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Chloé Zhao, (born March 31, 1982, Beijing, China), Chinese filmmaker who was known for absorbing and closely observed movies about journeys of self-discovery set in the American West. Her films delve into rarely explored strata of American society. For Nomadland (2020), she became the first person of colour to win the Academy Award for best director.

Zhao's father was an executive at a major steel company and later worked in real estate and equity investment, while her mother worked at a hospital. Zhao was uninterested in school in Beijing, preferring to focus on manga and movies. Although she spoke little English, in 1998 her parents sent her to England, where she attended the Sussex boarding school Brighton College from 1998 to 2000. She completed high school in Los Angeles and then enrolled in Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she studied politics with a minor in film studies (B.A., 2005). Finding herself drawn to telling untold stories through film, she then attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (B.A., 2010). Her graduate film was the short movie Daughters (2010), about a rural Chinese girl escaping an arranged marriage.

For her first feature film, Zhao developed a script about an Oglala Lakota boy living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. As she spent more time there, she repeatedly revised the story as she learned more from the people on the reservation, and the resulting story centres on a boy graduating from high school who is torn between following his girlfriend to Los Angeles and staying home to take care of his younger sister and his mother. The movie, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), was lyrical and resonant and received positive notice at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Cannes film festival. As with many of her subsequent works, she mostly cast nonprofessional actors.

Zhao's second movie, The Rider (2017), was inspired when she met rodeo bronco rider and horse trainer Brady Jandreau on the Pine Ridge reservation. She wanted to make him the centre of a movie and had begun filming when Jandreau was thrown by a bronco and suffered a crushed skull. Zhao wrote a loosely biographical story about Jandreau-who played the character based on him-coming to terms with the fact that the injury will prevent him from safely continuing to ride horses. The Rider won the top prize at the Directors' Fortnight, the independent-film section at Cannes.

Zhao next drew inspiration from Jessica Bruder's nonfiction book about retirement-age Americans living in RVs-generally vans-and traveling around the country in search of low-paying jobs. The book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century (2017), caught the attention of actress Frances McDormand, who also admired the movie The Rider. McDormand collaborated with Zhao to produce Nomadland (2020), in which McDormand played the fictional character Fern, a widow who takes to the road after the gypsum plant where she works goes out of business. The other characters in the movie were the nomads featured in Bruder's book. The beautifully honest and poetic film won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for best picture, and Zhao became the second woman to win the Oscar for best director. She also received nominations for her editing and her screenplay.

In 2021 Zhao shifted gears with Eternals, an action movie that was part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It centres on a group of immortals who join forces to prevent an impending apocalypse. Zhao cowrote the film, which received mixed reviews.

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Chloe Zhao, Chinese filmmaker who was known for absorbing and closely observed movies about journeys of self-discovery set in the American West. Her films delve into rarely explored strata of American society. Her movies included Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), The Rider (2017), Nomadland (2020), and Eternals (2021).

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Chloé Zhao, born Zhao Ting ( simplified Chinese: 赵婷; traditional Chinese: 趙婷; pinyin: Zhào Tíng, born 31 March 1982), is a Chinese filmmaker, known primarily for her work on independent films. Zhao's debut feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), premiered at Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Her second feature film, The Rider (2017), was critically acclaimed and received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director.

Zhao garnered international recognition with the western film Nomadland (2020), which won numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Earning four Academy Award nominations for the film, Zhao won both Best Picture and Best Director, becoming the second woman in history to win the latter after Kathryn Bigelow in 2010, and the first woman of color to win the category. She also won awards for directing at the Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards, becoming the second female winner of each of them. The film has not received a theatrical release in China, with speculation that it was due to her past comments on the nation, and news of her Best Director win at the Academy Awards was also censored.

Zhao's latest film is the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals, which she co-wrote and directed, and which was released on 5 November 2021.

Early life and education

Zhao Ting ( Chinese: 赵婷; pinyin: Zhào Tíng) was born on 31 March 1982 in Beijing. Her father Zhao Yuji ( Chinese: 赵玉吉; pinyin: Zhào Yùjí) was an executive at Shougang Group, one of the country's largest state-owned steel companies. After amassing significant personal wealth, he later moved on to real-estate development and equity investment. Yuji was tied to a number of offshore companies during the Panama Papers leaks. Zhao's mother was a hospital worker who was in a People's Liberation Army performance troupe.

In an interview with , Zhao described herself as "a rebellious teen, lazy at school" who drew manga-influenced comics and wrote fan fiction. She loved films growing up, especially Happy Together by Wong Kar-wai. From an early age, Zhao was drawn to influences from Western pop culture. After her parents separated, her father married comic actress Song Dandan, whom Zhao had grown up watching on television.

