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Poppy (singer)

American singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ24852571
Source-derived summary

Moriah Rose Pereira (born January 1, 1995), known professionally as Poppy (formerly as That Poppy), is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and YouTuber. She earned recognition for her performance art videos on YouTube beginning in 2014, in which she played an uncanny valley-like android satirizing Internet culture and modern society. She collaborated with Titanic Sinclair during this period, and ended the partnership in 2019 after accusing him of emotional abuse. She launched the web series Improbably Poppy in 2024. She is known for her experimentation and versatility within her artistry, public image, and music.

Poppy's first two albums, which mostly featured pop influences, sold moderately. She achieved mainstream success after shifting to heavy metal and industrial rock with her third album, I Disagree (2020), which became her first entry on the Billboard 200. Its single "Bloodmoney" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, making Poppy the first solo female artist to be nominated in the category. After an experimental period, she experienced a critical resurgence with her sixth album, Negative Spaces (2024). Also in 2024, she featured on Bad Omens's "V.A.N" and Knocked Loose's "Suffocate", with the latter earning her a second nomination for the Grammy for Best Metal Performance.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Poppy (singer)” is american singer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Poppy, singer and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2014, 2019, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. For this dossier, Poppy, singer and American is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24852571. VIAF identifies the subject as 1214151778252018130006. The Library of Congress control number is no2016113561. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2014, 2019 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from Poppy (singer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.