Markus Pritzi
Dua Lipa is only 22 years old, yet she has accomplished a great deal, including releasing several worldwide hits, earning a double platinum single with “New Rules,” and taking home two BRIT Awards. But she says for her, a career in music was “inevitable,” because she’s following in her father’s footsteps.
Dua’s dad is a rock singer in Kosovo, where her parents are originally from, and that’s where she started making music, as well. “I’ve always grown up around music and music has always been really present…I’ve always been surrounded by it,” she tells ABC Radio. “So I feel like doing this was a bit inevitable.”
“My parents listened to a lot of like Radiohead and Stereophonics…Oasis and Sting…My parents are cool!” she laughs.
And because her parents are music fans and her dad was in the business, they knew that if Dua wanted to become a global star, she had to leave Kosovo. That’s why they allowed her to move to London alone, when she was just 15, to pursue her music career. Dua says it’s been great to have parents who actually relate to what she does for a living.
“To just be able to play music to them and they have some sort of understanding, and being able to tell me what they like and what they don’t like and what they think is nice…it’s just always really, really nice to be able to talk to them about it,” she tells ABC Radio.
In September of 2016, Dua gave a concert in Kosovo and invited her dad onstage to sing with her, much to the delight of the audience.
Dua’s currently on tour in New Zealand with Bruno Mars.
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