Ellie Goulding | Elena Jane Goulding

Ellie Goulding received the Critics’ Choice BRIT Award in 2010, and her tracks have helped her achieve enormous popularity since then. Lights, Burn, Your Song, and Still Falling For You are among her credited singles from her three albums. Surprisingly, Ellie isn’t the singer’s full name; it’s a contraction of Elena. So Elena Jane Goulding is her full name.

Her music career began when she met record producers Starsmith and Frankmusik, and Jamie Lillywhite, who eventually became her manager and A&R, noticed her. Goulding signed to Polydor Records in July 2009, and later that year, she released her debut extended play, An Introduction to Ellie Goulding. She received her first Grammy Award nomination in December 2015 for Best Pop Solo Performance for her tune Love Me Like You Do. Brightest Blue, her fourth studio album, was released on July 17, 2020.