Elena Jane "Ellie" Goulding is an English singer and songwriter.
86 Facts About Ellie Goulding
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Ellie Goulding released her third studio album, Delirium, in 2015, with "On My Mind" as the album's lead single.
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In 2017, at the end of her Delirium World Tour, Ellie Goulding announced that she was going on indefinite hiatus.
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In 2022, Ellie Goulding released the song "Easy Lover" featuring rapper Big Sean as the lead single of her fifth studio album.
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On March 2023, Ellie Goulding released her third collaboration with DJ Calvin Harris, titled "Miracle", the song debuted at number No 3 on the UK Singles Chart, with the song entry Ellie Goulding made history as the British Female Solo Act with most entries in the UK, surpassing Dame Shirley Bassey, with a total of 35 chart entries.
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Elena Jane Ellie Goulding was born on 30 December 1986 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England to Arthur and Tracey Ellie Goulding, and was brought up in the small village of Lyonshall, in Herefordshire.
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Ellie Goulding has a brother, Alex, and two sisters, Isabel and Jordan.
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Ellie Goulding stated that she has a "difficult" relationship with her mother.
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Ellie Goulding began playing the clarinet at age nine and learning guitar at age 14.
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Ellie Goulding attended Lady Hawkins' High School in Kington, Herefordshire and, by the age of 15, started writing songs.
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Ellie Goulding took A levels in English, Politics, Drama and Music, and passed the first 3 with "A" grades but failed music.
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Ellie Goulding became her manager and introduced her to the producer Starsmith, who would become her chief collaborator and the primary producer of Lights.
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Ellie Goulding won the Critics' Choice Award at the 2010 Brit Awards, making her the second artist to win both in the same year.
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Ellie Goulding co-wrote "Love Me 'Cause You Want To" for Gabriella Cilmi's second album, Ten, and three songs for Diana Vickers's debut album, Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree.
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Ellie Goulding was featured on rapper Tinie Tempah's single "Wonderman" from his debut studio album Disc-Overy.
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Ellie Goulding toured in support of Lights and supported Passion Pit in March 2010 and John Mayer during his British tour in May 2010.
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Ellie Goulding performed a set on 25 June at the Glastonbury Festival 2010 on the John Peel Stage.
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Ellie Goulding's third EP was a live recording of part of her set at the iTunes Festival 2010.
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Ellie Goulding was on Rolling Stones annual hot list in February 2011.
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Ellie Goulding appeared as the musical guest on the 700th episode of the Saturday Night Live, broadcast 7 May 2011 and hosted by Tina Fey.
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Ellie Goulding performed at the wedding reception of Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29 April 2011, and performed what she recalled as "about 14 songs", including her cover of "Your Song".
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Ellie Goulding collaborated with American electronic artist and producer Skrillex on a song titled "Summit", included on his 2011 EP Bangarang.
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Ellie Goulding travelled with Skrillex on his South American tour Ellie Goulding headlined the 2011 Wakestock Festival in Wales, performing on 8 July.
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Ellie Goulding performed at the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert on 11 December 2011 in Oslo, Norway.
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In 2012, Ellie Goulding appeared on "Fall into the Sky" from Zedd's debut album Clarity and on Calvin Harris's song "I Need Your Love" which is included on Halcyon and Harris's album 18 Months.
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On 10 July 2012, Ellie Goulding released a cover of Active Child's song "Hanging On", featuring Tinie Tempah, as a free download on her SoundCloud page.
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On 20 May 2013, Ellie Goulding announced she would embark on a seven-date tour in the UK during October that year.
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On 28 May 2013, Ellie Goulding's cover of Alt-J's song "Tessellate" was released via her SoundCloud page.
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Ellie Goulding has been reported to have filmed a music video for this track in Paris earlier that month.
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Ellie Goulding claimed to be "making a video for a song that isn't on my record".
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In June 2013, Ellie Goulding performed at previous festivals and concerts including RockNess festival in Inverness, Capital FM Summertime Ball and Firefly Music Festival at The Woodlands in Dover, Delaware.
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On 2 July 2013, Ellie Goulding premiered a song titled "You My Everything" in the first episode of Skins Fire and that same day Ellie Goulding confirmed to Elle magazine that Halcyon would be re-released later that year.
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Ellie Goulding was performing at V Festival Chelmsford when news of her first UK broke; Rita Ora surprised Ellie Goulding with her Official Number 1 Award.
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On 9 September 2013, Ellie Goulding released a music video for "How Long Will I Love You" for the film About Time.
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Ellie Goulding appeared on the soundtrack for the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire with the track "Mirror".
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On 15 October 2013, Ellie Goulding confirmed on Fearne Cotton's radio show that "How Long Will I Love You" would be the next single for BBC's Children in Need.
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On 5 January 2014, Ellie Goulding premiered the music video for her song "Goodness Gracious" on her Vevo channel, later confirming that it would be her sixth single released from Halcyon Days.
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On 22 January 2014, Ellie Goulding confirmed through her Facebook page that she had contributed the song "Beating Heart" to the soundtrack for the film Divergent, based on the novel of the same name by Veronica Roth.
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On 3 February 2014, Ellie Goulding released a cover of the James Blake song "Life Round Here" featuring rapper Angel Haze through her SoundCloud page.
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On 19 February, Ellie Goulding won Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2014 Brit Awards.
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Ellie Goulding featured in Iggy Azalea's song "Heavy Crown", which was released on 21 November 2014 on Azalea's Reclassified, a reissue of her debut album The New Classic.
