When Dua Lipa was 15 years old, she left her parents and two younger siblings behind in the family's native Kosovo and moved more or less on her own to London. The plan, at least as understood by her mom and dad (who'd only agreed to it because she'd be rooming with the older daughter of a family friend), was to finish high school and then enter university. By the time Lipa graduated, though, she'd turned her focus to music, posting covers online and recording hooky originals she co-wrote while supporting herself as a hostess at a Mexican joint in London's Soho neighborhood.