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Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell is an American singer and songwriter. She first gained attention in 2015 when she uploaded the song "Ocean Eyes" to SoundCloud, which was subsequently released by the Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom.
Born: December 18, 2001 (age 21 years) Los Angeles, California.
Occupation: Singer, Songwriter,
Years Active: 2015- present
Albums: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Happier than Ever, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT(3)
Eps: Don't Smile at Me EP (1)
Genre: Pop, Electropop, Dark pop.
Instruments: Vocals
Labels: Darkroom, Interscope
Amount of Songs: 35
Amount Of Unreleased Songs: -
Movies: Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, Not My Responsibility
Early Life:
Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell was born in Los Angeles, California on December 18, 2001. She is the daughter of teacher, actress, and screenwriter , and construction worker Patrick O'Connell, who worked part-time as an actor, appearing in films like (2008). Both her parents are amateur musicians. She is of Irish and Scottish descent. The singer's middle name, Eilish, was originally meant to be her first name, while Pirate (proposed by her brother Finneas, four years her senior) was to be her middle name. She was conceived via vitro fertilization. She was brought up in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
While she was , her mother taught her and Finneas the basics of songwriting. O'Connell and her brother had worked together on some music, while he had been writing and producing his own songs and performing with his band. O'Connell said her brother and her mother inspired her to get into music. Their parents encouraged the siblings to express themselves and explore whatever they wanted, including art, dancing, and acting. O'Connell wrote her first "real" song at age 11 for her mother's songwriting class. The song is about the zombie apocalypse, inspired by the television series from The Walking Dead which she took script lines and episode titles that she added to the song as part of the assignment. O'Connell had gone on some acting auditions, which she disliked; however, she enjoyed recording background dialogue for crowd scenes and worked on the films Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Ramona and Beezus, and the X-Men series. She performed at talent shows and joined the at age eight.
