Q 01/05

What is Halsey's birth name?

A) Ashley Ferrante

B) Ashley Fiorentino

C) Ashley Fontana

D) Ashley Frangipane

Answer · why

D) Ashley Frangipane

Ashley Frangipane. She rearranged the letters of Ashley to make Halsey, the name she settled on after playing early acoustic shows under several other...

Q 02/05

In which state was Halsey born and raised?

A) New Jersey

B) New York

C) Pennsylvania

D) Connecticut

Answer · why

A) New Jersey

New Jersey. Her family moved wherever the jobs or cheap apartments were, and she had attended six schools before she reached her teens.

Q 03/05

Halsey's stage name comes partly from Halsey Street in which New York borough?

A) Staten Island

B) The Bronx

C) Brooklyn

D) Manhattan

Answer · why

C) Brooklyn

Brooklyn. She came up with the name while riding the L train to the Halsey Street stop near her then-boyfriend's place in Bushwick.

Q 04/05

Which label signed Halsey to her first record deal?

A) Interscope

B) Astralwerks

C) Atlantic

D) Def Jam

Answer · why

B) Astralwerks

Astralwerks, a Capitol imprint known for dance acts, won her over by offering more creative freedom than the other labels courting her.

Q 05/05

What was the title of Halsey's debut EP?

A) Badlands

B) Ghost

C) Room 93

D) Castle

Answer · why

C) Room 93

Room 93. She wrote the songs during a year spent in and out of hotel rooms, and each of the EP's videos is set in one hotel room.