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Eliza Sophie Caird (born 15 April 1988),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eliza Doolittle Biography )〕 better known by her stage name Eliza Doolittle, is an English singer, songwriter and activist who signed with the Parlophone record label in October 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview: Eliza Doolittle )〕 Her debut eponymous album was released on 12 July 2010, where it debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart. The album, ''Eliza Doolittle'', produced two UK top forty hits: "Skinny Genes" and "Pack Up", the latter of which peaked within the top five on the UK Singles Chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation )〕 On 7 June 2013 she premiered a single called "Big When I Was Little", which was released in July 2013. It subsequently joined BBC Radio 1's and Radio 2 playlist. It was later included on her second studio album, titled ''In Your Hands''. ==Early life== Eliza Doolittle was born in Westminster, London in 1988. She comes from a family with a successful and varied musical background. Her father is John Caird, a stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas who is also an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her mother is musical theatre actress and model artist Frances Ruffelle,〔 who won a Tony Award for her role of Éponine in the English-language version of Les Misérables. Doolittle is the granddaughter of Sylvia Young,〔 founder of the eponymous theatre school. She has eight siblings. Her parents separated when she was four years old. Doolittle grew up in Camden Town and attended Channing School For Girls and Westminster Kingsway College. She was used to being around stages and seeing her mother singing (Ruffelle represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, when Doolittle was six years old) she had always wanted to become a recording artist and write music.〔 Eliza D chose the stage name of ''Eliza Doolittle'', the ''Pygmalion'' and ''My Fair Lady'' character, because it was her nickname as a child.〔 Eliza had a brief career on stage (as Eliza Caird) which somewhat mirrored and was influenced by her parents. She played Young Cosette in ''Les Misérables'' in London's West End in 1996-1997. Her parents met and began their relationship during the original production - her father was the co-director and her mother was the original Eponine. In 2001 she played the lead role in Lucy Simon's Tony Award-winning musical version of ''The Secret Garden'', when The Royal Shakespeare Company premiered the show in Stratford and London. The RSC also produced ''Les Misérables''. The production was directed by Adrian Noble, a contemporary of John Caird. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eliza Doolittle (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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