Iggy Azalea explains her stage name in new series ‘A.K.A.’ - AXS Iggy Azalea explains her stage name in new series ‘A.K.A.’ By: Tarringo Vaughan Aug 22, 2014 235 1 y2014m08d22 19843 Rapper Iggy Azalea is on fire and her musical career seems to just be getting started. The “ Fancy ” rapper is preparing to make her debut at this Sunday’s 2014 MTV Video Music Awards with collaborator Rita Ora , but in the meantime Azalea has taken the time to explain her stage name. On Thursday, the Australian rapper was the first celebrity to appear in the new Vevo original series “A.K.A.” and explained just where she got her name. The show, which premiered on Thursday , Aug. 21, has stars explain how they got their stage names. Azalea’s stage name came as a “two-part saga.” She starts off saying: My name is Amethyst Amelia Kelly, but you guys probably know me as Iggy Azalea.

And that’s how it’s gonna stay.” Interestingly, the first part of her name originated from her dog of the same name. Her dog, Iggy, was named after Iggy Pop. She loved her dog very much and went on to explain an incident involving her favorite pet. One time he got bitten by a snake,” She shared. “And he couldn’t move his legs, and I realized he had killed the snake.” After he survived the incident and was back to his old self, she got a name-plate necklace made in his honor. She continued. Everybody started to think that my name was Iggy so it kind of became my nickname and I took it on board and started rapping with it.” The second part of her name actually comes from her grandfather, who disapproved of her just having a one-word stage name. He told her that a good stage name should have a certain number of syllables and just going by Iggy wasn’t cutting it. She recalled, (He) said to me, ‘You can’t have a one-word stage name'...It made perfect mathematical sense. So I had to think of a good last name.” After much thought, she went with the name of the street her mother and family live on.

So basically she went with the name of her pet and the street her family lives on to come up with Iggy Azalea. The rap star is now a household name and would like to forget her born name Amethyst. Other celebrities to appear in the series are Common, Future, G-Easy, and Daddy Yankee. Should be interesting to see if any of them can top Azalea’s story. By: Tarringo Vaughan Iggy Pop - IMDb IMDb Legendary Rock 'n' Roll wildman and substance abuser. Recorded a series of classic rock albums with The Stooges and later as a solo artist. Worked extensively with David Bowie . See full bio » Born: a list of 38 people created 19 Nov 2011 a list of 30 people created 14 Dec 2011 a list of 36 people created 03 Jun 2013 a list of 44 people created 21 Apr 2015 a list of 27 people created 13 Aug 2015 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Iggy Pop's work have you seen?

User Polls Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 1 nomination. See more awards » Known For 2016 Lessons of Pop (TV Movie) (performer: "Vulture") 2016 Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression (TV Movie) (performer: "Lust for Life", "American Valhalla", "Sixteen", "Some Weird Sin", "Funtime", "Sunday", "German Days", "Mass Production", "Nightclubbing", "Gardenia", "The Passenger", "China Girl", "Break into Your Heart", "Fall in Love with Me", "Repo Man") 2016 War Dogs (performer: "The Passenger") / (writer: "The Passenger") 2016 Alan Shearer's Euro 96: When Football Came Home (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) 2016 Gimme Danger (Documentary) (writer: "Asthma Attack", "I Wanna Be Your Dog (Cale Mix)", "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "T.V. Eye", "L.A.

Blues", "Cock In My Pocket", "Gimme Danger", "No Fun", "Again And Again", "Dirt", "I Need Somebody", "Fun House", "1970", "Lost In The Future", "Ann", "Not Right", "Down on the Take" (Take 6/Take 15), "We Will Fall", "Loose", ""Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell", "I'm Hungry", "I'm Sick Of You", "Search And Destroy", "I Got A Right", "Down On The Street", "Raw Power", "Little Doll", "Real Cool Time", "1969") World Championship Snooker (TV Series) (performer - 4 episodes, 2015 - 2016) (writer - 4 episodes, 2015 - 2016) - 2015: Day 4, Part 1 (2015) ...

