While at the University where she was exposed to electronic music, she was spotted by Jamie Lillywhite of Turn First Artists at a university talent contest. At 15, she started songwriting and while at Hereford Sixth Form College, she entered a singing competition and won. She won a lead part in a school production of The Wizard of Oz, playing the role of the scarecrow. She was very involved in her school’s theatre, leading her to take drama, politics and English courses at the University of Kent. She attended Lady Hawkins High School in Kingston, a town close to where she lived. At 9 years she began playing the clarinet, but dropped it for the guitar which she took up at 14.
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Her mother later remarried a lorry driver who became a stepfather to her. Her father, an undertaker, and mother who worked at a supermarket, separated when she was only five years old. She is the second of four children (she has a brother and two sisters).
We take a look at her spiralling up the ladder to stardom.Įlena Jane Goulding was born on 30 December 1986 in Hereford to Jewish parents. The 29-year-old British singer has made her mark on the music circuit with some catchy songs including loads of balladic material. But it was the track Love Me Like You Do from the soundtrack of the film Fifty Shades Of Grey that made her even more famous. So lots of things happened in that time and it's only really now that I feel like I'm completely ready to embrace that life again.The name Ellie Goulding crept up on Indian music channels back in 2013 when Ellie released her debut album. "I also had technical stuff, like a change of management, I moved back to London and I got married. "So I waited until I was properly ready and emotionally equipped. I felt like I was in a place where the songs were not reaching, they weren't strong enough in my opinion.
'Brightest Blue' marked the 'Love Me Like You Do' hitmaker's first LP in five years and she previously admitted she didn't feel "emotionally equipped" to make an album in that time.Įllie - who became a mother for the first time in April to a little boy named Arthur, whom she has with husband Caspar Jopling - said: "There definitely were certain things that set me back. It’s electronic pop, a dance thing from outer space.”Įllie signalled in a new era when she teamed up with Mark Ronson and Diplo on the disco-pop banger 'New Love' in January. “We just want to make music for people to dance to and forget about everything in the past year. Together we’re on this mission just to have fun. “I found this dream team of writers, who just for some reason, without even having to talk about it, were all on the same page. “I had a backlog of things I wanted to write about.
She told the Joe Wicks podcast: “I spent a lot of time by myself, quite introspective. Ellie Goulding has described her upcoming album as "a dance thing from outer space".Īfter getting "quite introspective" on her last studio effort, 2020's 'Brightest Blue', the 34-year-old singer has revealed she is going back to her electronic dance-pop roots.
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