1. Miley Ray Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
150 Facts About Miley Cyrus
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Miley Cyrus is a daughter of singer Billy Ray Cyrus, and deemed one of the few examples of a child star with a successful entertainment career as an adult.
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Miley Cyrus emerged as a teen idol as the title character in the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana, which evolved into a commercially successful franchise.
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Miley Cyrus's fifth chart-topping album, it yielded the hit single "We Can't Stop" and her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one "Wrecking Ball".
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Miley Cyrus hosted the holiday special Miley's New Year's Eve Party.
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Miley Cyrus has received various accolades, including three Grammy Awards, one Brit Award, five Billboard Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, and eight Guinness World Records.
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Miley Cyrus was named a Disney Legend, in recognition for her contributions to The Walt Disney Company.
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Miley Cyrus was ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time, the ninth-greatest Billboard 200 female artist, and among the greatest pop stars of the 21st century by Billboard, and is the eighth-highest-certified female digital singles artist by the RIAA.
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Miley Cyrus has featured in listicles such as the Time 100, Forbes Celebrity 100, and 30 Under 30.
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Outside of entertainment, Miley Cyrus founded the non-profit Happy Hippie Foundation in 2014, which focuses on the LGBTQ community and youth homelessness, and was supported by the web video series Backyard Sessions.
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Miley Cyrus was born with supraventricular tachycardia, a condition causing an abnormal resting heart rate.
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Miley Cyrus's parents nicknamed her "Smiley", which they later shortened to "Miley", because she often smiled as an infant.
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Miley Cyrus's father's first child, Christopher Cody, was born in April 1992 and grew up separately with his mother, waitress Kristin Luckey, in South Carolina.
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The Miley Cyrus farmhouse is located on 500 acres of land outside Nashville.
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Miley Cyrus attended Heritage Elementary School in Williamson County while she and her family lived in Thompson's Station, Tennessee.
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Miley Cyrus attended church regularly while growing up and wore a purity ring.
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In 2001, when Miley Cyrus was eight, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada, while her father filmed the television series Doc.
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Miley Cyrus's first acting role was as Kylie in her father's television series Doc.
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Miley Cyrus's mother took on the role of Miley's manager and worked to acquire a team to build her daughter's career.
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Miley Cyrus signed with Mitchell Gossett, director of the youth division at Cunningham Escott Slevin Doherty.
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Gossett is often credited with "discovering" Miley Cyrus and played a key role in her auditioning for Hannah Montana.
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Miley Cyrus later signed with Jason Morey of Morey Management Group to handle her music career; Dolly Parton steered her to him.
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Miley Cyrus hired her father's finance manager as part of her team.
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Miley Cyrus auditioned for the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana when she was thirteen years old.
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Miley Cyrus auditioned for the role of the title character's best friend, but was called to audition for the lead role instead seeing her comical performance.
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Miley Cyrus signed a four-album deal with Hollywood Records to distribute her non-Hannah Montana soundtrack music.
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Miley Cyrus released the two-disc album Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus in June 2007.
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Miley Cyrus collaborated with her father on the single "Ready, Set, Don't Go".
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The New York Times subsequently clarified that although the shot left the impression that Miley Cyrus was bare-breasted, she was wrapped in a bed sheet and was not topless.
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Miley Cyrus later starred with John Travolta in the animated film Bolt, her debut as a film actress; she co-wrote the song "I Thought I Lost You" for the film, which she sings as a duet with Travolta.
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In March 2009, Miley Cyrus released "The Climb" as a single from the soundtrack to the Hannah Montana feature film.
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Miley Cyrus released her fourth soundtrack as Hannah Montana in July 2009, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200.
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Miley Cyrus embarked on her first world tour, the Wonder World Tour which was a critical and commercial success.
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On December 7,2009, Miley Cyrus performed for Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the British royal family at the Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool, Lancashire.
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Miley Cyrus further attempted to shift her image with the release of her third studio album, Can't Be Tamed.
