Lindsey Stirling
Lindsey Stirling (born September 21, 1986 in Santa Ana , Orange County , California ) is an American violinist , stage artist and composer . She presents choreographed violin performances both live and in music videos.
Private life
Stirling grew up with two sisters in Gilbert , Arizona . She studied therapeutic relaxation at Brigham Young University in Provo , Utah . A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a Mormon denominational group , she did a volunteer missionary service in New York . Since December 2012 she lives in Arizona again. In 2015, Stirling graduated from the Marriott School of Brigham Young University (BYU).
Musical career
She got her first violin lessons at the age of six. The urge to learn this instrument came from Stirling herself, her parents initially denied her the request because of the costs involved. At the age of 16 she became part of the rock band Stomp On Melvin , to which her four best friends belonged and with whom she made her first experiments in the direction of rock 'n' roll . Also at the age of 16 she began composing her own pieces of music, which she calls "violin rock songs".
In 2007 she opened her YouTube channel Lindsey Stirling , on which she published many of her music videos. Since then, the channel has had over 2.7 billion video views (as of November 11, 2019) and over 12 million subscribers. In 2010, Stirling was a quarter-finalist on the fifth season of America's Got Talent , which made her famous as a hip-hop violinist .
Stirling has participated in numerous national competitions and is known for its musical versatility, which ranges from country to hip-hop . She played in Las Vegas clubs, NBA halftime shows, and other venues across the United States. She also appeared as a support act or together with artists such as Sean Kingston , Donny Osmond , Alan Jackson , Samuel Ameglio , Shaun Barrowes , Benton Paul and with the interpreters The Piano Guys and Tiffany Alvord , who have also become known through YouTube . In 2013 she started her first world tour and presented her violin art with dubstep, among other things . From January 14th to 24th, 2013 she gave concerts in Germany, all of which were sold out. In 2014, Stirling received an award for the first time, the Echo in the crossover category (national or international) . In 2015 she started her world tour "The Music Box".
In 2016, after working on her new album Brave Enough, she began another summer tour through the USA and was also represented at individual festivals in Germany.
Another tour through Europe took place in spring 2017, including a. on March 9th in Berlin. The concert in the Max-Schmeling-Halle was sold out.
In the series The Outpost , which started in 2018, Lindsey Stirling plays a recurring supporting role for the first time in season 1 from episode 6 as a singing and music- making vagabond or vagabond named Pock , who robs others. In 2016 Stirling was a participating violinist in the Walt Disney film Elliot, the Dragon .
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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 UK
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 US
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| 2012 | Lindsey Stirling Lindsey Stirling (Re-Release) |
DE4th  × 3
(81 weeks)DE |
AT1  (68 weeks)AT |
CH5 (66 weeks)CH |
- |
US23 (96 weeks)US |
First published: September 18, 2012
Sales: + 815,000 |
| 2014 | Shatter Me |
DE4th (29 weeks)DE |
AT3 (27 weeks)AT |
CH3 (21 weeks) CH |
UK95 (1 week) UK |
US2 (32 weeks)US |
First published: April 29, 2014
Sales: + 707,500 |
| 2016 | Brave Enough |
DE4 (12 weeks) DE |
AT5 (7 weeks) AT |
CH3 (10 weeks) CH |
UK100 (1 week) UK |
US5 (7 weeks) US |
First published: August 19, 2016
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| 2017 | Warmer in the winter |
DE52 (1 week) DE |
AT43 (1 week) AT |
CH40 (2 weeks) CH |
- |
US22 (21 weeks) US |
First published: October 20, 2017
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| 2019 | Artemis |
DE19 (4 weeks) DE |
AT22 (3 weeks) AT |
CH13 (6 weeks) CH |
- |
US22 (1 week) US |
First published: September 6, 2019
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Live albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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DE
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AT
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CH
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UK
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US
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| 2015 | Live from London |
DE8 (6 weeks) DE |
AT60 (1 week) AT |
CH35 (4 weeks) CH |
- | - |
First published: August 7, 2015
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EPs
- 2010: Lindsey Stomp (First published November 5, 2010)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
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DE
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AT
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CH
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US
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| 2012 | Crystallize Lindsey Stirling |
DE39 (11 weeks) DE |
AT28 (9 weeks) AT |
CH37 (12 weeks) CH |
US- |
First published: September 18, 2012
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| 2014 | Shatter Me Shatter Me |
DE59 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - |
US- |
First published: April 23, 2014
