Sky Ferreira

Sky Ferreira was an American singer-songwriter and actress who rose into prominence after the release of her debut album Night Time, My Time and joined pop star Miley Cyrus on her international Bangerz Tour in 2014. She was born Sky Tonia Ferreira on July 8, 1992 in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California. As a young teenager, Ferreira aspired to become a recording artist and began maintaining a MySpace profile where she uploaded demos of tracks she had written herself. Her ambitions finally paid off when she signed a contract with Capitol Records in 2009. She subsequently released three singles in 2010; among them was the song "Obsession" which hit number 37 in the US Dance charts. Ferreira then put out two extended plays, As If in 2011 and Ghost in 2012; the latter featured her critical breakthrough "Everything Is Embarrassing," co-written and produced by Dev Hynes. In 2013 she released her first full length album, Night Time, My Time. Although the album received favorable reviews from critics, Night Time, My Time was not without controversy, which mostly stemmed from the album's cover, which featured a 21-year-old Ferreira topless and sullen-looking in a pointedly unglamorous shower scene, photographed by transgressive filmmaker Gaspar Noe. In the same year, she ventured into the movies for the first time with an appearance on the cannibal horror-themed film, "The Green Inferno" (2013). After the release of Night Time, My Time, Ferreira's audience took on a global scale was she joined American pop star Miley Cyrus' international Bangerz Tour, which began in February 2014, as the concert tour's opening act. While working on her second album, Ferreira appeared in several films, including Nicolas Cage crime drama "The Trust" (2016), comedy-drama "Elvis and Nixon" (2016) and Edgar Wright's action comedy "Baby Driver" (2017). She also appeared in David Lynch's "Twin Peaks: The Return" (Showtime 2017) as a fast-food employee with an unsettling rash.