Beabadoobee

At 24 years old, Beabadoobee has this physical status:

Beatrice Kristi Laus (born June 3, 2000), also known as Bea Kristi or informally Beabadoobee, is a Filipino-British indie singer-songwriter.

Since 2018, she has released three studio albums and two extended plays under Dirty Hits, and she's set to tour The 1975 on the UK leg of their Music for Cars Tour in February 2020.

Beabadoobee has over 36 million accumulative streams on Spotify as of August 2019. In an annual BBC poll of music journalists, Kristi was nominated in the Critics' Choice category of the 2020 Brit Awards, and has recently been named as a breakout act for 2020. Sound of 2020, a British writer.

Early life

Laus was born in Iloilo, Philippines, on June 3rd 2000 and migrated to London with her parents at the age of 3. She grew up in West London, enjoying original Pinoy music as well as 1980s pop and rock rock. She listened to indie rock, including Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florist, and Alex G. Before entering her thirteenth year at Hammersmith Academy, she was expelled from Sacred Heart High School. Laus spent seven years learning how to play the violin before picking up her first guitar secondhand at the age of 17. She was under the tutelage of YouTube tutorials by other talented guitarists. Kimya Dawson and the Juno soundtrack inspired her to begin making music.

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Career

The first song Beabadoobee wrote on her guitar was "Coffee". She released the song as well as a cover of Karen O's "The Moon Song" in September 2017. "Coffee" gained over 300,000 views on YouTube, as well as the attention of Dirty Hit Records. She signed to the label in April 2018. This was followed by the release of her debut EP Lice in March 2018 and her second EP Patched Up in December 2018. In January 2019, Beabadoobee was placed with Billie Eilish on NME's annual list of "essential new artists", the "NME 100". She subsequently released her third EP titled Loveworm. Beabadoobee released an acoustic version of this EP titled Loveworm (Bedroom Sessions) in July 2019.

In September 2019, Beabadoobee embarked on her first tour supporting Clairo on her Immunity Tour, before releasing her fourth EP, Space Cadet, in October 2019. Beabadoobee subsequently made the front cover of NME on 25 October 2019. She was shortlisted for the Rising Star Award at the 2020 Brit Awards in December 2019. In November 2019, Beabadoobee released a pair of Spotify Singles, one being a cover of "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds as well as a version of "She Plays Bass" recorded in Abbey Road Studios in London. In December 2019, Beabadoobee was longlisted in the annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2020.

In February 2020, Beabadoobee performed at the 2020 NME Awards after winning the Radar Award. She supported labelmates the 1975 on their Music for Cars Tour for both the UK leg in February 2020. She was scheduled to also support the band during the North American leg of this tour in April 2020, however it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A sample of Beabadoobee's 2017 debut single "Coffee" was used on Canadian rapper Powfu's 2019 single, "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)". The song became a massively successful sleeper hit after going viral on the app TikTok in early 2020, becoming Beabadoobee's first official chart entry in her career, both locally and internationally. By April 2020, it had entered the Top 5 in several countries including the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It earned gold certification status in Belgium, Canada, France, Mexico and New Zealand, as well as Platinum or higher in the US and the UK among several other countries. Speaking about her reaction to the popularization of "Death Bed", Beabadoobee said, "I'm not going to lie, it was overwhelming… I kinda hated it. I hated more people knowing about the first song I'd ever written and not my others. I was so stubborn but I grew into it and accepted that's just how life works. I was extremely grateful for its existence and it's only given me more opportunities."

Beabadoobee announced her debut studio album, Fake It Flowers, and released its lead single "Care" on 14 July 2020. In early August 2020, she released the album's second single, "Sorry", and revealed the album's track listing, cover art and official release date. Beabadoobee released "Worth It" as the third single, "How Was Your Day?" as the fourth single, and "Together" as the fifth and final single of Fake It Flowers. The album was released on 16 October 2020 to critical acclaim and spent one week in the UK Albums Chart at number 8. According to sales in the United States, Billboard ranked Beabadoobee as the Top New Rock Artist of 2020. In 2021, Beabadoobee embarked on a headlining tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland to support the album.

Beabadoobee released the single "Last Day On Earth" on 24 March, produced and co-written by Matty Healy and George Daniel of the 1975. The artist announced that the single is taken from her EP Our Extended Play, which she said that she wrote with her labelmates "on the countryside".

Her second album, Beatopia, was announced on 23 March 2022. It was released on 15 July 2022 through Dirty Hit.

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