Actual title: Ashley Nicolette Frangipane
Why she modified it: The singer acquired her stage title from a road in Brooklyn, Halsey Avenue, the place her buddy used to stay. Halsey spent quite a lot 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 relentless 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 advised Cosmopolitan. “I needed to grow to be someone utterly completely 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, perhaps 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.
