( CNN ) -- Before she was a platinum-selling artist and Grammy winner , Lorde was a Kings of Leon fan . Audio has emerged of the now-17-year-old star covering the band 's hit `` Use Somebody . '' But five years ago , she was little Ella Yelich-O'Connor , an aspiring artist who got the opportunity to sing on her local radio station in Auckland , New Zealand . The cover sounds pretty much like Lorde now , just a younger version who had yet to see her hit song `` Royals '' embroiled in controversy about race or banned because of the World Series . Time reports that the audio has been floating around the Web for a while . Radio New Zealand posted it with a note that said `` In August 2009 , long before she became 'Lorde ' , twelve-year-old Aucklander Ella Yelich-O'Connor and her band-mate Louis McDonald joined Jim Mora for a chat and to play a couple of songs live in the Radio NZ studio . The songs are : Mama Do ( Pixie Lott Cover ) and Use Somebody ( Kings Of Leon Cover ) . '' Next up for Lorde is `` The Hunger Games : Mockingjay -- Part 1 '' soundtrack , which she curated . It 's out November 17 .
12-year-old Lorde sang `` Use Somebody '' on local radio station . She had a similar sound five years ago . Her next project is the new `` Hunger Games '' soundtrack .