GENDER: Female
HAIR: Black/Dark Brown/Medium Brown/Light Brown/White-Blonde/Blonde/Gray/Blue/ Turquoise
HEIGHT: 5' 4"
AGE: 24
BIRTHDAY: September 29, 1994
CAREER: Singer, Songwriter and Actress
KNOWN FOR: Ashley Nicolette Frangipane known professionally as Halsey is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her stage name is a reference to the Halsey Street station of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, and an anagram of her first name. Gaining attention from self-released music on social media platforms, Halsey was signed by Astralwerks in 2014. She toured with acts such as The Kooks and Imagine Dragons to promote her debut extended play, Room 93 (2014). Her debut studio album, Badlands (2015), was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Four singles were released from the album, all of which achieved minor commercial success. Halsey rose to prominence with "Closer" (2016), a collaboration with The Chainsmokers, which topped the charts in major music markets. Her second studio album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017), consisted of more "radio friendly" music than her prior releases. It became her first album to top the US Billboard 200, and generated the single "Bad at Love", which became her first top five entry on the Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist. Outside the music industry, Halsey has been involved in social activism, including suicide prevention awareness and sexual assault advocacy. Halsey is an electropop and synth-pop artist. The New York Times' Jon Caramanica noted, "Halsey arrived as part of a slew of female pop rebels who emerged in the wake of Lorde's early-2010s recalibration of the genre's operating hierarchies." The biggest influence on her live performances is Adam Lazzara, the frontman of Taking Back Sunday, as she said, "One of the most inspiring things I've ever seen is watching [Taking Back Sunday]On January 20, 2018, in New York City, Halsey delivered a speech to more than 200,000 protestors at the Women's March. Instead of a traditional speech, Halsey performed a five-minute poem titled "A Story Like Mine", in which she told personal stories of sexual assault and violence throughout her life. Her personal narrative included accompanying her best friend to Planned Parenthood after she had been raped, her personal account of sexual assault by neighbors and boyfriends, and women sexually assaulted by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar. live and watching Adam use that microphone as a prop and I thought yep, I'm gonna do that." At seventeen years old, Halsey was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, following a suicide attempt that led to a seventeen-day stint in a psychiatric hospital. Halsey participated in the mental health and suicide prevention awareness campaign called "I'm Listening", which was hosted by radio network Entercom and broadcast live on September 10, 2017. Halsey stated, "Listen, and then yell at the top of your lungs, be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues." Halsey read, "What do you mean this happened to me? You can't put your hands on me. You don't know what my body has been through. I'm supposed to be safe now. I've earned it." She completed her speech by requesting all—"Black, Asian, poor, wealthy, trans, cis, Muslim, Christian"—sexual assault victims to listen and support each other. AJ Willingham of CNN.com opined in a headline that "Halsey's Women's March speech moved people around the world." Her music videos include those of the following; "Now or Never" by Halsey Co-directed with Sing J Lee in 2017, "Bad at Love" by Halsey Co-directed with Sing J Lee in 2017, "Sorry" by Halsey Co-directed with Sing J Lee in 2018, "Alone" (featuring Big Sean and Stefflon Don) by Halsey Co-directed with Hannah Lux Davisin 2018 and "Strangers" (featuring Lauren Jauregui) by Halsey Co-directed with Jessie Hill in 2018. She has starred, co-starred, and/or appeared in those of the following films; Teen Titans Go! To the Movies as Wonder Woman (voice) in 2018 and A Star is Born as Herself (cameo appearance) in 2018. She has starred, co-starred, and/or appeared in those of the following television shows/programs; Roadies as Herself in Episodes: "The Load Out" and "Carpet Season" in 2016, American Dad! as Cindy (voice) in Episode: "A Nice Night for a Drive" in 2017, The Voice as Herself/Adviser in Upcoming in 2018 and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (TV series, post-production) as Herself in 2018.
