She already has Rihanna dying to work with her after she heard Ellie nail a cover of her hit “Only Girl (In the World).” However, it was her cover of Elton John’s “Your Song” that had the U.K. stars who have traveled Stateside and made a huge impact. With her success cemented overseas, Ellie is poised to join the ranks of fellow U.K. “I wanted to have an accurate portrayal of me.” I wanted to refresh it a bit with newer songs,” she explains. Just ones I’ve outgrown and grew a bit tired of. “There were some songs I didn’t want on the album for some reason. Now, Lights is impacting the States this spring with a significantly trimmed down 11-song tracklisting. The LP re-released that December under the name Bright Lights, this time boasting extra songs and getting noted all over again as DJs worldwide remixed almost every track on the album. The doe-eyed Siren with an angelic voice pens her own lyrics and performs live shows by strumming an acoustic guitar with one hand and banging on a tom-tom drum with the other.Īcross the pond, Ellie’s debut, Lights, dropped in March 2010 and soon skyrocketed to number one on the U.K. Quite a lot of attention all of a sudden.”Įllie is leading the charge for folktronica, where acoustic sounds mingle with electronic beats. I entered a contest and I won, and then people started paying attention to me. “It wasn’t until I got to University that I actually started. “I wasn’t really a singer singer,” she admits. Not too shabby for a girl who’s been “making noise since the age of four” and began singing and playing the guitar at 14.
She even won the BBC Sound of 2010 Award and 2010 BRIT Critics’ Choice Award before her album debuted in the U.K. Prior to the performances, Ellie had no formal release in the U.S., with the exception of her single “Starry Eyed,” which made the New York Times’ Top 10 Songs of 2010 list. Both shows sold out, with attendees reciting songs word for word.
songstress Ellie Goulding held a mini-tour in the U.S., performing only two dates – one in L.A.
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