Lindsey Stirling Biography

Fast Facts

• Was raised in Gilbert, Arizona
• Started practicing violin at age 5; at the time, her parents could only afford a 15-minute lesson once every two weeks
• Was a quarter-finalist on America's Got Talent in season 5, where she was dubbed a "hip-hop violinist" due to her mixing classical music, pop and hip-hop on the violin
• The title of her 2015 autobiography The Only Pirate at the Party refers to her being diagnosed with cross-dominance in the second grade, for which she was prescribed an eye patch that made her uncomfortable until she started pretending she was a pirate
• Album Brave Enough won Top Dance/Electronic Album at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards