Delacey
{{Short description|American singer and songwriter (born 1993)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Delacey
| image = Delacey New Crouching.jpg
| caption = Delacey in 2016
| birth_name = Brittany Marie Amaradio
| alias = Delacey
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1993}}
| origin = San Juan Capistrano, California
| occupation = Singer-songwriter
| associated_acts = G-Eazy
| label = Hitco
| website = {{URL|https://www.delaceymusic.com/}}
}}
Brittany Marie Amaradio (born 1993), known professionally as Delacey, is an American singer and songwriter.{{Cite web|title=Delacey {{!}} Biography & History|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/delacey-mn0003454592/biography|access-date=2020-12-29|website=AllMusic|language=en}} Having co-written songs such as "New York City" for The Chainsmokers, "Ruin the Friendship" for Demi Lovato, and "Without Me" for Halsey (which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100),{{Cite web|date=2018-11-26|title=Delacey Interview – Hit Pop Songwriter and Artist|url=http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/delacey-songwriter-2018.htm|access-date=2020-12-29|website=Songwriter Universe {{!}} Songwriting News, Articles & Song Contest|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.umusicpub.com/us/Artists/D/Delacey.aspx|title=Universal Music Publishing Group: Delacey|access-date=August 4, 2021|website=Universal Music Publishing Group (US)|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210804235938/https://www.umusicpub.com/us/Artists/D/Delacey.aspx|archive-date=August 4, 2021}} in March 2020, she released her debut album, Black Coffee.{{Cite web|date=2020-03-27|title=Feature: Rising Star Delacey Dives into Her Grungy, Emotional, Messy Debut Album 'Black Coffee'|url=http://atwoodmagazine.com/dybc-delacey-black-coffee-debut-album-review/|access-date=2020-12-29|website=Atwood Magazine|language=en-US}} She released her second album The Girl Has A Dream in 2023 featuring the single "Boy With The Blues."{{Cite web|date=2021-03-26|title=Delacey Shares First Single Off Upcoming Album|url=https://ghettoblastermagazine.com/features/delacey-shares-first-single-off-upcoming-album/|access-date=2022-01-25|website=Ghettoblaster Magazine|language=en}}
In 2024, Delacey co-wrote two songs for the animated motion picture The Wild Robot, "Kiss the Sky" and "Even When I'm Not" both performed by Maren Morris.{{Cite web |last=Sgammato |first=Greg |date=2024-10-22 |title=The Wild Robot with Kris Bowers, Maren Morris, Delacey, and Jordan Johnson |url=https://thescl.com/screening-interviews/the-wild-robot-with-kris-bowers-maren-morris-delacey-and-stefan-johnson/ |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=Society of Composers and Lyricists |language=en-US}} "Kiss the Sky" was met with critical acclaim, winning a Hollywood Music In Media Award for Best Original Song, and earning nominations for the Astra Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, and Golden Globe Awards.{{Cite web |last=Buchanan |first=David |date=2024-12-12 |title=Oscars: ‘Kiss The Sky’ from ‘The Wild Robot’ takes flight and now leads Best Song odds |url=https://www.goldderby.com/article/2024/oscars-kiss-the-sky-the-wild-robot-best-song-odds/ |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=GoldDerby |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Barnard |first=Matthew |date=2024-12-09 |title=NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR 82nd ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES® |url=https://goldenglobes.com/articles/nominations-announced-for-82nd-annual-golden-globes/ |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=Golden Globes |language=en-US}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=ergI-CB8DCytzlaL&v=gX4AJj7mreA&feature=youtu.be |title=Delacey + Kris Bowers "Kiss The Sky" from THE WILD ROBOT |date=2024-11-25 |last=HMMAwards |access-date=2024-12-16 |via=YouTube}}
Her song "Dream It Possible" was be the anthem of Huawei production.
