Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa (born 22 August 1995) is an English singer and songwriter whose accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards.

She was born in London to Kosovo Albanian parents from Pristina. After Kosovo declared independence in 2008 she moved with her family to Pristina; as a teenager she began posting cover videos on YouTube, later returned to London on her own, and briefly worked as a model. She was granted Albanian citizenship in 2022 and Kosovar citizenship in 2025.

Lipa signed with Warner Bros. Records in 2014 and released her self-titled debut studio album in 2017, which included "Be the One", "IDGAF" and her first UK number-one single, "New Rules". In 2018 she won the Brit Awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act, and "One Kiss" with Calvin Harris became her second UK number one and the best-selling song of the year in the UK. In 2019 she won the Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and, for "Electricity", Best Dance Recording.

Her second album, Future Nostalgia (2020), was her first UK number-one album. Its singles "Don't Start Now" and "Levitating" were major hits, the latter topping the Billboard year-end Hot 100 chart of 2021, and the album won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)", her 2021 duet with Elton John, and "Dance the Night" from the soundtrack of Barbie (2023) both reached number one in the UK, and Barbie also marked her acting debut. Her third album, Radical Optimism (2024), debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and the same year she had a supporting role in the spy film Argylle.

The media have described her vocal range as mezzo-soprano or contralto; her music is primarily pop with disco and house elements. In 2016 she and her father co-founded the Sunny Hill Foundation to help people in Kosovo facing financial hardship.