Celebrity Facts [√]

Halsey

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1) The New Jersey born singer has been garnering attention for a while now, beginning with her 14,000 friends on MySpace back when she was 14, and 16,000 YouTube subscribers at 18.

2) Before Halsey, the stage name, there was Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. The "Colors" singer came up with the name from Halsey Street in New York City, and realized that the name is also an anagram to her birth name.

3) At 18, Halsey was struggling financially, so when it was time to go to college, she had to enroll in a community college. "I intended to be a fine art major in college. When you're an art major you have this pretension, especially when you're eighteen years old, like 'I know more than these professors.' In some fit of adolescent rage I thought I'd piss my parents off and I signed up as a songwriting major.

4) Halsey identifies as bisexual, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 17 years old, and has a black father and white mother, making her biracial. As a result, the term "tri-bi" was spread online when describing her, and she hates it.

5) In terms of her bipolar disorder, she is known for being vocal about the seriousness of mental illnesses, but also uses her platform to express how she has embraced her diagnosis and how she's put a positive spin to it.
"I kind of just embraced the things about me that were a little odd. The thing about having bipolar disorder, for me, is that I'm really empathetic. I feel everything around me so much. I feel when I walk past a homeless person, and I feel when my friend breaks up with someone, or I feel when my mom and my dad get into a fight and my mom's f**kin' crying over dishes in the sink." she told Elle magazine.

6) Halsey was featured on Justin Bieber's album for a song titled "The Feeling." Both performed the song live at The Today Show, and their chemistry on stage ignited dating rumors.

7) Before she became Halsey, Ashley was a teenage song writer with a YouTube channel, a Tumblr, and an obsession with One Direction. When Harry Styles and Taylor Swift went public with their romance, Ashley made her feelings known with a parody cover to Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble," which she titled "The Haylor Song". The video went viral within the One Direction fandom, but was taken down once Ashley's Alter Ego came into the spotlight.

8) However, the positive response drew out another Haylor song, titled "S.O.S" which is still making its rounds across the web. Although this all took place pre-Halsey, the Badlands artist is still vocal about her love for One Direction, as she showed her support when "Drag Me Down" was released.

9) In 2014, Halsey released "Ghost" up on to SoundCloud, which led to her receiving a lot of offerings from record labels that wanted her to sign with them. While she considered different offers, she had a friend pretend to be her manager until she decided to go with Astralwerks record label.

10) Growing up with parents who come from two distinctly different backgrounds helped Halsey appreciate all kinds of music. "Growing up my dad was listening to a ton of old school rap and my mom was listening to a ton of '90s grunge. So I was fortunate that my parents were rockin' MTV when I was an infant.... grungey (songwriters) like Nirvana, Alan is Morissette, The Cure, Gin Blossoms and also Tupac, Biggie, Bone Thugs-and-Harmony, Slick Rick - just old school bouncy hip-hop," Halsey told MTV.

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11) She has also mentioned how she's a fan of Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, and has befriended some of her other favorite artists such as 5SOS, The 1975, and The Kooks, who she's gone on tour with in the past.

12) However, she doesn't believe in placing herself in a particular category of music, she explains to Rolling Stone that "Genre in 2016 is just absolute bullshit. Half the records on hip-hop radio are pop records at their core, and half the records in f**king alternative radio are pop. And pop radio doesn't even know what the f**k it's doing. I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?"

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