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Award-winning singer Dua Lipa thrilled fans at the Hay Festival on Sunday as she spoke candidly about how “persistence” had brought her success.
“From a young age, I had the dream to be a pop star but it never seemed like something that was actually possible,” she told the audience.
Having moved between her parents’ native Kosovo and London as a child, she said her adaptability had helped. “I’ve been a new girl all my life,” she told the renowned literary festival.
Her audience were a mixed bunch, but there was a sizeable number of patient parents queuing up at the humid Baillie Gifford stage with teenage daughters who were scrolling through Dua’s Instagram feed as they waited to be seated.
The One Kiss singer’s fondness for reading is no secret.
She made a speech at the Booker Prize ceremony last year about the power of literature.
Here she expanded on the books that became markers at pivotal moments in her life, including Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses (“a first step into understanding racism and classism” when she was 10) and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Born in London after her parents moved there to escape the war in former Yugoslavia, she moved back to Kosovo with her parents at the age of 11.
When she was 15, she headed back to the UK to take her GCSEs and pursue a music career. BBC