(performer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) / (writer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) Hunters (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2016) (writer - 1 episode, 2016) - Messages (2016) ... (performer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) / (writer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) Ochéntame... otra vez (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode, 2016) (writer - 1 episode, 2016) - Soy rebelde (2016) ...

(performer: "Butt Town") / (writer: "Butt Town") 2015 Iggy Pop: Les nuits de Fourvière 17.07.2015 (TV Movie) (performer: "No Fun", "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "The Passenger", "Lust for Life", "Skull Ring", "Five Foot One", "1969", "Sister Midnight", "Real Wild Child (Wild One)", "Nightclubbing", "Some Weird Sin", "I'm Bored", "Funtime", "Neighborhood Threat", "Down on the Street") / (writer: "No Fun", "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "The Passenger", "Lust for Life", "Skull Ring", "Five Foot One", "1969", "Sister Midnight", "Nightclubbing", "Some Weird Sin", "I'm Bored", "Funtime", "Neighborhood Threat", "Down on the Street") Atop the Fourth Wall (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2015) (writer - 1 episode, 2015) - Nightmares on Elm Street #5-

6 (2015) ...

(performer: "Why Was I Born? (Freddy's Dead)") / (writer: "Why Was I Born? (Freddy's Dead)") 2015 TFI Friday (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 16 October 2015 (2015) ... (performer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) 2015 Tremors 5: Bloodlines (Video) (performer: "He's Frank (Slight Return) (Superfrank Remix)") 2015 Far Out (writer: "I'm Sick Of You", "Gimme Danger", "Real Cool Time", "Loose", "T.V.

Eye") 2015 Deutschland 83 (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) 2015 The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) / (writer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) 2015 Battlefield Hardline (Video Game) (writer: "Down On The Street") Pop Gold (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2015) (writer - 1 episode, 2015) - Hellraisers (2015) ...

(performer: "The Passenger (Live)") / (writer: "The Passenger (Live)") 2015/II Focus (writer: "Gimme Danger") 2015 The Diary of a Teenage Girl (writer: "Down on the Street") 2014 Bill the Galactic Hero (performer: "Bill the Galactic Superhero" - as Iggy Pop and The Intergalactic Troll) / (writer: "Bill the Galactic Superhero") State of Affairs (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2014) (writer - 1 episode, 2014) - Bang, Bang (2014) ... (performer: "Bang Bang" - uncredited) / (writer: "Bang Bang" - uncredited) 2014 If I Stay (performer: "The Passenger") Gotham (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2014) (writer - 1 episode, 2014) - Pilot (2014) ...

(performer: "Funtime" - uncredited) / (writer: "Funtime" - uncredited) 2014 Guapas (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - La ovejita crédula (2014) ... (writer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) 2014 Electric Slide (performer: "Five Foot One", "The Endless Sea") / (writer: "Five Foot One") 2014 Barbecue ("The passenger") My Mad Fat Diary (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2014) (writer - 1 episode, 2014) - Friday (2014) ...

(performer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) / (writer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) 2014/I Predestination (writer: "1970 (I Feel Alright)" - as James Osterberg) 2013 CBGB (writer: "1969", "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "Dirt" - as James Osterberg) 2013 Solipsism (Short) (writer: "Now i wanna be your dog") 2013 Les gamins (performer: "Lust for Life") / (writer: "Lust for Life" - as Pop) Divorce (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2013) (writer - 1 episode, 2013) - Episode #1.9 (2013) ...

(performer: "Lust for Life") / (writer: "Lust for Life") Sons of Anarchy (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2012) - Toad's Wild Ride (2012) ... (performer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) / (writer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) 2012 True Blood (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Let's Boot and Rally (2012) ...

(performer: "Let's Boot and Rally feat Bethany Consentino" - uncredited) 2012 Dark Shadows (writer: "I'm Sick of You") 2012 The Cabin in the Woods (performer: "She's A Business") / (writer: "She's A Business") 2012 Twisted Metal (Video Game) (performer: "Cold Metal") / (writer: "Cold Metal") No me la puc treure del cap (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2012) - Bon rotllo (2012) ... (performer: "Lust for Life") / (writer: "Lust for Life") 2011 Metal Evolution (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode) - Early Metal US (2011) ... (writer: "1969", "TV Eye", "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2011 Dexter (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Nebraska (2011) ...

