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Kesha was born during a party in the [[San Fernando Valley]] of Los Angeles to a single parent. Her mother, Pebe Sebert, a singer and songwriter, looked after then infant Kesha onstage while performing.<ref name=wwd>{{citation|url=http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/kesha-sebert-hard-candy-2248492|title=Kesha Sebert: Hard Candy|work=[[Women's Wear Daily]]|publisher=[[Fairchild Publications|Fairchild Fashion Group]]|first=Nick|last=Axelrod|date=August 26, 2009|accessdate=October 20, 2009}}</ref> Pebe was struggling financially while supporting Kesha and her older brother, Lagan,<ref name=guardian>{{citation|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/29/kesha-interview-elizabeth-day|title=She's a walking, talking living dollar|accessdate=November 29, 2009|date=November 29, 2009|first=Elizabeth|last=Day|publisher=[[Guardian News and Media Limited]]}}</ref> at the time and they had to rely on welfare payments and food stamps to get by.<ref name=bio>{{citation|url=http://www.keshasparty.com/us/biography|title=Official bio|publisher=[[Sony Music Entertainment]]|accessdate=December 17, 2009}}</ref> Pebe moved the family to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], [[Tennessee]] in 1991 after securing a publishing deal and Kesha spent the rest of her early years there. She often brought Kesha and her brothers, Lagan and Louis, along to recording studios<ref name=guardian/> and encouraged Kesha to sing<ref name=bio/> and taught her how to write songs.<ref name=guardian/>
Kesha was born during a party in the [[San Fernando Valley]] of Los Angeles to a single parent. Her mother, Pebe Sebert, a singer and songwriter, looked after then infant Kesha onstage while performing.<ref name=wwd>{{citation|url=http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/kesha-sebert-hard-candy-2248492|title=Kesha Sebert: Hard Candy|work=[[Women's Wear Daily]]|publisher=[[Fairchild Publications|Fairchild Fashion Group]]|first=Nick|last=Axelrod|date=August 26, 2009|accessdate=October 20, 2009}}</ref> Pebe was struggling financially while supporting Kesha and her older brother, Lagan,<ref name=guardian>{{citation|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/29/kesha-interview-elizabeth-day|title=She's a walking, talking living dollar|accessdate=November 29, 2009|date=November 29, 2009|first=Elizabeth|last=Day|publisher=[[Guardian News and Media Limited]]}}</ref> at the time and they had to rely on welfare payments and food stamps to get by.<ref name=bio>{{citation|url=http://www.keshasparty.com/us/biography|title=Official bio|publisher=[[Sony Music Entertainment]]|accessdate=December 17, 2009}}</ref> Pebe moved the family to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], [[Tennessee]] in 1991 after securing a publishing deal and Kesha spent the rest of her early years there. She often brought Kesha and her brothers, Lagan and Louis, along to recording studios<ref name=guardian/> and encouraged Kesha to sing<ref name=bio/> and taught her how to write songs.<ref name=guardian/>


The Sebert family was featured in an episode of ''[[The Simple Life]]'' in 2005, as the host family. Kesha was already working on her music by then<ref name=ew>{{citation|url=http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/12/11/kesha-tik-tok-interview/|title=Ke$ha: A Music Mix Q&A|December 11, 2009|first=Joseph|last=Lynch|accessdate=December 12, 2009|publisher=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> and at the age of seventeen she dropped out of Brentwood High School, after being convinced by [[Dr. Luke]] and [[Max Martin]] to return to Los Angeles and pursue a music career.<ref name=bio/> Dr. Luke had come across her demos and was so impressed<ref name=wwd/> that he contacted her with Martin and began flying her to New York and Los Angeles to record music.<ref name=ew/>
The Sebert family was featured in an episode of ''[[The Simple Life]]'' in 2005, as the host family. Kesha was already working on her music by then<ref name=ew>{{citation|url=http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/12/11/kesha-tik-tok-interview/|title=Ke$ha: A Music Mix Q&A|December 11, 2009|first=Joseph|last=Lynch|accessdate=December 12, 2009|publisher=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> and at the age of seventeen she dropped out of high school, after being convinced by [[Dr. Luke]] and [[Max Martin]] to return to Los Angeles and pursue a music career.<ref name=bio/> Dr. Luke had come across her demos and was so impressed<ref name=wwd/> that he contacted her with Martin and began flying her to New York and Los Angeles to record music.<ref name=ew/>


