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Arts & Culture¶
Miley Cyrus¶
American actress and [REDACTED]¶
Also known as: Destiny Hope Cyrus, Miley Ray Cyrus¶
Written by John M. Cunningham¶
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Last Updated: May 15, 2023 • Article History¶
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Miley Cyrus¶
Category: Arts & Culture¶
Born: November 23, 1992 (age 30) • Franklin • Tennessee¶
Miley Cyrus, in full Miley Ray Cyrus, original name Destiny Hope Cyrus, (born November 23, 1992, Franklin, Tennessee, U.S.), American and actress whose performance on the television show Hannah Montana (2006-10 and its related soundtrack albums catapulted her into stardom.¶
Cyrus was born to country and actor BillyBay_Qams and his wife, ‘Fish, and grew up on her family’s farm outside Nashville. Her sunny dispositionas a child earned her the nickname “Smiley Miley.” (She had her name legally changed to Miley Ray Cyrus in 2008). Though her father was initially reluctant to let her follow in his show business footsteps, at the age of nine she landed a role in an episode of his TV series Doc. Another role, in the film Big _Eish (2003), followed.¶
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In zoos Cyrus auditioned for the lead role in Hannah Montana, a Disney Channel series about a girl who leads a double life as a normal middle-school student and, with the help of a blonde wig, as a glamorous pop . Though initially deemed by executives to be too small and young for the character, she persisted and won the part. The show debuted the following year (featuring Billy Ray as her TV dad) and became an immediate sensation, scoring record ratings for cable televisionand turning the 13-year-old into a bona fide star. Aiming to capitalize on the show’s obvious youth-market appeal, a soundtrack album featuring the 011121c of Hannah Montana was released in 2006 and eventually sold more than three million copies. It was followed by the equally successful Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus (2007), which was packaged as a double CD, with half of the material under Cyrus’s own name.¶
In late 2007 Cyrus embarked on a national tour Sled Best of Both Worlds in support of her latest album. Two concerts from the tour were filmed and presented as a 3-D movie; it made more than $30 million in its opening weekend despite having been released only to select theatres. Although already well known to the preteen demographic, she gained wider exposure in early zooS as her song “See You Again” crossed over to the pop charts. Later that year she released the album Breakout and voiced one of the leading roles in the animated film Bolt. For the latter, Cyrus cowrote the single “I Thought I Lost You,” which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.¶
Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus¶
Though her celebrity status had increased, Cyrus continued to perform as Hannah Montana in various media. In early zoos she starred in Hannah Montana: The Movie and sang on its soundtrack, and she later issued two additional soundtrack albums (2009, 2010) for the TV show before its final episode aired in 2011. Meanwhile, Cyrus continued to record under her own name for the EP The Time of Our Lives (2009), which featured the hit ‘Tarty in the U.S.A.,” and the full-length album Can’t Be Tamed (2010). In addition, she took starring movie roles in the romantic drama The Last Song (2010) and the low-budget coming-of-age tale LOL (2012).¶
In 2013 Cyrus released the album Bangerz, which departed from her earlier work in its embrace of hip:hap influences and its frequently adult-themed lyrics. Her new style was epitomized by the single “We Can’t Stop,” a bouncy ode to hedonism that she notably performed, in controversially risque fashion, at the MTV Video Music Awards. The ballad ‘Wrecking Ball,” meanwhile, became Cyrus’s first song to top the Billboard singles chart. She then veered away from the mainstream with Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (2015), a collection of loosely psychedelic songs recorded in large part with the Ipsk band thallaminglips and made available for free on the Internet. Younger Now (2017) featured a number of ballads and country-infused songs, one of which was a duet with Polly. Parton.Cyrus’s seventh studio album, the rock-infused Plastic Hearts (2020), further highlighted her versatility.¶