Actual title: Ashley Nicolette Frangipane
Why she modified it: The singer obtained her stage title from a road in Brooklyn, Halsey Avenue, the place her good friend used to stay. Halsey spent a number of time there making music, so it appeared a becoming stage title. Plus, Halsey is an anagram of Ashley!
In a 2020 interview with Cosmopolitan, Halsey additionally revealed she by no means felt ok rising up in poverty and her beginning title was a continuing reminder of that.
So she took the “alternative to create a brand new persona” when she launched into a profession in music and thus Halsey was born.
“I feel I had the foresight to know that being me wasn’t sufficient,” the singer informed Cosmopolitan. “I needed to turn into any individual utterly totally different. On the time, I felt that Ashley did not should be well-known and profitable as a result of she wasn’t that particular, but when I made Halsey, possibly she may very well be.”
It was in 2015 that she launched her debut album Badlands, which debuted at quantity two on the Billboard 200 charts within the US.
