The life of Dua Lipa

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A young chart-topper who has collaborated with icons like Andrea Bocelli and Elton John. All while supporting kids in Kosovo with creative dreams like hers.  This is the life of Dua Lipa.

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00:00I feel like every experience and every song and every, you know, whatever you do, not even just

00:04in music, I feel like it's always just like a baby step to where you want to be or discovering

00:10yourself even further.

00:30It's me doing my part, showing solidarity for women all over the world, trying to make

00:34a change for the better, wanting equality.

00:53I've been asked a couple times like what's my earliest memory of music and

00:58I don't really have one because it's always been so present and my parents listen to a lot of

01:02Oasis and Radiohead and Sting and the Police, like my dad loves Sting.

01:11When I was in primary school, me and my friends would always,

01:15you know, go out into the playground, make up dance routines to Sierra and Missy Ellie at 1-2 Step.

01:32Pink, she's my favourite. The Misunderstood album was the first album that really reached out to me

01:41and I was really young when it came out and I would sing it because it just sounded really

01:45fun and sounded good and I could sing along.

01:56When I lived in Kosovo, I was like I have to move back to London to be in a place where

01:59everything's happening to try and get to where I want to be.

02:12It was more, you know, to put them out there and have all the friends in school kind of see them

02:18and know that I was singing and if anyone was in music maybe someone might reach out.

02:32It's basically a foundation I started with my family to kind of help young kids in Kosovo

02:52in like creative arts. So it's kind of given these kids an opportunity to get their music

02:57out there because when I was living in Kosovo there wasn't like the opportunity to, you know,

03:02especially with streaming services to, you know, put music out and be heard all over the world.

03:19Just feels so good to kind of, I don't know,

03:23get to do what I love doing the most, which is performing.

03:32I'm so grateful for all the incredible opportunities,

03:36all the amazing people I met, all the incredible lessons that I learned touring for like three

03:42years, getting bullied online, which made me want to dance my ass off

03:51and just really get better. So thank you so much.

04:12You wouldn't wish something like this to happen to anyone and to see the strength is really admirable.

04:42I would walk down the street like Wolverine with my keys through my knuckles and just like

04:47run up to my house. How scary is that, that as a woman that you have to do that and you

04:51have to think that you might have to like protect yourself and not knowing how you do that.

05:12For any young girls, people, I guess, going to champion you until you get to where you want to

05:30be. And then people are going to try and bring you down or bring you down a couple of pegs.

05:35But I think you have to remember that, you know, hard work and your dedication and your passion

05:41for what you do got you to where you want to be and no one can take that away from you.

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