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In November 2014, Ellie Goulding announced that she was focusing on a third studio album.
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In early 2015, Ellie Goulding released the song "Love Me like You Do", which was featured in the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades of Grey, adapted from the erotic novel of the same name.
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Ellie Goulding starred in the music video for Taylor Swift's song "Bad Blood", which was released in May 2015.
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Ellie Goulding appeared on the Major Lazer album Peace Is the Mission on the track "Powerful", alongside Tarrus Riley.
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On 7 September 2015, it was announced that Ellie Goulding would be performing at the 2015 AFL Grand Final, along with Canadian musician Bryan Adams and American musician Chris Isaak.
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Ellie Goulding subsequently performed "On My Mind" at the Apple Music Festival later that week.
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In 2018, Ellie Goulding joined Tap Management after almost a decade with First Access Management.
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Ellie Goulding appeared on a collaboration with Sean Paul on his Mad Love the Prequel EP titled "Bad Love", released on 29 June 2018.
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Ellie Goulding collaborated with Diplo and Swae Lee on the single "Close to Me", which was released on 24 October 2018.
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Ellie Goulding said regarding the album, "It's very much written by me".
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Ellie Goulding released "Hate Me" with American rapper Juice Wrld on 26 June 2019.
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On 13 March 2020, Ellie Goulding released the new single "Worry About Me" which was created in-collaboration with Blackbear.
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Ellie Goulding released her fourth studio album, Brightest Blue, on 17 July 2020.
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On 30 September, Ellie Goulding performed "Anything Could Happen" as part of the opening ceremony for Expo 2020, held in Dubai.
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On 19 June 2022, Ellie Goulding performed at Rock in Rio in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Ellie Goulding released the single "Let It Die" along with its video on 19 October and announced the same day that her fifth studio album, Higher Than Heaven, would be released on 3 February 2023.
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On 22 March 2023, Ellie Goulding released the single "By the End of the Night".
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Ellie Goulding's music has been described as electropop, synth-pop, indie pop and folktronica.
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Ellie Goulding is a soprano and is noted for her high piercing vibrato, breathy tone and emotive delivery.
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Ellie Goulding then continued in regards to her vocal layering stating, "producer Jim Eliot puts her voice front, back and centre, banking up choral walls of vibrato, fashioning hooks from cut up samples of chirrups and chants, and creating unusual textures from trills and warbles".
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Megan Farokhmanesh of Paste magazine stated "Ellie Goulding has a lovely voice, but occasionally her soprano-strung vocals hit a note that rubs the eardrums the wrong way" although she praised Ellie Goulding overall for her "talent for gorgeous high heart-tugging vocals".
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Ellie Goulding has listed Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, and Bjork as influences, as well as contemporaries such as Amy Winehouse, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Burial, Taylor Swift, Bon Iver, and Rihanna.
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Ellie Goulding expressed admiration for rappers Kanye West, Drake and Nicki Minaj.
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Ellie Goulding toured the United Kingdom with American folk singer Lissie in 2010.
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Ellie Goulding stepped away from the electronic sound of her previous album and moved to a more tribal and anthemic sound containing a bit more piano and vocal.
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Ellie Goulding ran the inaugural Nike Women Half Marathon in Washington, DC on 28 April 2013, earning a time of 1:41:35.
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Ellie Goulding dated English radio DJ Greg James in 2010.
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Ellie Goulding later was in a relationship with actor Jeremy Irvine.
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Ellie Goulding was in a relationship with Dougie Poynter of McFly between 2014 and 2016.
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The couple were married at York Minster on 31 August 2019 and Ellie Goulding was baptised in order to get married.
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In February 2021, Ellie Goulding announced that she and Jopling were expecting their first child.
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Ellie Goulding has spoken several times about her experience with mental health conditions.
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Ellie Goulding spoke of an increased confidence within herself which reduces the nervous flutters she experiences.
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Ellie Goulding has said that a fitness regime and boxing at the gym has helped her overcome panic attacks and anxiety.
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In 2010, Ellie Goulding participated in the Bupa Great North Run for the British Heart Foundation.
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In 2011, Ellie Goulding ran the She Runs LA event for charity Students Run LA, which aims to increase access to sport for less privileged children across the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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On 1 June 2013, Ellie Goulding performed at Gucci's global concert event in London whose campaign "Chime for Change" aims to raise awareness of women's issues in terms of education, health and justice.
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Ellie Goulding has frequently contributed to the BBC's annual charity telethon Children in Need in the UK.
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Ellie Goulding has performed in the annual charity concerts for the "Streets of London" charity event at the Royal Albert Hall from years 2014 to 2018 consecutively.
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On 24 December 2015, Ellie Goulding volunteered in central London at the Marylebone Project to help end homelessness and to assist in the elimination of the stereotype associated with the homeless population.
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Ellie Goulding announced that she would join the foundation in 2018 as a Goodwill Ambassador.
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Ellie Goulding contributed her vocals to an advert for the British department store chain John Lewis in 2010.
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The John Lewis Christmas advert has become an annual tradition in British culture and one of the signals that the countdown to Christmas has begun in the UK, with Ellie Goulding performing "Your Song" for the store's 2010 campaign.
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Ellie Goulding is endorsing the Swiss shampoo Pantene Pro-V on television and on the official Pantene website under the tagline "Strong Is Beautiful".
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In 2019, after ten years of consistent work as a hitmaker, She was honored with the Variety Hitmakers Decade Award, with Ellie Goulding stating: "It's probably the first time I've really been acknowledged for this work".