Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is an English singer, songwriter and model. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo, achieving widespread success in the early 2000s. Her music is a mixture of mainstream pop, disco, nu-disco, and 1980s electronic influences. She is noted for a strong English accent even while singing.
Ellis-Bextor has released three solo albums: Read My Lips, Shoot from the Hip, and Trip the Light Fantastic. She is due to release her fourth solo album in September 2010.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
She attended St. Stephen’s School and later Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith. Among her earliest public performances were with the W11 Opera children’s opera from the age of thirteen, and she is now a patron of the organisation.
In 2005, Ellis-Bextor married The Feeling guitarist Richard Jones in Italy. Ellis-Bextor’s second son, Drew Cox, was born on 7 February 2009 weighing 2 lb 10oz. This was her second complicated birth; Sonny was born nine weeks prematurely by emergency cesarean section after Sophie developed pre-eclampsia.
In May 2008 Ellis-Bextor was hired by cosmetics brand Rimmel as one of their new faces. A new song performed by Ellis-Bextor is featured in one of the Rimmel London’ spot for the line “Sexy Curves”.