Meet Beabadoobee, The Upcoming Asian Singer
Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus, professionally known as Beabadoobee, is a Filipino-English singer and songwriter. She released five extended plays on the independent label Dirty Hit between 2018 and 2021: Lice (2018), Patched Up (2018), Loveworm (2019), Space Cadet (2019), and Our Extended Play (2021). Fake It Flowers, her maiden studio album, was released in October 2020 to tremendous praise. Beatopia, her second studio album, was released on July 15, 2022.
Beabadoobee toured with labelmates 1975 on many legs of their Music for Cars Tour and American vocalist Clairo on her Immunity Tour. She received the Radar Award at the 2020 NME Awards and was nominated for the Rising Star Award at the 2020 Brit Awards. In an annual BBC poll of music reviewers, Sound of 2020, Beabadoobee was also tipped as a breakthrough performer for 2020. Beabadoobee was a support act on Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2023.
Who is Beabadoobee?
Beabadoobee was born on June 3, 2000, in Iloilo City, Philippines, and relocated to London with her parents when she was three. She grew up in West London, listening to original Filipino music as well as 1980s pop and rock. She grew up listening to indie rock artists such as Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florist, and Alex G.
She attended Sacred Heart High School before transferring to Hammersmith Academy for her thirteenth year. Laus studied the violin for seven years before purchasing her first guitar secondhand at the age of 17. She was taught by YouTube tutorials created by other renowned guitarists. Kimya Dawson and the Juno soundtrack motivated her to start composing music.
How old is Beabadoobee?
The famous singer is currently 23 years of age.
What is Beabadoobee net worth?
The Asian star h as an estimated net worth of $5 Million Dollars.
What is Beabadoobee career?
“Coffee” was the first song Beabadoobee wrote on her guitar. In September 2017, she released the song as well as a rendition of Karen O’s “The Moon Song” on her own label. “Coffee” received over 300,000 views on YouTube, as well as Dirty Hit Records’ attention. She joined the label in April of 2018.
Her debut EP Lice was released in March 2018, and her second EP Patched Up was released in December 2018. Beabadoobee and Billie Eilish were named to the “NME 100” list of “essential new artists” in January 2019. She went on to release her third EP, Loveworm. In July 2019, Beabadoobee released an acoustic version of this EP named Loveworm (Bedroom Sessions).
After winning the Radar Award, Beabadoobee performed at the 2020 NME Awards in February 2020. In February 2020, she joined labelmates 1975 on their Music for Cars Tour for both the UK leg. She was also supposed to support the band on the North American leg of this tour in April 2020, but it was canceled owing to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Beabadoobee’s 2017 debut track “Coffee” was sampled by Canadian rapper Powfu for his 2019 single “Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head).” After getting viral on the app TikTok in early 2020, the song became a phenomenally popular sleeper hit, earning Beabadoobee’s first official chart entry in her career, both domestically and abroad.
By April 2020, it had risen to the top of the rankings in various nations, including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. It received gold certification in Belgium, Canada, France, Mexico, and New Zealand, as well as platinum or higher in the United States and the United Kingdom, among other nations.
Beabadoobee described her reaction to the popularity of “Death Bed” as “overwhelming… It irritated me. I despised the fact that more people knew about the first song I’d ever written but not about others. I was very stubborn at first, but I got into it and recognized that’s how life is. I was grateful for its existence, and it has only provided me with more opportunities.”