Early life
Amaradio was born in an Italian family{{Cite web |date=2023-08-19 |title=Delacey {{!}} Artist/Songwriter |url=https://www.bringinitbackwards.com/guests/delacey/ |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=Bringin' it Backwards}} and raised in San Juan Capistrano in Orange County, California.{{Cite web|title=Delacey Releases Debut Album|url=https://vmagazine.com/article/delacey-releases-debut-album/|access-date=2020-12-29|website=V Magazine|date=28 March 2020 }} Picking up the piano and songwriting at seven years old, Amaradio cites her early influences as Stevie Nicks and Billie Holiday, a taste she acquired from her father's vinyl collection. Upon graduating from Capistrano Valley High School,{{Cite web|date=2009-06-13|title=Grad list: Capistrano Valley High School|url=https://www.ocregister.com/2009/06/13/grad-list-capistrano-valley-high-school|website=Orange County Register|language=en-US}} Amaradio briefly moved to Manhattan where she worked as a photographer by day and worked open mics at night.{{Cite magazine|title=From Open Mics to No. 1: Songwriter Delacey on Her Fraught Path to Success|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8495636/delacey-without-me-ruin-my-life-interview/|access-date=2020-12-29|magazine=Billboard|language=en}} During this time, she wrote "New York City" about her struggles in New York. Upon returning to the West Coast, she adopted the pseudonym "Delacey."
Discography
=Studio albums=
=Collaborative albums=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ List of collaborative albums, with selected details ! scope="col" style="width:9em;"| Title ! scope="col" style="width:22em;"| Album details |
| scope="row"| Honeymooners {{small|(with Valley Boy)}} |
|
|---|
=Singles=
==As lead artist==
==As featured artist==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ List of singles as featured artist, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:15em;"| Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year ! scope="col" colspan="1"| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Album |
| style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| US Dance Digital {{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/delacey/chart-history/ddt/|title=Delacey Chart History: US Dance Digital|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 4, 2021}} |
|---|
| scope="row"| "Destiny" {{small|(Markus Schulz featuring DeLacey)}} | 2015 | — | Watch the World |
| scope="row"| "In the Air Tonight" {{small|(Alex Midi featuring Delacey)}} | 2016 | 50 | rowspan="3" {{N/A|Non-album singles}} |
| scope="row"| "Walls" {{small|(Wingtip featuring Delacey)}} | 2017 | — |
| scope="row"| "In the Air Tonight (Rework Mix)" {{small|(Alex Midi, CIC and Kohen featuring Delacey)}} | 2019 | — |
==Promotional singles==
=Music videos=
==As lead artist==
==As featured artist==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ List of music videos as a featured artist, showing year released and directors |
| style="width:14em;"| Title
! Year ! Director(s) |
|---|
| scope="row"| "Destiny" {{small|(Markus Schulz featuring DeLacey)}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpAbWH6AlY|title=Markus Schulz feat. Delacey – Destiny {{!}} Official Music Video – YouTube|website=YouTube|date=April 8, 2015|access-date=August 5, 2021}} | 2015 |align="center"| Daniel Kaufman |
| scope="row"| "In the Air Tonight" {{small|(Alex Midi featuring Delacey)}} | 2016 | {{N/A}} |
=Songwriting credits=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| scope="col" style="width:160px;"| Title
! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Artist(s) ! scope="col" style="width:180px;"| Album ! scope="col" | Written with |
|---|
| scope="row"|"New York City"
| 2015 | Bouquet |
| scope="row"|"Fool's Gold" (featuring Børns) | 2016 | Dagny | Ultraviolet EP | Dagny, Børns, Tommy English |
| scope="row"|"Aww"
| rowspan="3"|2017 | {{n/a|Non-album single}} | Madison Love, Thomas Eriksen |
| scope="row"|"Ruin the Friendship"
| Demi Lovato, Chloe Angelides, Ido Zmishlany |
| scope="row"|"First Love" (featuring Sabrina Carpenter) | We Are Lost Kings | Lost Kings, Albin Nedler, Kristoffer Fogelmark, Rami Yacoub |
| scope="row"|"Sugarcoat"
|rowspan="4"| 2018 | Jaira Burns, Sizzy Rocket, ADP, Brittany Mullen |
| scope="row"|"Without Me"
| Halsey | Manic | Halsey, Louis Bell, Amy Allen, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, Scott Storch |
| scope="row"|"That Feeling When"
| Dagny | {{n/a|Non-album single}} | Dagny, Tommy English |
| scope="row"|"Bad Guy"
| Starting Over | Alex Schwartz, Jay Jay, Joe Khajadourian |
| scope="row"|"Anti-Everything" (with Loren Gray) | rowspan="7"|2019 | Paper Crowns | Lost Kings, Michael Pollack, Will Lobban-Bean |
| scope="row"|"Our Summer"
| The Futuristics, Jesse Saint John, Shae Jacobs, "hitman" bang, ADORA |
| scope="row"|"Naked"
| Emily Weisband | Identity Crisis | Emily Weisband, Kyle Shearer |
| scope="row"|"Wanted"
| {{n/a|Non-album single}} | NOTD, Daya, Sam Martin, Isaiah Tejada |
| scope="row"|"Waste"
| Dove Cameron, Chloe Angelides |
| scope="row"|"+I QUIT180327+"
| CL | In the Name of Love | CL, TOKKI, Michael Pollack, Sean Myer |
| scope="row"|"Ur So Beautiful"
| Letters Vol. 1 | Grace VanderWaal, Ido Zmishlany, Sophie B. Hawkins |
| scope="row"|"Inside Out"
| rowspan="5"|2020 | {{n/a|Non-album single}} | Zedd, Griff, Jonas Jeberg, Michael Pollack |
| scope="row"|"Nice Things"
| Far East Movement with Henry and AlunaGeorge | {{n/a|Non-album single}} | Far East Movement, Aluna Francis, Antonio Cuna, Kyle Shearer, Nate Campany |
| scope="row"|"Bad One"
| Kiiara |
| scope="row"|"Honest with You"
| You | Laura Marano, Ido Zmishlany |
| scope="row"|"Five More Minutes"
| {{n/a|Non-album single}} | Jonas Brothers, James Ghaleb, Zach Skelton, Casey Smith |
| scope="row"|"Tell Your Girlfriend"
| rowspan="8"|2021 | rowspan="3"|Anne-Marie | rowspan="3"|Therapy | Anne-Marie, Blake Slatkin |
| scope="row"|"Birthday"
| Anne-Marie, Keith Sorrells, Oak Felder |
| scope="row"|"To Be Young" (featuring Doja Cat) | Anne-Marie, Doja Cat, Louis Bell, Teo Halm |
| scope="row"|"Unstable" (featuring The Kid Laroi) | Justice | Justin Bieber, The Kid Laroi, James Gutch, Gregory Hein, Rami Yacoub, Billy Walsh, Ayden Szymczak |
| scope="row"|"When I Close My Eyes"
| When I Close My Eyes | Chelsea Cutler, James Alan Ghaleb, Kevin White, Lucy Healey |
| scope="row"|"Wow"
| rowspan="2"|Zara Larsson | rowspan="2"|Poster Girl | Marshmello, Thomas Eriksen, Joakim Haukaas, Madison Love |
| scope="row"|"Ruin My Life"
| Michael Pollack, Sermstyle, Jackson Foote, Stefan Johnson, Jordan K. Johnson |
| scope="row"|"Fuckboy"
| {{n/a|Non-album single}} | Olivia O'Brien, M-Phazes, MAG |
| scope="row"|"Boyfriend"
| rowspan="4" | 2022 | rowspan="2" | Dove Cameron | rowspan="2" | Alchemical: Volume 1 | Dove Cameron, Evan Blair, Skyler Stonestreet |
| scope="row"|"Breakfast"
|Dove Cameron, Evan Blair, Jesse Finkelstein |
| scope="row"|"Blind"
|Emily Weisband | {{n/a|Non-album single}} |Emily Weisband, Cole Walowac, Jesse Frasure |
| scope="row"|"Indieedgycool"
|A Study of the Human Experience Volume One |Taylor Gayle Rutherfurd, Jonny Shorr |
| scope="row"|"Two People"