(writer: "Search and Destroy" - uncredited) 2011 Kryptonite! (performer: "Lust For Life" (remastered)) / (writer: "Lust For Life" (remastered)) 2011 Dreams of a Life (Documentary) (performer: "Ambition") Fresh Meat (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2011) (writer - 1 episode, 2011) - Episode #1.4 (2011) ... (performer: "I'm Bored" - uncredited) / (writer: "I'm Bored" - uncredited) 2011 This Must Be the Place (performer: "The Passenger") / (writer: "The Passenger" - as J.

Osterberg) 2011 Sucker Punch (writer: "SEARCH AND DESTROY") 2011 Beauty Day (Documentary) (performer: "Success") / (writer: "Success") De wereld draait door (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2011) (writer - 1 episode, 2008) - Episode #6.102 (2011) ... (performer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) - Episode #4.19 (2008) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - uncredited) 2010 Faster (performer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") / (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2010 Hawaii Five-0 (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Ohana (2010) ...

(performer: "We're All Gonna Die" - uncredited) 2010 Helsinki Underground (Documentary) (performer: "Mass Production") / (writer: "Mass Production") 2010 I'm in a Rock 'n' Roll Band (TV Mini-Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - The Singer (2010) ... (performer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) 2010 Prozhektorperiskhilton (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Goran Bregovic/Ivan Okhlobystin (2010) ... (writer: "In The Deathcar" - uncredited) 2010 Lost (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - The Substitute (2010) ...

(writer: "Search and Destroy" - uncredited) 2010 The Runaways (writer: "Gimme Danger", "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2009 Suck (performer: "Success") / (writer: "Success", "T.V.Eye") 2009 Capitalism: A Love Story (Documentary) (performer: "Louie Louie II") 2009 Guitar Hero 5 (Video Game) (performer: "Lust For Life") / (writer: "Lust For Life") 2009 Endless Bummer (writer: "Bang Bang") 2008 Sputnik (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Company de viatge (2008) ...

(performer: "Louie, Louie") 2008 Transporter 3 (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - as James Osterberg) Chuck (TV Series) (1 episode, 2007) (performer - 1 episode, 2008) (writer - 1 episode, 2008) - Chuck Versus the Ex (2008) ... (performer: "Pumpin' for Jill" - uncredited) / (writer: "Pumpin' for Jill" - uncredited) - Chuck Versus the Helicopter (2007) ... ("Lust for Life", uncredited) The Cleaner (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode, 2008) (performer - 1 episode, 2008) - Pilot (2008) ... (lyrics: "Passenger Fever Peggy Lee vs. Iggy Pop" - uncredited) / (performer: "Passenger Fever Peggy Lee vs.

Iggy Pop" - uncredited) 2008 There'll Always Be an England (Video) (writer: "No Fun") 2008 Seitenblicke (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode dated 27 May 2008 (2008) ... ("The Passenger") / (performer: "The Passenger") 2008 Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game) (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2008 Flicker (Documentary) (performer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") / (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - as James Osterberg) 2008 Skins (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Cassie (2008) ... (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - uncredited) - Men Without Women (2007) ...

(writer: "Search and Destroy" - uncredited) 2007 SingStar Amped (Video Game) (performer: "Real Wild Child (Wild One)") 2007 Halloween (performer: "1969 (Live)") / (writer: "1969 (Live)") 2007 Shoot 'Em Up (performer: "Private Hell") / (writer: "Private Hell") 2007 Control (as James Osterberg, "Sister Midnight") / (performer: "Sister Midnight") 2007 Ten Years After (A Short Life Story) (Video short) (performer: "The Passenger") / (writer: "The Passenger") 2007 Graduation (performer: "The Passenger") / (writer: "The Passenger" - as James Osterberg) 2007 Punk's Not Dead (Documentary) (performer: "Little Know It All") / (writer: "Little Know It All") 2007 How I Met Your Mother (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Stuff (2007) ...

(writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2007 Eight Miles High (writer: "We Will Fall" - as J. Osterberg) 2006 Smokin' Aces (writer: "Down On The Street" - as James Osterberg) 2006 Screamers (Documentary) (writer: "China Girl") 2006 Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Morgan's (2006) ... (performer: "Never Met a Girl Like You Before" - uncredited) 2006 GAL (performer: "Bang Bang") / (writer: "Bang Bang" - as James Osterberg) 2006 Guitar Hero II (Video Game) (as James Osterberg, "SEARCH AND DESTROY") 2006 Dancing with the Stars (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Round 2 (2006) ...

("Lust For Life") / (writer: "Lust For Life") 2006 The Night of the White Pants (writer: "Search and Destroy" - as Iggy) 2006/I Sleeping Dogs Lie (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2006 Coachella (Video documentary) (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2005 American Wasteland (Video Game) (writer: "Search and Destroy") 2005 The Weather Man (performer: "The Passenger" (1977)) / (writer: "The Passenger" (1977)) 2005 Just Like Heaven (writer: "Lust for Life") 2005 History Detectives (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode) - Jim Thorpe Ticket/Land Grant/Leisurama Homes (2005) ...

(writer: "The Passenger" - uncredited) 2005 Grattis världen (TV Series) (performer: "I Am A Passenger") 2005 Lords of Dogtown (performer: "Success") / (writer: "Loose", "T.V. Eye" - as James Osterberg Jr.) / (writer: "Success") 2005 House of Wax (writer: "Dirt" - as James Osterberg) 2005 The Jacket (performer: "We Have All the Time in the World") 2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (writer: "Search and Destroy") 2001-2004 Crossing Jordan (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes) - Deja Past (2004) ... (performer: "Boogie Boy" - uncredited) 2003 Real Wild Child: Joan Jett Music Video Anthology (Video) (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2003 School of Rock (as James Osterberg Jr., "T.V.

Eye") 2003 Wonderland (performer: "Search and Destroy" (1973) - as Iggy) / (writer: "Search and Destroy" (1973)) 2003 Stander (writer: "Raw Power") 2003 Coffee and Cigarettes (performer: "Louie Louie") / (writer: "Down on the Street" - as J. Osterberg) 2003 Janis and John (lyrics: "Tonight") / (performer: "Tonight") 2003 Haggard (performer: "Search and Destroy" - as Iggy) / (writer: "Search and Destroy") 2003 Rugrats Go Wild ("Lust for Life") 2003 The Wire (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Ebb Tide (2003) ...

(writer: "Search and Destroy" - uncredited) 2003 Prey for Rock & Roll (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2003 End of the Century (Documentary) (writer: "No Fun", "Down on the Street" - as James Osterberg) 2002 Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Befehlsverweigerung (2002) ...

(performer: "Lust For Life") 2002 Vietcong (Video Game) (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 2002 24 Hour Party People (performer: "The Passenger") / (writer: "No Fun", "The Passenger" - as James Osterberg) 2002 I Live in a Bush World (Short) (writer: "African Man") 2001 Om inte (performer: "The Passenger) / (writer: "The Passenger) 2001 Knockaround Guys (writer: "Down on the Street" - as James Osterberg, Jr.) 2001 Freddy Got Fingered (performer: "I've Gotta Be Me") 2001 Intimacy (performer: "Consolation Prizes" (1977), "Penetration" (1973), "No Sense of Crime" (uncredited)) / (writer: "Consolation Prizes" (1977), "Penetration" (1973) - as J.

Osterberg) / (writer: "No Sense of Crime" - uncredited) 2001 Dogtown and Z-Boys (Documentary) (performer: "Gimme Danger" - as Iggy) / (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "Gimme Danger") 2000 When Brendan Met Trudy (performer: "The Passenger") / (writer: "The Passenger") 2000 Almost Famous (writer: "Search and Destroy") 1998 The Rugrats Movie (performer: "This World Is Something New to Me") 1998 Radio Arrow (performer: "The Passenger") / (writer: "The Passenger") 1998 SLC Punk!