Although Zhao was still learning English at the time, her parents sent her to Brighton College, a private boarding school in the United Kingdom at the age of 15. She later moved to Los Angeles by herself, living in a Koreatown apartment in 2000, and attended Los Angeles High School. She next attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she majored in politics and minored in film studies, graduating in 2005. Bartending and working odd jobs after graduating helped her realize that she enjoyed meeting people and hearing about their lives and histories, giving her the push to attend film school. A Vulture article reported that "Four years was enough to turn her off of politics...she found herself drawn more to people than to policy". Following up on her undergraduate film minor, she next joined the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Graduate Film Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While attending Tisch, Zhao studied under director Spike Lee, who has directed popular films such as Malcolm X (1992) and Old Boy (2013). She told USA Today that she appreciated Lee not sugarcoating anything, saying that "he will just tell you as it is", something that she claims she needed. After enrolling in the Graduate Studies film program at NYU in 2010 she made her first short film Daughters.

Chloé Zhao's first work is her 2009 short film The Atlas Mountains, the story about Helen Thomas who develops a brief yet passionate relationship with an immigrant worker who comes to fix her computer. She also released a second short film titled Daughters, a film about a 14-year-old girl Maple, living in rural China, who is forced into an arranged marriage and takes a dangerous path trying to break free. This short won First Place Student Live Action Short at the 2010 Palm Springs International Short Fest and Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Cinequest Film Festival.

In 2015, Zhao directed her first feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me. Shot on location at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the film depicts the relationship between a Lakota Sioux brother and his younger sister. An already existing reservation, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has approximately 2.1 million acres, around 46,855 members, and occupies the Oglala Lakota, Jackson, and Bennet counties. In Zhao's film, the brother Johnny plans to leave home and move to Los Angeles with his girlfriend when he graduates high school, but struggles with the thought of leaving his sister Jashaun at home with their troubled mother who is grieving the loss of their father. Focusing on the real lives and struggles of the surrounding community, the film showcases the realness of people and problems they are faced with. In a Filmmaker article, Zhao stated that her rebellious years in her childhood is what pushed her to leave China and study abroad, helping her connect to the plot of the film which focuses on a character struggling in this environment. Half improvised, around 100 hours of footage was collected as Zhao worked with the real residents of the reservation to draw inspiration from their lives and personalities in order to help shape her story. She was able to utilize the natural landscape around her in this film in order to create a place of revelation, where people can be closest to God. Using wide and long shots, she created a documentary-like film that feels authentic, the desolate beauty of the Great Plains creating a story that depicts both freedom and hopelessness. It premiered in 2015 as part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance Film Festival. It later played at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Director's Fortnight selection and was nominated for Best First Feature at the 31st Independent Spirit Awards.

In 2017, Zhao directed The Rider, a contemporary western drama, which follows a young cowboy's journey to self-discovery after a near-fatal accident ends his professional riding career. The film was executive produced by her father, Yuji Zhao. As with her first feature, Zhao engaged a cast of non-actors who lived at the filming location, in this case on a ranch. ..... Jandreau would star in the film, playing a fictionalized version of himself as Brady Blackburn. According to an Indiewire article, this film discovers a new side of the Western theme, revolutionary because a Chinese immigrant changing the nation's "oldest genre." The article stated that the film became "the type of film it is because of a man and a woman, because the two of us wanted to work together and understand where we were coming from."

The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight selection and won the Art Cinema Award. It earned her nominations for Best Feature and Best Director at the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards. At the same ceremony, Zhao became the inaugural winner of the Bonnie Award, named after Bonnie Tiburzi, which recognizes a mid-career female director. The film was released on April 13, 2018, by Sony Pictures Classics and was critically acclaimed. Peter Keough of The Boston Globe wrote: "[The film] achieves what cinema is capable of at its best: It reproduces a world with such acuteness, fidelity, and empathy that it transcends the mundane and touches on the universal."

In 2018, Zhao directed her third feature film, Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand. The adaptation from Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century was shot over four months traveling the American West in an RV with many actual nomadic workers. Bruder's book revolved around characters that can be found in the film, such as Linda May, a 64-year-old living in her van and scrounging for jobs in order to buy land for a permanent home. Other characters, such as Bob Wells, a nomad vlogger of the CheapRVliving YouTube channel and website and in charge of the annual nomad meet-up featured in the film, are real people that Bruder encountered when writing her book and Zhao included in her movie. The film tells the story of a widow who lost everything in The Great Recession and decides to travel in her van across the American Midwest, beginning a journey of self-discovery. Star Frances McDormand and Zhao bonded quickly and inspired each other, and McDormand became a huge element of the filmmaking process and its success. They met a day before the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards, where McDormand was nominated for Best Actress and Zhao received a $50,000 grant for women directors. During the event, they hinted at their future project together. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim and won the Golden Lion award, and subsequently played at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award. The film was released on February 19, 2021, by Searchlight Pictures. Zhao won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Nomadland, making her the first woman of Asian descent honored, and only the second woman to win a Golden Globe for directing since Barbra Streisand in 1984. In April 2021, Zhao won the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the second woman to do so ( Kathryn Bigelow being the first).

In September 2018, Marvel Studios hired her to direct Eternals, based on the comic book characters of the same name. The film follows the events of the 2019 Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame, featuring a new team of superheroes that must reunite in order to fight an ancient enemy of the human race, the Deviants. Zhao was heavily influenced by Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012) and Nick Cassavetes' The Notebook (2004) in crafting the MCU film. It was released on November 5, 2021. Zhao is both the director and one of the four writers of the film, the others being Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, and Kaz Firpo. Eternals received mixed reviews. The New Yorker stated that Zhao's style of directing dialogue scenes "reveals the absurdity of the script," saying "it might as well have been done via green screen, for the little tangibility and texture that it offers the characters and viewers alike." The article also claimed that the film has reportedly been banned in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait due to the relationship between two male characters, Phastos and Ben. In spite of negative reviews, it still made $161.7 million during its opening weekend and became No. 1 at the box office.

On February 15, 2021, reported that with "34 awards season trophies for directing, 13 for screenplay and nine for editing, Chloe Zhao has surpassed Alexander Payne ( Sideways) as the most awarded person in a single awards season in the modern era." In 2021, she appeared on the Time 100, 's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Upcoming projects

In April 2018, it was announced that Amazon Studios greenlit Zhao's untitled Bass Reeves biopic, a historical Western about the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal. Zhao is set to direct the film and write the screenplay. In February 2021, Variety confirmed that Zhao is tackling the classic Universal monster Dracula, as the writer, producer and director of a new take on the character in the vein of a futuristic sci-fi western. In August 2022, actor Patton Oswalt revealed that a sequel to Eternals was in development with Zhao returning to direct. However, later actor Kumail Nanjiani stated that he had not heard anything about a sequel and believed that Oswalt was wrong.

Styles and themes

Throughout her filmography, Zhao carries relatively the same styles and techniques. The main actress in her film Nomadland, Frances McDormand, told Rolling Stone about Zhao's process, saying "she's basically like a journalist... she gets to know your story, and she creates a character from that" and that she "draws a razor-sharp line between sentiment and sentimentality". A Filmmaker Magazine article quoted Zhao saying "I want to find new ways to place the camera to evoke more of a feeling. My goal is to put the camera inside of [the character]". An example of her process can be found in her newest film, Eternals, when she saw the connection between actors Lauren Ridloff and Barry Keoghan who play Makkari and Druig in the film. The article said Zhao saw them interacting and thought "Okay, we've got to write more moments", stating "It's the same as I did with Nomadland and The Rider. I would see how they interact and I would write that into the film". She believes that everyone wants to feel a connection, that filmmakers tell their stories because they don't want to feel alone, which is why she focuses on the themes of authenticity and places an emphasis on real stories.

Influences

Zhao cites Wong Kar-wai's romance Happy Together as the "film that made me want to make films". She was also influenced by Spike Lee, who was her film professor while she studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She cited Ang Lee as an influence as well, saying, "Ang Lee's career has been very inspiring to me - how he's able to bring where he comes from to all the films that he makes". She also has mentioned Werner Herzog and Terrence Malick as key influences.

Zhao stated her earliest introductions to American cinema were The Terminator, Ghost and Sister Act.

Censorship in China

After Zhao became the second woman to win a Golden Globe Award for Best Director (for Nomadland), many Chinese viewers, as well as state media in China, celebrated her win and "sought to claim Zhao's glory for China". Shortly afterward, however, some Chinese internet users began to question Zhao's citizenship and debated "whether it is appropriate to claim Zhao's victory as China's", with Variety calling the claim "a common move by state-backed outlets to drum up nationalism". Much of the controversy hinged around two sets of remarks: a 2013 Filmmaker magazine interview in which Zhao described China as "a place where there are lies everywhere", and a late 2020 interview in which Zhao was mis-quoted as saying "The US is now my country" (she had actually said "The US is not my country," and the error was corrected about two months later). References to Zhao in Chinese media were censored following her Oscar win.

Personal life

Zhao now resides in the Topatopa Mountains in Ojai, California with three chickens, Red, Cebe, and Lucille and two dogs, Taco and Rooster and her partner and cinematographer, Joshua James Richards. Richards and Zhao met while Zhao was researching for her first feature film Songs My Brother Taught Me and Richards was still a film student at NYU. He has been her cinematographer for her next two films and served as camera operator on Marvel's Eternals. In an Elle article, Richards stated that Zhao was "gnarly and extreme", someone he wanted to find at film school.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Main page: List of awards and nominations received by Chloé Zhao

Daughters (2010) won First Place Student Live Action Short at the 2010 Palm Springs International Short Fest and Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Cinequest Film Festival

In Spanish: Chloé Zhao para niños

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Chloé Zhao has won the Oscar for directing Nomadland, becoming the first woman of color to win the award and the second woman to win (Katheryn Bigelow, was the first). Zhao was also the first woman to get four Oscar nominations in a single year, in the Best Film Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture categories.

