Halsey is an American singer and songwriter. She gained attention from releasing music on social media platforms, and then she was signed in 2014 and released her EP later that year. Halsey is noted for her singing voice. Outside her career, she has been involved in sucide prevention awareness and sexual assault victim advocacy.
Halsey was born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. She was on September 9, 1994 in New Jersey. Her music career started in 2012 and is still going. Her mother, Nicole works for security in a hospital. Her father, Chris manages a car dealership. Halsey has two younger brothers, Sevian and Dante. She was bullied in high school and at 17, she attempted sucide which led to a 17-day hospitalization. She was then diagnosed with bipolar. She began using drugs to cope with the diagnosis and she also began dating a guy who lived on Halsey street. Partly where she got her name from. Halsey was like her alter ego. In 2012, she graduated high school. She went to Rhode Island School of Design, however, she withdrew due to financial hardship and attended community college instead. She eventually dropped out, and was ejected from her home.
Halsey’s career started in 2012 when she started writing music at 17 and posted it on social media platforms. In 2014, she signed with Astralwerks, feeling that they gave her more creative freedom than other labels that contacted her. She chose the name Halsey because it’s an anagram for her first name and she spent a lot of time growing up on Halsey street with the guy she was dating. She released her first EP, Room 93, on October 27, 2014. Badlands, was her studio debut album and that was released on August 28, 2015. She described the album as a dystopian future society which was a metaphor for her mental state at the time, stating that each song meant something different. Halsey released her second studio album called Hopeless Fountain Kingdom on June 2, 2017. The album consisted of more radio friendly songs in comparison to her previous work which she attributed to her desire to prove she was more than capable of creating that type of music. This album fouses on Halsey’s bisexualty as well as her breakup with one of her many boyfriends. Her third studio album was released in January of 2020 and that was called Manic. Halsey’s music focuses on her personal experiences and telling a story. She writes about relationships with other women in her music as a way of solidifying her bisexuality.
During the 2016 United States presidential election, Halse was an avid supporter of Bernie Sanders and urged her fans to vote for him. Halsey is a feminist. Halsey delivered a speech to more than 200,000 protesters at the 2018 Women’s March.
Halsey has had many boyfriends. The most popular being, G-Eazy. They met at a party in 2017 and although they pursued different music, they found a common group for their collaboration “ Him and I”, which talks about their love and lifestyle. He then cheated on her many times. Halsey is currently in a relationship with actor Evan Peters as of October 2019.
Halsey has 29 confirmed tattoos with her most prominent being an upside-down horseshoe on her right shoulder.
Some of her most famous songs are: Castle, Colors, Without Me, Young God, Bad at love, Graveyard and You should be sad.