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Eliza Sophie Caird (born 15 April 1988),[1] better known by her stage name ELIZA (formerly Eliza Doolittle), is an English singer and songwriter from Westminster, London.[2] After performing her music in live venues around London from the age of 15, Eliza signed to Parlophone in 2008.[3]
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 Eliza performing in 2014 | |
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| Birth name | Eliza Sophie Caird |
| Born | 15 April 1988 Westminster, London, England |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Parlophone |
| Website | www |
Her debut eponymous album was released on 12 July 2010 and went Platinum[4] in the UK. The album, Eliza Doolittle, produced two UK top 40 hits: "Skinny Genes" and "Pack Up", the latter of which peaked within the top five on the UK Singles Chart.[5]
In 2013, Eliza contributed writing and vocals to "You & Me" a single from British electronic music duo Disclosure's number one debut album Settle.[6]
On 7 June 2013, she premiered a single called "Big When I Was Little", which was released in July 2013. It subsequently joined BBC Radio 1's and Radio 2 playlist. It was later included on her second studio album, titled In Your Hands.[7]
Early life
Eliza Doolittle was born in Westminster, London. She comes from a family with a successful and varied musical background. Her father is John Caird,[8] a stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas who is also an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Her paternal grandfather G. B. Caird, was the theologian and principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.[9] Her mother is musical theatre actress and model artist Frances Ruffelle,[8] who won a Tony Award for her role of Éponine in the English-language version of Les Misérables. Doolittle is the granddaughter of Sylvia Young,[8] founder of the eponymous theatre school. She has a younger brother. Her parents divorced when she was four years old.[10]
Doolittle grew up in Highgate and attended Channing School For Girls, Bedales School,[11][12][13][14] and Westminster Kingsway College. She was used to being around stages and seeing her mother singing and had always wanted to become a recording artist.[15] She chose the stage name of Eliza Doolittle, the Pygmalion and My Fair Lady character, because it was her nickname as a child.[16]
Eliza had a brief career on stage playing Young Cosette in Les Misérables in London's West End in 1996–1997.[citation needed] Her parents had met and began their relationship during the original production when her father was the co-director and her mother played Eponine. Eliza went on to play the lead role in Lucy Simon's Tony Award-winning musical version of The Secret Garden in 2001, when The Royal Shakespeare Company premiered the show in London.[citation needed]
Musical career
Career beginnings
Before entering the charts, Eliza Doolittle toured the UK with her band. Her first release was an EP featuring the tracks "Rollerblades", "Moneybox", "Police Car" and "Go Home", which came out on 29 November 2009. Tracks from the EP were remixed by Plastic Little ("Rollerblades"), Sam Young and Jamie xx from The xx ("Money Box"). The EP received radio plays from Rob Da Bank, Nick Grimshaw,[17] Fearne Cotton and Jo Whiley.
She recorded a song called 'Running For Life' which featured on the soundtrack of the cult British film AdULTHOOD in 2008. Later that year, she performed at Glastonbury on the Pussy Parlour stage, her first festival performance.[18]
2010–2013: Eliza Doolittle
In early 2010, she took part in musician Shane MacGowan's charity single "I Put a Spell on You", in aid of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[19] Her debut single "Skinny Genes" was released on 12 April 2010, reaching No. 22 in the UK Singles Chart.[citation needed] She told BBC's Steve Lamacq the song is "a funny scenario if you didn’t like someone, if they were really annoying, but you had a good time under the sheets."[20] Doolittle's second release is titled "Pack Up" and was released on 5 July 2010, reaching No. 5 on the Official UK Singles Chart on 11 July 2010.[21]
In March 2011, she performed at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas[22] as well at Coachella in California.[23] In April 2011, Doolittle was touring the UK. On 19 April 2011, Doolittle's self-titled album was released in the United States almost one year from the U.K date.
In 2013, Doolittle collaborated with Disclosure on the track "You & Me" from their debut album, Settle.[6] Early that year, she began recording new material for her second album. In an interview with Elle magazine in April 2013, she stated "I'm definitely showing more of myself than I ever have before. I feel like on my last album, I hadn't experienced very much of anything really, and it's been three years or more since then and I have felt and seen things I hadn't before, and I know things I didn't know before. In a way I have answers to questions, but then those answers open up a thousand other questions. I guess I've gone through things that so many people go through at the age I am. I've written almost every day about my every thought and emotion and the album is made up of the songs that mean the most to me".[24]
2013–2016: In Your Hands
On 7 June 2013, she premiered a new single called "Big When I Was Little", which was released in July 2013. It subsequently joined BBC Radio 1's playlist, and features on her second studio album. On 17 June 2013 the video for the single premiered on her YouTube channel.[25]
Eliza and UK garage artist Wookie wrote a song called 'The Hype' in 2013. Wookie also contributed a remix to her 'In Your Hands' album for her track 'Walking on Water'.
