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Elena Jane Goulding better known as Ellie Goulding (born 30 December 1986) is an English singer and songwriter. In 2009, she met a couple of record producers picked up a manager, and was signed to Polydor records. She released an "extended play" that same year (I'm guessing an EP) and the full-length debut album "Lights" the following year and the rest is history.



Goulding had a fairly normal upbringing and frankly, there is nothing remarkable about her early beginnings other than she started writing her songs in high school at age 15 and likely led a normal life. She does suffer from anxiety and panic attacks but let's face it — who doesn't these days?



With so little written about her to the point that most of her story feels like filler — she has had remarkable success as an artist and quickly made that leap from Indie darling to commercial success on a massive scale in virtually a nanosecond.



Nothing but praise



Don't think I'm dissing Ellie because I adore this woman and her music. It's just that it's rare these days to just kinda fall into a career everyone would dream of without any type of struggle or at least going on some reality singing competition, which seems to be the norm these days. That is unless it's "The Voice" because nobody ever becomes famous off that long-running show.



Goulding first came to America's attention with the single "Lights" which reached #2 on the Billboard Top 100. What's odd is that so many of her hits like "Burn," "Love Me Like You Do," "On My Mind," "First Time,