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Olivia Rodrigo
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Olivia Rodrigo was born in 2003 in Murrieta, California, and grew up in nearby Temecula. Her father has Filipino roots. At home she heard the alternative rock her parents loved, such as No Doubt, Pearl Jam, The White Stripes and Green Day. She had singing lessons from an early age, began piano at nine and played guitar at twelve. She first became known as an actress, in the Disney series Bizaardvark and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
Music and breakthrough
In 2020 she signed with Geffen Records. In early 2021 drivers license was released, a piano ballad about heartbreak that reached number 1 in the United States. good 4 u followed, a song with fast guitars that harks back to the pop-punk of the 2000s. Both were on her debut album Sour (2021), which topped the Billboard 200. Rodrigo writes her own songs, with honest, personal lyrics about growing up, jealousy and insecurity. She alternates restrained ballads with raw rock songs.
Influence
With Guts (2023) and You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (2026), the success continued. She became the first artist whose lead single from each of her first three albums entered directly at number 1. She won three Grammys, and in 2021 Time named her Entertainer of the Year. Rodrigo showed a new generation that guitars and rock influences still belong in pop music.
Listening
drivers license · Olivia Rodrigo, 2021Apple Music ↗
Discography
Studio albums
In School of Rock
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