| rowspan="6" |2023 |Gracie Abrams |
| scope="row"|"I Hate Boston"
| rowspan="2" |Reneé Rapp | rowspan="2" |Snow Angel |Reneé Rapp Ian Fitchuk, Alexander Glantz, Lucy Healey, Rob Bisel |
| scope="row"|"Tummy Hurts"
|Reneé Rapp, Alexander Glantz |
| scope="row"|"Amen"
|Twenty Something |Alana Springsteen, Ido Zmishlany, Sarah Solovay, Derrick Southerland, Ingrid Andress, Sam Ellis |
| scope="row"|"We're Not Alike"
| rowspan="2" |Tate McRae | rowspan="2" | Think Later |Tate McRae, Rob Bisel |
| scope="row"|"Grave"
|Tate McRae, Ido Zmishlany |
| scope="row"|"Rockstar"
| rowspan="7"|2024 |Lisa | Lisa, James Essien, Lucy Healey, Ryan Tedder, Sam Homaee |
| scope="row"|"I Hope I Never Fall in Love"
| rowspan="2"|Maren Morris | Maren Morris, Lucy Healey, Evan Blair |
| scope="row"|"Kiss the Sky"
| The Wild Robot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Maren Morris, Ali Tamposi, Michael Pollack, Stefan Johnson, Jordan Johnson |
| scope="row"|"No High"
| The Dichotomy | David Kushner, Evan Blair |
| scope="row"|"Even When I'm Not"
| The Wild Robot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Ali Tamposi, Maren Morris, Isaiah Tejeda, Michael Pollack, Stefan Johnson, Jordan K. Johnson |
| scope="row"|"Cowboy"
| rowspan="2"|Alana Springsteen | rowspan="2" {{Non-album singles}} | Alana Springsteen, Amy Allen, Ido Zmishlany |
| scope="row"|"Hold My Beer"
| Alana Springsteen, Ido Zmishlany, Sarah Solovay |
| scope="row"|"Handlebars" (featuring Dua Lipa) | rowspan="3" |2025 |Ruby |
| scope="row"|"Cry For You"
|Isabel LaRosa, Thomas LaRosa, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson |
| scope="row"|"Messy"
|Rosé |Rosé, Cleo Tighe, Peter Rycroft, Matthew James Burns |
Accolades
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+List of awards and nominations received by Delacey !scope="col"|Organization !Year !Category !Nominated Work !Result !Ref. |
| scope="row"|Academy Awards
|2025 | rowspan="2" |Best Original Song | rowspan="6" |"Kiss the Sky" from The Wild Robot (songwriter) |{{Shortlisted}} |
|---|
| scope="row" |Astra Awards
|2024 |{{Nominated}} |
| scope="row" |Critics' Choice Awards
| rowspan="4" |2025 |Best Song |{{nom}} |
| scope="row" |Denver Film Critics Society Awards
| rowspan="2" |Best Original Song |{{Nominated}} |
| scope="row" |Golden Globe Awards
|{{nom}} |
| scope="row"|Guild Of Music Supervisors Awards
|Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film |{{Nominated}} |
| scope="row" |Grammy Awards
|2021 |Album of the Year |Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe) (as Brittany Amaradio) |{{Nominated}} |
| scope="row" |Hollywood Music In Media Awards
| rowspan="2" |2024 |Best Original Song - Animated Film | rowspan="8" |"Kiss the Sky" from The Wild Robot (songwriter) |{{Won}} |
| scope="row" |Iowa Film Critics Association Awards
| rowspan="6" |Best Original Song |{{Won}} |
| scope="row" |Music City Film Critics Association Awards
|2025 |{{Won}} |
| scope="row" |New Mexico Film Critics Awards
|2024 |{{Won}} |
| scope="row" |North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards
| rowspan="3" |2025 |{{Nominated}} |
| scope="row"|Puerto Rico Critics Association Awards
|{{Won}} |
| scope="row"|Satellite Awards
|{{nom}} |
| scope="row"|Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
|2024 |Best Song |{{Nominated}} |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{URL|https://www.delaceymusic.com/|Official website}}
{{Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song in an Animated Film}}
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Category:American women singer-songwriters