Dua Lipa was determined from an early age to pursue a career in music and now declares that she will not allow anyone to deprive her of her love for her profession.
In a new interview with NPR, the 26-year-old London-born singer, who was born in Kosovo to Albanian-Albanian parents, spoke about her life in Kosovo during her early teens, her return to the United Kingdom and her psychological impact. health of the toxicity of social networks.
Dua Lipa's family left Kosovo in the early 1990s before the war in Yugoslavia.
"In 1992, they left Kosovo as the war in Bosnia was raging. My mother is half Bosnia, so her mother was in Sarajevo at the time, but they moved to London as the situation began to get really difficult in the former Yugoslavia. One thing people are constantly forgetting is that people do not want to leave their country unless it is really necessary. "This is really done out of necessity," he explained.
"Then I was born in '95. My parents had a great time in London, but they always had in the back of their minds the idea that they would always want to go back to Kosovo at some point. "When I was 11, we went back to Kosovo."
Although she had a life in London, Dua Lipa was excited about moving to Kosovo.
"I was really excited. When you are in London at the age of 11, you finish sixth grade and then go to high school. All my friends would go to different schools, and instead of going to a different school, I would go to a different country. "Albanian was my first language, I spoke it at home, and then English was something I did at school and talked to my friends," he said.
"It was just a very interesting and exciting time in my life. "I was also very excited about the idea that people would not find my name Dua as strange as they were in London."
"The obstacles I had to overcome were different - to learn chemistry and physics and mathematics in a completely different language. It is much more difficult to do homework in Albanian than just speaking it at home. It took me a long time to find my footprints there. It is interesting to get into this situation at the age of 11, but I think I would not change it with anything, because it really helped me to become who I am ", he stressed.
When she was 15, Dua Lipa told her parents she wanted to leave and return to London with or without them.
When I think about it, I do not remember exactly the first discussion where I started the topic "I will move to London and that is what I want to do". "I remember telling my parents little by little that if I wanted to go to the University of London, I would have to take an exam in London - and the exams would start soon," he said.
"I think yes, that's how my argument started. When I lived in Kosovo from the age of 11 to 15 I enjoyed making music, but I felt that there was no way I could escape all this noise without being in a place where everything was happening. I felt I had to be in London to make my dream come true. "That's what I felt I had to do and I had to be there."
"People told me I could sing, but they were not in a position to say that you can do it or that it can be done. It was a childhood dream. "It was something I felt I knew I wanted to do," he said.
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Dua Lipa then denounced the "toxicity" of social media, talking about her appearance at the 2017 BRIT Awards and the impact that reactions had on her mental health.
The pop singer performed on stage her successful collaboration with Calvin Harris in "One Kiss" and some internet users described her appearance as "strange" and "lazy"."I have doubts about myself, I am human. "[Laughter] Although I'm passionate about what I do, because I really love music, when things start to get bigger and people start having an opinion about something you love so much, then you start to hear the noise in the background." reported.
