• March 27, 2000
• Halle, whose full name is Halle Lynn Bailey, is a Georgia native who started her music career singing alongside her sister Chloe as the R&B duo Chloe x Halle. The girls began uploading covers of popular songs on their YouTube channel, and their rendition of Beyoncé's "Pretty Hurts" caught the attention of the superstar, who signed them to her management company, Parkwood Entertainment, in 2016. They issued two studio albums, The Kids Are Alright (2018) and Ungodly Hour (2020), before pursuing individual solo careers. Halle released her own debut, Love?... Or Something Like It, in 2025.
• Halle's early acting career was also entwined with her sister's, but just like their music, the girls forged their separate acting paths. Halle made her big-screen debut with Chloe playing Queen Latifah's nieces in the 2006 movie Last Holiday. They also starred on the TV series Grown-ish as sisters Jazlyn "Jazz" (Chloe) and Skyler "Sky" Forster (Halle) for the first four seasons of the sitcom, beginning in 2018.
  
  Halle's first major role apart from her sister was playing Ariel in the 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Her casting generated a racist backlash online because some people didn't like the idea of a Black performer being cast in a traditionally white role. But that's exactly why Halle wanted the part, to show other children of color that they belonged in the fairytale world just as much as anyone else. The soundtrack, which featured Halle's rendition of the original Disney film's "Part of Your World," topped the Billboard Top Soundtracks chart.
• Halle also landed a role in the 2023 film The Color Purple, which was based on the Broadway musical adaptation of Alice Walker's 1982 novel. The story follows Celie, a Black woman who endures a lifetime of abuse in the rural South, and her relationship with her sister Nettie. Halle played young Nettie, while Phylicia Pearl Mpasi portrayed young Celie. The pair recorded the song "Keep It Movin'" for the movie's soundtrack. In 2026, she starred in the romantic comedy You, Me & Tuscany with Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page.
• Halle earned her first Grammy nomination as a solo artist with her debut single, "Angel," which competed in the Best R&B Song category at the 2024 ceremony (SZA's "Snooze" won).
• Her jazz-inflected vocals are a result of listening to the genre during her formative years, particularly Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. She first discovered Holiday at just 5 years old.
  
  "Sometimes I feel like I should be older, because I love listening to jazz," 16-year-old Halle told The Vulture in 2016.
• Halle taught herself how to play the guitar, and she counts Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, and Prince among her axe-wielding idols.
• Halle became a mother for the first time when she and rapper DDG, her then-boyfriend, welcomed son Halo in 2023. Her experience with postpartum depression inspired the single "Braveface" from her debut album.
• Halle said if she hadn't pursued a music career, she would've liked to be a kindergarten teacher because she loves kids.
• While she's not completely against the use of artificial intelligence, Halle isn't a fan of AI-generated music videos. "Those things are so exciting when they're real," she told Scott Evans in a 2025 House Guest interview.
• She started dating music producer Scott Bridgeway in the summer of 2025. Bridgeway already had a connection with the Bailey sisters, having worked with Chloe on her debut solo album, In Pieces, in 2023.
• Halle contributed vocals to her sister Chloe's second solo album, Trouble In Paradise (2025), on the track "Want Me."
• Halle made a guest appearance on Leon Thomas' "Rather Be Alone," a single from his Mutt album, which was named Best R&B Album at the Grammy Awards in 2026. Halle and Thomas were already loosely connected through their associations with The Color Purple. Thomas was a child actor in the Broadway production in the 2000s that was later adapted into the film Halle starred in.

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