Not many people – or even diehard fans – could have predicted the comeback that Lorde had after her 2021 Solar Power album fell short of pleasing many fans. Five years on and Lorde isn’t just back, ...

But one international superstar got very lucky when she quietly touched down in Sydney this week. New Zealand-born singer/songwriter, Lorde, made her way through Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport, ...

Mitchell is a Multimedia Journalist with the New Zealand Herald. How do you describe a night with Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor at her long-anticipated hometown return? Ethereal, raw, quirky, ...

Now 29, the New Zealand artist, born Ella Yelich-O’Connor, is transformed. Whatever inhibitions and shyness she had as a teenage pop singer-songwriter thrust into global fame in 2013 have been ...