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Miley Cyrus was the subject of further controversy when a video posted online in December 2010 showed her, then aged eighteen, smoking salvia with a bong.
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Miley Cyrus embarked on her worldwide Gypsy Heart Tour in April 2011 which had no North American dates; she cited her various controversial moments as the reason, claiming that she only wanted to travel where she felt "the most love".
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Miley Cyrus confirmed she would not be going to college.
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Miley Cyrus hosted the March 5,2011, episode of Saturday Night Live where she poked fun at her recent controversies.
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That November it was announced that Miley Cyrus would be the voice of Mavis in the animated film Hotel Transylvania; however by February 2012 she was dropped from the project and replaced with Selena Gomez.
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At the time Miley Cyrus said her reason for leaving the movie was wanting to work on her music; later it was revealed the real reason behind her exit was because she bought her then-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth a birthday cake shaped like a penis and licked it.
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Miley Cyrus made an appearance on the MTV television series Punk'd with Kelly Osbourne and Khloe Kardashian.
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Miley Cyrus starred alongside Demi Moore in the independent film LOL.
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Miley Cyrus starred in the comedy film So Undercover playing the role of an undercover FBI agent at a college sorority.
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Miley Cyrus released a string of live performances known as the Backyard Sessions on YouTube during the spring and summer of 2012; the performances were of classic songs she personally liked.
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Miley Cyrus collaborated with producers Rock Mafia on their song "Morning Sun", which was made available for free download online.
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Miley Cyrus had previously appeared in the music video for their debut single, "The Big Bang".
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Miley Cyrus later provided guest vocals on "Decisions" by Borgore.
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Miley Cyrus went on to guest star as Missi in two episodes of the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men.
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In 2013, Miley Cyrus hired Larry Rudolph to be her manager, best known for previously representing Britney Spears.
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Miley Cyrus worked with producers such as Pharrell Williams and Mike Will Made-It on her fourth studio album, resulting in a hip hop-influenced sound.
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Miley Cyrus collaborated with numerous hip hop artists releases and appeared on the Snoop Lion song "Ashtrays and Heartbreaks", released as the lead single from his twelfth studio album, Reincarnated.
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Miley Cyrus provided guest vocals on the Lil Twist song "Twerk", which featured vocals by Justin Bieber.
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On May 23,2013, it was confirmed that Cyrus would be featured on the Mike Will Made It single "23", with Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J The single went on to peak at number eleven on the Hot 100, and had sold over onemillion copies worldwide as of 2013.
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Miley Cyrus performed with Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, a performance that resulted in widespread media attention and public scrutiny.
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Miley Cyrus released "Wrecking Ball" as the second single from Bangerz on the same day as the VMAs.
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The accompanying music video, which showed her swinging naked on a wrecking ball, was viewed over nineteen million times within 24 hours of its release, and drew criticism from some for allegedly objectifying Miley Cyrus, including fellow singer Sinead O'Connor, who said that "you will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it's the music business or yourself doing the pimping".
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On November 5, Miley Cyrus featured on rapper Future's "Real and True" with Mr Hudson; an accompanying music video premiered five days later on November 10,2013.
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Miley Cyrus was featured in the Marc Jacobs Spring 2014 campaign along with Natalie Westling and Esmerelda Seay Reynolds.
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Miley Cyrus launched her controversial Bangerz Tour that year, which was positively received by critics.
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Two weeks later, Miley Cyrus suffered an allergic reaction to the antibiotic cephalexin, prescribed to treat a sinus infection, resulting in her hospitalization in Kansas City.
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Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, With a Little Help from My Fwends, Miley Cyrus began working with Wayne Coyne on her fifth studio album.
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Miley Cyrus said that she was taking her time to focus on the music, and that the album would not be released until she felt it was ready.
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Miley Cyrus worked on the films The Night Before and A Very Murray Christmas during this period; both roles were cameos.
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Reports began to surface in 2015 that Miley Cyrus was working on two albums simultaneously, one of which she hoped to release at no charge.
