Ella Yelich-O’Connor, known professionally as Lorde, is one of the North Harbour Club's highest profile AIMES Award winners. She won the AIMES Supreme Award and AIMES Music Award at the age of 17, shortly after she released “Royals”, her debut single in mid-2013.

In quick time this became an international crossover hit reaching number one in many charts, becoming the youngest solo artist to achieve a number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 since 1987. Ella's debut album Pure Heroine (2013) garnered positive reviews for her depiction of suburban adolescence; yielding the additional top-ten single "Team", it topped the national charts in New Zealand and Australia and reached number three on the US Billboard 200.
The following year she curated the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and provided its lead single, "Yellow Flicker Beat", for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Ella released her second studio album Melodrama in 2017 after a three-year hiatus, launched with "Green Light" as its lead single. The album debuted at number one in New Zealand and Australia, as well as topping the US Billboard 200. She served as an executive producer alongside Jack Antonoff. The record deals with themes of heartbreak and solitude.
Ella has earned two Grammy Awards, a Brit Award and ten New Zealand Music Awards. In 2013, she was named among Time's most influential teenagers in the world, and in the following year, she was part of Forbes's "30 Under 30" list.