Dua Lipa Net Worth, Age, Family & Biography

About Dua Lipa

Singer, songwriter, and actress Dua Lipa is English and Albanian. Her disco-inspired production and mezzo-soprano vocal range have garnered her praise from critics and media. Throughout her career, she has won multiple awards, including two Guinness World Records, three Grammy Awards, and six Brit Awards. In 2021, she was listed as one of Time 100 Next.

Before signing a recording deal with Warner Bros. Records in 2014, Lipa was a model. Her 2017 self-titled debut album brought her fame, peaking at number three on the UK Albums Chart and giving rise to the hits “Be the One,” “IDGAF,” and the UK number-one song “New Rules.”

Dua Lipa Family

The eldest child of Kosovo Albanian parents Anesa and Dukagjin Lipa from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia, Lipa was born in London. Her family follows Islam. Peja, Kosovo, is another place where her ancestry can be found. Her grandfathers were historians, both of them. Her siblings are Gjin, her brother, and Rina, her sister.

Lipa’s father, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Kosovan rock group Oda, had a profound musical influence on her. At home, her father kept playing music—both original pieces and tunes by musicians like David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Sting, The Police, and Stereophonics. When Dua Lipa was five years old, she started singing.

Dua Lipa Education

Lipa was raised in London’s West Hampstead. She studied music at Fitzjohn’s Primary School, where she took cello lessons. The teacher told her that “she could not sing” when she tried out for the school chorus. She started taking singing classes at the Sylvia Young Theatre School on weekends when she was 9 years old.

In 2008, Lipa’s family relocated to Pristina following Kosovo’s declaration of independence. She thought about pursuing a career in music, attended Mileniumi i Tretë School, and gained further knowledge of the Albanian language there. At 15, Lipa returned to London. She completed her A-Levels at Parliament Hill School before making a part-time return to Sylvia Young Theatre School.

Dua Lipa Career

While working as a waiter in a cocktail bar in 2013, Lipa signed a contract with Tap Management, which was led by Ed Millett and Ben Mawson. Mawson was introduced to Lipa by her attorney, who dissuaded her from accepting an additional publishing agreement that was made available to her. They then made her a monthly compensation offer to quit her work and concentrate on making music recordings. Lipa co-wrote the song “Hotter than Hell” during one of the sessions, which helped her land a record contract with Warner Bros. Records in 2014.

Lipa has been on multiple magazine covers. She became a Next Models signee. The “Boom Boom Tick” editorial for Elle’s January 2016 edition featured her on the cover. She appeared in an Elle editorial once more in April of 2016. In November 2016, she appeared on an additional cover of British Vogue. She was the featured editorial in V’s January 2017 edition. She appeared on the cover of Clash issue 102 that same month.

She appeared on the cover of the May 2018 issue of British GQ. She was on the cover of the May 2018 issue of Vogue Turkey. She was on the cover of the June 2018 issue of Elle in the United Kingdom. She appeared in an Adidas ad called “Here to Create” in October 2018, wearing company clothing.

Dua Lipa Relation

Lipa had an on-again, off-again romance with English chef Isaac Carew in 2013, and the two divorced in February 2017. From August 2017 to January 2018, she dated American singer Paul Klein, the frontman of LANY. From January 2018 to June 2019, she rekindled her romance with Carew. In June 2019 she began dating American model Anwar Hadid, and the couple broke up in December 2021. In 2023, she began dating French film director Romain Gavras.

Dua Lipa Controversy

Reggae band Artikal Sound System filed a lawsuit against Lipa and her label Warner Records on March 1, 2022, alleging copyright infringement, citing similarities between “Levitating” and their 2017 song “Live Your Life.” The claim was disclaimed with prejudice in June 2023. A second lawsuit was filed by songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who claimed that “Levitating” infringed on their 1979 dance hit “Wiggle and Giggle All Night.”