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Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 512 episode of the Hollywood

Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a

three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who is one of the biggest pop stars in

the world a Brit who has been described by the New York Times as a

powerhouse young artist by Vanity Fair as a bona fide superstar and by Time magazine

as one of the world's most influential people, she has to her name hit singles like

levitating. Don't start now. Cold heart, Last Dance, New Rules, Hudini, and from Greta

Gerwig's critically acclaimed summer blockbuster Barbie

Dance the Night, which on November 10th garnered Grammy nominations for Song of the Year

and Best Song Written for Visual Media and is now very much in the

running for a Best Original Song Oscar nomination as well.

Dewa Lipa.

Over the course of our conversation at the London West Hollywood, the 28-year-old and I discussed

her childhood divided between London and Kosovo, how she wound up making her way into the music

business and signing a record deal with Warner Brothers in 2015.

The Origins and Bangers of her 2017 self-titled debut album and her 2020 pandemic era second album future nostalgia.

How she came to be a part of Barbie and wrote with Mark Ronson, Caroline

Aylen and Andrew Wyatt Dance the Night, plus much more.

And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation.

Do it, thank you so much for doing the podcast. Very excited to have you and on this one we always begin truly at the beginning. Can you tell our listeners where you were born and what your folks did for a living?

Yeah, I, I in London in 1995 and I guess at that point my parents were working in bars and restaurants while at the same time

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