Biography:

The success of Billie Eilish is an example of how you can declare yourself and your talents through the Internet and get a dose of world fame. As a 14-year-old teenager, Billie posted a video for the song Ocean Eyes online, which went viral and flew around the globe. However, the Eilish phenomenon is quite understandable: the girl grew up among musicians and since childhood was passionate about composing and performing songs. Now she is revealing with interest new facets of her talent.

Childhood and youth:

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell was born on December 18, 2001 in Los Angeles, USA. The singer is of predominantly Irish-Scottish descent. Parents Patrick O’Connell and Maggie Baird are folk musicians, and their children – eldest son Finneas and daughter Billie Eilish – were taught musical creativity from an early age.

For greater immersion in this process, adults even transferred the children to home schooling. Subsequently, Billie admitted in an interview that she considered it normal to spend the whole day composing music and songs.

During the first years of her life, Billie saw only the inspiring example of her family. Mom wrote songs. My father played piano and ukulele and made great mixtapes. Brother Finneas wrote his first songs. Billie, who began to show vocal talent from the age of 2, demonstrated excellent hearing and sense of rhythm, also tried to write something. Her first idols were the Beatles and Avril Lavigne.

For three years – from 8 to 11 years old – Billie sang in a children’s choir. In parallel with this activity, the girl shot videos with an amateur camera and even created a couple of short films using a special application for the iPhone. In addition to acting and music, another passion of the future star was dance. Eilish took choreography lessons as a teenager.

It was the dance, its idea and staging that was the girl’s goal when she starred in the video for the song Ocean Eyes. The composition was written by Finneas; he was already playing in his own band and asked his sister to perform the single for the video recording. Neither he nor she even thought that this video would be the beginning of her stellar career.

Music:

2016 marked a bright start for the singer. This year, the guys posted Eilish’s debut single on Sound Cloud and released a music video with Billie dancing. The girl had to stop her dancing career – the injury did not give her the opportunity to develop further.

But her vocal talent turned out to be excellent. The recorded song was an incredible success, recording more than 10 million streams in a short period of time. Billy was approached by several major record labels wanting to buy the rights to the song.

Darkroom and Interscope Records released the single in studio sound for music lovers around the world to hear. By the end of the year, Billie recorded another single, Six Feet Under. On January 14, 2017, Eilish presented an EP with 4 Ocean Eyes remixes.

Then Billie recorded a number of songs, including Bored, which was included in the official soundtrack of the famous Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.

In July 2017, the singer announced the long-awaited EP Don’t Smile at Me. The album was released in August 2017, and in February 2018 the singer went on a tour called Where’s My Mind, where she spent two months.

After a series of concerts, the singer returned not at all tired, but full of original ideas, one of which she soon implemented. This is a collaboration with an artist named Khalid. Their joint single Lovely was also included in the soundtrack for Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why.

From the fall of 2018 to the spring of 2019, the artist released tracks one after another that were announced as singles of her debut full-length studio album: Bitches Broken Hearts, Bury a Friend, When the party’s over and others.

At the same time, videos for these compositions were released, which fascinated and shocked at the same time. Thus, in the video for Where the Party’s Over, black tears flow from the girl’s eyes, and in You Should See Me in the Crown, a giant living spider crawls out of her mouth.

The singer does not accept boundaries and is used to playing by her own rules. This applies not only to creativity, but also to image. Billie dyes her hair blue and gray and is more often seen in pajamas than in a swimsuit. Despite her slender figure (height is 161 cm), the artist’s favorite outfits are wide, shapeless oversized robes, complemented by bulky accessories and hiding her breasts and figure.

“I’m really different from a lot of people. I don’t like following rules. I always wore what I wanted and said what I wanted to say. I like to be remembered, so I like to look memorable,” admits the young star.
The album, titled When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was released on March 29, 2019. Long before its release, the producers received many pre-orders, and after that the disc soared to the top of the charts. And that’s when Billie started breaking all sorts of records. In the UK, the 17-year-old singer became the youngest artist ever to reach the top of the chart. She also became the first artist born in the 21st century to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

In August 2019, Billie gave 2 concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg in halls with thousands of seats. And at the very beginning of 2020, the singer’s name again appeared in the headlines of news publications: the girl became the winner in several main Grammy Award nominations.

Billie Eilish’s work, which uniquely combines genres such as indie pop, R&B, hardcore, gospel and trip-hop, has already earned positive reviews not only from music critics, but also from indie music stars Dave Grohl and Lana Del Rey. By the way, it was her vocal style that Billy’s work was compared to at an early stage.

2021 marked big changes for the artist. The star opened a store with clothes and accessories from her brand, deciding to direct her creative ideas in a new direction.

In March, the singer received another Grammy award. This time the award was given to the composition No Time to Die, which served as the soundtrack to the film No Time to Die. The Los Angeles native shared her victory with her brother, who performs under the name FINNEAS.

Finally, the performer radically changed her image. The rebel with green hair was replaced by a charming blonde. It’s interesting that Eilish didn’t immediately change her color; the hairdresser did several procedures to prevent her hair from being damaged by bleaching. For this reason, the artist even wore a wig for some time. However, a year later she appeared before her fans as a scorching brunette.

