Hayley Williams is an American singer-songwriter, model and businesswoman. She is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and keyboardist of the rock band Paramore. The band constitutes Josh Farro, Zac Farro, Jeremy Davis and herself. She is widely remembered from her debut album, All We Know Is Falling (2005). Her other noticeable albums include Riot! (2007), Brand New Eyes (2009), the self-titled Paramore (2013) and After Laughter (2017). She was named from her Readers Poll ‘Sex Goddess Of The Year’ in 2009 by Spin Magazines.
Hayley Williams is an American singer and songwriter best known as the founder, lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and occasional keyboardist of the rock band Paramore.
Hayley is the daughter of Christie Williams and Joey Williams. She has two younger half-sisters named Erica and Mckayla. Hayley Williams was born as Hayley Nichole Williams on 27 December 1988, in Meridian, Mississippi, USA. She was raised in Mississippi. Williams moved with her mother to Franklin, Tennessee in 2002 at the age of 15 when her parents divorced. In 2004, she formed a Paramore band with her new school bandmates alongside Josh Farro, Zac Farro, and Jeremy Davis. Her nationality is American and she is of white ethnicity. Her religion is Christianity and her zodiac is Capricorn. Regarding her education, she completed her elementary schooling in Mississippi and later in Tennessee.
The pop-punk style, Paramore lead, Hayley Williams net worth is estimated at $14 million as of 2020. Her major sources of income is her career as a singer, songwriter, and businesswoman. She is a widely renowned singer in pop culture at present. Besides she has many business ventures and endorsements. In 2015, she launched the online beauty and music series "Kiss-Off" on Popular TV. In 2016 Williams launched her own hair dye company, Good Dye Young. She produced own temporary hair dye line with the name Poser Paste in 2017. She has also partnered and endorsed several brands and companies like MAC Cosmetics, Nylon, Hard Rock Café, and a few other more since 2013. Williams also earns Williams from social media platforms like Instagram from where she charges an average of $500 per sponsored post.
As of September 2019, she has over 2.2 million followers on her official Instagram account. Moreover, Williams owns a Mazda car worth somewhere around $21 thousand along with some others like PT Cruiser ($26k to $29k), and BMW X6 ($78k to $105k). Regarding her house, Hayley Listed Nashville Home For $1 Million in 2019.
Hayley is currently a divorced woman and is single. She was married to Chad Gilbert, lead guitarist of New Found Glory on February 20, 2016. They first started dating in 2008. They engaged on Christmas Day 2014 and married in 2016. After almost a decade long of togetherness, The couple announced their separation on July 1, 2017. Previously, he dated American musician Josh Farro from 2004 to 2007.
Hayley began her professional music career after she was discovered by managers, Dave Steunebrink and Richard Williams in 2003 who immediately signed a two-year production deal with her. After that, she was introduced to Atlantic Records A&R. However, she opted for the deal to be part of a band and play pop-punk music. She rose to limelight after she formed her rock band called Paramore with Josh Farro, Zac Farro, and Jeremy Davis in 2004. They released their debut album, All We Know Is Falling in 2005. Paramore has since released four more studio albums, Riot! (2007), Brand New Eyes (2009), the self-titled Paramore (2013) and After Laughter (2017).Their first and second album of the band went Platinum. She became second to Evanescence's Amy Lee in the "Sexiest Female" category in 2007 and first place spot for "Sexiest Female" a year in 2008,2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 in Kerrang! Readers' Poll.
As a solo career, Williams recorded the song "Teenagers" for the soundtrack of Jennifer's Body (2009) and has collaborated with artists such as October Fall, The Chariot, Set Your Goals, Zedd and New Found Glory. In 2010, she was featured on the single "Airplanes" by B.o.B. It peaked at number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. A sequel to the song, "Airplanes, Part II", features new verses from B.o.B. and verse from Eminem, while Williams' vocals remain the same. This collaboration led to a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. In 2014, she won the Trailblazer Award in the 2014 Billboard’s Women in Music Awards for making a unique mark in music. In 2015, she won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song for her song “Ain’t It Fun“. After that, she won the APMA for Best Vocalist in July 2015. In December 2019, Williams announced a solo release for January 2020. Besides, music career she has other ventures in which Williams has businesses including, online beauty and music series Kiss-Off on Popular TV which launched in 2015, and the hair-dye company Good Dye Young, which launched in 2016.
The rock band Paramore's lead vocalist, Williams has a good height of 5 feet 2 inches tall. She has a slim body build and weighs only 53 kg. Her skin tone is fair complexion with the natural hair color of light brown who likes to keep her hair dyed to red or orange mostly. Her eye color is green. The consecutive "Sexiest Female"of the year from 2007 to 2012 has an irresistible body figure that measures 34-25-34 inches. She wears a bra size of 32B, dresses size of 6(US) and a shoe size of 5(US). She has straight sexuality.