Iggy Azalea

Amethyst Amelia Kelly, better known as Iggy Azalea, was born in Sydney, Australia in June of 1990. She began rapping at age 14, and with the desire to go to america she dropped out of high school to work and make money. She started working with her mother cleaning hotel rooms and holiday houses.Azalea traveled to the United States in 2006, right before she turned 16. She told her parents she was going "on a holiday" with a friend, but eventually decided to stay and shortly afterwards told them she was not coming back home: "I was drawn to America because I felt like an outsider in my own country, I was in love with hip hop, and America is the birthplace of that, so I figured the closer I was to the music, the happier I'd be. I was right"(Azalea). After her arrival in America, she obtained her GED and resided in the U.S. on a visa waiver for six years, leaving the country every three months to renew it. She is currently in the country on a five-year O visa, having previously earned money illegally. 

When she first arrived in the United States, she stayed in Miami, Florida, and afterwards lived briefly in Houston, Texas, Azalea settled for a few years in Atlanta, Georgia, working with a member of the Dungeon Family named Backbone. She took her stage name from the name of her childhood dog, Iggy, and the street she grew up on, Azalea Street, where her family lives to this day. She said people would laugh at her because "they thought my raps sucked." But having grown up getting laughed at, she was able to shrug it off. Meanwhile, she'd met someone from Interscope Records who kept encouraging her to move to Los Angeles, and so in the summer of 2010, she decided to do so. She was briefly managed by Interscope. In 2011 she started posting freestyle rap videos online and got popular very quickly. 

Today Iggy Azalea is proforming all over the world and collaberating with many other artists such as, Rita Ora, Charlie XCX, Robin Thicke, Ariana Grande, and so many more. She models and hosts her own TV show called House of style and will be in the next Fast and Furious coming out in 2015.