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Lorde at the 2014 Sydney Laneway Festival photo by Annette Geneva

Top 10 Remarquable Facts about Lorde

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor is known professionally as Lorde. She is a New Zealand singer-songwriter a record producer from New Zealand best known for her studio album 鈥楳elodrama.鈥� She showed interest in music from a tender age and began her career quite early . 

Lorde was born 7 November 1996 in Takapuna, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland, to poet Sonja Yelich (Croatian: Jeli膰) and civil engineer Vic O’Connor. Her mother was born to Croatian immigrants from the region of Dalmatia, while her father is of Irish descent. Lorde holds dual New Zealand and Croatian citizenship.

Her first single, “Royals”, was released on Republic on 8 March 2013. It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, in Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand and number two in Australia. It made her the first solo artist from New Zealand to have a number one in the US. “Royals” also made her the youngest person (age 16) to have a US number one in 26 years

Lorde was nominated for four Grammy Awards in December 2013. The nominations were Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album. She was the youngest person to ever be nominated for Record of the Year. She performed “Royals” at the awards ceremony.

1. She Got Her First Record Deal At 13

Lorde was first signed to a development deal in 2009, when she was just 13 years old. She was first told to write songs for other artists, but she wound up finding her own voice and writing her own music.

As she developed her songwriting skills, Lorde started working with producer Joel Little. He was her collaborator until 2016.

2. Lorde is known for her own unique performance style

Lorde performing at Lollapalooza in 2014 photo by Liliane Callegari

Lorde has become known for her unique performance style. The way she dances and reacts to the music is truly unlike any other artist. When creating music and performing, try to develop a personal and unique performance style that matches your music.

3. She is a songwriter

 Lorde writes her own songs. The uniqueness of Lorde鈥檚 music is inexplicably tied to the fact that she writes almost all of it herself. Her cryptic, descriptive, and personal lyrics make each track undeniably compelling. 

By writing her own lyrics and developing a personal performance style, Lorde has set herself apart from everyone else in the music industry.

4. At age of 15, Lorde recorded her first song ‘ The love club EP’

Lorde Primavera photo by Raph_PH  

She was 15 when she went into the studio to record her first offering, 鈥淭he Love Club EP.鈥� It was initially released for free on SoundCloud in November 2012 and was quickly downloaded some 60,000 times. Then Universal woke up, realized there was money to be made, and commercially released the EP a few months later.

5. Lorde was the youngest and was nominated four Grammy awards

She was nominated for four Grammy Awards in December 2013. The nominations were Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album. She was the youngest person to ever be nominated for Record of the Year. She performed “Royals” at the awards ceremony.

6. The song ‘Royals’ made Lorde become the first lead solo female to crown Billboard’s 

Lorde at the 2014 Sydney Laneway Festival photo by Annette Geneva

The 鈥淩oyals鈥� buzz rapidly went global, and in August 2013. Lorde became the first female solo artist in 17 years to top the U.S. Billboard alternative chart. A month later Lorde debuted her first full-length album, Pure Heroine. In 2014 Lorde won Grammy Awards in the best pop solo performance and song of the year categories, both for 鈥淩oyals.鈥�

7. Lorde Was Once Caught In A Political Scandal

When she did a world tour to promote 鈥淢elodrama,鈥� Lorde found herself caught up in political controversy. At the end of 2017, she scheduled a concert in Tel Aviv. Still, pro-Palestinian activists urged her to cancel the performance. This demand was part of a larger effort to use boycotts to pressure Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Lorde did eventually cancel that tour performance, but that decision brought forward a new round of criticism鈥攖his time from pro-Israel groups calling the singer 鈥渁nti-Semitic.鈥�

8. Melodrama Lorde’s earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th ceremony

New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 photo by Eva Rinaldi

Melodrama, Lorde’s songwriting showed signs of maturity with introspective, post-breakup lyrics. The album was released in June 2017 to widespread critical acclaim.

Metacritic placed it second on their list of the best-received records of 2017 based on inclusions in publications’ year-end lists, behind Kendrick Lamar’s Damn.It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, giving Lorde her first number-one album on the chart, and on record charts of Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

9. She has received 42 awards and 86 nominations

The singer earned nominations for Best Original Song at the Golden Globe Awards and Best Song at the Critics’ Choice Awards in 2015. Her second album Melodrama, released in 2017, won a New Zealand Music Award and earned a nomination for Album of the Year at the 2018 Grammy Awards ceremony.

Her second studio album Melodrama received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th ceremony. Lorde has received two Brit Awards for International Female Solo Artist.

The singer has also won two Billboard Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award and three World Music Awards.[She had sold over five million albums worldwide as of June 2017 and 15 million certified single units in the United States.

10. Lorde has a rare neurological condition called synesthesia

Lorde performing at Lollapalooza in 2014 photo by Liliane Callegari

Ella Yelich-O’Connor has sound-to-color synesthesia, otherwise known as chromesthesia. That means for notes and sounds that she hears, corresponding colors appear in front of her eyes. 

She’s spoken about it before, but a new profile in the NY Times last week has shed new light on the condition and how it effects her songwriting.