Justine Skyers is a very known singer and a songwriter who also models and acts. She hails from the United States and has a huge fanbase.
She is mostly known by her stage name Justine Skye. This is how the world knows her.
Justine became known to the public through Tumblr and after that, she started her music career and signed to Atlantic Records when she was only 19 years old.
This was a huge success for her and her family since she was so young.
Early years
Skye was born on August 24th in 1995 in Fort Greene which is a neighborhood in the north-west of Brooklyn. She always talked about her hometown and often mentioned that she was very much in love with the place.
It is located in New York, one of the biggest cities in the US. This automatically gave Justine a bit more opportunities than your regular citizen.
Her full name at birth was Justine Indira Skyers, but no one really knows her by her full name.
Her mother is named Nova Perry and she is a lawyer and her father is Christopher Skyers and he is working in merchandising. They have pursued their hard careers but wanted their daughter to be happier.
They are both Jamaican roots and they became successful in their line of work. They were very happy about being in New York because they knew that their little girl would have more chances there.
Justine was always very interested in music and her mother always spoke about how she always sang and performed as little.
When she was a teenager she went to a music panel with her mother that was held by BMI. There she sang Sam Sparro’s song called “Black and Gold”.
She started her professional career in music after she sang the song for the book “Rules To Rock By”. This book was written by Josh Farrahr and is a fictional children’s book which became very successful.
One of her more known covers is one of Drake’s “Headlines”. She got over 2 million views on YouTube for this cover of his hit.
Career development
In 2012 she decided to release a mixtape called “Skye High”. Song titled “Trippin’” from this mixtape was received very well from the public and she soon became the center of interest.
She was also very famous on Tumblr and she made videos with her boyfriend, Glyn Brown, who was pursuing fashion at that time.
They have been very popular over the course of a few years, and their popularity has spiked lately.
The two of them had meetups in New York City. They have been together for three years.
In 2013 she released her EP that consists of seven tracks and is titled “Everyday Living”. With that EP she signed to Atlantic Records.
Song titled “Hard Work” from it was in an episode of “106 & Park” and it aired on BET. This song was in the Top 10 list in that episode.
In 2015 she released an album titled “Emotionally Unavailable”. At that time she was also working on a track with a producer called DJ Mustard and it featured Tyga in it. The track was called “Collide”.
In 2015 she had a performance on TIDAL10X20 that is originally made by Jay-Z and Tommy Hilfiger and it was in Brazil.
She was a guest on the final episode of House of DVF, a reality TV show that aired on E! They were very happy about the contracts that they got and they have pursued their careers even further.
In 2016 she left Atlantic Records and signed to Roc Nation and Republic Records. That same year she released an EP titled “8 ounces” and one of the artists that were featured on it is Wale.
In 2017 she was in controversy because while she was performing the National Anthem at the Barclays Arena located in Brookly at the Brookly Nets game, she kneeled down.
At the beginning of 2018, she released an album called “Ultraviolet”. Some of the singles from it that were a success were “Back for more” with Jeremih, “U Don’t Know” with Wizkid and “Don’t Think About It”.
The last track had a music video. She really worked hard to create high-quality content in order to succeed and become prominent in the industry, but she was not doing too great.
In 2018 she released a video for a track called “Build” and it featured an anonymous abuser who was hurting her physical and mental health. She said that she wants to be very direct about everything that’s happening to young people over the internet these days.
After she moved to Los Angeles she became good friends with a lot of celebrities like Jaden and Willow, Kendall and Kylie Jenner.
This gave her much more exposure because she would often go to parties and events with those people and met a lot of people. She hung out with them and went to their parties and this is how people got to know her more.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club in November, she talked about her career so far and also about her being in an abusive relationship but she kept the person anonymous.
Justine is very active on her social media. She has over 2 million followers on her Instagram and almost half a million followers on her Twitter.
She worked with a brand like H&M with whom she has a collection. She said that she would like to get into design more, but she has been working really hard even now.
In 2019 she left her label Roc Nation and released an EP called “Bare With Me”. She continues to get more views and streams because of the relationships she had developed with various celebrities.
She is also an actress and she was in a short movie called “Justine Skye & Vic Mensa: I’m Yours” with celebs like Kylie and Kendall Jenner. She enjoyed spending time with her friends while having fun on set.
She was also in a movie titled “Already Gone” from 2019 where she played Keesha. An in a tv show Tales where she played Violet.
Personal life
She dated Glyn Brown for three years before their very public break-up in which he accused her of cheating over social media.
He mentioned names like Trevor Jackson and Jordan Grizzle to be her lovers and spoke very badly of her claiming that she did it while they were on tour together.
She dated Playboi Carti for two years, until 2016. He is a rapper and songwriter but they decided to go separate ways in the spring of 2016.
The next man on her boyfriend list is a rapper named Whizzkid and they even appeared on the One Music Africa Fest together. At the beginning of 2017, they broke up.
Justice Winslow is a basketball star whom she dated in 2017 which was discovered after she was spotted being with him on a private yacht. The relationship ended the same year.
She was also mentioned to be dating a famous F1 driver Lewis Hamilton. She said that she loved how dynamic their relationship was, but people took that out of context pretty quickly.
In 2019 she started dating the rapper named GoldLink and it seems that they are still dating because they share a lot of photos on social media.
In 2019 she Twitted that the person is Sheck Wes and that she was attacked by both him and his friends. This created a huge controversy.
It was reported that Skye got a restraining order against him. It all seemed to end up well.
Justine released a song in which she suggests that she was physically abused in one of her previous relationships. It seems that she was aiming at Sheck Wes.
She claims that he recently stalked her and her friends trying to fright her.
She appeared in a drama movie named Green Dolphin in 2018. She said that this was one of the most purifying experiences she had encountered in her life.
Her first TV appearance was in the spring of 2013 on the talk show named “Today”. She was very nervous but did well in the end.
Later she easily got noticed by people and got into new shows and movies because of this.
Quick summary
Full name: Justine Skye
Date of birth: August 24, 1995
Birthplace: Fort Greene, New York, United States
Age: 24
Profession: singer, model, actor
Height: 1, 75 m
Weight: 69 kg
Net Worth: $2 million