Daile
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.jpg) Daile in one of her signature outfits at the Samistopol Music Festival in Narozalica in 2016 | |
| Born | Matilde Anaita Dzene 14 March 1997 |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
| Net worth | $382 million |
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| Instruments | Vocals |
| Labels | Blue Sky |
| Associated acts | Essi Leppälä |
| Website | dailemusic |
Matilde Anaita Dzene (born 14 March 1997; aged 22), known professionally by her stage name Daile (/'daɪl/) is a Narozalic singer-songwriter of Selosian background and record producer known for her vocal versatility, irregular rhythms and beats and unconvential musical performances, styles and outfits. Born in the metropolis of Samistopol in 1997, Daile was quickly recognised for her musical talent and attended vocal classes as early as age 5. Her mother and father enrolled her at a musical college at 12, where she began recording her first material. She met Blue Sky Group director Petro Havrysh in 2010 who signed her to the label in the same year. Daile's newfound access to the label gave her extensive capacity to record her music, and met with producers from the label whom she collaborated with to release her debut project, Pillow Thoughts on October 24, 2013, aged just 16.
Diaries, the fourth song on the album, charted internationally and projected Daile onto the international scene, hitting number one in multiple countries in Euclea as well as number two in Halland and number four in Cassier. She made her first live appearance in 2014 at the Filimonovka Music Festival, where she is now a regular headlining act. Her debut album went platinum two months before the release of her second album, 97, in 2015, which debuted at number one in Narozalica and Velzemia. 97 gained widespread critical acclaim and was the first album which saw Daile deviate from contemporary vocalist and pop performances and into the realm of experimental art and electropop. She followed the success of 97 with her third album, alive, which continued her trend into experimental pop. The album debuted at number one in Narozalica like its predecessor and went platinum within the first two months of its release.
The genre of Daile's music is often widely defined by critics and various different genres but is usually defined as "art pop", "electropop" and "experimental". Popular Narozalic music review magazine NQL described Daile as "one of the most popular teenagers in musical history" and "a pioneer in both the electropop scene and mainstream music in general". Daile's three albums have sold over ten million copies worldwide since the release of Pillow Thoughts, and was shortlisted to represent Narozalica at Euclovision in 2017, but ultimately rejected the offer.
Life and career
1997–2013: Early life
Matilde Anaita Dzene was born into a family of five in the coastal city of Samistopol in Narozalica on March 14, 1997. Her father worked as a builder and her mother was unemployed and mainly stayed home to look after the children. Daile's music often reflects a heavily lopsided mother-father presence in her music, detailing her strained relationship with her father from a young age due to his alleged alcoholism. Both her parents are of Selosian descent and immigrants from Swetania, her grandmother on her mother's side was a quarter Caldian. Daile holds both Narozalic and Caldian citizenship and currently resides in Caldia, although she has stated that her Caldian home has nothing to do with her family's heritage. Daile has three siblings.
At a young age, Daile listened to many popular pop singers that influenced her decision to begin singing and music, however her biggest influences can be found from Caldish singer The Duchess, whom Daile is now close friends with. In a 2014 interview, Daile claimed she had listened to her debut album "at least a hundred times" and could recite the album "word-for-word". Daile had been singing for almost seven years before her parents enrolled her in a music school in 2009, aged just twelve. She met Blue Sky Records director Petro Havrysh who signed her to his expansive label after witnessing her talent first hand in 2010, however Daile remained adament in her reluctance to release a project at such a young age, and instead saw her tenure at her college through until she was 16.
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2013–2015: Pillow Thoughts and worldwide success
On October 24, 2013, Daile released her debut project Pillow Thoughts on all platforms through the Blue Sky Label, with the album gaining immediate popularity throughout Euclea. Her harmonious vocals earned her debut album a spot on the charts in many countries, with one of the album's songs, Diaries, hitting number one in multiple countries. The success brought about by the album propelled Daile into the international pop scene at the young age of 16, while simultaneously becoming the youngest ever number one charter in Narozalic history, at just 16 years and 286 days. She announced her first tour, the Dairies Tour, on the January of 2014, where she visited much of northern Euclea. She played her first live performance in Samistopol on her birthday on 2014 before travelling into Velzemia and Lechizna, touring with Gaullican producer Isaac Carré, who had assisted Daile in the making of many of her songs, including Diaries.
Her tour was a large commercial success that brought Daile widespread popularity in fame, cementing her as a musical icon in Euclea, despite her young age. She resigned with Blue Sky in 2014 following the conclusion of her tour, for a five year contract worth approximately $29 million - and continued to work with Carré at the label to produce music. It was also in 2014 that Daile became close friends with Velzemian singer Essi Leppälä, with the two developing a close relationship as Leppälä accompanied Daile as a backing act during her Pillow Thoughts Tour. While performing at a concert in Maljubav, Leppälä was revealed as a surprise act and the two performed a song that would later appear on their collaborative 2009 album a year after.
2015-: 97, 2009 and alive
Shortly after the tour, Daile released her third album, 97, out of the blue, with no supporting singles or prior information or release date coming with the album. Released on February 16, 2015, 97 would continue to expand upon Daile's growing reliance on the synth and electronic side of the pop genre, and got critical acclaim for such. Now becoming commonplace in her albums now, 97 debuted at number one on Narozalic charts, surpassing 450,000 sales on its first week of release, the most of any Narozalic musician up until that point. She supported the album with the 97 Tour in early 2015 but only toured domestically, which prompted many music magazines and theorists to speculate that another project or something else significant was coming in the near future, and, as predicted, Daile announced the release of her and Leppälä's collaborative project 2009 on May 19, 2015.
2009 was a continuation of Daile's textbook style but a deviation from the normality and heartiness of Leppälä's disco-pop ballad mixture. It featured Leppälä's vocals over instrumentals and produced electronic beats more commonly found in Daile's work. Despite it being Leppälä's first real step out of her comfort zone, critics praised her exemplary performance on the album, with Narozalic music magazine NQL rating it an 8.8/10 and the album winning the AKMA Music Awards' Album of the Year for 2015, the first time Daile had ever done so. It was in 2015, and during the recording of 2009, when Daile announced she would be moving to Caldia, citing a "love for the culture and country of Caldia" as her reasons for departing. Daile and Leppälä went on a small tour to support the release of 2009, visiting major cities such as Verlois, Samistopol and Arciluco in their tour.
In the period after the release of 2009, Daile suffered a breakup with her then-boyfriend Antonin Thiel, at the age of 18. Shortly after the breakup was publicly announced and reported on by major news outlets across the globe, Daile blacked out all of her social media and retreated from public life for the best part of two years. On April 10, 2017, she posted a message to her chirper profile stating "I'm back. April 17.", which garnered over a million likes. She released the lead single for her upcoming album, called "Two", on the scheduled April 17 date. Supported by another single, "People Like Us", on April 30, Daile released her fourth solo album alive on May 16, 2017, which broke the first-week sales record for an album, garnering over 900,000, and holding it for several months. alive charted at number one in multiple Euclean countries.
Name
"Daile" is a Selosian word with no literal Newreyan translation, but it can be best described as "the appreciation of something or somebody's beauty". She adopted the stage name in 2010.