Amethyst Amelia Kelly is well-known professionally as Iggy Azalea, an Australian rapper, songwriter, and model. At the age of 16, Azalea moved from Australia to the United States to pursue a career in music.
Azalea earned public recognition after releasing the music videos for her songs “Pussy” and “Two Times” on YouTube, both of which gained rapid popularity. Azalea shortly after released her debut mixtape, Ignorant Art (2011), and subsequently signed a recording contract with American rapper T.I.’s Grand Hustle label.
What is Iggy short for?
Iggy or Iggie is a unisex name and it is often a short form of the Roman Latin names Ignatia (feminine) and Ignatius (masculine), or their derivatives in other European languages. But Kelly chose the name Iggy after her dog.
Kelly was born in Sydney and grew up in Mullumbimby, New South Wales. Her father, Brendan Kelly, was an Irish-Australian painter and comic artist, while her mother, Tanya, cleaned holiday houses and hotels. Azalea lived in a house that her father built by hand from mud bricks, surrounded by 5 hectares (12 acres) of land. She has two siblings named Mathias and Emerald Kelly.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
