Early life North West was born on June 15, 2013, at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles, California, to
Kanye West and
Kim Kardashian. At the moment, Kanye was
DJing, and North was born while "
Bohemian Rhapsody" by
Queen was played. North's maternal aunts and uncle are
Kourtney Kardashian,
Khloé Kardashian, and
Rob Kardashian, and her maternal half-aunts are
Kendall and
Kylie Jenner. West's parents became engaged in October 2013, married in May 2014, separated in February 2021 following
Kanye West's unsuccessful 2020 presidential run, and divorced in 2022, by which time North had two younger brothers and a younger sister. West's due date was July 12, 2013, which would have been the 64th birthday of Kanye's mother
Donda West, and her early delivery meant she spent time in an incubator.
CBS News described her and
Prince George of Wales as the two most famous babies in the world. In January 2020, she used a video uploaded to Kylie's
YouTube account to state that the name North grew on her after
Jay Leno jokingly suggested it while she was appearing on
his talk show. West was baptised in the
Armenian Apostolic Church at the
Cathedral of Saint James in
Jerusalem in April 2015 during a tour of the
Middle East, and attended
Sierra Canyon School, which had previously been attended by Kendall and Kylie. Growing up, she was involved in a number of her parents' ventures. In January 2015, she appeared in the music video for Kanye's "Only One". In April 2016, Kardashian used an episode of her sister's chat show
Kocktails with Khloé to note that North had flushed an
iPhone containing an early draft of Kanye's album
The Life of Pablo down the toilet, leading Kanye to have to re-record it from scratch. She made appearances on her family's program
Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Aged five, she appeared on the cover of ''
Women's Wear Daily''s annual Beauty Inc. issue. In March 2023, Kim applied for several trademarks in North's name. In September 2023, North, Saint, and Kim voiced Mini, Meteor Max, and Delores in
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie. In October 2023, by which time she had accompanied her mother to multiple events in Los Angeles and abroad, she gave a solo interview to
i-D, in which she expressed several of her hopes and dreams.
Career By February 2024, a
TikTok account North shared with her mother had accrued 18.3 million followers. That month, Kanye West released a video for "
Talking / Once Again", a
single by
¥$, a supergroup comprising himself and
Ty Dolla Sign, which included a guest verse from North; upon release later that month as part of the group's album
Vultures 1, North's contribution was noted by
NME as a rare highlight from an otherwise relentlessly misogynistic album. Later that month, the song peaked at number 30 on the
Billboard Hot 100, and she performed it at
Accor Arena. On March 10, West announced her debut album
Elementary School Dropout, at a performance in
Arizona plugging ¥$'s second album
Vultures 2; She then gave an interview to the then-thirteen-year-old Jazlyn of
Jazzy's World TV at
Rolling Loud. In May 2024, it was announced that she would perform at the
Hollywood Bowl's
The Lion King 30th Anniversary – A Live-to-Film Concert Event later that month.
Deadline Hollywood drew parallels with the then-recent announcement that
Blue Ivy Carter, a daughter of
Beyoncé and
Jay-Z, had been hired for a role in
Mufasa: The Lion King. For her performance of "
I Just Can't Wait to Be King", West was outfitted by ERL Clothing, who put her in a yellow furry hooded sweatshirt with matching shorts, socks and furry slippers. Her performance was praised by
Jason Weaver, who provided the singing voice for that film's cub
Simba; however, some social media commentators felt that West had only been hired due to her parents' fame. Her role was later defended by Kim on an episode of
The Kardashians. In August 2024, North and her sister Chicago were featured on the track "Bomb" from ¥$'s album
Vultures 2, in which North rapped in
Japanese. That October, she was interviewed by
Interview, where she discussed Christianity and Japan. She then contributed a rap in Japanese to "Childlike Things" from
FKA Twigs's January 2025 album
Eusexua. In a March 2025 video uploaded to
Instagram, Twigs stated that she was inspired to include a child on the track as it used lyrics she had written when she was 12 or 13 and that she was specifically inspired to feature West after being struck by the confidence she exuded during an interview, having herself been very shy at that age. She also released a video for the track that month. In March 2025, she featured on "
Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine", a track Kanye uploaded to
Twitter that featured Jasmine Williams,
King Combs, and the latter's father
Sean Combs; the involvement of the last of these prompted Justin Curto of
Vulture to describe the track as "one of the most problematic songs you could imagine", as Diddy had been imprisoned on federal sex-crime charges.
Caitlin Moran of
The Times described the collaboration as "in no way a useful career step for her" and criticised Kanye for using it to "continue his demented psychological warfare against his ex-wife — at the expense of their child". Prior to release, Kanye shared screenshots he claimed were between himself and Kim, which claimed that she had requested that North's trademark be signed over to her so she could block North's participation "to protect her"; he later deleted both posts. and "Lonely Roads" later featured on Kanye and King's surprise EP,
Never Stop. West would preview her first solo single at Kanye West's Mexico City performance on January 30, 2026 titled "Piercing on My Hand" under the label
Gamma, who had also signed Kanye in time for his upcoming album
Bully. The track would later appear on streaming on February 5 that same year. West released her debut extended play (EP),
N0rth4evr on May 1, 2026 through Gamma. ==Discography==