” she shared. Gilbert even played a supporting role in Cruise’s early career. “He was like a struggling, starving actor and I was working. I actually bought him his first set of dishes,” she joked. Cher (1985) For a brief moment of ’80s bliss, Tom Cruise dated the legendary Cher. While their time together was short, it certainly left an impact on the Moonstruck actress. In a 2013 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen , Cher gushed about her “hot and heavy” relationship with Cruise, who ranked as one of her “top five” lovers ever. “He wasn’t a Scientologist then. It was pretty hot and heavy for a little minute,” she said. Things seemed to end on a friendly note, as she only had positive things to say about Cruise. “He’s a great guy. The person that I knew was a great and lovable guy,” she added. We’ll take that as pretty high praise coming from a woman who’s dated some of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors! Mimi Rogers (1986-1990) Tom Cruise’s first walk down the aisle was with actress Mimi Rogers. The couple tied the knot in May 1987, just a year after meeting. For Cruise, this relationship marked a major milestone in his personal life. “I’d never been in love before,” he gushed to Rolling Stone before their split. “Since I’ve been with her, it’s opened me up a lot. I think it’s helped me be a better actor. We live a lot of life together. We share everything,” he said, adding, “She’s my best friend.” Despite the initial passion, their relationship was short-lived. The pair divorced three years later in 1990, marking the end of Cruise’s first marriage. Nicole Kidman (1990-2001) One of Cruise’s most famous relationships to date was with Australian actress Nicole Kidman. Their union was the stuff of Hollywood dreams, spanning a decade and including two adopted children , Isabella Jane, born in 1992, and Connor Antony, born in 1995. Cruise and Kidman seemed to have it all: successful careers, a beautiful family, and a love that appeared to be pretty unshakeable. But by 2001, the couple surprised fans with news of their separation. Cruise remained tight-lipped about the reasons behind their split . “She knows why, and I know why,” he told Vanity Fair in October 2001. “She’s the mother of my children, and I wish her well. I think that you just move on. And I don’t say that lightly. I don’t say that with anything. Things happen in life, and you do everything you can, and in every possible way, and there’s a point at which you just sometimes have to face the brutal reality.” Penelope Cruz (2001-2004) After his divorce from Nicole Kidman, Cruise found love again with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz. The pair met on the set of Vanilla Sky in 2000 and went on to date for three years. Cruise appeared to be pretty smitten from the start: “As a person and on film, she invites you in, and she’s incredibly romantic, and yet, real, you know?” he  told  Vanity Fair  in January 2002. “I thought, My God, I’m your boyfriend. You’re my girlfriend! … Cruise and Cruz!” However, like many relationships in Hollywood, the demands of their careers ultimately took a toll. The couple broke things off in March 2004, and a source told People magazine at the time that the relationship simply “ran its course.” The source added that their separate and distance-filled filming schedules had a lot to do with the breakup. Sofia Vergara (2005) You didn’t have this one on your radar, did you now? As it turns out, Tom Cruise’s dating history includes a brief encounter with none other than Sofia Vergara. According to Andrew Morton, author of Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography , this rumored romance was more complicated than it seemed on the surface. As part of his work with the church of Scientology, Morton claims that Cruise had to provide church leaders with a list of women he was interested in pursuing. Vergara, then an up-and-coming actor in the early 2000s, was reportedly on that list. However, the relationship never fully materialized. Morton wrote, “It soon became clear that she was being auditioned for the biggest role of her life—Mrs. Tom Cruise. It was made clear that if she took the part, she would have to renounce her Catholic faith and convert to Scientology.” This apparent ultimatum seems to have been the deal-breaker for Vergara. Katie Holmes (2005-2012) Tom Cruise’s relationship with Katie Holmes was nothing short of a media sensation. Their whirlwind romance, punctuated by Cruise’s infamous couch-jumping incident on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show, captivated tons of attention during the early days of their relationship. The couple welcomed daughter Suri in April 2006 and tied the knot in a lavish Italian ceremony later that year. For a time, they seemed to be the perfect Hollywood family. However, after nearly six years of marriage, Holmes filed for divorce in 2012. Details of their split remain private, but include many whispers about Scientology being at the crux of their split. What we do know, of course, is that the end of “TomKat” marked another major closed chapter in Cruise’s complex romantic history. Elsina Khayrova (2023-2024) In December 2023, Us Weekly confirmed that Cruise had been quietly dating Russian socialite Elsina Khayrova. The relationship had reportedly been going on “for a while” before they made their public debut at a party