Eleanor Rose "Ella" Edmondson (born 22 January 1986) is an English singer-songwriter. Her primary instrument is the guitar although she can also play the piano.[Interview with Judi Spiers on BBC Devon, 16 February 2009.]
Early life
Eleanor Rose Edmondson was born on 22 January 1986 in
Hammersmith,
London. She is the eldest of three daughters of comedians
Adrian Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders. She has two younger sisters, Beatrice and Freya.
The majority of Edmondson's childhood was spent in Richmond before her family relocated to
Devon.
She attended
Exeter School where she wrote songs as part of her music
GCSE.
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Career
Edmondson became a fan of
death metal because it was the only music that her father did not like.
She went through a
goth subculture phase as a teenager and became a
satanist. She worked as a
snowboarding instructor in Canada, a barmaid and a painter and decorator before deciding to focus on music full-time
after being encouraged by her father. She "got the bug" after supporting
Jools Holland at the Plymouth Pavilions.
She received her first guitar as a Christmas present from her father and autodidacticism to play by copying him.[ CD Times Review of Hold Your Horses ] In 2007, she released her first Extended play, Blame Amy,
In 2010, she toured as the supporting act to her father's punk-inspired folk act The Bad Shepherds.
Personal life
Edmondson married Dan Furlong on 30 September 2010 and together they have three children.
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