Ellie Goulding

Born on December 30, 1986, in Hereford, England, Elena Jane Goulding is an English vocalist, musician, and record maker. She is the daughter of Arthur Goulding and Tracy. Ellie began playing musical instruments at the age of 9. She started with the clarinet and later at the age of 14, started learning the guitar. Ellie went to Lady Hawkins' High School in Kingston. She began songwriting at the age of 15 and won the competition in singing at Hereford Sixth Form College. Ellie was presented to electronic music at the University of Kent and got spotted at a college talent contest by Jamie Lillywhite from the music and branding company, Turn First Artists. Jamie later turned into her manager.

She shifted to West London after taking a break from her studies to seek a profession as an option singer/lyricist and became friends with makers like Starsmith and Frankmusik, who gave her tunes an electro-pop twist. She began building a gathering of individuals utilizing the Internet, where her early melodies, like "Starry Eyed" and a front cover of Sam Sparro's "Dark and Gold" album, were put on MP3 blogs, like Discodust in 2009. Goulding soon moved on to print media from the blogosphere, picking up acclaim from standard distributions like The Guardian and handling offers from record names.

She marked a large label deal with Polydor Records and started making arrangements to commence her debut collection. Meanwhile, she penned tunes for Gabriella Cilmi, Diana Vickers, and others.

Ellie topped the 2010 BBC's Sound, a survey directed by critics of British music and industry insiders to recognize new ability. She presented her debut studio collection, Lights, which appeared first on the UK Albums Chart and sold more than 850,000 copies in the UK in 2010. Her album, Lights beat the U.K. outlines in its first week and "Starry Eyed" became a Top Five single, and it additionally did well in Ireland and New Zealand. Soon after that, the collection was presented again as Bright Lights, highlighting seven new recordings. Goulding came back with her sophomore collection, Halcyon, which exhibited a much more sonically bold, electro-pop-imbued sound in 2012. Halcyon Days, a repackaged version of Halcyon, was discharged on 23 August 2013. It included new single melodies including "Burn", which was her first UK single.

The next year, she bagged a role in Calvin Harris' "Outside," which was a Top Ten U.K. hit. She took part in Band Aid 30's refresh of the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and invaded the U.K. Best Ten again with "Beating Heart," a tune presented on the soundtrack for Divergent. In 2015, her song "Love Me Like You Do," added to the success of the movie Fifty Shades of Grey. The same year, she came up with her third studio collection, Delirium, which included coordinated efforts with Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, and others. The song "On My Mind", the leadoff single was included in Delirium. In spite of the fact that she began composing tunes in a folk-inflected style, she, in the end, developed into a more electronic-affected singer. With her fascinating soprano voice and ability for creating smart yet genuinely earnest tunes, Goulding, much like her inspirations, Kate Bush and Imogen Heap Imogen Heap is a British Songwriter and Singer. He >> Read More... , stays at the forefront of contemporary standard music.