TEEN VOGUE: DUA LIPA ON HER DEBUT ALBUM AND HER FOUNDATION IN KOSOVO
At just 21 years old, Dua Lipa is in the middle of headlining her first North American tour, and just several months away (June 2 to be exact) from releasing her debut album. “It’s surreal,” the Londoner says as we sit backstage ahead of her sold-out New York City show at Irving Plaza. Onstage, Dua
PAPER: DUA LIPA’S DAD ORGANIZED A MUSIC FESTIVAL IN KOSOVO
On Saturday, Dua Lipa announced on Twitter that her father, Dukahjin Lipa, has created a music festival called the Sunnyhill Festival. Sunnyhill is a neighborhood in Kosovo’s capital, Prishtina, where the pop singer’s parents grew up. The British-Kosovan artist also responded to a fan tweet, saying, “Its always been home to me and thats
BORGEN: DUA LIPA DIRECTLY IMPROVES LIVES WITH SUNNY HILL FOUNDATION
In 2016, English singer, songwriter and model Dua Lipa established Sunny Hill Foundation, a charity organization set up in Prishtina-Kosovo dedicated to being a helping hand for the most vulnerable and in-need parts of the community. As its ultimate mission, Sunny Hill Foundation states, “We want to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values,
MTV UK: Dua Lipa was given the first ever key to hometown in Kosovo
Dua Lipa has been honored in a huge way by Kosovo. The ‘One Kiss’ superstar has close ties with Kosovo as her parents are Albanian and she lived there for a few years in her teens, and she has now been given a key to her hometown. This weekend she has returned to host
THE GUARDIAN: DUA LIPA’S FATHER STAGES MUSIC FESTIVAL FOR ‘PEACE-LOVING’ KOSOVO
New Rules star will perform at Pristina event organized to boost the country’s image. And her dad is playing too… Dukagjin Lipa had long wanted to organize a “proper festival” in his native Kosovo to put it on the cultural map and prove that Europe’s newest nation could be defined by more than
NEW YORK TIMES: CAN A MUSIC FESTIVAL MAKE KOSOVO COOL?
Last Friday afternoon, Dukagjin Lipa, 49, sat backstage at Kosovo’s first major music festival, bleary-eyed and trying to ignore the two cellphones ringing on the table in front of him. “Oh my God,” he said. “I didn’t sleep for 48 hours now.” Founding the three-day Sunny Hill Festival — headlined by his daughter, the