The long-awaited second album of the singer, Happier Than Ever, was released in the summer of 2021. The singer’s brother Finneas O’Connell also participated in the production of the studio album. The music in the collection used a variety of genres – from jazz to sophistry-pop. The general mood of the songs is lyrical, and the lyrics showed themes of emotional abuse. After the premiere, the album was positively received by critics.

The composition No Time to Die was nominated for an Oscar. Eilish’s rival for the statuette was Beyoncé, who performed the soundtrack to the drama “King Richard.” Both were to perform their songs during the ceremony in March 2022.

According to the voting results, Billy won. She shared the prize with her brother.

In the fall of 2022, a new collection of a line of clothing and shoes was released, which Eilish released together with Nike.

Personal life:

The biography of the young star includes a medical history: as a child, Eilish suffered from tics caused by Tourette syndrome. The singer does not hide this and even spoke about it in detail in a video compilation and published confirmation on Instagram (the social network is banned in the Russian Federation, it belongs to the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).

Of course, fans have always been interested in the singer’s personal life, because she has never been a fan of posting romantic photos on her blog. There were speculations about some kind of connection between her and rapper XXXTentacion, whose life was cut short in 2018. In fact, the performers were on friendly terms.

The singer decided to talk about the details of her past relationships in the documentary “Billie Eilish: The World is a Little Blurry,” where she became the central character. From it, fans of the star’s work learned about the idol’s ex-boyfriend Brandon Adamson, who performs under the pseudonym Q.

In the film by RJ Cutler, the performer shared that the young man paid too little attention to her, so she felt unnecessary. This was the cause of the discord. Subsequently, the musician was attacked on social networks by followers of his ex-girlfriend. Upon learning of this, Billie asked her subscribers to respect personal boundaries.

In the summer of 2021, rumors appeared that Billy was dating actor Matthew Worth. The young man managed to appear in a number of episodic roles in short films and TV series, but became more famous for his scandalous statements on social networks. The reason to attribute the singer’s affair with Worth was a joint trip to Disneyland. However, the performer was in no hurry to confirm or refute the journalists’ speculations. And in the fall, the paparazzi caught Billy several times on dates with Jesse Rutherford, frontman of The Neighborhood. Eilish confirmed her relationship with the musician, who is 11 years older than her. By the way, this age difference became the reason for the public’s ambiguous attitude towards the couple. But the stars took this criticism calmly, and on Halloween they even played up this situation. The girl dressed up as a baby, and her chosen one dressed up as an old man.

In the spring of 2023, the media reported that Eilish and Rutherford broke up, but managed to maintain friendly relations.

Billie Eilish now:

In 2023, Billie’s fans were able to appreciate another facet of her talent when the celebrity made her debut in the series “The Swarm”. The lack of specialized education did not prevent this dream from coming true. By the way, her candidacy for the role of the mysterious hypnotherapist was suggested by the casting director.

It is curious that Eilish’s character is inspired by the history of the criminally famous American cult NXIVM, whose leaders were subsequently accused of sexual exploitation and the use of slave labor. According to the creator of the project, Janine Nabers, the prototype for Eve, played by Billie, was Keith Raniere, who received a 120-year prison sentence.

In the summer, Billie broke another record – her hit Bad Guy, which back in 2019 took first place on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for 49 weeks, received diamond certification.

During the same period, the premiere of the film “Barbie” took place, for which Eilish wrote the soundtrack in the form of the song “What Was I Made For?” At the beginning of 2024, the singer received a Golden Globe award for this song. Taking the statuette, Billie thanked the creators and actors of the film from the stage, adding that working on the track saved her during a difficult period in her life.

In February, Eilish won another Grammy award. This time the artist’s composition What Was I Made For? recognized as the best in the “Song of the Year” category. And in March, Billie received an Oscar for her hit in the Best Song category.Discography
2019 — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
2021 – Happier Than Ever

Interesting Facts:

Billie admitted that she had never used drugs, despite numerous false accusations on the Internet. The star said that she leads a healthy lifestyle and practices vegetarianism with her family.

After winning the Oscar for best original song for “What Was I Made For?” this Sunday (10), Billie Eilish secured the 199th award of her career. In addition to the two statuettes from the Hollywood Academy (which made her the youngest person to achieve this feat), Billie has nine Grammys, two Golden Globes, six MTV Video Music Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, three Brit Awards, two Teen Choice Awards, four Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards and two People’s Choice Awards.

In 2019, Billie had six Grammy nominations for her debut studio album “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”. She had nominations for New Artist, Album of the Year, Best Pop Album, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, winning in 5 of the 6 nominations.

With wins for “Album of the Year”, “Record of the Year”, “Song of the Year” and “Newcomer of the Year”, she became the second person to win all four awards in one night, as well as the first woman and the youngest of history.

At 17, she became the youngest artist to be nominated in the four main Grammy categories. At 18, she won five categories at the 2020 Grammys, being the first youngest artist nominated for Album of the Year. In September 2020, she won four more out of 8 nominations at the iHeartradio Music Awards; They are: Album of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, Alternative Rock Artist of the Year, Best Alternative Rock Song of the Year “Bad Guy”.