Sophie Ellis Bextor - Fact Sheet

Profession: Musician

Sophie Ellis Bextor has been waiting patiently for her time. At just 22, she is a veteran in today's ever-changing music scene. It's five years since she started her career as a pop star. But it's only now in the summer of 2001 that Sophie Ellis Bextor is about to step into the limelight as a solo artist.

As sophisticated front woman in sharp-suited indie-popsters theaudience, she earned the approval of the style cognoscenti; as chart-topping disco diva who sang Spiller's 'Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)' she transformed an Italian deep house groove into one of the most enduring records of recent years. But anyone expecting this elegant star, with the voice of a disco Chrissie Hynde and the poise of a young Audrey Hepburn, to simply retread her Spiller success will be surprised.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor's solo material has sassy grooves and disco licks a-plenty, but like Madonna's finer work it also balances crisply funky dance rhythms with 80s soul, pop dynamics, and real songs. "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." 

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