Ellie Goulding would like to honour the female singers who have inspired her with an album of cover songs. The Burn hitmaker, 33, topped the U.K.
charts with her version of Joni Mitchell’s classic River last year, and now she is hoping to capitalise on the success with a full collection of similar tracks. “When I release songs and people say, ‘Oh, well, that’s not a very Ellie Goulding-type song’, that is why I love doing covers,” the star told Britain’s Evening Standard newspaper. “It shows that my voice can be placed in so many different contexts. “When I first started out I would just do covers.
It was such a nice way to sing quite passionately about songs that I love, that somehow I could still have this kind of escapism because wasn’t
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