You have to be really careful with that.” “One important thing I learned is, when you have a big personality, you can walk into a room and be the life of the party, or you can be in a bad mood and suck the f–ing life out of it. That’s not to say she didn’t absorb lots of genuinely important lessons from her dad, with whom she also spent her summers.
“So, I can roll amazing joints,” she says. When she was 13, she came home with a pierced tongue and London sent her to live with Schneider, which meant tagging along while he shot Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo in Amsterdam. (They named their daughter Tanner Elle Schneider, but she has gone by Elle King since she was 18.) “When you grow up in New York with famous parents, you kind of end up running into other kids with famous parents,” says King. Part of that probably had to do with the fact that King’s dad is Saturday Night Live veteran Rob Schneider he and London were briefly married. “It was a horrible place just rich kids being bad.” “I got kicked out of school in eighth grade,” she says. There were great things about the move: For one, her stepdad got a guitarist friend to come over and start giving King lessons.
They relocated to New York from Columbus, Ohio - not far from Wellston, the tiny Appalachian town where her mom grew up and the family still gathers for holidays - when she was 11, after her mother, model London King, married her stepfather, a musician named Justin Tessa. She’s psyched to be playing her hometown tonight: King has a place in Brooklyn, right around the corner from her mother in one of the borough’s brownstone neighborhoods.
So now, the hard-partying artist - who sounds a little like Amy Winehouse and looks a lot like a banjo-wielding Anna Nicole Smith - is ready to introduce the world to the face behind the song it increasingly can’t escape. Powered by the crossover smash, King’s debut LP, Love Stuff - which features an all-star crew of collaborators including Mark Ronson and Jeff Bhasker - is also on the rise, hitting a new peak, No. 26, on the Nov. The hit also made King just the second woman in two decades (after Lorde) to top the Alternative Songs list and the only woman to lead Hot Rock Songs in 2015. The track has risen to the top rungs of the charts months after its 2014 release, and moves 15-12 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Nov. 14, its 17th week on the tally. The reason? “Ex’s and Oh’s,” a revved-up, hook-laden saga of the real-life trail of broken hearts that King has left from Texas to London.
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