Ellie Goulding

Elena Jane Ellie Goulding is an English singer, songwriter and multiinstrumentalist. Her career began when she met record producers Starsmith and Frankmusik, and she was later spotted by Jamie Lillywhite, who later became her manager and AampR. After signing to Polydor Records in July 2009, Goulding released her debut extended play, An Introduction to Ellie Goulding, later that year.

Elena Jane Goulding was born onDecember 1986 in Hereford and raised in Lyonshall, a small village near Kington, Herefordshire, the second of four children . Her father, Arthur Goulding, came from a family of undertakers, while her mother, Tracy , used to work at a supermarket. When she was 5, her parents separated later she had a stepfather who was a lorry driver, whom she considered horrible. At 9, she began playing the clarinet and atbegan learning guitar. She attended Lady Hawkins High School in Kington where she won the role of the Scarecrow in a school production of The Wizard of Oz. At 15, she started songwriting and while at Hereford Sixth Form College entered a singing competition and won.

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