Grammys 2014: Who is Lorde? Five things to know about the 17-year-old winner

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Singer Lorde took home Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for 'Royals' at the 56th Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles.

Lorde certainly stole the show at the Grammy Awards on Sunday.
The young singer, 17,  who released her debut album “Pure Heroine” this past September, took home two gold trophies for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for chart-topping track, "Royals."
She also took the stage at the Grammys and delivered a crowd-pleasing performance of the fan favorite track.

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Lorde performing 'Royals' at the Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles.

Here are five things to know about the third-youngest Grammy winner in history:
1. She is only 17.
Lorde's real name is Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor and was born in New Zealand in 1996.

2. Lorde's "Royals" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The teen's track marked her as the youngest artist in 26 years to top the chart. She wrote the ballad when she was just 15 years old.

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Taylor Swift and Lorde pose together at the 56th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday.

3. She and fellow artist Taylor Swift are starting to become besties.
At first Lorde was not impressed with the "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer, but she seems to have changed her tune. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone she said Swift, 24, is one of the only artists with a "real teenage voice.” “There are very few of us," she continued. "The other teenagers sing other people's songs, which is fine, but it's not an authentic teenage experience."

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'And you know... We're on each other's team,' Taylor Swift tweeted this photo of her pal on Sunday at the Grammys with the hashtag #CLEANINGUP referring to Lorde's wins.

4. She has a boyfriend.
She and 24-year-old beau, James Lowe, who is of Chinese descent, were photographed in November on vacation together. Lorde opened up to the music mag in the same interview about people's critical reactions to the pics.  "When I heard about the photos, I was like, 'Now there will be a bunch of people on the Internet talking about what my ass looks like.'" Instead, the haters compared him to the "Chinese exchange student from '16 Candles'” and “Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung."