The country-pop ballad "The Climb," from that year's Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack, became Miley's first multi-platinum hit.Ĭyrus' solo career was just as successful. By March 2009, the 16-year-old Cyrus was the youngest performer to have four chart-topping albums. The show's first soundtrack appeared in October 2006, topped the Billboard 200 Albums chart, and went on to sell over three-million copies around the world. When it debuted the following March, Hannah Montana became an instant hit. In 2005, Cyrus won the lead role in the Disney Channel TV series Hannah Montana, which chronicled the adventures of Miley Stewart, a teenage girl who moves from Nashville to Malibu and lives a secret life as a pop star Billy Ray played her father and manager, Robbie Stewart. That year, she also appeared in the Tim Burton film Big Fish. She caught the acting bug in 2001 after seeing a production of Mama Mia!, and made her debut with a small role on Billy Ray's TV series Doc in 2003. homage Endless Summer Vacation, Cyrus proved she could combine the different sides of her work with abandon.īorn Destiny Hope Cyrus in Franklin, Tennessee, her mother Tish and her father, country star Billy Ray Cyrus, gave her the nickname "Smiley" - which they soon shortened to Miley - because of her cheerful disposition. By the time of 2020's rock- and disco-tinged Plastic Hearts - her sixth chart-topping album - and 2023's L.A. On the trippy pop of 2015's Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, she collaborated with members of Flaming Lips and Phantogram on 2017's Younger Now, she paid homage to her country music heritage and worked with Dolly Parton. As the 2010s unfolded, Cyrus' work grew more eclectic. She established her voice with singles such as 2009's "Party in the U.S.A." and furthered her reputation as a freewheeling, sometimes controversial performer with 2013's hip-hop-influenced, Grammy-nominated, triple-platinum album Bangerz. Joined by her aptly-named backing band, The Social Distancers, Cyrus performed a set that included inspired covers (her rock remix of Britney Spears’s “Gimme More” turns the song on its head), a duet with little sister, Noah, and tracks from her upcoming studio album, She is Miley Cyrus.A boundary-breaking artist, Miley Cyrus incorporates different styles - pop, country, hip-hop, and indie - into her music while balancing her acting and singing careers. Cyrus could have grabbed a guitar and played to a webcam, but, showman that she is, she turned her garden into a stage instead. Staged at Cyrus’s Los Angeles home, the event draws inspiration from the “Unplugged at Home” web shows that have been happening since spring and Cyrus's own popular Backyard Sessions series, but takes things up a notch. Tonight’s MTV Unplugged Presents Miley Cyrus Backyard Sessions offers a modern update on the concept. Fans have long been eager for an Unplugged reboot, and in a rare 2020 bright spot, MTV has provided one. The show may have concluded in 2009, but its legacy lives on in classic sets from Nirvana, Jay-Z, Eric Clapton, and many more. The stripped-down concerts featured the era's biggest artists playing acoustic versions of their hits. If you grew up in the ’90s or early ’00s, you likely remember MTV’s Unplugged specials.
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