Before she was ever a blonde. Ellie Goulding went from living with her working class family in a council house in the small English county of Herefordshire , acting in small roles in her school plays and changed the way she spoke by watching British newsreaders. Ellie, a university drop out who recorded her first single, under the sheets in her producers uni Dorm room but would go on to sell out stadiums across the world, working with artists like Tinie Tempah, Skrillex, Calvin Harris and becoming one of Taylor Swifts squad members.