Maggie Baird has long advocated a vegan lifestyle and environmental awareness — values she has famously imparted to her outspoken and influential children, Grammy-winning bedroom-pop superstars Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell. So, as businesses in her hometown of L.A. are forced to close their doors to the public due to the COVID-19 crisis, she has created a new initiative, Support + Feed, to help keep the local restaurant economy afloat — while also providing nutritious, plant-based meals to those in need, including healthcare workers, first responders, and residents at senior centers, homeless shelters, and women’s centers across Los Angeles.

Among the many restaurants participating in Support + Feed is Donut Friend, in Baird’s neighborhood of Highland Park, the kitschy rock ‘n’ roll donut shop founded by Rocket From the Crypt/Drive Like Jehu indie-rocker Mark Trombino. “You can ask for the ‘Billie Ache,’ which is a donut they make on the secret menu. It’s a gluten-free donut, with lemon curd and chocolate mousse and raspberry on top,” she chuckles. So, has Baird sampled this off-menu vegan pastry named after her daughter? “Oh yeah. It’s really good.”

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A coronavirus benefit concert called One World: Together at Home has been announced, featuring performances from Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Coldplay‘s Chris Martin.

Curated by Lady Gaga and hosted by US talk show hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, the event will take place on April 18 and will be broadcast live across US television networks ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as being streamed online.

An adapted version of the concert will be broadcast on BBC One the following day (April 19), featuring exclusive performances from UK artists and interviews with workers on the frontline.

Additional performances from the global broadcast will be shown on BBC iPlayer from Sunday, April 19.

Put on in support of the the COVID-19 Response Fund, powered by the UN Foundation, and to celebrate health workers around the world, the musical lineup includes Gaga, Eilish and her brother Finneas, McCartney, Martin, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Alanis Morissette, Burna Boy, Andrea Bocelli, Lizzo, J Balvin, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban Elton John, John Legend and Lang Lang.

Billie Eilish has been happily spending a lot of time alone in the Highland Park home she shares with her parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell amid the global coronavirus pandemic.

‘I’ve been really enjoying being alone. I feel like everybody on the Internet has been on FaceTime all day long with their friends,’ the 18-year-old pop sta told Telekom Electronic Beats podcast – according to the UK’s Mirror.

‘I love my friends, I can’t wait to see them, I do miss them a lot, but at the same time, I’m good. I’m good being alone – I like being alone.’

As of Monday, there have been 5,955 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles with 132 deaths, and California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a stay-at-home order on March 19 to slow the spread.

Billie – who described herself as ‘introverted and lonerish’ – thinks the feelings of gratitude humanity will feel after lockdown won’t last after ‘three days.’

‘That’s the way people work. It’s the way humans are made,’ the No Time to Die hitmaker said. ‘You miss something so bad once you don’t have it. You never think about it when you have it.’

Eilish just fostered two Pit Bull puppies called Miss Mardy and Jim, which were likely from the same nonprofit Angel City Pit Bulls used by her brother Finneas O’Connell and his live-in love Claudia Sulewski to find Miss Peach Pit.

At just 18 years old, Billie Eilish has proven herself as a force to be reckoned with in the music industry.

The singer-songwriter rose to fame in 2016 after her debut single, “Ocean Eyes,” went viral on SoundCloud. Since then, she has dominated charts and taken home multiple Grammy Awards.

Keep reading to see 14 instances of Eilish making history and breaking records.

1).- Eilish is the youngest artist ever to be nominated for all four major Grammy Awards in one year.

 

Back in November, when the 2020 Grammy Award nominations were announced, fans were thrilled to see Eilish with six nominations – including best new artist, record of the year, song of the year, and album of the year.

At just 17 years old, this made Eilish the youngest artist ever to be nominated for all four major Grammys in the same year.

 

2).- She then became the second person and only woman in history to sweep all four major categories.

The teenager was visibly sheepish when she was showered with accolades at the 2020 ceremony, winning best new artist, song of the year for “Bad Guy,” record of the year for “Bad Guy,” and album of the year for “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”

It was just the second time that an artist had pulled off such a feat. The last and only time an artist won all four of these awards was Christopher Cross in 1981. The 29-year-old Texan rocker won big for his self-titled LP – which controversially beat Pink Floyd’s iconic “The Wall” – and for its standout song “Sailing.”

 

3).- Eilish is the youngest person ever to win album of the year at the Grammys, a title previously held by Taylor Swift.

Eilish had recently turned 18 when “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” won best pop vocal album and album of the year at the Grammys.

She broke the record as the youngest solo artist in history to win the ceremony’s most prestigious award. Taylor Swift had previously won for “Fearless” in 2010 when she was 20 years old.

 

4).- She’s only the fourth female artist ever to win album of the year with a debut album.

Before Eilish, only three female artists had won album of the year with debut albums.

Barbra Streisand was the first; she won for “The Barbra Streisand Album” in 1964 at the sixth annual Grammy Awards. Next, Lauryn Hill won for her first and only solo album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” in 1999; Hill was also the first woman to win five Grammys in one night. Lastly, Norah Jones’ diamond-certified “Come Away with Me” took home the prize in 2003.

Streisand even congratulated Eilish on Twitter, writing, “Welcome to the club.”

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