While in Los Angeles, Kesha survived on low income and few gigs at first, moonlighting as a waitress to make ends meet while furthering her music career in studio<ref name=guardian>{{citation|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/29/kesha-interview-elizabeth-day|title=She's a walking, talking living dollar|accessdate=November 29, 2009|date=November 29, 2009|first=Elizabeth|last=Day|publisher=[[Guardian News and Media Limited]]}}</ref><ref name=bio>{{citation|url=http://www.keshasparty.com/us/biography|title=Official bio|publisher=[[Sony Music Entertainment]]|accessdate=December 17, 2009}}</ref> and seeing talent scouts.<ref name=paullester/> She lived with her alleged father when she first moved there, after being introduced by her mother, and subsequently moved in with a boy she was interested in.<ref name=guardian/> She later lived in a shared house in [[Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California|Laurel Canyon]]<ref name=ew/> where the [[Eagles]] recorded ''[[Hotel California]]''<ref name=esquire/><ref name=paullester/> and at one point had lived out of her gold [[Pontiac_Firebird#Trans_Am|1978 Trans Am]].<ref name=BB/> Kesha went to jail for a brief stint, and when she got out she wanted [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] to produce her music then, so she found and snuck into his [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] home. Once discovered, she was thrown out, but not before she left her demo with Prince, who did not contact her afterwards.<ref name=bio/> She also had the opportunity to sing background for [[Paris Hilton]]'s second single, which led to an incident later where she vomited in Hilton's closet<ref name=ew/> and wrote a song about it.<ref name=paullester/>
While in Los Angeles, Kesha survived on low income and few gigs at first, moonlighting as a waitress to make ends meet while furthering her music career in studio<ref name=guardian>{{citation|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/29/kesha-interview-elizabeth-day|title=She's a walking, talking living dollar|accessdate=November 29, 2009|date=November 29, 2009|first=Elizabeth|last=Day|publisher=[[Guardian News and Media Limited]]}}</ref><ref name=bio>{{citation|url=http://www.keshasparty.com/us/biography|title=Official bio|publisher=[[Sony Music Entertainment]]|accessdate=December 17, 2009}}</ref> and seeing talent scouts.<ref name=paullester/> She lived with her alleged father when she first moved there, after being introduced by her mother, and subsequently moved in with a boy she was interested in.<ref name=guardian/> She later lived in a shared house in [[Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California|Laurel Canyon]]<ref name=ew/> where the [[Eagles]] recorded ''[[Hotel California]]''<ref name=esquire/><ref name=paullester/> and at one point had lived out of her gold [[Pontiac_Firebird#Trans_Am|1978 Trans Am]].<ref name=BB/> Kesha wanted [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] to produce her music then, so she found and snuck into his [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] home. Once discovered, she was thrown out, but not before she left her demo with Prince, who did not contact her afterwards.<ref name=bio/> She also had the opportunity to sing background for [[Paris Hilton]]'s second single, which led to an incident later where she vomited in Hilton's closet<ref name=ew/> and wrote a song about it.<ref name=paullester/>


