Olivia Rodrigo, born 2003 in Murrieta, California, is an American singer-songwriter at the front of the early-2020s pop punk revival. Sour (2021) and Guts (2023) both debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and took home five Grammys between them, including Best New Artist. Find Olivia Rodrigo vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo was born in Murrieta, California on February 20, 2003. She is of Filipino American heritage on her father's side. She launched her acting career as a child, with roles in the Disney+ series Bizaardvark (2016-2019) and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019-2022). Her January 2021 single Drivers License - released while she was a teenager - became a international viral hit and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Her debut LP Sour (May 2021) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and won three Grammy Awards at the 2022 ceremony (including Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Pop Solo Performance for Drivers License). Her 2023 follow-up Guts continued her commercial trajectory with pop punk revival influences (Avril Lavigne and Veruca Salt reference points). She has been associated with the contemporary pop and pop punk revival of the early 2020s.
Olivia Rodrigo's sound combines pop, pop rock, pop punk, alternative pop, bedroom pop, and indie pop with her distinctive vocal delivery and lyrical content addressing relationships, adolescence, and personal experience drawing on confessional songwriting traditions (Taylor Swift influence) alongside contemporary pop punk revival aesthetics.
Geffen and Interscope Records pressings of the Olivia Rodrigo catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and elaborate limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Olivia Rodrigo typically start with Sour (2021) or Guts (2023).