feat. Lzzy Hale |
| Take Flight Shatter Me |
- |
AT74 (1 week) AT |
- | - |
First published: May 2, 2014
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| 2015 | Hallelujah | - | - | - |
US81 (1 week) US |
First published: December 4th, 2015
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More singles
- 2014: Beyond the Veil
- 2014: Master of Tides
- 2016: The Arena
- 2016: Something Wild (feat. Andrew McMahon )
- 2016: Prism
- 2016: Hold My Heart (feat.ZZ Ward)
- 2017: Love's Just a Feeling (feat.Rooty)
- 2017: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- 2017: Christmas C'mon ( feat.Becky G )
- 2018: Warmer in the Winter ( feat.Trombone Shorty )
- 2019: Underground
- 2019: The Upside (solo or feat. Elle King )
Guest Posts
- 2013: Radioactive (US:gold) ( Pentatonix feat. Lindsey Stirling)
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
gold |
platinum
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Sales | swell |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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Germany (BVMI)
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gold1
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2 × platinum2
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500,000 | musikindustrie.de |
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Austria (IFPI)
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gold1
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platinum1
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27,500 | ifpi.at |
 Poland (ZPAV)
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gold1
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- | 10,000 | bestsellery.zpav.pl |
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Switzerland (IFPI)
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gold1
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- | 15,000 | hitparade.ch |
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United States (RIAA)
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4 × gold4th
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platinum1
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3,000,000 | riaa.com |
| All in all |
8 × gold8th
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4 × platinum4th
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Artist awards
- 2013: YouTube Music Award in the Response of the Year category for an interpretation of the song Radioactive (with Pentatonix )
- 2013: Streamy Award in the Best Choreography category
- 2014: Echo in the Crossover National / International category for the album Lindsey Stirling
- 2014: Streamy Award in the Best Musical Artist category
- 2015: Echo in the Crossover National / International category for Shatter Me
- 2015: Billboard Music Award in the Top Dance / Electronic Album category for Shatter Me
- 2015: YouTube Music Award in the Artist of the Year category
- 2017: Billboard Music Award in the Top Dance / Electronic Album category for Brave Enough
Nominations
- 2014: Echo as Newcomer International
- 2014: Billboard Music Award in the Top Dance / Electronic Album category for Lindsey Stirling
- 2014: Teen Choice Award in the Choice Web Star: Music category for Shatter Me
- 2015: Billboard Music Award in the Top Dance / Electronic Artist category
- 2017: Billboard Music Award in the Top Dance / Electronic Artist category
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The band around Lindsey Stirling currently consists of three members:
- Lindsey Stirling: violin
- Drew Steen: drums (since 2012)
- Kit Nolan: keyboardist (since 2015)
Former members:
- Jason "Gavi" Gaviati †: keyboardist (2012-2015). Gaviati died on November 21, 2015.
Autobiography
On June 21, 2015, Stirling announced that she had been working on her autobiography "The Only Pirate At The Party" with her sister and co-author Brooke S. Passey for the past two and a half years. She published it on January 12, 2016 in Gallery Books Verlag. On January 30 of the same year, the New York Times ranked the book 10th among the best-selling non-fictional books.
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- ↑ Epic Violin Girl - Lindsey Stirling. (No longer available online.) In: adanx.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2011 ; Retrieved October 31, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information from Youtube
- ↑ Brooke Self: Lindsey Stirling — hip hop violinist. In: HerCampus.com. Retrieved October 31, 2011 .
- ↑ Len Melisurgo: 'America's Got Talent' - Official list of Top 48 for Season 5 announced . In: NJ.com , July 8, 2010. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ↑ 200 million YouTube clicks: Lindsey Stirling mixes the violin and DubStep . In: TONIGHT , January 12, 2013. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
- ↑ IMDb data for the series The Outpost , listed here under "Series Cast" . Retrieved October 19, 2018.
- ↑ Announcement of the official "outpostseries" account on Instagram for the series The Outpost . Retrieved October 19, 2018.
- ↑ IMDb data for the film Elliot, the Dragon , listed here under "Music Department" . Retrieved October 19, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Chart placements: DE AT CH US
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stirling, Lindsey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American violinist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orange County , California , United States |