Ellie Lawson is a British

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singer-songwriter. Born in

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, South London she has released 5 albums and 2 EPs with 2 albums released by Amsterdam Trance records and Raz Nitzan music including producers

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, Richard Durand,

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and supported regularly on ASOT by Armin Van Buuren. Lawson was an ambassador for the clothing brand

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for 5 years 2008–2013 and toured Quiksilver stores in the UK and Ireland as part of her sponsorship deal. She was previously signed with

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in the USA with her debut album and was championed by

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, who said live on air "I play her music over and over again in my house, she will be a huge star". On her debut album The Philosophy Tree, Lawson has tracks produced by

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, who signed her to his production company alongside lawyer/publishing head/manager David Mantel for her first album, ''The Philosophy Tree''. She was previously managed for 2 years by Launch metrics CEO Eddie Mullon and Kerri Savage. She has her own record label called 'Create Your Own Reality' and previously sold 25,000 records exclusively with the US book retailer

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. Lawson's performances include opening for the BBC presenter

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's festival where

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and José González headlined, the

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as part of the Brit Awards, Sundance film festival, Relentless Boardmasters festival and Brixton Academy to a 5000 Trance audience. Her 5 track EP 'Insights' was produced by producer and Communion records Co-founder Ian Grimble. (Mumford & sons, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Daughter) which features Harp, Double Bass and other live instrumentation and was featured on the UK iTunes home page. Ellie Lawson released the song For You with Stoneface and Terminal written about her son, born in 2013. She has since released 10 songs all reaching the Beatport Trance Charts.

Discography

*''The Philosophy Tree'', 2005 Physical copies still available at www.ellielawson.com *"Lost Songs", 2009 iTunes and www.ellielawson.com *"Lost Without You EP", 2011 iTunes and www.ellielawson.com *"Safe From Harm", 2010 4 Strings, (File, MP3, 320), Liquid Recordings, *"Wide Awake", 2011

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, Magik Muzik, *"Place in the Sun", 2011 Menno De Jong, Intuition Recordings, *''Lost Without You EP'', 2011 iTunes and www.ellielawson.com *"A Day Without Rain", 2012

Flashover Recordings Flashover Recordings is a trance music record label founded by Dutch trance producer and DJ Ferry Corsten in 2005. The label was first formed releasing only trance music which included its sub-labels Levare Recordings and Flashover Recording ...

, *''Breaking Through'', 2012 Stoneface & Terminal, Euphonic, *''Insights EP'' 2012 iTunes and www.ellielawson.com *''Collected'' 2012 Trance/EDM album on iTunes and Beatport *''Resonate'' 2013 album iTunes and www.ellielawson.com * The best of Ellie Lawson 2018 on all digital platforms * ''Becoming'' 2020 Album on all platforms

References

External links

Official website"Ellie Lawson"
''PETA''
"Music Review: Ellie Lawson – Lost Songs"
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