She also featured on 'YNSP' a track from hip hop artist Vic Mensa's INNANETAPE mixtape produced by DJ Dahi.
She had a cameo role as a nightclub singer in The Great Train Robbery, a drama series on BBC One in December 2013.
In 2014, Eliza was invited by Burt Bacharach to sing with him at Henley Festival in the Summer of 2014. She said "I’ve wanted to sing one of his songs since I first heard his music and to be able to do it with him in his show gives me a feeling I can't even describe!"
2016–: Re-brand, A Real Romantic, and A Sky Without Stars
In 2017 she re-branded her name from Eliza Doolittle to ELIZA, and changed her sound from that of mainstream pop artist to a style similar to Charlotte Day Wilson or Carmody.[26] On 12 December 2018, her album A Real Romantic was released. In 2022, ELIZA released a couple of new singles, "Straight Talker"[27] and "Heat of the Moon" after signing[28][29] to [PIAS]'s Log Off/Different Recordings,[30][31] and a new album, A Sky Without Stars, was announced.
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Chart peak positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||||||||||
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| UK [32] |
BEL (Fl) [33] |
BEL (Wa) [34] |
DEN [35] |
FRA [36] |
IRE [37] |
NL [38] | |||||||||||
| Eliza Doolittle |
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3 | 46 | 100 | 38 | 101 | 10 | 45 |
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| In Your Hands[40] |
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25 | — | — | — | — | 71 | — | |||||||||
| A Real Romantic[42] |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| A Sky Without Stars[43] |
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| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released. | |||||||||||||||||
Extended plays
| Title | EP details |
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| Eliza Doolittle |
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| Christmas[lower-alpha 1] |
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Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album | ||||||||
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| UK [32] |
AUS [44] |
BEL [33] |
DEN [35] |
FIN [45] |
GER [46] |
IRE [37] |
NLD [38] |
SWI [47] | ||||
| "Skinny Genes" | 2010 | 22 | — | 42 | — | — | 42 | 42 | 90 | 48 | Eliza Doolittle | |
| "Pack Up" | 5 | 96 | 10 | 37 | 16 | 49 | 6 | 8 | 75 |
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| "Rollerblades" | 58 | — | 61 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Mr Medicine" | 2011 | 130 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Big When I Was Little" | 2013 | 12 | — | 77 | — | — | — | — | — | — | In Your Hands | |
| "Let It Rain" | 55 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Walking On Water" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Wide Eyed Fool" | 2017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | A Real Romantic | |
| "Wasn't Looking" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Livid" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Alone & Unafraid" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "All Night" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Straight Talker" | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | A Sky Without Stars | |
| "Heat of the Moon" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Everywhere I'll Ever Be" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
Promotional singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album |
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| BEL [33] | |||
| "Walking on Water" | 2013 | 64 | In Your Hands |
| "Big City" | 2015 | — | Shaun the Sheep Movie |
| "Alone & Unafraid" | 2018 | — | A Real Romantic |
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||||
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| UK [32] |
BEL [33] |
FRA [48] |
IRE [37] |
SPN [49] |
SWI [47] | ||||||||||||
| "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (as part of The Justice Collective) |
2012 | 1 | — | — | 4 | — | — | Charity single | |||||||||
| "You & Me" (Disclosure featuring Eliza Doolittle) |
2013 | 10 | 41 | 2 | — | 30 | 56 | Settle | |||||||||
| "The Hype" (Wookie featuring Eliza Doolittle) |
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| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released. | |||||||||||||||||
Music videos
| Title | Year | Director |
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| "Piano Song" | 2008 | — |
| "Skinny Genes" | 2010 | — |
| "Skinny Genes 2.0" | — | |
| "Pack Up" | — | |
| "Rollerblades" | — | |
| "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (As part of The Justice Collective) | — | |
| "Mr. Medicine" | 2011 | — |
| "Big When I Was Little" | 2013 | — |
| "Let It Rain" | — | |
| "Waste of Time" | — | |
| "You & Me" (Disclosure featuring Eliza Doolittle) | — | |
| "The Hype" (Wookie featuring Eliza Doolittle) | — | |
| "Walking on Water" | — | |
| "In Your Hands" | 2014 | — |
| "Wide Eyed Fool" | 2017 | Charlie Robins |
| "Wasn't Looking" | — | |
| "Livid" | 2018 | Eliza |
| "Alone & Unafraid" | — | |
| "Straight Talker" | 2022 | — |
| "Heat of the Moon" | — | |
| "Everywhere I'll Ever Be" | — | |
Tour
Doolittle toured as the opening act for Paloma Faith's Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful Tour and Gary Barlow's Since I Saw You Last Tour in 2014.[51]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2013 | The Great Train Robbery | Night-Club Singer | Episode: "A Robber's Tale" |
| 2014 | Home and Away | Herself | Episode #1.5932 |
References
Footnotes
- Free download including "The Gift of Giving", "Xmas in Bed" and "Last Christmas".
