Facts about Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Age: 22
Height: A tall and leggy 5'8 ½
Previous chart success:
Two Top 30 Singles hits with Theaudience
Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) Number 1 20.08.00
Interests: Music, Dancing, Shopping and Eating
Family: Father - Television Producer, Mum - Janet Ellis, ex-Blue Peter Presenter
Favourite song: Mickey by Toni Basil
Worst habit: Beating Spice girls to the top of the charts, and being very messyQuotes
"I find my success with Spiller pleasant but ludicrous, because it is so incongruous to what I normally do," says Sophie. "I don't listen to dance music. I don't go to clubs. I've never been to Ibiza or any of the big clubs in London, and I couldn't tell you my favourite DJ or anything like that."
"There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying," she concludes. But just because Sophie is a musician who sings with conviction doesn't alter the album's breezy sense of fun, or its wickedly funky mix of house, electro and pop. For Sophie Ellis-Bextor it's about bringing it all together. "There's music as a way to be famous, and all of that side of it. And there's music because you love singing," she concludes. "For me, I love a good mixture of both."
Sophie had always felt Britpop was too grubby. "I think whoever's on stage should look like they're supposed to be on stage," she notes. "I think performers should be a bit larger than life."
theaudience crumbled when Billy Reeves, the brain of the band, walked out. "It was all a bit Spinal Tap, we kept having all these arguments."
"I thought, 'I'll have a nice time doing something, it'll be a real breath of fresh air to do a dance track.' It was still going to be a song-based thing." (on hit single with DJ Spiller and his summer anthem - 'Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)'
"Sophisticated pop," is how she describes it. "Stuff that doesn't talk down to people. I just want something that has got a bit of conviction to it and a bit of depth. I don't find there's too much of that around." (on her first solo material)