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The album was written and produced primarily by Miley Cyrus, and has been called experimental and psychedelic, with elements of psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, and alternative pop.
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In 2016, following the release of her fifth studio album the previous year, Miley Cyrus resumed working on her sixth studio effort.
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Miley Cyrus was a key advisor during the tenth season of the reality singing competition The Voice.
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In September 2016, Miley Cyrus co-starred in Crisis in Six Scenes, a television series Woody Allen created for Amazon Studios.
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Miley Cyrus played a radical activist who causes chaos in a conservative 1960s household while hiding from the police.
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Miley Cyrus had an uncredited voice cameo as Mainframe in the superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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On May 11,2017, Miley Cyrus released "Malibu" as the lead single from her sixth album.
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On October 2, as part of her one-week regular musical appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Miley Cyrus sang her 2009 hit single "The Climb" for the first time since 2011 alongside a cover of "No Freedom" by Dido to honor the victims of the Las Vegas shooting.
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On October 5,2017, Miley Cyrus confirmed that she would not be returning to The Voice for season fourteen.
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On October 30,2017, Miley Cyrus revealed she would not release any further singles from Younger Now, nor would she tour for it.
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Miley Cyrus honored John at the I'm Still Standing: A Grammy Salute to Elton John tribute concert in 2018, where she covered "The Bitch Is Back".
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Miley Cyrus Is Coming, which included vocal collaborations with RuPaul, Swae Lee, Mike Will Made It and Ghostface Killah, debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 36,000 album-equivalent units, while the lead single "Mother's Daughter" entered at number 54 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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Miley Cyrus promoted the EP with a summer European tour that visited A-list festivals like Glastonbury and Primavera Sound.
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Miley Cyrus starred in "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too", an episode of the Netflix sci-fi series Black Mirror, which was filmed in South Africa in November 2018.
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The plot was compared to Britney Spears's conservatorship and the Free Britney movement, which Miley Cyrus has been an advocate for.
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On June 27, it was revealed that Miley Cyrus had collaborated with Ariana Grande and Lana Del Rey on "Don't Call Me Angel", the lead single of the soundtrack to the 2019 film Charlie's Angels.
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In October, Miley Cyrus had a third Backyard Session on MTV and announced via Instagram that her seventh studio album Plastic Hearts would be released on November 27,2020.
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In February 2021, Miley Cyrus performed at the first TikTok Tailgate show in Tampa, for 7,500 vaccinated healthcare workers.
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In March 2021, Miley Cyrus departed RCA and signed with Columbia Records, a sister label of RCA under the Sony Music umbrella.
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That same month Miley Cyrus embraced her days as Hannah Montana and wrote an open letter to the character on social media for the show's 15th anniversary, despite all statements that her days as Montana gave Miley Cyrus an identity crisis.
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In May 2021, Miley Cyrus signed an overall deal with NBCUniversal, including a first-look deal with her studio Hopetown Entertainment, as part of which she will develop projects for the company's outlets and star in three specials; with the first project off the deal being the Stand By You Pride concert special, which was released the following month on Peacock.
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The tour was postponed due to the pandemic but Miley Cyrus was able to headline several music festivals in the country during summer 2021, including Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, and Music Midtown.
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The second special off her deal with NBCUniversal was Miley's New Year's Eve Party, which Cyrus co-hosted from Miami with Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson and co-executive produced under her production company Hopetown Entertainment, featuring performances by Cyrus, 24kGoldn, Anitta, Billie Joe Armstrong, Brandi Carlile, Jack Harlow, Kitty Cash, and Saweetie.
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In February 2022, Miley Cyrus embarked on her music festival concert tour, Attention Tour, in support of Plastic Hearts, which took place in North, South, and Central America.
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Miley Cyrus said the album was "curated by the fans for the fans".
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Miley Cyrus produced it with Kid Harpoon, Greg Kurstin, Mike Will Made It, and Tyler Johnson.
