

Her mother is of Italian and Hungarian descent, whereas her father is mostly African-American with some distant Irish ancestry. Halsey's mother now works as an emergency medical technician (EMT), while her father manages a car dealership. Her parents dropped out of college after her mother discovered that she was pregnant with her.
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Halsey was named Songwriter of the year by BMI Film & TV Awards in 2021. Her awards include three Billboard Music Awards, as well as a Billboard Women in Music Award, an American Music Award, one GLAAD Media Award, an MTV Video Music Award, and nominations for three Grammy Awards. She is noted for her distinctive singing voice. In 2020, Billboard reported that Halsey has sold over 1 million albums and received over 6 billion streams in the United States. Her fourth studio album, If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (2021), moved away from her previous sound in favor of a darker industrial sound described by Halsey as "the album always wanted to make", it was produced by Nine Inch Nails members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and received generally positive reviews. Halsey's third studio album, Manic (2020), became her best selling album worldwide, while its lead single " Without Me" became her most successful single as a lead artist. In 2018, she released the single " Eastside" alongside Benny Blanco and Khalid, which reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Her second studio album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017), consisted of more "radio-friendly" music than her previous releases its singles " Now or Never" and " Bad at Love", both reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, with the latter peaking in the top five. In 2016, she was featured on the Chainsmokers' single " Closer", which topped the charts in over 10 countries, and was later certified 14× Platinum by the RIAA. The album was later certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as were its tracks " Colors" and " Gasoline". Halsey released her debut studio album, Badlands, in 2015. Gaining attention from self-released music on social media platforms, she was signed by Astralwerks in 2014 and released her debut EP, Room 93, later that year. About two-thirds of the participating artists - including Philipsz and the Berlin-based Thomas Struth and Saâdane Afif - are former Villa Aurora fellows.Ashley Nicolette Frangipane ( IPA: / ˌ f r æ n dʒ ɪ ˈ p ɑː n i/ FRAN-jih- PAH-nee born September 29, 1994), known professionally as Halsey ( / ˈ h ɔː l z i/ HAWL-zee), is an American singer. iteration features several new and different works, some of which were commissioned. The show debuted in Berlin this fall, and the L.A. “All the Lonely People” marks the 25th anniversary of the Pacific Palisades artist residency Villa Aurora, which is presenting the exhibition. It plays on a four-and-a-half-minute loop, alternately mournful and hopeful. The Berlin-based artist’s spare, hauntingly beautiful voice - performing a melodic version of a Scottish punk song from the ’80s, “Trees and Flowers” - echoes from within a steel sculptural barrel. The Joshua Tree-based artist’s 2008 piece is called “Wall Sprawl (Next to Las Vegas Bay),” and the busy, repetitive pattern lends a domestic, if somewhat unsettling, vibe to the gallery - lockdown wasn’t all that long ago, and for some viewers, it might conjure being trapped at home, the mind whirring with concerns.Īnother work in the show, Susan Philipsz’s 2021 sound installation, “Hermitage,” punctuates this feeling.



The West Hollywood gallery space is wrapped in Andrea Zittel’s wallpaper artwork, a lavish, decorative pattern that, upon closer inspection, is comprised of aerial photographs of remote locations where urban development butts up against the open Mojave Desert. The works - some created years ago during periods of solitude in the artists’ lives, others conceived of recently for the show - explore seclusion within the context of the current pandemic. Unshakable melancholy.Īs we emerge from 2021, a new and powerful exhibition at LAXART - “All the Lonely People” - addresses these existential conditions through painting, sculpture, photography, video and sound art by 10 international artists.
