Meet Bebe Rexha the voice behind recent hits and the songwriter for artists like Eminem and Selena Gomez.
Bebe Rexha is an Albanian-American singer songwriter.She is best renowned for her songwriting prowess for artists such as Eminem and Selena Gomez and of course for being a featured singer on several Billboard Hot 100 songs, including G-Eazy's Me, Myself & I, David Guetta's Hey Mama and on this week’s y101’s WT20 number one spot, Martin Garrix’s In the Name of Love.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York Bebe Rexha started her musical journey at a young age. Performing in musicals from the age of four, she soon started to hone her music skills in her early teens and was soon named Best Teen Songwriter at the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' annual Grammy Day event. Using this opportunity, she met a whole host of famous producers, which would later stand her in good stead when it came to her own career.
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She was approached by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz to form Black Cards. Intended to reflect Wentz's more experimental and electronic side, Rexha provided vocals to several EPs before she left the band in 2012 to embark on a solo career.
She started to upload demos and acoustic covers to YouTube before signing with Warner Bros. in 2013. She penned several hit songs for the likes of Selena Gomez (Like a Champion) and Nikki Williams (Glowing), but it was The Monster -- her composition for Eminem and Rihanna -- that really caught the attention of the industry.
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The track’s success allowed Rexha to prepare for life as a solo artist. She collaborated with EDM trio Cash Cash on their 2014 track Take Me Home. Following this success she released her first EP, I Don't Wanna Grow Up. As she continued to write for her full-length debut, Rexha scored a smash hit with rapper G-Eazy on their collaboration Me, Myself & I, which broke into the Billboard Top 100 and hit number one on several pop charts in 2016.
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