In 1995, Dua Lipa was born to parents Anesa and Dukagjin Lipa in London. While her parents "worked as waiters in cafes and bars," her father was also studying business, while her mother trained in travel and tourism, according to The Guardian. Just a few years earlier, though, her parents' lives had been very different.
In 1992, Anesa and Dukagjin fled their native Kosovo when "war came." Dukagjin's father, Seit Lipa, led the Kosovo Institute of History at the time conflict developed. Dua Lipa recalled to The Guardian, "Once the Serbians came in, they wanted a lot of the historians to rewrite the history ... that Kosovo was always part of Serbia and never part of Yugoslavia. And my grandfather was one of those people who wouldn't, so he lost his job, because he didn't want to write a history that he didn't believe to be true."
Before this time, Dua Lipa's father was pursuing a career in dentistry and her mother had begun to study law. But moving to London meant that both of the Lipas had to give up their careers to make ends meet for their growing family.
