Elle King

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Singer • Songwriter • Musician • Personality • Actress

Birth Date: July 3, 1989

Age: 34 years old

Birth Place: Los Angeles, California

Parents: Rob Schneider

With its pounding drums, fuzz guitar and sultry vocal, Elle King's "Ex's and Oh's" became a breakout hit in 2015, placing King on the short list of artists to score a Top Ten hit and two Grammy nominations with the first single of their first album. Born Tanner Elle Schneider to a showbiz family in Los Angeles, her parents are model/actress London King and former Saturday Night Live cast member Rob Schneider; they divorced in her childhood and King moved with her mother to Ohio. Though she appeared alongside her dad in 2009's Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, her heart was in pursuing a music career. Hearing a Donnas album at age nine was her indoctrination to punk; as a teenager she listened to roots rock and country while learning to play guitar and banjo. After traveling internationally and attending the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, she settled in Brooklyn and began performing. By 2012 she'd worked up a fanbase as well as an industry buzz, signing to RCA on the strength of her club shows. The first single "Good to Be a Man" came out that year, followed by the four-song Elle King EP, which RCA released jointly with the blues-oriented label Fat Possum. The track "Playing for Keeps" became the theme of VH1's Mob Wives Chicago. King played major festivals and made numerous TV appearances, becoming a high-profile artist while having released only five tracks. "Ex's and Oh's" was released in September 2014 and made King a star. Her onstage charisma was duly noted as her voice earned frequent comparisons to Amy Winehouse. The song earned 2016 Grammy nominations as Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance; though it didn't win the album produced two further hits in "Under the Influence" and "America's Sweetheart"; she then made a new single "Good Girls" for the "Ghostbusters" (2016) soundtrack. 2015-16 found her opening major tours for Modest Mouse and the Dixie Chicks while stockpiling material for her second album.

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New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash

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New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash

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CMA Fest

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CMA Fest

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57th ACM Awards: Nominees to Watch

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Elle King feat. Dierks Bentley: Worth A Shot

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No. 1 Hot Country

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New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash

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CBS Mornings

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Secret Celebrity RenovationStream

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56th Academy of Country Music Awards

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Elle King & Miranda Lambert: Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)

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Country: Summer Kickoff

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No. 1 Hot Country

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Elle King: Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) (Acoustic Performance)

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55th Academy of Country Music Awards

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2020

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GMA3: What You Need to Know

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GMA3: What You Need to Know

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At Home and Social

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2020

Elle King: The Let Go

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Miranda Lambert Feat Maren Morris, Elle King, Ashley McBryde, Tenille Townes & Caylee Hammack

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2019

The Kelly Clarkson ShowStream

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2019

Today With Hoda & Jenna

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2019

Trailblazer Honors 2019

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Lindsey Stirling Feat. Elle King: The Upside

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Dolly & Friends: The Making of a Soundtrack

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2018

Elle King: Good Thing Gone (Live From London)

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Guys of the ACM

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2018

Elle King: Baby Outlaw

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2018

Live with Kelly and Ryan

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2017

The 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

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2016

Elle King: Good Girls (From the Ghostbusters Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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2016

American Supergroup

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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2016

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Dierks Bentley Feat. Elle King: Different for Girls

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Elle King: Good Girls

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Dierks Bentley Feat. Elle King: Different For Girls

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Alex Da Kid Feat. X Ambassadors, Elle King & Wiz Khalifa: Not Easy

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Best New Alternative Playlist

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2016

The Late Show With Stephen ColbertStream

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2015

The Late Late Show With James CordenStream

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2015

Elle King: Under the Influence

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Elle King: America's Sweetheart

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Late Night With Seth MeyersStream

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2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonStream

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2014

Elle King: Ex's & Oh's

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Catfish: The TV ShowStream

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2012

Live! With Kelly and Michael

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2012

Entertainment Studios.TV

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Sunday Brunch

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2011

LIVE with Kelly

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2011

The Talk

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2010

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2009

Say Yes to the DressStream

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Inas Nacht

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The Graham Norton ShowStream

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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American Idol

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2003
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Woodsongs

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