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Dua Lipa was born on 22 August 1995 in London, the first-born daughter of Kosovo Albanian refugees from the Yugoslav Wars, Dukagjin Lipa and Anesa Lipa (née Rexha). They were from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo), and moved to London in 1992, settling in a refugee society from their home country in Camden. The couple left Kosovo around the time the siege of Sarajevo occurred and before the Kosovo War started. Through her maternal grandmother, Lipa is also of Bosnian [...]
[Bebe] Rexha was born on August 30, 1989 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, to ethnic Albanian parents. Her father, Flamur Rexha, was born in Debar, North Macedonia, when it was part of Yugoslavia. He immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 21, and her mother, Bukurije Rexha, was born in the U.S. to an Albanian family with roots in Gostivar, North Macedonia. In the Albanian language, bletë means "bee"; and she explained "My parents are Albanian, and people started calling me 'Bebe' for [...]"
Amanda Ava Koci was born Amanda Koci, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1994. Max's parents are from Albania; her father, Paul, is from Qeparo and her mother, Andrea, is from Sarandë. Max also has an older brother. In 1991, her parents fled Albania after the fall of communism in the country, and lived in a church in Paris for a year. While in Paris, they [...]
[Rita] Ora was born in Pristina, Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo), to Albanian parents. Her mother, Vera (née Bajraktari), is a psychiatrist, and her father, Besnik Sahatçiu, is a pub owner, having previously studied economics. Ora has an older sister, Elena, and a younger brother, Don. She was born as Rita Sahatçiu (pronounced [sahat'tʃiu]; surname derived from the Turkish word saatçi, which means [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ulgghazffkoyoeyobrur6pdi/bafkreibdpfu4kgrfqoawnh3i5dul6wvsfh4rb7dfnqxcri4aenkd3hcwue)
