Dua Lipa’s LIFE-CHANGING decision aged 15! | The Graham Norton Show – BBC

Dua Lipa’s LIFE-CHANGING decision aged 15! | The Graham Norton Show – BBC

You are such a huge star now! It’s sort of, it’s incredible, when you look at the stats. 18 Number One singles. 18 Number One singles! This is, this is unbelievable… Dua Lipa’s songs have been streamed 40 billion times! 4 – 0 billion times! I’m going to have a drink!

You’ve earned one. You’ve earned one. I mean, it is just, I mean, I’m so happy for you. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I love your back story. So you were born here in London. – Mhmm. So how old were you when your family decided to go back to Kosovo?

I was 11. So I was born and raised in London, moved to Kosovo at the age of 11. And then I lived there until I was about 15 years old. And then at 15, I decided to come back to London. I wanted to do music.

And as much as I loved living in Kosovo, it was a very different experience. And I mean, now everything’s changed so much with streaming and you can kind of be anywhere in the world and your music can be heard. I didn’t feel that at the time. Like when I was living in Kosovo,

There were so many artists that I wanted to see that wouldn’t come there in concert. I just felt like I wanted to come back to a place where there was so much more opportunity. And so at 15, I moved back to London on my own. But, but how does that work?

How does that, like practically, how does a 15 year old live independently in London? Well I had, I was living with a roommate and my parents knew her parents and– Oh that’s fine then! She was studying here in London. But she was older, we had, we had a big age gap as well.

I think we got on for the most part until she… Until she kind of went in my room and took pictures of my messy bedroom and sent it to my mum! Horrible! I was 15! But it’s, it was good. I mean, you know, me and my parents we have such

An amazing relationship and we’re so close and they put a lot of trust in me. So I really tried to be as good as possible. – Yeah!

Dua Lipa moved to London, away from her parents, at the age of just 15 to follow her dreams of becoming a pop star!

Together on Graham’s sofa are Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, starring in Australian period drama ‘The New Boy’, great British actress Kate Winslet, talking about her new miniseries ‘The Regime’, award-winning singer-songwriter Dua Lipa, discussing her latest work, ‘Hustle’ star Adrian Lester in the historical action series ‘Renegade Nell’, and pop superstar Justin Timberlake, who chats and performs his new single Selfish.

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