Sources
- "Eliza Biography". Retrieved 29 December 2010.
- "Bite The Ballot on Twitter". Twitter. 10 January 2015.
- "News | Eliza Doolittle | Parlophone records". Parlophone.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- "Eliza Doolittle is in the studio working on her third studio album". AXS. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- "Eliza Doolittle at BBC Music". British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
- music, The Guardian (14 April 2014). "Disclosure – You and Me featuring Eliza Doolittle: video premiere". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- "Eliza Doolittle announces new album title – Music News". Digital Spy. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- Savage, Mark (13 July 2010). "Talking Shop: Eliza Doolittle". BBC News. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
- Chadwick, Henry, "George Bradford Caird, 1917-1984: A Memoir" in The Glory of Christ in the New Testament: Studies in Christology in Memory of George Bradford Caird, ed. L. D. Hurst and N. T. Wright (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987; reprinted Wipf and Stock, 2006), xvii-xxii
- "Radio 1 Programmes – The Chris Moyles Show, Wednesday – with Eliza Doolittle". BBC. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- Duerden, Nick. "Some might say, I look more like my father". Thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- Price, Simon (23 February 2014). "How my research into pop's posh takeover was hijacked". Theguardian.com.
- "Our fair lady: Why America is falling in love with Eliza Doolittle". The Independent. 27 February 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- "Bedales Rock Show | Bedales School". Webcache.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- "Interview: Eliza Doolittle". 5 July 2010. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
- "VIP track: Eliza Doolittle". 4music.com. 9 May 2010. Archived from the original on 11 May 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2010.
- "Radio 1 – Nick Grimshaw – Tracklistings". BBC. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- Running For Life, 24 June 2008, retrieved 12 October 2016
- "Shane MacGowan and Friends "I Put a Spell on You" (Haiti Charity Song) (Video)". Prefix magazine. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- "Skinny Genes". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
- Praxis Media. "Radio1 Rodos Greece ::: UK Forthcoming Singles ::: Charts, DJ Promos, Dance, Lyrics, Free Mp3 Samples Downloads". Radio1.gr. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- "SXSW 2011: the best pictures from day eight". The Guardian. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- "Eliza Doolittle Talks To Us About Style, Kanye And Coachella | Idolator". Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com. 19 April 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- "Eliza in Wonderland: Eliza Doolittle Stars in Palladium's New Campaign". Elle.com. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
- "Big When I Was Little". YouTube.com. 17 June 2013. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- "ELIZA's "Straight Talker" is a hypnotic piece with a somber tone". 11 April 2022.
- "BBC Radio 6 Music - New Music Fix, New Music Fix Playlist".
- "Different Recordings Welcomes ELIZA". 28 March 2022.
- "ELIZA marks arrival to Different Recordings with release of 'Straight Talker' alongside accompanying video".
- "Eliza - Official Website". Eliza.
- "Different Recordings". www.differentrecordings.com.
- Peak positions in the United Kingdom:
- For all except where noted: "Eliza Doolittle > UK Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- For "Mr Medicine": "New Chart Entries > 2 April 2011". Zobbel.de. 2 April 2011.
- For "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother": "Chart Archive > 29 December 2012". Official Charts Company. 29 December 2012.
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- "British certifications – Eliza Doolittle". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 4 September 2020. Type Eliza Doolittle in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
- Eliza Doolittle announces new album title – Music News - Digital Spy
- "iTunes – Music – In Your Hands by Eliza Doolittle". Itunes.apple.com. 11 October 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- Eliza Doolittle unleashes new studio collection A Real Romantic | Hamada Mania Music Blog Hamada Mania
- A Sky Without Stars | ELIZA Bandcamp
- Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia’s Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 86.
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- "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2022 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- "Eliza is on tour with Gary Barlow". Eliza Doolittle. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
External links
- Eliza Lovechild
- Eliza Doolittle's channel on YouTube
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На других языках
- [en] Eliza (English singer)
[ru] Дулитл, Элайза (певица)
Элайза Дулитл (англ. Eliza Doolittle; настоящее имя Элайза Софи Керд, родилась 15 апреля 1988 года) — британская поп-певица и автор песен. В октябре 2008 года она подписала контракт с лейблом Parlophone, 12 июля 2010 года выпустила дебютный альбом Eliza Doolittle, ставший в Великобритании «платиновым»[1] и достигший третьей позиции в британском чарте[2]. Критики отмечают большое сходство музыки Элайзы Дулитл с творчеством другой молодой лондонской певицы, Лили Аллен[3].Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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