{"id":117355,"date":"2024-03-19T21:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T21:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/19\/dua-lipa-says-as-a-kid-her-whole-school-laughed-at-her-when-she-tried-to-sing\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T21:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T21:06:58","slug":"dua-lipa-says-as-a-kid-her-whole-school-laughed-at-her-when-she-tried-to-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/19\/dua-lipa-says-as-a-kid-her-whole-school-laughed-at-her-when-she-tried-to-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa says as a kid, her whole school laughed at her when she tried to sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-19\/M_DuaLIpakneelingtyronelebon_031424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tyrone Lebon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dua Lipa<\/strong> sure has come a long way from that moment when everyone in school laughed at her attempt to sing.<\/p>\n<p>Dua <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wjr8Kl90F2Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>made a video<\/strong><\/a> with drag superstar <strong>Trixie Mattel<\/strong> in which both of them attempt to paint the cover of Dua&#8217;s new album,\u00a0<em>Radical Optimism,<\/em> in under 30 minutes. While painting, Trixie interviewed Dua about her life and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wjr8Kl90F2Y?t=236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>asked her<\/strong><\/a> about a choir teacher who didn&#8217;t think much of her voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was primary school, and the music teacher &#8230; [at an assembly] was like, &#8216;Right, who wants to sing and try out for the choir?&#8217; And I was like, &#8216;Y&#8217;know what? I&#8217;d actually quite like like to do that,'&#8221; Dua tells Trixie.<\/p>\n<p>She continues, &#8220;I decided to stand up in front of the whole school and he started playing on the piano. And it was in, like, this crazy high\u00a0note and nothing came out [of my mouth] &#8212; just &#8216;eehh,&#8217; in that moment, and the whole school started laughing. And he was just like, &#8216;Y&#8217;know what? Better luck next time.&#8217; And that was it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dua, who was also going to singing lessons every week in London, says it was one of the teachers there who helped her build up her confidence. When she was 9\u00a0he made her sing in front of the whole class, then moved her up into a class with the 14- and 15-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He celebrated me [and] my deeper, lower voice,&#8221; Dua said of that teacher.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the session, Trixie and Dua <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wjr8Kl90F2Y?t=1041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>show off<\/strong><\/a> their paintings, neither of which are very good.<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wjr8Kl90F2Y\" title=\"Trixie and DUA LIPA Practice the Art of Radical Optimism!\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. 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