Winter Edition 2018

INTERVIEW
Sensational
SOPHIE
Singer, songwriter, dancer, model and mum.
You can have it all! Sophie Ellis-Bextor, alumna
of Godolphin and Latymer tells us how
From Murder on the Dancefloor
to touring with Take That. We
ask Sophie about her career and
bringing up four boys whilst
working on her new album The
Song Diaries.
Tell us about your school days,
did they influence your career?
I’m not sure they influenced my
choice of career but I did meet
some of my best friends there.
School was a mixed bag, I loved
aspects but had a few tough
bits. I think my careers advisor
thought I’d end up in something
to do with journalism as I was
always into English and edited
my school magazine. However
I had other plans. Everyone was
a bit shocked when everyone
went to uni and I went on tour.
Was music a big part of your
educational curriculum?
No not really. I did piano lessons
when I was small and a few
guitar lessons but aside from
singing in the school choir I
never had any singing lessons
and I didn’t do music GCSE.
I’m essentially learning as I go.
With your mum being a Blue
Peter presenter and your dad a
film producer, did this impact
on your choice of profession?
It did in the sense that they let
me feel that any job could be
my job. That’s actually a brilliant
gift for a kid. If they’d had more
traditional jobs they might have
felt more uneasy about what I
ended up doing, but they were
always very supportive.
Was there one lucky moment in
your career?
I’ve had a few. The first was
when I joined my first band -
Theaudience - which came along
via someone I met at an indie
club. It hadn’t occurred to me to
be a singer so I just tried it as I
thought it would be a good story
to tell the grandkids. I ended
up finding the thing I had been
looking for. Then we got a deal
and that was incredible.
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