Halsey lists historic home for $5.5 million
The news of the listing comes less than two years after the Without Me singer bought the historic home in September 2023.
The singer-songwriter, who announced her engagement to actor Avan Jogia in September, paid about $5 million (£3.96 million) for the elegantly restored house at the time.
The grand residence has certified Historic-Cultural Monument status. It was built by architect Arthur W Larson in 1928 for restaurateur Clifford Clinton, the founder and namesake of the theatrical Clifton's Cafeteria near Downtown Los Angeles, which closed in 2018.
The singer's LA home comes complete with a home cinema, a swimming pool, and a bucket-load of original 1920s charm, including many Spanish Colonial accents such as a wrought iron staircase, decorative archways, vaulted ceilings and stained glass windows.
Prior to buying the Los Feliz home, Halsey lived in a Calabasas mansion that she bought from Liam Payne for $10.2 million (£8 million). She lived there for two years before moving into the Los Feliz property.
Last week Halsey announced her For My Last Trick tour that will kick off in Concord, California, on 10 May.
"My funeral was cancelled, so I'm taking the show on the road instead," she declared as part of the video trailer.
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- Los Angeles Times
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A Chicano icon. A stranger. Ritchie was a kid playing his guitar to make money for his family and one song he played was a version of 'Malagueña.' The number was rooted in centuries-old Spanish flamenco music that had spread in all directions, becoming a classical music melody and a Hollywood soundtrack go-to by the 1950s. In his hands, it became a catapult for guitar hero god shots. 'Malagueña' communicated experience and rico suave flair to his audience. Meanwhile, his mom was selling homemade tamales at his shows in the American Legion Hall. This guileless 17-year-old, Chicano kid from Pacoima found a way to introduce himself to America by taking something familiar and making it feel like nothing you had heard before. From the beginning, Ritchie heard the possibilities in turning a familiar sound forward. He saw, even as the teenager he will forever be to us, how in reinventing a song, you could reinvent yourself. 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But years later, after Hackford had a hit with 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' Valdez called him and raised the idea once more. There were many steps to getting 'La Bamba' on the screen, but it began with an understanding that it would be about the music. That meant they had to make the music feel alive — namely the handful of recordings produced by Bob Keane that Ritchie left behind. The owner of Del-Fi Records, Keane was a guiding figure in the singer's life, recording his songs, urging him to mask his ethnicity by changing his name from Richard Steven Valenzuela and giving him career advice. Keane booked Gold Star Studios, cheap at $15 an hour, and brought in great session musicians as Ritchie's backing band, including future Wrecking Crew members Earl Palmer and Carol Kaye. But the recordings he made were not state of the art, even in their own time. 'They weren't high-quality,' said Hackford, comparing them to the early Ray Charles sessions for the Swing Time label. 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