in London. At the time, an insider shared with the magazine, “They’re very happy. And Tom’s extremely confident about it working out for the long term.” The couple apparently met through mutual friends in England, with the source explaining, “What started as a basic friendship quickly turned into something more special.” As of 2024, however, it seems the relationship had run its course. “They weren’t gelling and realized they weren’t romantically compatible,” a source later told Us Weekly. According to the insider, Khayrova was the one to call things off. “There’s no bad blood between them,” the source added. “They just had different ideas of what their relationship was going to be.” Most Popular You may also like. Election 2024 Entertainment Newsletters Photography AP Buyline Personal Finance AP Buyline Shopping Press Releases Israel-Hamas War Russia-Ukraine War Global elections Asia Pacific Latin America Middle East Delegate Tracker AP & Elections 2024 Paris Olympic Games Auto Racing Movie reviews Book reviews Financial Markets Business Highlights Financial wellness Artificial Intelligence Social Media Refugee athlete’s dream of a taekwondo medal is cut short at Paris Olympics Palestine’s Omar Yaser Ismail, left, competes with Refugees Olympic Team’s Hadi Tiranvalipour in a men’s 58kg Taekwondo match during the 2024 Summer Olympics, at the Grand Palais, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Palestine’s Omar Yaser Ismail, right, competes with Refugees Olympic Team’s Hadi Tiranvalipour in a men’s 58kg Taekwondo match during the 2024 Summer Olympics, at the Grand Palais, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) Copy Link copied PARIS (AP) — Having overcome so many hurdles, refugee athlete Hadi Tiranvalipour experienced immense disappointment Wednesday as his dream of winning an Olympic medal was cut short when he lost in a taekwondo qualification bout at the Paris Games . Tiranvalipour, 26, was up against Omar Ismail of Palestine in the men’s under 58 kilograms competition and was handed a 2-0 loss in a lopsided match at the lavish Grand Palais venue on the first day of taekwondo events. “I’m not satisfied with my performance, I don’t have an answer for this,” I said. “I wanted a good result, it’s not happening.” Before making the IOC Refugee Olympic Team, Tiranvalipour fought for eight years as a member of the Iranian national team, winning the gold medal at the Asian Junior championship back in 2015. But Tiranvalipour, who also worked as a TV presenter and studied sports science, was forced to leave his country after speaking out in favor of women’s rights, losing his job. In October 2022, he traveled to Turkey, then to Italy, where he lived in a forest for 10 days and then slept three months on a sofa in a shared accommodation that Iranian students had helped him find. “Our journey is too difficult,” he said after his loss to Ismail. “Not for me, for all the refugee athletes. It’s too difficult for each of us to be here.” Athletes from the refugee team compete under the same flag and come from different parts of the world. The team was created for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 as a symbol of hope and to call attention to the plight of refugees worldwide. Another taekwondo specialist from the team, Dina Pouryounes Langeroudi, competed at the Grand Palais on Wednesday, losing in the last 16 in two rounds against Guo Qing of China in the women’s under 49 kilos. Langeroudi’s bid for a medal was not over yet, though, as she entered a repechage, but she was routed in two rounds by world champion Merve Dincel Kavurat of Turkey. 2024 Paris Olympics: What to know about the closing ceremony : A skydiving Tom Cruise and performances from Billie Eilish, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Paris Olympics mainstay Snoop Dogg highlighted the French capital’s au revoir to the Olympics. Indelible images : AP photographers pick their favorite images from the Paris Olympics . Who won the 2024 Olympics?: See which countries tied for the most gold medals in Paris, and who exceeded expectations. When are the next Summer Games? The Olympics will always have Paris . But next up for the Summer Games: Los Angeles 2028 . See how the City of Angels is preparing to follow the City of Light. Taekwondo tournaments at the Olympics award two bronze medals, with the losing semifinalists taking on a couple of contestants who lost to finalists in the elimination phase. The 32-year-old Langeroudi, who reached the No. 3 spot in the world rankings four years ago, also comes from Iran. She moved to the Netherlands in 2015 and had already made the refugee team for the Tokyo Games. After training alone in a park, Tiranvalipour finally approached the Italian federation, which helped him apply for asylum and settle for good in the country. In the buildup to the Games, he trained at Olympic Sports Center in Rome with the likes of Vito Dell’Aquila, the Tokyo Olympic champion. After missing out on Olympic qualification during European qualifiers in March, he was selected by the refugee Olympic team and had big expectations in Paris. “I’m not satisfied because I had too much sacrifices about my losing weight process, my training. I’m really sad,” he said. “We passed so many difficult journeys. If you have a target, you have to keep going. Life is like this. 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