Celeste (singer)

This article is about the singer in the United Kingdom. For other performers named Celeste, see Celeste (name).

Celeste
Celeste at the 2020 Royal Variety Performance
Celeste at the 2020 Royal Variety Performance
Background information
Birth nameCeleste Epiphany Waite
Born (1994-05-05) 5 May 1994 (age 30)
Culver City, California, U.S.
OriginBrighton, East Sussex, England
Genres
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active2014–present
Labels
Websitecelesteofficial.com

Celeste Epiphany Waite (born 5 May 1994)[6] is a British singer and songwriter. She began her career in 2014 providing vocals for electronic producers such as Avicii, Tieks and Real Lies, while also self-publishing content onto SoundCloud on the side. She made her solo debut via Lily Allen's vanity label Bank Holiday Records with the EP The Milk & the Honey (2017), and then released her second EP Lately (2019) after signing with Polydor Records in 2018.

In 2019, Celeste topped the BBC's annual Sound of... poll and won the Rising Star Award at the Brit Awards.[7] Her debut album Not Your Muse was released in 2021 and debuted atop the UK Albums Chart. It earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best Female Solo Artist and Best New Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards, as well as the 2021 Mercury Prize. In the same year, Celeste was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing her song "Hear My Voice" from the film The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).

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