(writer: "1969", "Little Doll", "We Will Fall") 1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - as James Osterberg Jr.) 1998 Whatever (performer: "Gimme Danger") / (writer: "Gimme Danger") 1998 23 (performer: "The Passenger") / (writer: "The Passenger" - as Osterberg) 1998 Velvet Goldmine (writer: "Gimme Danger") / (writer: "T.V.

Eye" - as James Osterberg Jr.) 1998 The Wedding Singer (writer: "China Girl") 1998 Great Expectations (performer: "Success") / (writer: "Success") 1997 Brit Awards 1997 (TV Special) (performer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) / (writer: "Lust for Life" - uncredited) 1997 Space Goofs (TV Series) (performer: "Monster Men") / (writer: "Monster Men") 1996 The Video Pool (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.150 (1996) ... (performer: "Lust for Life") 1996 The Crow: City of Angels (performer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") / (producer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") / (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - as J.

Osterberg) 1996 Basquiat (performer: "Lust for Life") / (writer: "Lust for Life") 1996 Trainspotting (lyrics: "Lust for Life", "Nightclubbing") / (music: "Lust for Life", "Nightclubbing") / (performer: "Lust for Life", "Nightclubbing") 1996 Brit Awards 1996 (TV Special) (performer: "Passenger") / (writer: "China Girl", "Passenger") 1995 The Babysitter (performer: "HATE") / (writer: "HATE") 1995 Clueless (performer: "Real Wild Child (Wild One)") 1995 Batman Forever (writer: "The Passenger") 1995 Tank Girl (performer: "Wild, Wild Thing") / (writer: "Wild, Wild Thing") - Temporary Insanity (1994) ...

(performer: "Butt Town") Rebel Highway (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 1994) (producer - 1 episode, 1994) - Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1994) ... (performer: "C'mon Everybody") / (producer: "C'mon Everybody") 1993 Chameleon of Pop: David Bowie Story (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Lust for Life", "Raw Power") / (writer: "Raw Power") 1993 Arizona Dream (performer: "In The Death Car", "Get the Money", "TV Screen", "This Is a Film") / (writer: "In The Death Car", "Get the Money", "TV Screen", "This Is a Film") 1992 Reasonable Doubts (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Moment of Doubt (1992) ...

(performer: "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" - uncredited) 1991 The Lovers on the Bridge (performer: "Strong Girl") / (writer: "Strong Girl") 1991 Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (performer: "Why Was I Born? (Freddy's Dead)") / (producer: "Why Was I Born? (Freddy's Dead)") / (writer: "Why Was I Born? (Freddy's Dead)") The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 1991) (writer - 1 episode, 1991) - Nice Lady (1991) ...

(performer: "Butt Town") / (writer: "Butt Town") 1990 Red Hot and Blue (TV Movie) (performer: "Well, Did You Evah!") 1990 Hardware (performer: "Cold Metal", "Bad Life") / (writer: "Cold Metal") 1990 Problem Child (performer: "REAL WILD CHILD") Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 1990) (writer - 1 episode, 1990) - For Cryin' Out Loud (1990) ...

(performer: "Kill City", "Five Foot One") / (writer: "Kill City", "Five Foot One") 1989 Shocker (performer: "Love Transfusion") 1989 Black Rain (performer: "LIVING ON THE EDGE OF THE NIGHT") 1989 Slaves of New York (lyrics: "Fall in Love with Me") / (performer: "Fall in Love with Me") 1986-1988 Miami Vice (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes) - Bad Timing (1988) ... (performer: "Power & Freedom", "Cold Metal" - uncredited) - Blood & Roses (1988) ... (performer: "Winners & Losers" - uncredited) - Killshot (1986) ... (performer: "Real Wild Child" - uncredited) 1988 Crocodile Dundee II (performer: "Real Wild Child (Wild One)") 1987 The Laughing Prisoner (TV Movie) (writer: "The Passenger") 1987 Athens, Ga.

