Rapper Iggy Azalea was born Amethyst Amelia Kelly in Sydney, Australia, in June 1990 and grew up in the Australian countryside. Moving to the U.S. just before her 16th birthday, Azalea ended up in Los Angeles and cut her first mixtape, Ignorant Art, in 2011. When her rap career wouldn't take off, Azalea turned to modeling, but the success she found there would be interrupted by her dream: magazine covers and record deals. With her 2014 release, The New Classic, Azalea took the music world by storm, and the single "Fancy" became the song of the summer.