Eloise

Communion ONE Presents
Eloise
Since she can remember, Eloise has loved falling in love. The multi-faceted jazz and pop singer
jokes that she is either “in love or heartbroken” at any one time: “I’m such a lover girl... I love
being in love, and so when it comes to my music...” It stands to reason, then, that her
songwriting traverses all of love’s highs and lows: the heartache, the yearning, the giddy bliss of
it. Now she's turned falling in love into a literal artform for her superb second album, My Man &
Me.
Eloise's latest work arrives amid a palpable shift in our collective thinking when it comes to
relationships. There are important discussions about independence and self-worth, but also a
yearning for a return to real connection, rather than endless cold, impersonal “matches” over
apps. My Man & Me burns bright with true experience, her smoky voice and gorgeous jazz
instrumentation – on songs such as “You Will Remain” and “Resisting Your Love” – pairs with
those themes to give it a timeless quality.
Raised in an artistic family who lived between bustling London and the tranquility of rural
Normandy, Eloise has steadily been honing her craft, so that today she emerges as one of the
UK’s most thrilling and unique talents. Born to TV’s Larry Lamb and renowned theatre actor
Clare Burt, she initially followed her parents footsteps into acting, landing a starring role
opposite Cillian Murphy and Tim Roth in the 2012 coming-of-age drama Broken, when she was
11 years old. “It’s funny, because I thought acting was what I wanted to do, my mum was always
my female role model – but she never wanted me to act,” Eloise recalls. Knowing her daughter
was keen to try, though, she encouraged her to audition for the role, and Eloise got the role.
The film itself was a magical experience for Eloise, but arguably more important was the fact
that it opened the door to her music career. “I was messing around on a piano in the rehearsal
studio, playing one of the songs I’d written, and Rufus [Norris, the director] said it’d be nice to
get my voice involved in the soundtrack. So I got in a taxi and went over to the studio, where
Damon Albarn was in charge of the music – so we ended up writing a few songs together,
including the title track. I got to try so much, and Damon would encourage me to follow through
with every idea I had and to trust my instincts... That was when I realised I could express myself
through song, I didn’t have to be an actor.” Hailed for her performance in the film, Eloise also
sang with Albarn at the Cannes Film Festival. She knew which path she wanted to take.
She got into BRIT School, whose starry alumni include Amy Winehouse, Olivia Dean and Lola
Young, level alumni who inspired her to be proactive, knowing it would be up to her to put in the
work and build a foundation for life after BRIT School.
To try and keep these feelings in check, she started posting cover songs to social media,
including one of Bruno Major’s track “Second Time”.…