Who is Finneas O'Connell, and how did he get five Grammy nominations? (Hint: Billie Eilish stans him)

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The songwriter, producer and older brother of Billie Eilish earned multiple Grammy nominations for his work on Eilish's smash debut album.

Billie Eilish’s six Grammy nominations — including nods in all four major categories, the youngest act ever to do so — made history on their own. The 17-year-old is a generational talent who has already reshaped pop music to her image.

But her 22-year-old brother, producer and co-writer Finneas O’Connell, is up for five of those awards alongside her. Though he’s a less visible part of Eilish’s rise, his productions have helped shape her hushed goth-pop sound and bolstered her commitment to radical artistic independence. Finneas “understands my life and how I work, and that’s all I really need,” Eilish said in a recent interview with The Times. But their chart-topping intuition did take them by surprise. “I thought nobody would like ‘Bad Guy’ when we made it, and I thought nobody would like ‘When the Party’s Over.’ And those are two of my biggest songs, so I don’t know what the [heck] to expect.”

 

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