Here are the things I think its import to add to an biography:
• Artists full name not just including the ‘stage name’
This allows the fans to feel more personal towards the artist, when you first meet someone you find out their name and its similar here, it’s as if it’s the beginning of a relationship with the fan and the artist.
• Hometown
Again fans from the same hometown would feel glad that someone from where they are became successful. Also it could give answers to people who wonder where her accent is from etc. Or where you might see her performing next.
• Rise to fame
This tells the audience how the artist came to be where she is now. And for people who know nothing about her and assume she’s just a random one hit wonder this is in some ways a C.V to show her experience.
• Where her talent to noticed/discovered
• Education
• Label how she met them.
• Success
• Where they are now.
Here is the completed unedited biography:
Ellena Witney Rose at the age of Nine, moved from her hometown in Switzerland to Wales with her mother, where she met her fellow band and manager Mark Jenkins who was her former drama teacher.
She never had professional vocal lessons but was praised on her natural sounding voice having a five-octave vocal range. She was frequently asked to participate in talent shows she never had to audition for. At the age of twelve while still in school, she tried out for a local punk band called Messy Black where she met her now husband Matt Bleu. Matt bleu being the front man for the band made collaborations with Ellena which was a success on her schools radio station regularly reaching number one each week.
Ellena was discovered in 2003 by managers Dave Steinbrink and Richard Williams who later signed the fourteen-year-old to a production deal, which later Ellena’s mother pulled her out of because of accusations of Steinbrink and Williams illegally taking full responsibly of her financial success.
At the age of sixteen she attended Brit School for two years. After leaving Brit school with high grades she took a one year singing course at Tech Music School.
She later moved to London and enrolled on a degree in music at University College London, transferring in her second year of studies to Loughborough University, however later she dropped out. She stated that the reason she didn’t carry on her education was because she “Had no passion to be in university learning about music, I wanted to do music, I felt like I was wasting my time because I could already sing and I learnt that myself.”
Now twenty two Ellena moved in with Matt Bleu and began going to many auditions including the West End musical, The Lion King and BBC’s unsigned festival. She rose to fame after reaching number two on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll list, coming second to Ellie Goulding.
She never had professional vocal lessons but was praised on her natural sounding voice having a five-octave vocal range. She was frequently asked to participate in talent shows she never had to audition for. At the age of twelve while still in school, she tried out for a local punk band called Messy Black where she met her now husband Matt Bleu. Matt bleu being the front man for the band made collaborations with Ellena which was a success on her schools radio station regularly reaching number one each week.
Ellena was discovered in 2003 by managers Dave Steinbrink and Richard Williams who later signed the fourteen-year-old to a production deal, which later Ellena’s mother pulled her out of because of accusations of Steinbrink and Williams illegally taking full responsibly of her financial success.
At the age of sixteen she attended Brit School for two years. After leaving Brit school with high grades she took a one year singing course at Tech Music School.
She later moved to London and enrolled on a degree in music at University College London, transferring in her second year of studies to Loughborough University, however later she dropped out. She stated that the reason she didn’t carry on her education was because she “Had no passion to be in university learning about music, I wanted to do music, I felt like I was wasting my time because I could already sing and I learnt that myself.”
Now twenty two Ellena moved in with Matt Bleu and began going to many auditions including the West End musical, The Lion King and BBC’s unsigned festival. She rose to fame after reaching number two on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll list, coming second to Ellie Goulding.
By Evette Anderson-Sampah
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