Nomadland offers a glimpse into the lives of older Americans who live and travel in their vehicles, mainly for economic reasons, embracing it as a nomadic lifestyle. The film's cast includes real-life nomads.

Zhao and Frances McDormand, who produced and stars in Nomadland, traversed the country for months, meeting the nomads and incorporating their experiences into the film. "I'm looking for some kind of truth," Zhao told NPR. "I'm looking for some kind of authentic moments."

Zhao grew up in Beijing and attended a boarding school in London before moving to Los Angeles to finish high school. She got her bachelor's degree in political science, then studied film at NYU, where one of her teachers was director Spike Lee. At NYU, Zhao began creating her cinematic style of blending fiction and documentary.

For her first feature film in 2015, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, she also used non-actors. She shot it at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. "There was such an American message and identity in these images," Zhao told NPR "The clash between the old and the new, seeing a Lakota boy on bareback on a horse at a gas station, and he's wearing a Tupac T-shirt, is very special. So that's how I first went there." Songs My Brother Taught Me premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Her second feature, The Rider, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. It told the story of a young rodeo rider who suffers a traumatic brain injury and received the festival's Art Cinema Award. Next up for Zhao: the November release of her directorial debut in the Marvel cinematic universe, The Eternals.

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Chloé Zhao Is The First Woman Of Color To Win Oscar For Best Director

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The Nomadland director was also the first woman to receive four Oscar nominations in a single year, in the Best Film Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture categories.

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Billie Eilish's sweep was the big story of the 62nd annual Grammy Awards, which were held Sunday (Jan. 26) at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Eilish became just the second artist in Grammy history-and the first woman-to take home the Big Four awards: album, record and song of the year plus best new artist. The first artist to do this was Christopher Cross 39 years ago.

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Eilish took album of the year for her debut, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, and record and song of the year for her smash "Bad Guy." In the process, she set several age-related records.

Eilish, 18, is the youngest album of the year winner in Grammy history, easily topping Taylor Swift, who was 20 when she won a decade ago for Fearless. She's also the youngest record of the year winner in Grammy history. That distinction was formerly shared by Kimbra and Sam Smith. Both were 22 when they won, as the featured artist on Gotye 's "Somebody That I Used to Know" (2012) and as the lead artist on "Stay with Me" (2014), respectively.

Eilish is the youngest best new artist champ since LeAnn Rimes, who was 14 when she took the 1996 award. She's the youngest song of the year winner since Lorde, who was a year younger-just 17-when she won the 2013 award for co-writing "Royals."

Lizzo came on so strong in recent months; it seemed likely that the two would split the top prizes. In the end, Lizzo beat Eilish in just one category-best pop solo performance for "Truth Hurts." (Fun Fact: Cross also lost in the performance category in the year of his sweep. Kenny Loggins ' "This Is It" took best pop vocal performance, male, edging out Cross' "Sailing.")

When We All Fall Asleep... is the first debut album to win album of the year since Norah Jones' Come Away with Me (2002).

Eilish and FINNEAS, her collaborator and older brother, were each credited with five Grammys for the night. They shared the big three. He also won producer of the year, non-classical and best engineered album, non-classical.

FINNEAS, 22, is the youngest winner of producer of the year, non-classical in Grammy history. That distinction was formerly shared by Michael Jackson and three members of Toto (Steve Porcaro, Bobby Kimball and Steve Lukather) who were each 25 when they won.

Gary Clark Jr. and Lizzo each won three Grammys, second only to Eilish among artists. Rob Kinselski, an engineer/mixer on Eilish's album, and John Greenham, a mastering engineer on Eilish's album, also won three. The Chemical Brothers, Billy Ray Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Nipsey Hussle, Lil Nas X and Tanya Tucker each won two.

Tucker had amassed 14 nominations, dating back to 1972, before she finally won. Her first Grammy was for best country song for "Bring My Flowers Now." Accepting the award, she said, "After almost 50 years in this business, after many dreams, it's unbelievable to me that I would still have some firsts left." A moment later, she took best country album for While I'm Livin'. Tucker, 61, is the oldest winner for best country album since Loretta Lynn, then 72, took the 2004 award for Van Lear Rose.

Lizzo took best urban contemporary album for Cuz I Love You (Deluxe). She's the third female artist to win in this category, following Rihanna and Beyoncé.

Tyler, the Creator's Igor won best rap album. His prior studio album, Flower Boy, was nominated in this category two years ago but lost to Kendrick Lamar's Damn.

