Ke$ha
Don’t stop, make it pop, DJ,
blow my speakers up, tonight I’mma fight till we see the sunglight….goes
Kesha.
Kesha Rose Sebert was born on March 1, 1987 and goes by the name of
name Kesha (stylized Ke$ha). She IS an American pop singer and
songwriter and has been an active musician since 2005.
 Kesha’s breakthrough came in early 2009 after an uncredited
appearance on Flo Rida’s number one single “Right Round”. Her debut
single, “Tik Tok,” was released in August 2009 to much commercial
success. It reached number one in eleven countries and set the weekly
records for the most digital downloads of a female artist and of the
total Top 40 Mainstream airplay records in the US. The song also became
the longest running number-one debut single by a female artist since
1977.
Her debut album, Animal, was released in early 2010 and debuted at
number one in the US. Kesha was born in the San Fernando Valley of Los
Angeles to Pebe Sebert, a singer and songwriter. Her mother, a single
parent, looked after infant Kesha onstage while performing.
Pebe was struggling financially while supporting Kesha and her older
brother, Lagan, at the time and they had to rely on welfare payments and
supplemental nutrition assistance to get by. Pebe moved the family to
Nashville, Tennessee in 1991 after securing a publishing deal. She often
brought Kesha and her brothers, Lagan and Louis, along to recording
studios and encouraged Kesha to sing. Pebe also taught Kesha how to
write songs and they would often write songs together when she returned
home from high school.
A number one placing in New Zealand for “Tik Tok” gave Kesha her
first number one; this was followed by number one positions ten other
countries. It also reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100, becoming
the first number one of the decade, and reached top five in several
countries. For its second week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100,
“Tik Tok” set the female download record and became the second
best-selling single in a week, after “Right Round”, for shifting 610,000
copies.
Kesha and her music has been dismissed early on by some as
lightweight, calculating and crude; perceiving her as a victim in the
“cauldron of celebrity culture”.
She insisted otherwise, “I have been working on realizing this dream,
my path, my mission, for years. I’ve really invested a lot of thought,
time and effort into it. The last thing that makes me is a victim. I
think it’s a bummer when people don’t represent that properly, when they
portray me as purely one-dimensional.” |