Between 2006 and 2009, Kesha's music appeared in a variety of media. The song "Former Overexposed Blonde" appeared in ''[[Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'',<ref>{{citation|publisher=[[Epitome Pictures|Epitome Virtual Reality Inc.]]|title=Degrassi Season Six: Music Credits|url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061215/degrassi_music_seasonsix_061215?s_name=degrassi2006|accessdate=November 16, 2009}} Episode 603 – "True Colours"</ref> while "Backstabber"<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.mtv.com/shows/the_hills/season_3/episode_music.jhtml?episodeID=132760|title=The Hills › Season 3 › Songs From the Show|publisher=[[MTV Networks]]|accessdate=November 16, 2009}} Songs | Ep. 321 | "An Unexpected Friend"</ref> and "Chain Reaction" were used on ''[[The Hills]]''.<ref name=bio/> Her songs were used for background cues on ''Teen Cribs'',<ref>{{citation|accessdate=November 16, 2009|publisher=[[BMI]]|url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=0&ShowNbr=1446600000&ShowSeqNbr=3&querytype=WorkID|title=TEEN CRIBS-BG CUES}}</ref><ref>{{citation|accessdate=November 16, 2009|publisher=[[BMI]]|url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=0&ShowNbr=1446600000&ShowSeqNbr=2&querytype=WorkID|title=TEEN CRIBS-BG CUES}}</ref> and ''[[My Super Sweet 16]]''.<ref>{{citation|accessdate=November 16, 2009|publisher=[[BMI]]|url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&keyid=0&ShowNbr=1187140000&ShowSeqNbr=33&querytype=WorkID|title=MY SUPER SWEET 16-BG CUES}}</ref> However, she turned down a lucrative offer for one of her songs to appear in a fast food commercial because she did not think it was appropriate.<ref name=guardian/> During this time, she also co-wrote [[The Veronicas]]' single, "[[This Love (The Veronicas song)|This Love]]" with [[Toby Gad]],<ref name=nz/> sang background vocals for [[Britney Spears|Britney Spears']] song "Lace and Leather"<ref name=esquire>{{citation|last=Sullivan|first=Matt|url=http://www.esquire.com/the-side/qa/kesha-pics-081309|title=KE$HA and the Not-Quite-72 Virgins in Her Own Personal Heaven|publisher=[[Hearst Communications, Inc.]]|work=[[Esquire]]|date=August 13, 2009|accessdate=October 20, 2009}}</ref> and appeared in the video for [[Katy Perry]]'s single, "[[I Kissed a Girl]]". Her appearance in the video arose due to her being friends with Perry; they met frequently as aspiring pop singers in Los Angeles and shared many musical collaborators.<ref name=waps>{{citation|url=http://www.wearepopslags.com/2009/waps-interviews-kesha/|title=WAPS interviews Ke$ha|date=October 28, 2009|first=Geraint|publisher=We Are Pop Slags|accessdate=October 29, 2009}}</ref>
Between 2006 and 2009, Kesha's music appeared in a variety of media. The song "Former Overexposed Blonde" appeared in ''[[Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'',<ref>{{citation|publisher=[[Epitome Pictures|Epitome Virtual Reality Inc.]]|title=Degrassi Season Six: Music Credits|url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061215/degrassi_music_seasonsix_061215?s_name=degrassi2006|accessdate=November 16, 2009}} Episode 603 – "True Colours"</ref> while "Backstabber"<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.mtv.com/shows/the_hills/season_3/episode_music.jhtml?episodeID=132760|title=The Hills › Season 3 › Songs From the Show|publisher=[[MTV Networks]]|accessdate=November 16, 2009}} Songs | Ep. 321 | "An Unexpected Friend"</ref> and "Chain Reaction" were used on ''[[The Hills]]''.<ref name=bio/> Her songs were used for background cues on ''Teen Cribs'',<ref>{{citation|accessdate=November 16, 2009|publisher=[[BMI]]|url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=0&ShowNbr=1446600000&ShowSeqNbr=3&querytype=WorkID|title=TEEN CRIBS-BG CUES}}</ref><ref>{{citation|accessdate=November 16, 2009|publisher=[[BMI]]|url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=0&ShowNbr=1446600000&ShowSeqNbr=2&querytype=WorkID|title=TEEN CRIBS-BG CUES}}</ref> and ''[[My Super Sweet 16]]''.<ref>{{citation|accessdate=November 16, 2009|publisher=[[BMI]]|url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&keyid=0&ShowNbr=1187140000&ShowSeqNbr=33&querytype=WorkID|title=MY SUPER SWEET 16-BG CUES}}</ref> However, she turned down a lucrative offer for one of her songs to appear in a fast food commercial because she did not think it was appropriate.<ref name=guardian/> During this time, she also co-wrote [[The Veronicas]]' single, "[[This Love (The Veronicas song)|This Love]]" with [[Toby Gad]],<ref name=nz/> sang background vocals for [[Britney Spears|Britney Spears']] song "Lace and Leather"<ref name=esquire>{{citation|last=Sullivan|first=Matt|url=http://www.esquire.com/the-side/qa/kesha-pics-081309|title=KE$HA and the Not-Quite-72 Virgins in Her Own Personal Heaven|publisher=[[Hearst Communications, Inc.]]|work=[[Esquire]]|date=August 13, 2009|accessdate=October 20, 2009}}</ref> and appeared in the video for [[Katy Perry]]'s single, "[[I Kissed a Girl]]". Her appearance in the video arose due to her being friends with Perry; they met frequently as aspiring pop singers in Los Angeles and shared many musical collaborators.<ref name=waps>{{citation|url=http://www.wearepopslags.com/2009/waps-interviews-kesha/|title=WAPS interviews Ke$ha|date=October 28, 2009|first=Geraint|publisher=We Are Pop Slags|accessdate=October 29, 2009}}</ref>

