Chloe x Halle

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Chloe x Halle
Chloe x Halle (2018)
Chloe x Halle (2018)
General information
origin Atlanta , Georgia , USA
Genre (s) Contemporary R&B
founding 2013
Website chloexhalle.com
Founding members
Chloe Bailey
Hall Bailey
Chart placements
(preliminary)
Explanation of the data
Albums
Ungodly hour
  UK 80 06/25/2020 (1 week)
  US 16 06/27/2020 (... Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / provisional / 2020 where.)
Singles
Do It
  US 83 06/27/2020 (3 weeks)

Chloe x Halle is an American contemporary R&B duo, consisting of the sisters Chloe (born July 1, 1998) and Halle Bailey (born March 27, 2000). You were nominated for the 2019 Grammy Awards .

Career

Hailing from Atlanta , Georgia , the two sisters began posting covers of popular songs on YouTube . Her version of Beyoncé's Pretty Hurts, in particular, was hit with over 15 million views. Among other things, Beyoncé himself became aware of it, whereby the two received a contract with the Parkwood Entertainment label in 2015 . They can be seen on Beyoncé's album Lemonade .

On April 29, 2016 they released their first EP with Sugar Symphony , with the song Drop they appeared at the BET Awards 2016.

The Rolling Stone lists her 2017 published Mixtape The Two of Us as one of the top 20 R & B albums of the year 2017. They wrote the song Grown as the theme song of the ABC series Grown-ish - a spin-off of the series Black-ish - in which the two play a leading role themselves.

Her debut album The Kids Are Alright was released on March 23, 2018. The song Warrior , which appeared on this album, also served as the soundtrack for the film The Time Puzzle .

At Super Bowl LIII on February 3, 2019 in Atlanta, they sang America the Beautiful before the game started , and their performance was well received.

Awards

Chloe x Halle were nominated for the NAACP Image Awards 2017, the BET Awards 2018, the MTV Video Music Awards 2018 and the MTV Europe Music Awards .

They were also nominated for the 2019 Grammy Awards in the categories of Best New Artist and Best Urban Contemporary Album .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK US
  2. ↑ Our push in July: Chloe x Halle on mtv.de, July 3, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ Watch Chloe x Halle's Rousing BET Awards Performance on rap-up.com, June 27, 2016, accessed on February 5, 2019.
  4. ↑ 20 Best R&B Albums of 2017 , Rolling Stone , December 20, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ Sarah Jasmine Montgomery: Chloe x Halle Debut 'grown-ish' Theme Song With New Video on complex.com, December 31, 2017, accessed February 5, 2019.
  6. ↑ Ali Booth: Listen: Chloe X Halle Drop Debut Album 'The Kids Are Alright' on tigerbeat.com, March 23, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019.
  7. ↑ Tracy Wright: Chloe x Halle are flawless! Beyonce's teen protégés delight Super Bowl crowd with dazzling version of America the Beautiful on dailymail.co.uk, February 4, 2018, accessed February 5, 2019.
  8. ↑ Tiffany Silva: Chloe and Halle sly NAACP Image Awards Luncheon on bckonline.com, January 30, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2019 (English).
  9. ↑ BET Awards
  10. ↑ Michelle Kim and Amy Phillips: MTV VMAs 2018: See The Full List of Nominees Here on pitchfork.com, August 20, 2018, accessed February 5, 2019.
  11. ↑ Nate Nickolai: Camila Cabello, Ariana Grande Lead MTV's 2018 EMA Nominations , Variety , October 4, 2018, accessed February 5, 2019.
  12. ↑ 2019 Grammy Awards: Complete Nominations List on the Grammy Awards website .