Ellie Goulding wants to create an album of covers to honour the female singers who have inspired her. The British singer, 33, below, topped the charts with her version of Joni Mitchell’s classic River last year.
She told the Evening Standard that covers allow her to focus on her vocals: “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. "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 my own thoughts and feelings and situations that I’d been in. "I do love
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