Biography of Iggy Azalea

Amethyst Amelia Kelly, known in the music scene as Iggy Azalea, is an Australian singer-songwriter and model born in Sydney on June 7, 1990. She is famous for her musical versatility and successful songs. She became known in 2011 with her mixtape “Ignorant Art”, which included songs such as “Pu$$y” and “My World” that became trend on YouTube. Since then, she has collaborated with various artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande, Steve Aoki, and Wiz Khalifa, among others. In 2014, she achieved success with her debut album “The New Classic”, which included famous songs such as “Bounce”, “Problem”, and “Fancy”, the latter has another version in which the singer Charli XCX collaborates. The music video for “Fancy” went viral for its scenes that allude to the 90s movie “Clueless”. Currently, the video has over 890 million views on YouTube. In addition to “Fancy”, her songs “Black Widow” and “Team” surpass 100 million views on the platform.

Family and the beginning of her musical career

Iggy Azalea, whose real name is Amethyst Amelia Kelly, is the daughter of Brendan Kelly and Tanya Kelly. Her father is an artist and writer. She was born in Sydney, but shortly after, her family moved to Mullumbimby. During her childhood and adolescence, she showed a great interest in art and music, inspired by her father. At 14, she began her career in the music world, starting to rap and creating a band with a group of acquaintances from her neighborhood. However, when she realized that the band members were not taking the music seriously, she decided to leave the group and start her solo career.

United States the country of her dreams

At that time, she also left school to focus on the cleaning job she did with her mother, as she wanted to earn money and save what she earned to travel to the United States, the country of her dreams. Years later, she managed to save enough money to travel. She had no intention of staying, but after arriving, she fell in love with the country and decided to stay. She lived in Miami, Houston, Atlanta and finally settled in Los Angeles in 2010. The following year, she began to make a name for herself in the music scene with a series of freestyles and videos on YouTube.

Iggy Azalea’s musical career

The career of the young artist began in 2011 with her mixtape, “Ignorant Art” (2011), it contains nine songs, which were produced by team D.R.U.G.S., among the most famous are the tracks “Pu$$y” and “My World”, through which the artist became a trend. The following year, she released her collaboration with Steve Aoki and Angger Dimas, called “Beat Down” and remixes of the same song with Afrojack, Larry Tee and Attack Attack Attack. That same year, she became the first non-American female singer to be included in the Top 10 of the survey of the XXL magazine. In July 2012, she released the EP “Glory” (2012), which was made available for free download, it includes six songs, among these four collaborations such as “Millionaire Misfits” with B.o.B, “Runway” with Pusha T and “Flash” with Mike Posner; Three months later, she released the mixtape “TrapGold” (2012), produced by Diplo and FKI, this album includes 11 tracks, among the most outstanding are “Golddust”, “Demons” and “Slo”, after the release of this Azalea embarked on the TrapGold tour, in the course of which she visited France, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Ireland.

2014 – Release of the album “The New Classic”

The following year, she released the singles “Change Your Life” and remixes of “Work”, which she worked on with Reid Stefan, DJ Reflex, Tom Stephan, and Gregor Salto. In 2014, she released her debut album “The New Classic” (2014) under the Virgin EMI label, which includes 12 songs and several collaborations. This album is one of the artist’s most successful, with songs such as “Fancy” featuring Charli XCX, “Black Widow” with Rita Ora, and “F**k Love” standing out. Both of the first two collaborations have music videos on the artist’s YouTube channel, “Fancy” is one of the most recognized for its representation of the famous 1990s movie “Clueless” (1995), starring Alicia Silverstone; the video for this song has more than 890 million views, and “Black Widow” with Rita Ora has 530 million views. After the release of the album, she released the “Fancy” remix with Yellow Claw, months later came her collaboration with DJ Green Lantern, “Know About Me” and later she worked with Jennifer Lopez on the single titled “Booty”, which has a video on YouTube and has surpassed 300 million views. She also collaborated with Ariana Grande on the song “Problem,” which is included on Grande’s album “My Everything (Deluxe).”

Collaborations with artists.

In 2015, she collaborated with Tinashe on the remix of “All Hands on Deck” and with Britney Spears on the single “Pretty Girls.” In March of the following year, she released the single and music video for “Team,” which has over 125 million views on her channel. A few months later, she released the remix of “Team” with Young Bombs. In 2017, she released “Mo Bounce” and “Switch” with Anitta. The song was performed by the artists on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and it has its own music video in which you can see the two singers dancing with beautiful women wearing costumes that play with the colors yellow, green and red. In early 2018, she released the single “Savior” with Quavo and seven months later, she released the EP “Survive the Summer” (2018) under the Island Records label, which includes six songs, among which are the collaborations “Kream” with Tyga and “OMG” with Wiz Khalifa. The song with Tyga quickly went viral and became a trend. The video of this has over 132 million views on YouTube.

2022 – Iggy Azalea joins OnlyFans.

traducir al inglIn January 2022, she joined OnlyFans with the goal of releasing a series of exclusive and uncensored photos, videos, music, illustrations, and poetry as part of her annual multimedia project “Hotter Than Hell”. In a statement, she expressed:

“Working with OnlyFans allows me to avoid the overwhelming and creatively limiting censorship of other digital platforms.”

“I never knew that OnlyFans was a place where I could be creative, so I didn’t expect to collaborate with them on my biggest project to date!”

She is also remembered because in April 2021, she vehemently denied interest in creating an OnlyFans account:

‘I think OnlyFans can be really empowering for people, but I will NEVVVER join’.

Iggy Azalea has won several awards such as American Music Awards and Teen Choice Awards, as well as several nominations for Grammy Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and MTV Europe Music Awards. She is also recognized as one of the most influential Australians.