Gaga won two more Grammys for her music for A Star Is Born, on top of the two she won last year. "I'll Never Love Again" won best song written for visual media. "Shallow," from the same film, won in that category last year. A Star Is Born is the first film to spawn two winners in this category. In addition, A Star Is Born took best compilation soundtrack for visual media, edging Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood. Tarantino has yet to win a Grammy, despite five nominations dating back to 2003.

Three of the top Grammy winners of all time climbed higher up the all-time winners' tally. Film composer John Williams won his 25th Grammy. Beyoncé won her 24th, which puts her just three awards behind Alison Krauss as the female artist with the most wins in Grammy history. Chick Corea won his 23rd.

Further down the all-time winners list, Kirk Franklin won his 15th and 16th Grammys; Bob Ludwig, his 12th; John Legend, his 11th; Lady Gaga, her 10th and 11th; and Willie Nelson, his 10th.

Beyoncé's Homecoming, an account of her instantly legendary performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, won best music film. Beyoncé co-directed the film with Ed Burke. She's only the second artist to win in this category for a film he or she directed or co-directed. The first was Alanis Morissette, who won the 1997 award for Jagged Little Pill, Live, which she co-directed with Steve Purcell. This is Beyoncé's first win in this category. She was previously nominated for I Am...World Tour, On the Run Tour (with Jay-Z) and Lemonade.

Lil Nas X & Cyrus' "Old Town Road" took the awards for best pop duo/group performance and best music video. The video's director, Calmatic, won a VMA in August for directing "Old Town Road."

Dave Chappelle won best comedy album for the third straight year, this time for Sticks & Stones. Chappelle is just the fourth performer in this category to win three years running. Bill Cosby won six years running (1964-69). Richard Pryor won three in a row (1974-76). Parody artist Peter Schickele won four in a row (1989-92).

Former First Lady Michelle Obama's Becoming won best spoken word album. Obama is the second first lady or former first lady to win in that category. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the 1996 award for It Takes a Village while she was first lady. (She accepted the award in person when the Grammys were held that year at Madison Square Garden. Obama, who helped open last year's Grammy telecast with a surprise appearance, was not present this year to accept her award.) Barack Obama won twice in this category before he was elected president.

Cage the Elephant took best rock album for the second time in four years with Social Cues. The band won in this category three years ago with Tell Me I'm Pretty.

Vampire Weekend took best alternative music album for the second time with Father of the Bride. The band won the 2013 award for Modern Vampires of the City. They're the only act to win twice in the category in the past 10 years.

Gary Clark, Jr. won in three far-flung categories. He took best rock performance and best rock song for "This Land" and best contemporary blues album for his album of the same name. Clark wasn't nominated in any of the Big Four categories. His strong showing in these down-ballot categories suggests he might have done well in the Big Four categories if he'd been given a chance.

Dan + Shay took best country duo/group performance for the second year in a row. They won this year for "Speechless"; last year for "Tequila." They're the first act to win two years running since this streamlined category was introduced in 2011.

One-time disco queen Gloria Gaynor took best roots gospel album for Testimony. It was her first Grammy win since she won best disco recording in 1979 (the only year it was presented) for her classic "I Will Survive." Gaynor alluded to her long gap between Grammys when she accepted the award by noting "I am at last able to balance out my piano."

Elvis Costello won his first Grammy in 20 years for Look Now, recorded with his group the Imposters. The album won for best traditional pop vocal album, beating albums by such category mainstays as Michael Bublé and Barbra Streisand. Other previous winners in the category who come from a rock background include Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney.

The late Nipsey Hussle won his first Grammy for best rap performance for "Racks in the Middle," which featured Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy. His grandmother was among those accepting the award on his behalf. He later won a second Grammy for best rap/sung performance for his featured role on DJ Khaled's "Higher." Hussle was nominated last year for best rap album for Victory Lap. He was killed six weeks later.

The Chemical Brothers' No Geography won best dance/electronic album. It's the duo's third win in the category, which puts them in a tie with Skrillex for the most wins in the category's history.

Norwegian sound engineer and producer Morten Lindberg finally won his first Grammy, for best immersive audio album. Lindberg received 28 nominations before he finally scored a win, which made him the person with the most Grammy nods without a win. That dubious distinction now passes to conductor Zubin Mehta, who received 18 nominations from 1969-2007.

Hildur Guðnadóttir took best score soundtrack for visual media for her score to HBO's Chernobyl. It's just the second score for a television show to win in this category. Lalo Schifrin's score for CBS' Mission: Impossible took the 1967 award. Hildur is the first woman to win in this category in more than 30 years. The Icelandic composer has been unstoppable this awards season. She won an Emmy for Chernobyl and a Golden Globe and Critics' Choice Award, among many other prizes, for Joker. She will be competing for an Oscar for Joker two weeks from tonight.

