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Lola Young is born in Croydon, South London. After graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts, where Amy Winehouse went, she's discovered by Nick Shymansky, who also managed Winehouse. Young breaks through in 2024 with her song "Messy," which exemplifies her highly confessional songwriting and refreshingly imperfect veneer.

Lola Young posts about her schizoaffective disorder on Instagram. "My mental health condition does not define me," she writes. "It is my superpower."

Lola Young releases "Messy," her breakthrough hit. She says it's about "not being able to make someone you love happy when you're just being you, which actually sucks."

Lola Young gets disoriented and collapses backward onstage while performing at the All Things Go Festival in New York City. She shuts down for a few months to deal with addiction and exhaustion, which are contributing factors, returning in February 2026 to perform at the Grammy Awards.

Lola Young, who has largely been out of action since collapsing on stage three months earlier, makes a triumphant return at the Grammy Awards, where she performs "Messy" and wins Best Pop Solo Performance for that song.