Real identify: Ashley Nicolette Frangipane
Why she modified it: The singer received her stage identify from a avenue in Brooklyn, Halsey Street, the place her buddy used to reside. Halsey spent lots of time there making music, so it appeared a becoming stage identify. Plus, Halsey is an anagram of Ashley!
In a 2020 interview with Cosmopolitan, Halsey additionally revealed she by no means felt adequate rising up in poverty and her start identify was a continuing reminder of that.
So she took the “opportunity to create a new persona” when she launched into a profession in music and thus Halsey was born.
“I think I had the foresight to know that being me wasn’t enough,” the singer advised Cosmopolitan. “I had to become somebody completely different. At the time, I felt that Ashley didn’t deserve to be famous and successful because she wasn’t that special, but if I made Halsey, maybe she could be.”
It was in 2015 that she launched her debut album Badlands, which debuted at quantity two on the Billboard 200 charts within the US.
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