Bibi Rexa is a young singer, songwriter and musician. Born in the states but with Albanian roots, Bibi dreamed of a career in the music industry from a very young age. She began her career in school performances, performing songs from musicals and playing the trumpet and piano.
Bibi Rexa is the stage name of the currently popular American singer. The real name of the artist is Blet Rex. The name "Bleta" has Albanian roots, in translation it means "bee". However, when the girl began to actively build her musical career, she decided that it would be more appropriate to take for herself a pseudonym that would become easy to remember.
Singer biography: childhood and adolescence
Blet Rex was born into a family with Albanian roots. Her father once moved to the states, where he met his future wife and mother, Bibi. Although Bibi Rexa's mother was a native of the United States, her family is also Albanian by nationality. After the wedding, Bebe's parents settled in Brooklyn, New York. The future singer and composer was born in the same place.
Bleta Rexa was born on August 30, 1989. According to the horoscope, she is Virgo.
The Bibi family belonged to the working class, lived quite poorly. However, the parents were looking forward to the birth of their baby, and after that they tried their best to make their daughter's childhood joyful.
Despite the fact that Bleta Rexa was brought up in completely uncreative conditions, she began to take an interest in art from a very early age. The baby, playing, could hum some melodies for a long time or sing songs she heard on the radio. When she was only 4 years old, her parents noticed how talented their little daughter was at singing. There was no doubt about natural data, excellent hearing. However, for several more long years, Bibi did not study vocals and did not develop her talent.
When Bibi Rexa was already in elementary school in Brooklyn, her parents still took the girl to an audition at one of the local vocal studios. The teachers immediately drew attention to the child, as a result, Bibi was enrolled in an educational institution. There she not only developed her vocals and studied musical notation, but also learned to play musical instruments, and also got the first experience of how to behave on stage during performances. At that time, Blethe was only 9 years old. An additional result of studying in the studio was that Bibi professionally mastered playing the trumpet, and a little later she learned to play the piano.
An interesting fact from the creative biography of the star: Bibi wrote her first songs when she was 11 years old.
While receiving education in a regular school, Bibi Rexa tried not to miss a single creative competition, tried to participate in all concerts and holidays. As a result, the girl became a local star. As a rule, during her school years, Bibi performed various songs from popular musicals.
Young Bibi returned to her attempts to compose songs shortly before her graduation from school. At that time, the future famous singer was especially interested in just such creativity. She wanted to be the author of poetry and music. At one time, Bleta Rex even saved money in order to buy the necessary equipment for home. This hobby allowed the girl to win a small competition at one point, she was recognized as the most talented novice composer. This victory not only instilled in Bibi even more confidence in success, but also attracted attention from the representatives of the music industry.
The full development of her creative career began when Bibi Rexa received her secondary education, at that time planning not only to write musical compositions for various performers, but also to compose tracks for herself.
Development of the creative path of Bibi Rexa
As soon as Bibi turned 17, she wrote a very successful and interesting composition. Thinking, the girl put it up for public sale. The song was bought out, but Bibi Rex did not receive any dividends from this. However, this situation did not break her, and the girl received a good fee for the new composition.
Slowly but confidently starting to develop her musical career, Bibi Rexa actively collaborated with various music studios. In 2008, the talented artist met a man named Pete Wentza, who was part of the Fall Out Boy group. This landmark meeting took place at one of the New York recording studios.
At first, Bibi looked forward to working directly with Fall Out Boy as a composer and lyricist. However, Pete, knowing full well about the girl's vocal abilities, offered her another option. As a result, at the age of 19, Bibi Rexa became the soloist of the Black Cards group. Working with this group brought fame to the young performer, she became famous all over America after the musical group made a big tour.
However, this cooperation did not last too long. Already in 2012, an earlier contract with Bibi was terminated. According to Pete Wentz, it was a mutual decision: on his part and on Rexa's.
For some time after such events, Bibi Rexa went into the shadows. She did not give up music, but stopped performing on stage as a vocalist. During this time, she wrote several successful, hit tracks for various famous artists and bands. Bibi was fortunate enough to work with Rihanna, Eminem and Selena Gomez. Such cooperation gave the girl not only a good experience. She became popular in certain circles as a very talented songwriter and musician.
By the beginning of 2014, Bibi Rexa firmly decided that it was time to do solo work. Oddly enough, but the first step in this direction was the work with the Cash Cash team. Together with them, Bibi Rexa recorded a song for which a video was shot a little later. The video got into rotation on many TV channels. As a result, the young talented girl was recognized not only in the states, but all over the world.
During the development of her solo career, Bibi Rexa did not give up the opportunity to write music and lyrics for other performers.
In 2015, Bibi's first mini-album went on sale, which immediately attracted the attention of the public and music critics. The disc includes five compositions.
2016 was marked for Bibi Rexa with a collaboration with a Dutch producer and DJ named Martin Garrix. Their joint track went platinum and charted in the US and Europe for a long time. In the same year, Bibi Rexa's solo composition, "I got you", became gold following the downloads.
A year later - in 2017 - two mini-albums of the singer were released at once. And after that, Bibi Rexa went on her first tour, which was a huge success.
The full-length disc of the performer was released in 2018, at the beginning of summer. The disc includes 14 tracks. However, music critics weren't overjoyed with this album. However, this did not prevent the sale of a large circulation of discs, since the fans of Bibi Rex's creativity were happy with the release of a full-fledged LP. The main tour in support of the record took place in European cities.
According to Bibi's plan, the next full-length disc should be released in 2019. She prepares songs while currently living in Los Angeles.
Personal life of a young star
Bibi Rexa is not inclined to advertise her personal life. In an interview, she often emphasizes that by nature she is an emotional and amorous person, but at the moment she is not building a serious relationship and does not plan to soon acquire a husband or children.
