Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is a multi-platinum selling English pop singer and songwriter. Her music is a mixture of mainstream pop, disco and 1980s electronic influences.


Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor was born in West Middlesex to Janet Ellis, then an actress, but later better known as a presenter on the TV series Blue Peter (on which Sophie appeared with her mother at the age of six, modelling snoods), and Robin Bextor, an award-winning film director. Ellis and Bextor divorced when Sophie was four years old. She has three sisters and two brothers. She has often spoken about being very close to her family growing up and she often takes her brothers and sisters to work with her. Her brother Jackson Ellis-Leach is currently her drummer. Her official website hyphenates her surname, which is the joining of her parents’ surnames; some other sources separate the names with a space. She went to school at St. Stephen’s School and later Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith. Among her earliest public performances were with the W11 Opera children’s opera from the age of thirteen. On April 23, 2004, Sophie gave birth to her first child, a boy named Sonny. The father is the bass guitarist for The Feeling Richard Jones, whom she later married in 2005. Previously, she dated her manager Andy Boyd for six years. In 2007, Sophie appeared at Christmas in the Robbie the Reindeer Episode, Close Encounters of the Herd Kind. Sophie was depicted as a female alien at the closure of the story, singing the song ‘Supersonic’, the last track on her third solo studio album Trip The Light Fantastic.

An advocate for animal rights, she posed for PETA’s anti–fur clothing advertisement. She is also currently fronting a campaign for The Children’s Society encouraging people to log onto the Hundreds and Thousands of Childhood Memories Website to donate their favourite childhood memory.

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