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Kesha

Kesha Rose Sebert (Template:PronEng, KESH-ə; born March 1, 1987),[5] better known mononymously as Kesha (stylized as Ke$ha), is an American recording artist. Her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida's number one single "Right Round". Her debut single, "Tik Tok", was released in August 2009 and reached number one in four countries and set the female weekly download record in the US. Her debut album, Animal, was released in early 2010.

Life and career

1987–2009: Early life and career beginnings

Kesha was born during a party in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles to a single parent. Her mother, Pebe Sebert, a singer and songwriter, looked after then infant Kesha onstage while performing.[6] Pebe was struggling financially while supporting Kesha and her older brother, Lagan,[3] at the time and they had to rely on welfare payments and food stamps to get by.[7] Pebe moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee in 1991 after securing a publishing deal and Kesha spent the rest of her early years there. She often brought Kesha and her brothers, Lagan and Louis, along to recording studios[3] and encouraged Kesha to sing[7] and taught her how to write songs.[3]

The Sebert family was featured in an episode of The Simple Life in 2005, as the host family. Kesha was already working on her music by then[8] and at the age of seventeen she dropped out of high school, after being convinced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin to return to Los Angeles and pursue a music career.[7] Dr. Luke had come across her demos and was so impressed[6] that he contacted her with Martin and began flying her to New York and Los Angeles to record music.[8]

While in Los Angeles, Kesha survived on low income and few gigs at first, moonlighting as a waitress to make ends meet while furthering her music career in studio[3][7] and seeing talent scouts.[9] She lived with her alleged father when she first moved there, after being introduced by her mother, and subsequently moved in with a boy she was interested in.[3] She later lived in a shared house in Laurel Canyon[8] where the Eagles recorded Hotel California[2][9] and at one point had lived out of her gold 1978 Trans Am.[10] Kesha wanted Prince to produce her music then, so she found and snuck into his Beverly Hills home. Once discovered, she was thrown out, but not before she left her demo with Prince, who did not contact her afterwards.[7] She also had the opportunity to sing background for Paris Hilton's second single, which led to an incident later where she vomited in Hilton's closet[8] and wrote a song about it.[9]

Between 2006 and 2009, Kesha's music appeared in a variety of media. The song "Former Overexposed Blonde" appeared in Degrassi: The Next Generation,[11] while "Backstabber"[12] and "Chain Reaction" were used on The Hills.[7] Her songs were used for background cues on Teen Cribs,[13][14] and My Super Sweet 16.[15] However, she turned down a lucrative offer for one of her songs to appear in a fast food commercial because she did not think it was appropriate.[3] During this time, she also co-wrote The Veronicas' single, "This Love" with Toby Gad,[16] sang background vocals for Britney Spears' song "Lace and Leather"[2] and appeared in the video for Katy Perry's single, "I Kissed a Girl". Her appearance in the video arose due to her being friends with Perry; they met frequently as aspiring pop singers in Los Angeles and shared many musical collaborators.[17]

2009–present: "Right Round" and Animal

Kesha gained exposure in the mainstream media in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida's number one single, "Right Round".[10] The collaboration came about when Kesha was hanging out in studio with Flo Rida and Dr. Luke, who was producing the song; Flo Rida decided that the song needed a female voice and Kesha was then suggested for the part by Dr. Luke. Flo Rida liked the end result so much that they did two more songs.[5] She is not credited for her feature on "Right Round"[18][19] and therefore did not collect any money for the part.[10] She also refused to appear in the video because she wanted to become a legitimate artist in her own right.[20]

