After the disbandment of the Britpop group Theaudience, in which Ellis-Bextor served as vocalist, she was signed to Polydor.Prior to the LPs completion, the singer collaborated with several musicians, including band Blurs bassist Alex James, Moby and New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander.The record was described as a collection of 1980s electronica and 1970s disco music.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. Ellis-Bextor has released six solo albums: Read My Lips, Shoot from the Hip, Trip the Light Fantastic, Make a Scene, Wanderlust and the most recent, Familia, which was released on September 2nd 2016. Bittersweet (co-written by Freemasons and Hannah Robinson 29 ), the first single from Ellis-Bextors fourth album, was released in May 2010 and reached 25 on the UK Singles Chart. 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 success in the early 2000s. The album reached number two in the UK Albums Chart and was certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The record experienced international success, selling more than 2 million copies worldwide. It produced four singles, three of which reached the top three in the UK. In 2003, Read My Lips won the Edison Award for Best Dance Album. Ellis-Bextors second album, Shoot from the Hip, was released in 2003. The album reached number 19 in the UK and produced two top ten singles. Trip the Light Fantastic, her third album, was released in 2007 and reached number seven in the UK. The album produced three singles, one of which reached the top ten in the UK. In 2014, Ellis-Bextor released her fifth studio album, Wanderlust which became her highest charting album since Read My Lips. Her sixth album, the Latin America-inspired Familia earned critical acclaim in 2016. Among her earliest public performances were with the W11 Opera childrens opera from the age of thirteen, and she is now a patron of the organisation. The band released four singles, including the UK Top 40 hits I Know Enough (I Dont Get Enough), and A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed, and one self-titled album ( theaudience (1999)). Videos for the bands singles were directed by her father, Robin Bextor. While in Theaudience, readers of Melody Maker voted Ellis-Bextor number one in a poll of most sexy people in rock. It entered the UK charts at number one, just beating former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham on her first solo track. Groovejet won several awards: No. Pop Top 20; No. 1, ILR; No. Radio 1; No. 8, top dance track of 2000 and single of the year in Melody Maker. In the Metro Newspaper, it received ninth place in the contest for the Greatest No. In 2000, it was a finalist in The Record of the Year. In that same year, it won the awards for Best Single and Best Ibiza Tune at the Ericsson Muzik Awards. It reached number two on the UK charts and spawned four top-twenty hit singles. Her rework of Cher s Take Me Home reached number two, as did Murder on the Dancefloor, which became Ellis-Bextors biggest single and was on charts for twenty-three weeks. Murder on the Dancefloor became Europes most played song of 2002. In 2002, Read My Lips was re-released with two new songs (and a live version of Groovejet) and Ellis-Bextor won the Recording Artist Award at that years Showbusiness Awards. Her third single, Get Over You Move This Mountain, was released in June 2002 and reached number three. The fourth single, Music Gets the Best of Me, rose to number fourteen in December. At the beginning of 2002, Ellis-Bextor was nominated for the British Female Solo Artist BRIT Award, going on to be nominated for a further two consecutive years. She opted to step back from promotion of the album after becoming pregnant. Her own UK tour, the Trip the Light Fantastic Tour, was due to start in August 2007, but it was postponed after Ellis-Bextor was invited to be the special guest on Take That s Beautiful World Tour, which commenced in October 2007. Ellis-Bextor stated that her tour would be rescheduled for March 2008, with all tickets purchased being valid for the rescheduled concerts. The tour was never rescheduled, and Ellis-Bextor subsequently refused to discuss the issue in interviews. In October 2008, Ellis-Bextor sang at the Keep the Promise Rally in Trafalgar Square to end Child Poverty.
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