Madison Beer's Real Name: Madison Elle Beer

Quick answer: Madison Beer's full name is Madison Elle Beer. She was born on March 5, 1999, in Jericho, New York, on Long Island. Justin Bieber shared her YouTube cover of Etta James's "At Last" when she was about 12 or 13, and that led to a record deal. She later went independent and released the albums Life Support, Silence Between Songs, and locket (Library of Congress; Rolling Stone).

Real name and early life

The Library of Congress name authority files her as "Beer, Madison, 1999-." Its citation reads "Madison Elle Beer (born March 5, 1999) is an American singer and actress. She was born in Jericho, N.Y." Her official site and record labels use the shorter Madison Beer.

i-D says she grew up on Long Island, close enough to dream about Broadway and a future in music. At 12 or 13 she uploaded a video of herself singing "At Last." Justin Bieber and his manager, Scooter Braun, found it, and she signed with Braun's management company. Rolling Stone reports she signed with Island Records at 13 and was steered toward Radio Disney-style bubblegum pop, though she wanted to sing more soulful music like the Etta James and Lauryn Hill songs she covered online.

Career highlights

Her first single was the teen-pop song "Melodies." Rolling Stone says a planned album was scrapped after she pushed back on her sound, and Island dropped her by 16. She stayed in music as an independent artist. Working with the company First Access, she released the EP As She Pleases (2018) and a run of singles that passed a billion Spotify streams, including "Dear Society," "Selfish," and "Stained Glass." She then signed with Epic Records, which released her debut album, Life Support, in 2021. i-D reports she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder while making the album, and she wrote about it openly in songs.

Her official biography says her second album, Silence Between Songs, earned her first Grammy nomination, and its single "Reckless" passed 1 billion streams and views. A second nomination came for "make you mine" in best dance pop recording, and that song topped Billboard's Dance Airplay chart. Her third album, locket, debuted in the top 10 of five Billboard album charts. Its single "bittersweet" gave her a Billboard Hot 100 debut. She headlined arenas on the locket tour, including Madison Square Garden and London's O2. She has also written a memoir, The Half of It.

Name notes for searchers

Elle is her middle name, and Beer is her family surname. She has always recorded as Madison Beer and has not used a stage name.