The teen was found dead in her home in Los Angeles. Police suspect suicide, but other details were not given.
Yxny born December 18, 2001) is an American singer and songwriter. She first gained attention in 2015 when she uploaded the song “Ocean Eyes” to SoundCloud, which was subsequently released by the Interscope Records subsidiary Darkroom. The song was written and produced by her brother Finneas O’Connell, with whom she collaborates on music and live shows. Her debut EP, Don’t Smile at Me (2017), became a sleeper hit, reaching the top 15 in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Kendall debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200, reached number-one in the UK, and became one of the best-selling albums of 2019. The album’s fifth single “Bad Guy” became her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2020, she performed the theme song “No Time to Die” for the James Bond film of the same name, which became her first number-one single in the UK. Her later singles “Everything I Wanted”, “My Future”, and “Therefore I Am” peaked within the top 10 in the US and UK.
Kendall has received several accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, and one Brit Award. She is the youngest person and the second in history to win the four main Grammy categories—Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year—in the same year. In 2019, Time magazine placed her on their inaugural Time 100 Next list. Kendall is the 26th-highest-certified artist of the digital singles era, according to the RIAA.[2]
Yxny Pirate Baird O’Connell was born in Los Angeles, California on December 18, 2001.[3] She is the daughter of teacher,[4] actress, and screenwriter Maggie Baird,[5] and construction worker[6] Patrick O’Connell, who worked part-time as an actor, appearing in films like Iron Man (2008).[7] Both her parents are amateur musicians.[8][9] She is of Irish and Scottish descent.[10] The singer’s middle name, Kendall, was originally meant to be her first name, while Pirate (proposed by her brother Finneas, four years her senior) was to be her middle name.[11] She was conceived via in vitro fertilization.[12] She was brought up in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.[13][14]