Soon after, it was announced that Kesha had signed with RCA Records[10] through Dr. Luke, after being sought after by many major labels,[4] and was working on her debut album.[7] On March 27, 2009, she appeared onstage alongside 3OH!3 at a concert at Avalon Hollywood to perform their duet, "My First Kiss". She later made her official stage debut at that year's Lollapalooza as part of the BMI Stage.[21] Her debut single, "TiK ToK", had been released digitally in the US in early August,[22] and was sent to radio two months later in October.[23] By then, Kesha had co-written the title song for Miley Cyrus' The Time of Our Lives EP, made appearances on Pitbull and Taio Cruz's albums,[17] and appeared on the cover on Women's Wear Daily.[21]

A number one placing in New Zealand for "TiK ToK" gave Kesha her first number one;[16] this was followed by number one positions in both Canada and Australia. It later reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100, the first number one of the decade,[18] and reached top five in several countries.[24] For its second week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, "TiK ToK" set the female download record and became the second best-selling single in a week, after "Right Round", for shifting 610,000 copies.[19]

Kesha later supported Calvin Harris on tour in the UK[17] and toured with Mickey Avalon in the US.[21] She also performed at Madison Square Garden on December 11, 2009 for the Z100 Jingle Ball. She has been announced as one of the acts for the 2010 revival of Lilith Fair.[25] Her debut album, entitled Animal, was released on January 5, 2010 in the US.[8]

Artistry

When asked by Pop Excess, Kesha listed Beck and Queen as her main musical influences.[26] She told RWD Magazine that she draws from rap music and old-school punk as well[1] and credits her older brother with exposing her to groups such as Fugazi and Dinosaur Jr.[5] She has been likened to a mix of Madonna and The Beastie Boys.[4]

"Tik Tok" (2009)
Kesha's debut single and one of her many rap-sung songs
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Jon Caramanica of The New York Times proclaimed that Kesha's rap-singing style in "TiK ToK" represented "the complete and painless assimilation of the white female rapper into pop music" as part of a crop of "white-girl rap" songs released in 2009, calling her a "double threat".[20]

In an interview with Digital Spy, Kesha described her music as irreverent and defended her decision to make pop music for her first album as opposed to "more serious acoustic stuff", explaining that she wanted to "give people something that brings them joy."[27] She has expressed interest in releasing a country music album in the future because of her love for the genre.[20]

Kesha's songwriting is rooted in her life experiences[10] and influenced by the storytelling style country music.[7] Her frank and humorous lyrics prompted Ryan Dombal of The Village Voice to compare her to Lily Allen and Katy Perry, however, he later concedes that "[d]istinguishing a Kesha song is surprisingly easy."[28] She has expressed frustration at the double standard for the objectification of women in songs; in her song "Boots and Boys," she makes it a point to sing the same way men traditionally sang about women.[3]

Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times noted that Kesha was drawing criticism for "reinvigorating the Girls Gone Wild sexual recklessness of a few years back." Powers disagrees, stating, "[s]he's a classic screwball blond, brassy like Jean Harlow and saucy like Mae West. Hating Kesha for kicking pretty boys to the curb and vomiting in the closet of some rich kid whose party she crashed is like saying West was too forward when she told Cary Grant to come up and see her sometime." She also remarks that Kesha should stick to "wisecracks and the slapstick", "where her power really lies." She also compared Kesha's vocal stylings to that of L'Trimm and Salt-N-Pepa.[29]

Kesha described her dress sense as "garbage-chic" to Entertainment Weekly and named Keith Richards as her fashion inspiration.[8] Paul Lester of The Guardian called her "the degenerate Hannah Montana" and stated that "her whole shtick appears to be predicated on the idea that she's a rebel in American Apparel." He also compared her music to "chav pop", "trailer trashy to the max – only it's so full-on it's almost like some postmodern arthouse joke."[9] On the dollar sign in her stage name, Kesha states that she was being ironic, in that she does not believe in placing an emphasis on earning money. It came about after her Flo Rida collaboration achieved success worldwide; and yet she did not receive any money to show for it.[3][8]

Discography

Main article: Kesha discography

See also

References

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