Esperanza Spalding, whose win as best new artist of 2010 was a Grammy shocker for the ages, won best jazz vocal album for 12 Little Spells. This is Spalding's fourth Grammy win. (How does that compare to her best new artist competition that year? Drake has also won four Grammys; Mumford & Sons have won two. Justin Bieber has won one. Florence + the Machine is still looking for its first win.)

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Grammys 2020: Billie Eilish Becomes the First Woman to Sweep the Big Four Grammys In One Night

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Billie Eilish became just the second artist in Grammy historyâ€"and the first womanâ€"to sweep the Big Four awards: album, record and song of the year plus best new artist. The first artist to do this was Christopher Cross 39 years ago.

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Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell ( ; born December 18, 2001) is an American singer-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), titled 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 best-selling albums of the year, 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 following 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 charts in 25 countries.

Eilish has received multiple accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, three Brit Awards, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award. She is the youngest artist in Grammy history to win all four general field categories-Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year-in the same year. She was featured on 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 has a history of political activism, focusing on climate change awareness and women's equality.

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. 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 also 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 for the song. Eilish had gone on some acting auditions, which she disliked; however, 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 put an end to her dancing career and she turned her focus toward recording music.

2015-2017: Don't Smile at Me

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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.

2018-2020: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

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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 "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.

2021-present: Happier Than Ever and Guitar Songs

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"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 ascension 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 her 2019 single "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 Finneas for her award.

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 on various formats, including collectable vinyl and cassette colours. 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 only made available 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 for 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, which ran from February to September 2022.

In June 2021, Eilish was criticized for videos in which she mouthed the anti-Asian slur " chink" while lip-syncing the song "Fish" by Tyler, the Creator, and for using blaccent and African-American Vernacular English. Eilish was also accused of queerbaiting after using the caption "I love girls" to promote the music video for "Lost Cause". On June 22, she posted an apology to Instagram stories for her usage of "chink", saying that she was "appalled and embarrassed" by the video and that she was "13 or 14" at the time and did not know the slur was a derogatory term. She also addressed a separate video of what was viewed as her mocking an Asian accent, writing that she was actually "speaking in a silly gibberish made up voice". Reflecting on the events in a July 2021 interview, Eilish stated: "I said so many things then that I totally don't agree with now, or think the opposite thing. ..... So I just came up with this facade that I stuck to."

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 commented that she hoped to start writing the album in 2023. During 2022, Eilish 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. These are "Nobody Like U", "U Know What's Up" and "1 True Love", which are 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 been doing early in her career, previewing them for fans in live concerts before releasing them without much marketing.

To mark the tour's conclusion on September 30, 2022, Eilish worked with Apple Music to exclusively host a film of one of the 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 for themselves, wanting more people to recognize her for her showmanship live. Months later, Eilish revealed the Happier Than Ever, The Hometown Encore, two concerts at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, from December 15 to 16, 2022. The shows intend to celebrate the success of the album and its corresponding world tour.

Musical style, songwriting, and music videos

Eilish possesses a soprano vocal range. Avery Stone of 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".

Influences

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.

Public image and recognitions

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Eilish is the recipient of numerous awards, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, an Academy Award (Oscar), two Guinness World Records, one Brit Award, and three Billboard Music Awards.

In 2019, placed her on their inaugural "Time 100 Next" list. She is the youngest person, second person ever, and first female artist 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. In 2022, she became the first person born in the 21st century ever to win an Academy Award, receiving the award for Best Original Song for " No Time to Die" from the James Bond film of the same name.

Much of the media attention surrounding Eilish has revolved around her fashion style, which consists primarily of baggy, oversized clothing. Eilish said frequent coloring of her hair may have caused her to have hair follicles and unnecessary stress. For now, the singer seems to be content with her black hair. In 2017, she stated that she likes dressing out of her comfort zone to feel like she grabs the attention of everyone around her. She tries to be "really different from a lot of people" and dresses opposite to what others wear. Aiming to "look memorable", Eilish said that she "proved to people that [she's] more important than they think" and likes being "kind of intimidating, so people will listen up." In 2019, she stated: "Over time it's kind of become a thing, 'Billie Eilish, the creepy, weird, scary girl.' And I don't like that. It's lame. I just don't want to stay one thing."

In May 2019, Eilish appeared in a Calvin Klein advertisement, where she mentioned that she dresses in baggy clothes to prevent people from judging her body. In a March 2020 live show in Miami, as part of the Where Do We Go? Tour, she premiered Not My Responsibility, a short film which addresses her experiences of body shaming. Not My Responsibility was later uploaded to Eilish's YouTube channel in May 2020.

Eilish was on the cover of the June 2021 issue of British Vogue. The photoshoot by Craig McDean featured her dressed in lingerie, specifically focused on corsets. Eilish made her first appearance at the Met Gala in 2021, which had the theme "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion", wearing an Oscar de la Renta gown under the condition that the fashion house would permanently end its use of real fur. Though the dress was inspired by the original Barbie doll, fashion critics observed its likeness to Golden Age star Marilyn Monroe, who also wore a tulle Oscar de la Renta gown in the early 1950s.

