Halsey is the kind of artist that commands attention wherever she goes.

The 22-year-old New Jersey singer, whose real name is Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, has had quite an interesting career path.

Starting in 2012, she began posting videos of her singing on her Tumblr and YouTube accounts. Her most famous video was a parody of Taylor Swift’s song “I Knew You Were Trouble” in which she poked fun at Swift’s relationship with Harry Styles.

After dropping out of college and getting kicked out of her parents’ house, Frangipane bounced around living spaces and started playing acoustic shows in various cities. She eventually chose her stage name “Halsey” because it was the name of a street in Brooklyn where she spent a lot of her time as a teenager, as well as an anagram of her actual name.

One night at a party, she met a producer who asked her to collaborate on a song. This meeting resulted in Halsey posting her first song, “Ghost,” on SoundCloud a few weeks after she recorded it. The song gained popularity overnight and Halsey was contacted by several record labels soon after. She eventually decided to sign with Astralwerks because she felt that they gave her more creative freedom.

In 2014, Halsey toured with the Kooks while she was working on her debut album. On Oct. 27 she released her debut EP, Room 93, which charted at No. 3 on the Top Heatseekers chart.

In 2015, she performed at South by Southwest and was the most tweeted about artist of the night. She began the American Youth Tour with co-headliners Young Rising Sons in March. In June, Halsey opened for Imagine Dragons on the North American Leg of their Smoke + Mirrors Tour.

After much anticipation, Halsey released her debut album, Badlands, on Aug. 28, 2015. It debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA. Halsey described Badlands as a concept album about a dystopian society that she used as a metaphor for her mental state. There were four singles from the album, “Ghost,” “New Americana,” “Colors” and “Castle” which were all certified gold by the RIAA since their release.

Halsey supported the album with the Badlands Tour, which was broken into three “installments.” It started on Sept. 30, 2015 and ended Sept. 18, 2016, with supporting acts such as LANY, Flor, Bad Suns and Oh Wonder. The tour hit cities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia.

On July 29, 2016, Halsey scored her first number one single when she collaborated with the Chainsmokers on “Closer.” The song stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 12 consecutive weeks and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. It was eventually certified 7x platinum by the RIAA, with 2,784,000 certified sales.

Before Badlands was even released, Halsey was already working on her second album. In January, she released the single “Not Afraid Anymore” for the Fifty Shades Darker movie soundtrack. On Apr. 4, “Now or Never” was the first single released off of the upcoming album. The song peaked at No. 3 on the US Mainstream Top 40 chart and at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her second and third singles, “Eyes Closed” and “Strangers (ft. Lauren Jauregui)” were released on May 4 and May 26, respectively.

On June 2, Halsey’s second album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, was released. It debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Top 200 chart and made Halsey the first female artist in 2017 to have a number one album. She based the album’s concept off of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet and adapted it to her real life prolonged breakup with singer/producer Lido.

To support the new album, Halsey announced the Hopeless Fountain Kingdom Tour set for fall 2017. The first installment begins on Sept. 29 and runs until Nov. 22 with supporting acts Partynextdoor and Charli XCX. The tour will hit cities such as Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Atlanta, Orlando, Dallas and Los Angeles. She will be playing at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Oct. 10.

With her electropop and alternative tracks, it won’t take long for you to get hooked on Halsey’s music. But the one thing that will grab your attention is the honesty she puts into her lyrics and songs. She’s never going to portray herself as someone she’s not. As she has said in numerous interviews, “I will never be anything but honest.”

If you want to check out more from Halsey, check her out on Spotify or Apple Music/Itunes as well as her social media pages:

Twitter- @halsey

Facebook- @HalseyMusic

Instagram- @iamhalsey

Website- www.iamhalsey.com