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Born in New Jersey, Grammy-nominated artist Halsey went from last years MTV Artist to Watch to selling out Madison Square Garden to a Platinum-certified debut album, BADLANDS (Astralwerks) in less than seven months. Halseys very first tour sold-out in minutes, as did her second sold-out headlining tour last year. This year, she took the BADLANDS tour global with sold out dates on five continents and she has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Last Call with Carson Daly.

BADLANDS was released on August 28, 2015, reaching #2 on the Billboard 200 chart and spawning the platinum single New Americana, which reached the Top 20 on Billboards U.S. Alternative Songs chart along with 5 certified gold singles including Colors and Castle. Closer, her track with The Chainsmokers, is the second longest running #1 at Top 40 Radio of all time, is certified 4x Platinum and has over 850 million streams on Spotify. Continuing her incredible year, she was recently named Billboards 2016 Women In Music Rising Star, was selected as one of Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees, and was hand-picked to perform at this Decembers Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway.

To kick off 2017, she appeared on the cover of Forbes 30 Under 30 Issue with Michael Phelps and others, participated in the Washington D.C. Womens March, and turned words into actions with her viral twitter pledge to donate to Planned Parenthood.