Products and endorsements

In April 2019, Eilish released clothing in collaboration with Takashi Murakami, inspired by her music video for "You Should See Me in a Crown", also directed and animated by Murakami, as well as a limited edition vinyl figure of herself from the video. Eilish also collaborated with Adobe Creative Cloud the same month for a series of advertisements as well as a social media art contest, where users would submit artwork with the hashtag "#BILLIExADOBE".

Eilish appeared in the debut of Calvin Klein's #MyCalvins ad campaign in May 2019, as well as the Ad Council's "Seize the Awkward" campaign, a series of public service announcements targeting mental health awareness. She fronted MCM Worldwide's fall 2019 advertising campaign in July 2019, and later that month, collaborated with Los Angeles-based clothing brand Freak City for a clothing line. Also in July 2019, she performed at a dinner hosted by Chanel on Shelter Island to celebrate the brand's pop-up yacht club.

In August 2019, Eilish partnered with Apple to allow Apple Store customers to experiment with her song "You Should See Me in a Crown" in Music Lab sessions in its stores.

In November 2021, Eilish debuted an eponymous perfume brand, named "Eilish", touted as vegan and cruelty-free.

Eilish has a history of political activism, publicly expressing her views on a multitude of political issues. She has been vocal with regards 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" centers around climate change and uses heaven-and-hell imagery to criticize ignorance about rising sea levels, and she permitted the non-profit CoralWatch to use "Ocean Eyes" as part of an online awareness campaign about Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Eilish was raised as a vegetarian, is a regular advocate on social media for animal rights and veganism, and has criticized the dairy, wool, and mink fur industries.

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 against body shaming towards her and the double standards placed upon women's appearances.

Personal life

Eilish previously 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 stated she has Tourette syndrome, synesthesia, and has experienced depression. .....

Eilish dated rapper Brandon Adams, who goes by the stage name 7:AMP. They have since broken up. In late October 2022, it was reported that Eilish was dating fellow singer Jesse Rutherford.

Discography

Main pages: Billie Eilish discography and List of songs recorded by Billie Eilish

When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019)

Happier Than Ever (2021)

Headlining

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)

Opening act

Filmography

Television

In Spanish: Billie Eilish para niños

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 most-subscribed YouTube channels

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Introduction
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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 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 in one night-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). 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.

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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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American activist. She is known for being the first black child to attend an all- white elementary school in the South. She went to William Frantz Elementary School.

Ruby Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, to Abon and Lucille Bridges. When she was 4 years old, the family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Her father was hesitant, but her parents allowed her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system.

Integration

In a 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court made Racial segregation against the law. Ruby, who was born the year the law passed, was chosen to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. The school board said that black children could attend the first grade if they passed a test. Bridges passed the test. As soon as Bridges entered the school, many white parents pulled their children out. Only one person agreed to teach Bridges, and that was Barbara Henry from Boston, Massachusetts. For over a year Henry taught her alone, "as if she were teaching a whole class."

On her first day of school, four U.S. Marshals had to go with her to school. Angry crowds of parents shouted threats at her and parents did not let their children go to school. There was such chaos that first day that Ruby could not make it to her classroom. For the next six months, the marshals took her to and from her school. Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, "She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn't whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we're all very very proud of her."

On the second day of school, the boycott broke. After this, more people started sending their children to school again. This does not mean that all of the trouble was over, however. People tried to hurt her family. Her father lost his job and her grandparents were thrown off their farm in Georgia. Ruby never missed a day of school that year. The story of her going to a white school is the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting called The Problem We All Live With.

Ruby finished elementary school and graduated from high school. Bridges went on to become a travel agent for American Express. Mrs. Ruby Bridges Hall is married and has four sons. She still lives in New Orleans. In 1999, she wrote a children's book, Through My Eyes, telling her story. The same year she started the Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote "the values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences." She travels and talks to children all over the country.

On January 8, 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded Ruby Bridges the Presidential Citizens Medal. She was one of 28 to receive the medal that day.

Ruby Bridges quotes

"Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!"

"I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one."

"Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it."

Interesting Facts About Ruby Bridges

Ruby enjoyed jumping rope, climbing trees, and playing softball when she was young.

On November 14, her first day at William Frantz Elementary School, she was the only student there.

Barbara Henry was the only teacher who agreed to teach Ruby. She began teaching Ruby on her second day of school.

Ruby's courageous story can be read to children from the book The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles.

Ruby was one of only six children who passed the entrance test, which was designed to be difficult.

Awards and honors

In September 1995, Bridges and Robert Coles were awarded honorary degrees from Connecticut College and appeared together in public for the first time to accept the awards.

Bridges' Through My Eyes won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award in 2000.

