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Olivia Isabel Rodrigo (born February 20, 2003) is an American actress and GRAMMY© Award winning singer-songwriter. She is known for her roles as Paige Olvera on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark and Nini Salazar-Roberts on the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. She released her debut single, "Drivers License", in January 2021, which reached number one in multiple countries worldwide, including the United States.[1][2] Her GRAMMY© Award winning debut album, SOUR, was released on May 21, 2021. It was preceded by two more singles, "Deja Vu" and "Good 4 U", with the latter becoming her second single to debut at number one in both the US and UK. Her sophomore album, GUTS, came out on September 8, 2023, with hits such as “Vampire”, “Bad Idea Right?”, and “Get Him Back!”.On November 3 2023, Rodrigo released the song "Can't Catch Me Now" for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The song won the Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in a Sci-Fi, Fantasy or Horror Film at the 2023 ceremony.On March 22 2024,she released Guts (Spilled)

Personal life[]

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Olivia Isabel Rodrigo was born on February 20, 2003, at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, California, to Jennifer Rodrigo, a school teacher, and Chris Rodrigo, a family therapist. She lived and grew up in neighboring Temecula. Rodrigo is Filipino American; her father is Filipino while her mother has German and Irish ancestry. She has stated that her paternal great-grandfather moved from the Philippines to the United States as a teenager and her family follows Filipino traditions and cuisine. Rodrigo started taking vocal lessons in kindergarten and learned to play piano soon after. She began taking acting and singing classes at age six and started acting in theater productions in elementary school. Rodrigo was playing guitar by age 12. She grew up listening to her parents' favorite alternative rock music, such as the bands No Doubt, Pearl Jam, the White Stripes, and Green Day. Rodrigo became interested in songwriting after listening to country music, especially American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

Rodrigo attended Lisa J. Mails Elementary School in Murrieta, participating in their after-school musical theater program. At age five, her parents signed her up for vocal lessons with Jennifer Dustman, who would begin to enroll Rodrigo in various local singing competitions. Under the advisement of Dustman her parents enrolled her in acting lessons. She began taking piano lessons at age 9. Rodrigo first became interested in songwriting after listening to country music songs by Taylor Swift, and was playing guitar by age 12. She attended Dorothy McElhinney Middle School in Murrieta for a year, until moving to Los Angeles after landing an acting role in Bizaardvark in 2016; she was homeschooled from then until her graduation in 2021.

Artistry[]

Rodrigo has a three-octave soprano vocal range. Media sources and journalists have primarily labeled her music as alternative pop, alternative rock, pop rock, indie pop, pop-punk, indie rock, folk-pop, power pop, and indie folk. Some of her music also encompasses genres like dream pop, folk rock, power pop, new wave, synth-pop, pop metal, and chamber music. Rodrigo stated that she wants to be a songwriter and not “the biggest pop star that ever lived,” and she chose to sign with Interscope Records/Geffen Records because its CEO John Janick praised her songwriting, not her “potential star quality.” Music journalist Laura Snapes called Rodrigo a “flag-bearer” for a new wave of songwriters who incline towards power ballads “that are as emotional as ever, but project that emotion inward, trading bombast for hush,” and described her musical style as rooted in heartache, mental health, and sadness, without being melodramatic, expressing more realistic perspectives than resilient.

Influences[]

Rodrigo has named Taylor Swift and Lorde as her idols and primary musical inspirations, and once dubbed herself Swift’s biggest fan “in the whole world.” Rodrigo later went on to give interpolation credits to Swift and Jack Antonoff on her song “1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back” and retroactively credited Swift, Antonoff, and Annie Clark on her song “Deja Vu.” She said the White Stripes’ Elephant is the album she listens to most and called band member Jack White her “hero of all heroes” in 2022. Other stated influences on Rodrigo’s debut studio album included Alanis Morissette, Kacey Musgraves, Fiona Apple, St. Vincent, Cardi B, Gwen Stefani, Avril Lavigne, Billie Eilish, Halsey, Gracie Abrams, Beabadoobee, and Lana Del Rey. Guts was primarily inspired by her punk and alternative rock influences, including Babes in Toyland and Rage Against the Machine.

Career[]

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In 2010, at age seven, Rodrigo first appeared onscreen in an Old Navy commercial. In 2015, at age twelve, Rodrigo made her acting debut portraying the lead role of Grace Thomas in direct-to-video film An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success. In 2016, Rodrigo received recognition for starring as Paige Olvera, a guitarist in the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark, a role she played for three seasons.

