Olivia Rodrigo is a Filipino American actress and pop rock singer-songwriter. She’s a Disney girl who music career blew up with her debut single “Drivers License” in 2021. She really captures the anxiety of being a young American. “You said forever, now I drive alone past your street.” Who hasn’t felt that?
Olivia Rodrigo in New York City
Madison Square Garden
Olivia Rodrigo “GUTS World Tour” with opener The Breeders, brings Filipino pop rock to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday-Saturday, April 5-6 and Monday-Tuesday, April 8-9, 2024 at 7:30pm. msg.com 🇵🇭
New York Venues
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo was born in Murrieta and raised in Temecula, two cute small towns in Southern California’s inland valley on February 20, 2003.
She is an All-American woman, but Rodrigo was raised in a Filipino household and knows that part of her immigrant great-grandfather’s heritage. It’s admirable that her Filipino heritage survived four generations because heritage culture is usually forgotten by the third American generation. That means she is from a good, strong family.
Rodrigo got her entertainment industry start playing Paige Olvera in “Bizaardvark” from 2016-19. She then moved on to “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” as Nini Salazar-Roberts.
She grew up listening to her parents’ alternative rock and that’s where she comes from as a singer.
Her heart is in songwriting. Rodrigo co-wrote her debut hit “Drivers License.” She was already a working actress, but that song made her a pop superstar overnight. Audiences and critics both loved it. It broke Spotify streaming records over and over again, and debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. She followed that up with multiple Grammy wins. Though she is just finding her way, somehow, she already seems to know it.
Albums
“Sour” (2021) won Grammys for “Best New Artist” and “Album of the Year;” and her song “Drivers License” won “Record of the Year” and “Song of the Year” at the 64th Grammy Awards.
“Guts” (2023) has a more punk and alt-rock feeling. It’s a great title because even when the world opens at your feet, it takes some guts to step into it.
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Showing both youthful courage and a certain vulnerability is very appealing. Variety called Olivia Rodrigo “the voice of her generation.”
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