On August 10, 2000, the 40 year anniversary of her walk into William Frantz Elementary School, Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder made Ruby Bridges an Honorary Deputy U.S. Marshal.

On January 8, 2001, Bridges was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Bill Clinton.

In November 2006, Bridges was honored as a "Hero Against Racism" at the 12th annual Anti-Defamation League "Concert Against Hate" with the National Symphony Orchestra, held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

On May 19, 2012, Bridges received an Honorary Degree from Tulane University at the annual graduation ceremony at the Superdome.

Two elementary schools are named after Bridges: one in Alameda, California, and another in Woodinville, Washington. A statue of Bridges stands in the courtyard of William Frantz Elementary School.

Images for kids

Ruby Bridges speaking at Texas A&M University-Commerce in February 2015

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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American activist. She is known for being the first black child to attend an all- white elementary school in the South. She went to William Frantz Elementary School. Ruby Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, to Abon and Lucille Bridges.

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Margaret Ives Abbott (born June 15, 1878 - died June 10, 1955) was a talented American golfer. She made history as the first American woman to win an Olympic event. This happened at the 1900 Paris Games, where she won the women's golf tournament.

Early Life and Golf

Margaret Abbott was born in Calcutta, India. Her father, Charles, passed away when she was very young. After his death, her mother, Mary Abbott, moved the family to Boston.

When Margaret was a teenager, her mother became a writer for The Chicago Herald newspaper. The family then moved to Illinois. In Illinois, Margaret and her mother joined the Chicago Golf Club. This is where Margaret learned to play golf. She quickly started winning local tournaments. Her successes were often written about in The Chicago Tribune newspaper.

The Paris Olympics

From 1899 to 1902, Margaret and her mother, Mary Abbott, lived in Paris, France. While there, Mary worked on a travel guide. Margaret studied art with famous artists like Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas.

Women at the 1900 Games

The 1900 Paris Olympics were very different from today's games. It was the first time women were allowed to compete. Only 22 women competed out of 997 athletes. Women could only participate in five sports: golf, tennis, sailing, equestrian, and croquet.

The 1900 Olympics lasted for six months. They were held as a side event of the Paris Exhibition, also known as the World Fair. Because the events were so spread out, it was hard to keep track of who competed. The events were called "Championnats Internationaux" (International Championships), not the "Olympic Games." There was also not much media attention. Unlike today, there were no opening or closing ceremonies.

Margaret's Olympic Victory

The women's golf tournament took place on October 4, 1900. It was held on a nine-hole course in Compiègne, north of Paris. At that time, people thought playing sports could harm women. So, women were limited to a nine-hole course, not the standard 18 holes.

The event was organized like a small golf tournament and not widely advertised. Because of this, Margaret Abbott did not even realize she was competing in the Olympics! She just thought it was another golf competition.

Margaret won the golf event with a score of 47 strokes over nine holes. She was given a beautiful porcelain bowl as her prize. Gold medals were not given out at the Olympics until the 1904 Games in St. Louis.

All the competitors played in long skirts and fancy hats. Margaret later joked that she "apparently misunderstood the nature of the game scheduled for the day and turned up to play in high heels and tight skirts."

Mother and Daughter Compete

Margaret's mother, Mary Abbott, also entered the competition. She shot a score of 65 over nine holes. Mary finished tied for seventh place. This was the only time in Olympic history that a mother and daughter competed in the same sport, in the same event, at the same Olympics. It is much harder for this to happen in today's Olympic Games.

Women's golf was not part of the Olympics again until the 2016 Games in Rio.

Margaret Abbott never knew she was an Olympic champion. Historians did not confirm that the golf event was part of the Olympic program until after her death in 1955.

Her victory was not well known until a professor named Paula Welch researched her life. Professor Welch was from the University of Florida and a member of the Olympic Board of Directors. She spent ten years looking through old newspaper articles. She also found Margaret's children and told them about their mother's amazing Olympic win.

Later Life and Legacy

Margaret Abbott married the writer Finley Peter Dunne on December 10, 1902. They had four children together: Finley Peter Dunne Jr., Peggy Dunne, Leonard Dunne, and Phillip Dunne. Phillip later became a famous screenwriter. Margaret continued to play golf while raising her children. She passed away at age 76 on June 10, 1955, in Greenwich, Connecticut.

In 1996, Margaret Abbott was featured in the official Olympic program for the Atlanta Games. This helped to finally recognize her historic achievement. In 2018, The New York Times published a special obituary for her, many years after her death.

Images for kids

Article on Abbott's victory in the Chicago Tribune, October 7, 1900

Abbott in the Chicago Tribune, November 28, 1902

In Spanish: Margaret Ives Abbott para niños

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How Margaret Abbott Became the First Female Olympic Champion Without Realizing It

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How Margaret Abbott Became the First Female Olympic Champion Without Realizing It

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For the New Zealand businesswoman, see Margie Abbott.