In February 2019, she was cast in the starring role of Nini Salazar-Roberts on the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which premiered in November of that year. For the show's soundtrack, Rodrigo wrote "All I Want" and co-wrote "Just for a Moment" with co-star Joshua Bassett. Rodrigo was praised for her performance, with Joel Keller from Decider describing her as "especially magnetic". In 2022, she left the show at the end of its third season to focus on her music career.

Rodrigo signed with Interscope Records and Geffen Records in 2020. She negotiated the record deal to secure for herself ownership of the masters of her music. On January 8, 2021, she released her debut single, "Drivers License", which she co-wrote with producer Dan Nigro. Within the week of its release, "Drivers License" was critically acclaimed, and broke Spotify's record twice for most daily streams ever for a non-holiday song with over 15.7 million global streams on January 11 and over 17 million global streams the next day. It went on to break another Spotify record for the first song in history to hit 80 million streams in 7 days. The song debuted at number one on Billboard Hot 100, and reached number-one in numerous other countries. Rodrigo stated in an interview that "It's been the absolute craziest week of my life ... My entire life just, like, shifted in an instant." plus, She Also Founded Her Own Record Label, Which Is For Herself And Her Band Olivia Rodrigo And The Stinc Team. Called Teammate Records In 2021.

On April 1, 2021, Rodrigo released her follow-up single, "Deja Vu", which debuted at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first artist to debut their first two releases in the top 10 of the Hot 100. The third single preceding her debut album, "Good 4 U", followed on May 14, 2021, and became her second single to debut at number one on the Hot 100. SOUR, her debut studio album, was released on May 21, 2021, to critical acclaim. Charlie Gunn of The Forty-Five called it "the greatest coming-of-age album since early Taylor Swift or Lorde". Slate's Chris Molanphy said its first three singles alone established Rodrigo's "early status as Gen-Z's most versatile new artist". According to Clash critic Robin Murray, Rodrigo is regarded as one of Generation Z's finest artists, while Variety dubbed her "the Voice of her Generation" in its cover story of Rodrigo. SOUR debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and spent a total of five weeks at the spot, becoming the longest reigning number-one album by a female artist in 2021.

In June 2021, Rodrigo premiered SOUR Prom to YouTube. On December 6, 2021, Rodrigo announced a tour, performing in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Three days later, she was named Entertainer of the Year by Time. In an Instagram post on December 24, 2021, Rodrigo uploaded a snippet of a Christmas song called "The Bels" that she wrote and recorded at age five. According to Billboard, Rodrigo closed 2021 as the best-selling singles artist worldwide, placing eight songs on the year-end Global 200 chart, including "Drivers License" at number four, "Good 4 U" at number nine, and "Deja Vu" at number 27. In the US and UK, SOUR was respectively the third and fourth best-selling album of 2021. SOUR and "Drivers License" were also respectively Spotify's most streamed album and song globally. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) ranked Rodrigo as the tenth best selling artist of 2021 and SOUR as the second best selling album of 2021.

On February 17, 2022, Rodrigo announced and released the trailer of her Disney+ documentary film Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U, which was released on March 25, 2022. Rodrigo received seven nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist, Album of the Year for SOUR, and Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Drivers License". She won the awards for Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album for SOUR, and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Drivers License".

Rodrigo's second album, Guts was released on September 8, 2023, and debuted atop the Billboard 200. She stated that the album was about "growing pains" and self-discovery. Going into the album cycle, she felt that she had grown "ten years" between the ages of 18 and 20.

Guts received critical acclaim from various outlets and was later declared by BBC News as the most critically acclaimed album of 2023. The album's lead single, "Vampire", was released on June 30, becoming Rodrigo's third single to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first artist ever to debut the lead singles from two career-opening albums at No. 1 on the Hot 100. The album's second single, "Bad Idea Right?", was released on August 11, 2023, reaching the top 10 in the US and UK.

Discography[]

Main Article: Olivia Rodrigo/Discography

Tour[]

Sour Tour (2022) GUTS World Tour (2024)

Filmography[]

Main Article: Olivia Rodrigo/Filmography

Trivia[]

  • According to celebheights.com, Olivia is 5ft 4in (162.4cm) tall
  • Liv Laf Luv is the name of Olivia Rodrigo's ASCAP publishing name
  • Brown Eyed Girl Productions is the name of Olivia Rodrigo's division of UMG Recording.

Gallery[]

Main article: Olivia Rodrigo/Gallery

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