Eliza Doolittle (singer)

Eliza Sophie Caird , better known by her stage name Eliza Doolittle, is an English singer, songwriter and activist who signed with the Parlophone record label in October 2008. Her debut eponymous album was released onJuly 2010, where it debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart. The album, Eliza Doolittle, produced two UK top forty hits Skinny Genes and Pack Up, the latter of which peaked within the top five on the UK Singles Chart.

Eliza Doolittle was born in Westminster, London in 1988. She comes from a family with a successful and varied musical background. Her father is John Caird, a stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas who is also an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her mother is musical theatre actress and model artist Frances Ruffelle, who won a Tony Award for her role of ponine in the Englishlanguage version of Les Misrables. Doolittle is the granddaughter of Sylvia Young, founder of the eponymous theatre school.

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