Ellie Goulding

Songwriter Ellie Goulding's extraordinary voice has been compared to those of Björk and Cerys Matthews. Aged just 23, she's won the Critics' Choice Brit Award and came चोटी, शीर्ष of the BBC's influential Sound of 2010 poll.

Goulding has a reputation for sexual frankness, and her songs document heartache, obsessive प्यार and the खोजिए for the perfect boyfriend.

Her new album, Lights, is dedicated to “Matthew, who found and saved me”, and she reveals for the first time how she owes everything to this older lover.

“I was 18, he was in his thirties. He was really clever and we'd laugh about how...