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The day after, Miley Cyrus released the single "Used to Be Young", which was included in the digital reissue of Endless Summer Vacation and debuted at number eight in the US.
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Miley Cyrus then featured on "Doctor " by Pharrell Williams, an outtake from her fourth album Bangerz.
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Miley Cyrus was then featured on the duet "II Most Wanted" from Beyonce's album Cowboy Carter.
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Miley Cyrus has been described mainly as a pop singer who has developed a rock style.
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Miley Cyrus's music has spanned many other different genres including teen pop, country, hip hop, and psychedelic.
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Miley Cyrus has cited artists such as Madonna, Lana Del Rey, Dolly Parton, Timbaland, Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, Joan Jett, Lil Kim, Shania Twain, Hanson, OneRepublic, and Britney Spears as influences.
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Since the beginning of her music career, Miley Cyrus has been described as being predominantly a pop artist.
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Miley Cyrus hoped that the release of Breakout would help distance her from this sound; the record featured Miley Cyrus experimenting with various genres.
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Miley Cyrus possesses a mezzo-soprano vocal range, although her vocals were once described as alto with a "Nashville twang" in both her spoken and singing voice.
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Miley Cyrus's voice has a distinctive raspy sound to it, similar in vein to that of Pink and Amy Winehouse.
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Miley Cyrus experimented with an electropop sound on "Fly on the Wall", a genre that she would explore further with the release of Can't Be Tamed, her third studio album.
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Miley Cyrus began working on Bangerz during a musical hiatus, and described the record as having a "dirty south feel" prior to its release.
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Miley Cyrus faced similar controversy over her performance of "Can't Be Tamed" on Britain's Got Talent, where the singer pretended to kiss one of her female backup dancers onstage; she defended the performance, arguing that she did nothing wrong.
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Miley Cyrus became the subject of media and public scrutiny following her performance of "We Can't Stop" and "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Miley Cyrus entered the stage of her Bangerz Tour by sliding down a slide in the shape of a tongue, and draw media attention during the tour for her unique outfits and racy performances.
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Miley Cyrus's fame increased dramatically in the wake of the Vanity Fair photo scandal in 2008, and it was reported that photographs of Cyrus could be sold to photo agencies for up to $2,000 per photo.
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In September 2010, Miley Cyrus placed tenth on Billboards first-ever edition of its 21 Under 21 listicle; she was ranked twenty-first in 2011 and eighteenth in 2012.
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In 2015, Miley Cyrus was listed as one of the nine runners-up for The Advocates Person of the Year.
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In March 2024, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of International Women's Day, Miley Cyrus was one of a number of celebrities who had their likeness turned into Bratz doll.
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Miley Cyrus was raised as a Christian and identified herself as such during her childhood and early adult life, but she included references to Tibetan Buddhism in her 2015 song "Milky Milky Milk" and is influenced by Hindu beliefs.
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Miley Cyrus said she "doesn't relate to being boy or girl, and I don't have to have my partner relate to boy or girl", adding that she is "literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn't involve an animal and everyone is of age".
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Miley Cyrus has an equals sign tattooed on her ring finger in support of same-sex marriage.
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Miley Cyrus became a vegan and stopped eating animal products in 2014.
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Miley Cyrus has been open about her recreational use of cannabis.
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Miley Cyrus told Rolling Stone in 2013 that it was "the best drug on earth" and called it, along with MDMA, a "happy drug".
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In 2019, Miley Cyrus sent "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" collaborator Mark Ronson a cannabis bouquet from Lowell Herb Co as a tongue-in-cheek Valentine's Day gift.
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Miley Cyrus has said that she dated singer-actor Nick Jonas from June 2006 to December 2007, claiming they were "in love" and began dating soon after they first met.
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Miley Cyrus was in a nine-month relationship with model Justin Gaston from 2008 to 2009.
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Miley Cyrus has dated actor Patrick Schwarzenegger and model Stella Maxwell.
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Miley Cyrus said the ceremony was "kind of out of character for me" because they had "worn rings forever [and] definitely didn't need it in any way".