- Inside/Out (Documentary) (writer: "Search and Destroy" - as J.

Osterbury) 1986 Dogs in Space (performer: "Dog Food", "Endless Sea") / (writer: "Dog Food") 1986 Sid and Nancy (writer: "I Wanna Be Your Dog") 1985 The Boys Next Door (performer: "I Got Nothin'") / (writer: "I Got Nothin'") 1985 Just One of the Guys (writer: "Down on the Street" - as James Osterberg) 1985 Desperately Seeking Susan (lyrics: "LUST FOR LIFE") / (performer: "LUST FOR LIFE") 1984 Repo Man (performer: "Repo Man Theme Song") / (writer: "Repo Man Theme Song") 1983 David Bowie: Serious Moonlight (Video documentary) (writer: "China Girl") 1983 The Hunger (performer: "Funtime") / (writer: "Funtime") 1983 Rock & Rule (performer: "Pain & Suffering") / (writer: "Pain & Suffering") 1980 D.O.A.

(Documentary) (performer: "Nightclubbing", "Lust for Life") / (writer: "Nightclubbing", "Lust for Life") 1980 Up the Academy (lyrics: "Gimme Danger", "Night Theme") / (music: "Gimme Danger", "Night Theme") / (performer: "Gimme Danger", "Night Theme") 1977 So It Goes (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #2.4 (1977) ... (performer: "The Passenger (Live)") Iggy Azalea - Biography - IMDb Iggy Azalea Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Trivia (5) | Personal Quotes (46) Overview (4) 5' 10" (1.78 m) Mini Bio (1) Iggy Azalea was born Amethyst Amelia Kelly, in Sydney, Australia. Her family later relocated to Mullumbimby, New South Wales, when she was still an infant, into a house on 12 acres that her father built by hand from mud bricks.

Her father was a painter and comics artist, while her mother cleaned holiday houses and hotels. Azalea says her father "made her look at art as a teenager", which has always influenced her life and work. Azalea began rapping at age 14. Before embarking on a solo career, Azalea formed a group with two other girls from her neighbourhood. In pursuit of her desire of moving to America, Azalea dropped out of high school; instead choosing to work and save the money she earned by cleaning hotel rooms and holiday houses with her mother. She claims to have hated school, which, besides her art class, only made her miserable. She also said she had no friends and was teased for her homemade outfits. Azalea traveled to the United States in 2006, right before she turned 16. She told her parents she was going "on a holiday" with a friend, but eventually decided to stay and shortly after told them she was not coming back home. After her arrival in America, she resided in the U.S. on a visa waiver for six years, leaving the country every three months to renew it.

She is currently in the country on a five-year O visa, having previously earned money illegally. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous Trivia (5) Ranked #96 on Maxim's "Hot 100" of 2014 list. Azalea is considered a protégé of rapper T.I. . Was engaged to professional basketball player Nick Young [June 1, 2015 to June 19, 2016]. Took her stage name from her childhood dog, Iggy, and Azalea Street, the street in Australia on which she grew up. Is the only other act besides The Beatles to rank numbers one and two simultaneously with her first two entries on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Personal Quotes (46) I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart. I love purple because my name is Amethyst. I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy.

I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary. I naturally want to be provocative. Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.' I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music. For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is. I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I. Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness. Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time. As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran. My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy. I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing. We don't really watch basketball in Australia. There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters. Not every artist is a role model. I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America. 'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name. I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick.

Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them. I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded. I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine. I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names. People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends. My management team are all women.

Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time. I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late! I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget. I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering. I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online. A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful. As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

There are many females in my life I couldn't function on a daily basis without who I've purposely put there that work with me. T.I. 's my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career. I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there. I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing! I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one. I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that. People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free. It's different, it's weird to say, 'She's a white rapper or she can't do this because she's this color - this color does this thing.

These are the boxes we have, this is what it is, don't try to change it.' And it's crazy to me because I'm just not from that world, so I can't really rock with it all the way. I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray. I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number! I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically. They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that?

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