Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), better known mononymously as Kesha (formerly stylized as Ke$ha), is an American recording artist. An active singer since before 2005, her breakthrough came in early 2009 after appearing on Flo Rida's number one single Right Round. Kesha later supported Calvin Harris on tour in the UK and toured with Mickey Avalon in the US. She also performed at Madison Square Garden on December 11, 2009 for the Z100 Jingle Ball. She was announced as one of the acts for the 2010 revival of Lilith Fair and presented at the 52nd Grammy Awards. Her debut album, titled Animal, was released on January 5, 2010 in the US to mixed reviews from music critics. The album sold 152,000 copies in its first week in the US, debuting at number one. Animal was seven years in the making and resulted in Kesha's accumulating over two hundred songs by the time of its release, with fourteen making the final cut. A number one placing in New Zealand for the first single TiK ToK (first released on August 7, 2009) gave Kesha her first solo number one; this was followed by number one positions in Canada, Australia, Norway and the United States, reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100 as the first number one of the 2010 decade. During its second week at number one on the chart, TiK ToK set the female download record and became the second best-selling single in a week, after Right Round, for shifting over 610,000 copies. During its fifth week at the top of the chart, it broke the record for the highest weekly plays on the radio airplay chart. Her second single, Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3), was first released on February 19, 2010 and has since charted within the top 10 in four different countries. On November 9th, 2010, Kesha released the EP Cannibal, which included the chart topping single We R Who We R. It debuted atop the charts and became the singer’s third number one hit. Kesha released her second album, Warrior, on November 30, 2012. The album features a collaboration with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. On October 7, 2013, Kesha and Pitbull released a collaboration, Timber, which was became Kesha's fourth number-one. In 2014, after spending two months in rehab for eating disorder treatment, and appealing about her sexual assault case with Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald (Dr. Luke), Kesha announced she was working on her third album. In 2017, she released her third album, Rainbow after Dr. Luke was fired from Kemosabe Records. Rainbow debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has also received a grammy nomination for 'Best Pop Vocal Album' and 'Best Pop Solo Performance' for Praying. After rainbow, she released Raising Hell with Big FreesiaThis became the last track of hers to be shipped to radio. In 2020 she released her 4th album, High Road receiving mixed reviews and landing a #7 on the billboard top 200 albums chart. Throughout early 2023, she released singles for her fifth album, Gag Order releasing the album itself on May 19th, 2023. Later she released a "live from space" EP in June 2023 with Happy, Only love can save us now, among others. She did a tour for this album, which was originally going to be called the Gag Order Tour but was later changed to the Only Love Tour after some legal battles. In June 2023, Kesha made a special guest appearance in the season one finale of Helluva Boss as Queen Beelzebub, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, embodying the sin of Gluttony. Despite being the speaking voice of Beelzebub, she does not portray her singing voice, as the latter is done by Rochelle Diamante due to legal issues which caused the episode's release to be delayed. In December 2023, she was freed from her contract with Dr. Luke. On July 4th, 2024, she released JOYRIDE, receiving overwhelmingly positive reception and has accomplished approx. 120 million streams on Spotify. On July 11th 2024, she hosted a Ted Talk and performed an unreleased track, Cathedral. On October 14th 2024, Kesha and Charli xcx released a remix of Spring Breakers after weeks of teasing the collaboration. On July 4th, 2025, exactly one year after the release of JOYRIDE. she released her 6th studio album, ".". The standard version of the album features singles JOYRIDE., DELUSIONAL., YIPPEE-KI-YAY., BOY CRAZY., and THE ONE.. The deluxe version of the album was released on July 8th and featured additional tracks, remixes, and collaborations with JADE, T-Pain, Slayyter, and Rose Gray. . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.