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BIOGRAPHY

Harry Styles.

Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. His musical
career began in 2010 as a solo contestant on the British music competition series The X Factor.
Following his elimination, he was brought back to join the boy band One Direction, which went on to
become one of the best-selling boy groups of all time before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016. Styles
released his self-titled debut solo album through Columbia Records in 2017.

It debuted at number one in the UK and the US and was one of the world's top-ten best-selling albums of
the year, while its lead single, "Sign of the Times", topped the UK Singles Chart. Styles' second album,
Fine Line (2019), and was the most recent album to be included in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums
of All Time" in 2020. Its fourth single, "Watermelon Sugar", topped the US Billboard Hot 100. Featuring
the chart-topping single "As It Was", Styles' third album, Harry's House (2022), was widely acclaimed
and broke several records. Styles has received various accolades, including two Brit Awards, a Grammy
Award, dll. His film roles include Dunkirk (2017), Don't Worry Darling, and My Policeman (both 2022).
Aside from music and acting, Styles is known for his flamboyant fashion. He is the first man to appear
solo on the cover of Vogue.

Harry Edward Styles was born on 1 February 1994 in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, the son of
landlady Anne Twist (née Selley) and finance worker Desmond "Des" Styles. When he was a child, he
moved with his parents and older sister, Gemma, to the village of Holmes Chapel in Cheshire. His
parents divorced when he was seven years old, and his mother later remarried business partner John Cox,
although they divorced years later. Through her subsequent marriage in 2013 to Robin Twist, who died of
cancer in 2017. Styles gained an older stepbrother named Mike and a stepsister named Amy.
BIOGRAPHY
Billie Eilish.

Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (/ˈaɪlɪʃ/ EYE-lish;[1] born December 18, 2001) is an American
singer-songwriter. 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
2017, she released her debut extended play (EP), titled 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 best-selling albums of the year, buoyed by the
success of its fifth single "Bad Guy", Eilish's first number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100. This made
her the first artist born in the 21st century to release a chart-topping single. The following 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 charts in 25 countries.

Eilish has received multiple accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards,
two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, three Brit Awards, a Golden Globe
Award and an Academy Award. She is the youngest artist in Grammy history to win all four general field
categories—Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year—in the same
year. She was featured on Time magazine's inaugural Time 100 Next list in 2019 and the Time 100 in
2021.[2] According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Billboard, Eilish is
the 26th-highest-certified digital singles artist[3] and one of the most successful artists of the 2010s.[4]
She has a history of political activism, focusing on climate change awareness and women's equality.

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