{"id":12202,"date":"2021-01-29T07:56:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotnessrater.com\/articles\/?p=12202"},"modified":"2021-01-29T07:56:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:56:17","slug":"dua-lipa-deserves-our-friday-feature-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotnessrater.com\/articles\/2021\/01\/29\/dua-lipa-deserves-our-friday-feature-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa Deserves Our Friday Feature Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dua Lipa<\/a> is probably one of the hottest pop stars today.\u00a0 And yes, an awful lot of us may not know about her work as a singer but we damn know who she is because of her looks.\u00a0 Yup, even I don’t know her most famous song.\u00a0 Sorry but it’s the truth.\u00a0 And yes, she’s here in our beloved site because of that (what else).<\/p>\n

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Oh, just look at her and fuel your fantasies with her super hot images.<\/p>\n

Who is Dua Lipa?<\/h2>\n

Dua is an English singer<\/a>, songwriter, and model.\u00a0 She won two Grammy Awards in 2019 for Best New Artist and Best Dance Recording for her hit song ‘Electricity’, a collaboration with Silk City.\u00a0 She is also known for her singles ‘New Love’, ‘Be the One’,’ and ‘IDGAF’.\u00a0 Her best-selling single ‘New Rules’ has been a hit worldwide, charting on No.2 in Australia, No.6 in the US, and No.7 in Canada.<\/p>\n

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Her Early Life<\/h2>\n

Dua Lipa was born on August 22, 1995, in London, England to Albanian rock singer turned marketing executive Dukagjin Lipa and his wife, Anesa Lipa.\u00a0 She has a sister named Rina and a brother named Gjin.\u00a0 Her parents, ethnic Albanians from Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, had migrated to Europe to escape violence and oppression in the 1990s.\u00a0 After Kosovo declared independence in February 2008, her family moved back there, but she found it difficult to fit in.\u00a0 She began covering songs by her favorite artists on YouTube when she was 14, and at 15, convinced her parents to let her move back to London to pursue a career in music.\u00a0 After relocating to London, Dua Lipa moved in with some friends in Camden and did some side jobs, like working as the hostess of a nightclub.\u00a0 She attended theatre school with her friends, but would eventually drop out for a year to focus on music, never to go back.<\/p>\n

She was influenced by her singer father, even though she was not pressurized to become a singer.\u00a0 Following a negative experience in high school, she attended the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School part-time, where the teacher put her with older students to build her confidence.<\/p>\n

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At the age of 14, she began posting covers of her favorite songs by artists such as Pink<\/a> and Nelly Furtado<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Career Journey<\/h2>\n

At the age of 16, she began her career as a model after being approached by a manager, but due to her figure, she never got good assignments except for a television advertisement for ‘The X Factor’.\u00a0 She actually did modeling to make contacts with people with an interest in music.<\/p>\n

Dua considers her music as dark pop and her musical career began at age 14 when she began covering songs by other artists on YouTube.\u00a0 She aggressively promoted her YouTube channel to new acquaintances, and eventually in 2015, signed a contract with Warner Music Group for her debut album.\u00a0 Her promotional debut single, ‘New Love’, was released in August 2015.\u00a0 In November 2015, it was revealed that she will be on the BBC ‘Sound of…2016’ list.<\/p>\n

On August 26, 2016, she released her next single, ‘Blow Your Mind (Mwah)’, which was inspired by her earlier attempts to change herself physically to get modeling assignments, which badly affected her mindset.\u00a0 It became her first US ‘Billboard Hot 100’ entry at No.72, and also topped the ‘Billboard Dance Club Songs’ chart and peaked at No.23 on the ‘Billboard Mainstream Top 40’ chart.\u00a0 In November 2016, she was featured on the Sean Paul single ‘No Lie’, which reached number 10 in the UK chart.\u00a0 Around January of the next year, she collaborated with Martin Garrix to release the single ‘Scared to Be Lonely’, which peaked at No.14 in the UK.<\/p>\n

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In January 2017, Lipa won the EBBA Public Choice Award. After working on it for almost two years, on June 2, 2017, she finally released her debut album, which reached No.3 on the UK chart.\u00a0 The album spawned seven singles, including two UK top-10 singles “Be the One” and “Idgaf” and the UK number-one single “New Rules”, which also reached number six in the US.\u00a0 Her performance at the Glastonbury Festival on June 23, 2017, pulled one of the biggest crowds for the event in recent times.\u00a0 In October 2017, she performed on BBC’s music television show ‘Later… with Jools Holland’.<\/p>\n

In January 2018, Lipa received nominations in five categories at the 2018 Brit Awards, more nominations than any other artist that year.\u00a0 She was nominated for British Female Solo Artist, British Breakthrough Act, MasterCard British Album of the Year (Dua Lipa), British Single of The Year (“New Rules”) and British Video of The Year (“New Rules”).\u00a0 This was the first time that a female artist had received five nominations.\u00a0 She performed at the awards ceremony held on 21 February at the O2 Arena in London and collected the awards for British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.<\/p>\n

Her second album, Future Nostalgia (2020), became a number one album in the UK. The album featured her hit single “Don’t Start Now,” which peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n

Facts and Trivia<\/h2>\n

Dua Lipa was in a relationship with celebrity chef and model Isaac Carew for two years till they broke up in February 2017.\u00a0 She later became involved with musician Paul Klein, but within five months it was reported that she was back with Carew again. She began dating Anwar Hadid in 2019.<\/p>\n

A documentary on the life of the singer was commissioned by ‘The Fader’ magazine in December 2016. The short video, titled ‘See in Blue’, can be found on the magazine’s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

While Dua was not fond of her atypical name \u2013 meaning ‘love’ in Albanian \u2013 in her youth, she now likes the fact that she can use it as a stage name as well.<\/p>\n

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Lana Del Rey<\/a> helped produce Lipa’s first single, ‘New Love’.<\/p>\n

In June 2017, she was one of the singers who lent vocals to the charity single, ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’, arranged by Simon Cowell, for the families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in London.\u00a0 She had previously established the Sunny Hill Foundation with her father to donate to the citizens of Kosovo.<\/p>\n

She became a playable character in the video game FIFA 21.<\/p>\n

Her Body Measurements<\/h2>\n

Dua Lipa stands 5 feet, 8 inches and she rocks a 36-26-35 figure.<\/p>\n

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Dua Lipa Photos<\/h2>\n

Join her over 59 million followers on Instagram<\/a> for her latest lifestyle posts.
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