Billie Eilish

This made her the first artist born in the 21st century to release a chart-topping single.

The next year, Eilish performed the theme song "No Time to Die" for the James Bond film of the same name, which topped the UK Singles Chart and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2022.

Her subsequent singles "Everything I Wanted", "My Future", "Therefore I Am", and "Your Power" peaked in the top 10 in the US and UK.

Her second studio album, Happier Than Ever (2021), topped the charts in 25 countries.

She wrote and performed "What Was I Made For?" from the fantasy film Barbie (2023), which became her second number-one single in the UK and earned her a second Academy Award win.

Eilish has received multiple accolades, including nine Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, three Brit Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards.

She is the youngest artist in Grammy history to win all four general field categories—Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, as well as Best New Artist—in the same year.

She is also the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award.

During the 96th Academy Awards, she became, along with her brother Finneas, the youngest 2-time Academy Award winner ever with their win for "What Was I Made For?".

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and songwriter.

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 18, 2001.

She is the daughter of actress and teacher Maggie Baird and actor Patrick O'Connell, both of whom are also musicians and work on Eilish's tours.

Eilish is of Irish and Scottish descent.

She was conceived via in vitro fertilization.

Her middle name, Eilish, was originally meant to be her first name, while Pirate was to be her middle name.

She was raised in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Eilish and her brother Finneas were homeschooled by Baird, a decision their parents made to spend time with them and give them the freedom to pursue their interests.

Baird taught Eilish and Finneas the basics of songwriting.

Eilish said her brother and mother inspired her to get into music.

Their parents encouraged the siblings to express themselves and explore whatever they wanted, including art, dancing, and acting.

Eilish performed at talent shows and joined the Los Angeles Children's Chorus at age eight.

At age six, she started playing the ukulele.

She wrote her first "real" song at age 11 for her mother's songwriting class.

The song is about the zombie apocalypse, inspired by the television series The Walking Dead, from which she took script lines and episode titles.

Eilish took some acting auditions, which she disliked, but she enjoyed recording background dialogue for crowd scenes and worked on the films Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Ramona and Beezus, and the X-Men series.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Billboard, Eilish is the 26th-highest-certified digital singles artist and one of the most successful artists of the 2010s.

She was honored as one of the BBC 100 Women in December 2022.

Eilish has a history of political activism, focusing on climate change awareness, body positivity, women's reproductive rights, and gender equality.

She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes", written and produced by her brother Finneas O'Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows.

In 2015, 13-year-old Eilish began working on songs with her brother Finneas, who had been writing and producing for several years and had his own band.

The first songs they recorded together were called "She's Broken" and "Fingers Crossed", the former written by Finneas and the latter by Eilish.

"We recorded them and put them out on SoundCloud, just for fun," she recalled.

On November 18, 2015, Eilish released the song "Ocean Eyes".

The track was written, mixed, and produced by Finneas, who had originally created it for his band the Slightlys before deciding it would be a better fit for Eilish's vocals.

Eilish also took dance classes until 2016, when a growth plate injury ended her dance career and she focused on recording music.

In 2017, she released her debut extended play (EP), Don't Smile at Me.

Commercially successful, it reached the top 15 of record charts in numerous countries, including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Eilish's first studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart.

It was one of the year's best-selling albums, buoyed by the success of its fifth single, "Bad Guy", Eilish's first number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100.

She was featured on Time magazine's inaugural Time 100 Next list in 2019 and the Time 100 in 2021.