Happy birthday, Ellie Goulding! To celebrate the singer's special day, let's take a look at her massive success as an artist, her early career, and more about her personal life.
Born Elena Jane Goulding on December 30, 1986, the musician is now 37 years old. Her upbringing was simple as she was born in Hereford, Hereforshire in England, and spent the early years of her life in a small village called Lyonshall.
Things weren't easy for a young Ellie Goulding as she admitted to The Standard UK that her family was "super-poor."
Regardless, she was able to turn her life around, and explained, "My life has turned out good and I feel exceptionally lucky for that. There were circumstances in my childhood that could have taken me in a very different direction - the same with some of my friends and their families."
Ellie Goulding Career + Net Worth 2023
Music has been a big part of Goulding's life since she was a kid because the first time she ever played an instrument was at the age of nine and it was a clarinet.
She later had the chance to learn how to play the guitar when she was 14 years old. She began writing music by 15 and later pursued a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Kent.
On her last year in university, thesinger met Jamie Lillywhite who became her manager and the person who introduced her to Starsmith, her collaborator for her smash hit "Lights."
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Goulding went on to have a very successful career after signing with Polydor Records in 2009. As of 2023, she released five albums: "Lights," "Halcyon," "Delirium," "Brightest Blue," and "Higher Than Heaven."
Per Celebrity Net Worth, the musician's estimated fortune is around $30 million.
Ellie Goulding Thinks 'Higher Than Heaven' Was Her Least Personal Album
In an interview with Rolling Stone in early 2023, the musician explained that she wanted "Higher Than Heaven" to be completely different from her 2020 album "Brightest Blue."
In that way, she felt that it became her least personal album as most of the songs weren't taken from personal experiences, but regardless, she still felt that it was her best album to date.
"It's the least personal album, but I think it's the best album because I got to just explore other things about myself. I just really, really enjoy writing, really enjoy being a singer," she noted. (via NME)
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