Dua Lipa has been granted Albanian citizenship

Dua Lipa has been legally licensed as an Albanian citizen, with the information turning into official in an oath-taking ceremony between herself and the nation’s president, Bajram Begaj.

Although the ceremony itself was undertaken within the Albanian language, Billboard experiences that Begaj granted Lipa citizenship due to her efforts to raise the standing of Albania in music internationally. The choice was made forward of the a hundred and tenth anniversary of Albania’s independence from the Ottoman Empire, which is formally celebrated as we speak (November 28).

Lipa shared the information of her citizenship on Instagram, the place she posted a clip of the ceremony alongside images of herself posing along with her papers – together with an software for an id card and passport, the picture for which she took after taking her oath – at Tirana Metropolis Corridor. She captioned the submit: “Thanks President Bajram Begaj and Mayor [Erion Veliaj] for this honor – obtained my Albanian citizenship!! Thanks, I'm feeling very proud.”

In keeping with Billboard, Lipa mentioned previous to the ceremony that she “shall be an Albanian with papers too”. After taking her oath, she reportedly mentioned: “It's an indescribable nice pleasure with such acceptance, love and all the things.”

Although she was born and raised in England, Lipa’s mother and father are of Kosovo Albanian descent, and Albanian is her first language. In 2016, she and her father – Dukagjin Lipa, who carried out within the Kosovan rock band Oda – launched the Sunny Hill Foundation, via which they maintain live shows of their native metropolis to lift funds for locals dealing with monetary hardship.

Again in 2018, too, Lipa was honoured with the first-ever key to the Kosovan capital of Pristina.

Over the weekend, Lipa was noticed in a recording studio with Mick Jagger (of The Rolling Stones fame). She’s presently engaged on her third album, which can observe up on her smash-hit 2020 document ‘Future Nostalgia’. The album was first teased by Lipa again in January, and in March, she mentioned it was “50 per cent performed” and “beginning to take form”.

In September, she spoke extra about her plans for the album, saying in an interview that so far as it goes along with her songwriting, she feels extra in “management” than ever earlier than.