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Miley Cyrus believed the loss of their home to be the catalyst for the wedding, saying "the timing felt right" and that "no one is promised the next day, or the next, so I try to be 'in the now' as much as possible".
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In October 2019, Miley Cyrus began dating Australian singer Cody Simpson, a longtime friend.
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Miley Cyrus's announcement coincided with the release of her single "Midnight Sky", which was inspired by her breakups with Hemsworth, Carter, and Simpson.
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In 2021, Miley Cyrus began dating American musician Maxx Morando, who worked as a producer on her 2023 album Endless Summer Vacation.
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Miley Cyrus is an avid supporter of the City of Hope National Medical Center in California, having attended benefit concerts in 2008,2009 and 2012.
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Miley Cyrus celebrated her 16th birthday at Disneyland by delivering a US$1million donation from Disney to Youth Service America.
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In July 2009, Miley Cyrus performed at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation's 20th annual Time for Heroes celebrity picnic and donated several items including autographed merchandise, and a script from Hannah Montana for the Ronald McDonald House Auction.
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Miley Cyrus has supported charities including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, United Service Organizations, Youth Service America and Music for Relief.
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In January 2010, Cyrus posted the final video to her mileymandy YouTube Account.
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Miley Cyrus continued to support The Make-A-Wish Foundation, and met with at least 150 children.
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In January 2011, Miley Cyrus met an ailing fan with spina bifida with the charity Kids Wish Network.
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In 2012, Miley Cyrus released a cover version of Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" with Johnzo West for the charity Amnesty International as a part of the album Chimes of Freedom.
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Miley Cyrus appeared in a commercial for the Rock the Vote campaign, which encouraged young people to make their voices heard by voting in the 2012 federal election.
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In 2013, Miley Cyrus was named the fourteenth-most-charitable celebrity of the year by Do Something.
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Miley Cyrus appeared with Justin Bieber and Pitbull in a television special entitled The Real Change Project: Artists for Education.
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At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus won Video of the Year for her song Wrecking Ball.
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In early 2015, Miley Cyrus teamed up with MAC Cosmetics to launch her own branded Viva Glam lipstick, with proceeds to the Mac AIDS Fund.
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In June 2017, Miley Cyrus performed at One Love Manchester, a televised benefit concert organized by Ariana Grande following the Manchester Arena bombing on her concert two weeks earlier.
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In September 2019, Miley Cyrus met with another fan through the Make-A-Wish Foundation at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Miley Cyrus showed support for the Black Lives Matter movement by sharing links and resources on social media, donning a Black Lives Matter face mask, and attending protests following the murder of George Floyd.
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Miley Cyrus is the founder of the Happy Hippie Foundation, which works to "fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth, and other vulnerable populations".
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Miley Cyrus was behind the camera for the entire photoshoot, and interviewed her 14 subjects to share their personal stories.
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Miley Cyrus said she wanted to bring attention to and celebrate people who would not normally find themselves being the stars of a photoshoot or portrayed on the cover of a magazine.
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Miley Cyrus called the series "genre-defining" and likened this model to 1990s teen pop artists such as Britney Spears and NSYNC, who were marketed to children.
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Billboard listed Bangerz as one of the greatest and most influential albums of the 2010s noting that "with this pivotal album release, Miley Cyrus took control of her public persona, surprising less with her provocative antics than with her constant artistic evolution".
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Miley Cyrus has been considered a pop icon by several publications, with the BBC calling her "the ultimate 21st century pop star".
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In 2024, at age 31, Miley Cyrus became the youngest recipient of the Disney Legends award, for her outstanding contributions to the Walt Disney Company.
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Miley Cyrus won the MTV Movie Award for Best Song From A Movie with her song "The Climb" in 2009.
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Miley Cyrus received 16 nominations at the World Music Awards in 2014 and 50 Teen Choice Award nominations from 2006 to 2014, making her the most nominated person in the history of the Teen Choice Awards.