Posie Graeme-Evans (b. Rosemary Graeme-Evans ^[1] in Nottingham, England) spent her childhood travelling between Europe, Asia and Australia.^[2] Having worked extensively in the Australian film and television industries as an editor, director, writer and producer/executive producer, Posie is now a full-time novelist (see below).

Early life[link]

Graeme-Evans is the daughter of a novelist, Eleanor, and an RAF pilot. As a child, she travelled with her parents, to Egypt during the Suez Crisis and spent three years in 1960s Cyprus during Turkish-Greek Cypriot conflicts.^[1] She was educated at many schools including The Fahan School in Hobart, Tasmania, and the Wilderness School in Adelaide, South Australia. Whilst at Wilderness, Posie topped the State in South Australia in Ancient History in the Leaving Certificate.^[3] She married her first husband, Tim Jacobs, in 1971 and had her first daughter, Emma in 1972 while studying at Flinders university for her BA, awarded in 1973.^[1]

Career[link]

Her first job, at age 25, was with New Zealand TV props department^[1] and she went on to work at the Tasmanian Film Corporation as an assistant editor and then editor. Credits there include assistant editor (sound and picture) on Manganinie and Fatty and George, plus editing a number of documentaries. Work at the ABC followed including directing on 1982 Commonwealth Games, directing football and basketball and, also, field and gallery director for "Nationwide", the forerunner of the 7.30 report. Selected to be part of a course run by Alan Bateman to identify the ABC's next generation of Executive Producers - one of eight of the hundreds who applied nationally - she topped the course. Fellow attendees included Kris Noble, later Director of Drama, Nine Network and EP of Big Brother; Graham Thorburn, formerly Head of Film and Television, Australian Film, Television and Radio School; Helena Harris, who, with Posie, later co-created Hi-5 and Ric Pellizari, long-time producer of Blue Heelers in its glory days and later, EP of Neighbours.^[4]

In 1983, Graeme-Evans moved to Sydney to direct episodes of ABC-TV music drama series Sweet and Sour (1984).^[5] "I was the worst of the five directors... I was over-confident and thought I had the material under control. I didn't... it was our first Christmas here; we had no friends, no family and I was distraught."^[1] Posie later went on to produce "Sons and Daughters" for Grundy, and "Raffertys Rules" for the Seven Network.

Posie married her second husband Andrew Blaxland in 1990, the same year she and Andrew co-founded their production company Millennium Pictures.^[1]

Over her long career, Graeme-Evans has established herself as one of the pre-eminent Independent creator-producers in the Australian film and television industry. Her first success under the Millennium banner was as producer of the two AFI nominated children's series The Miraculous Mellops (1991-2). Then in the mid '90's came Mirror, Mirror co produced with Dave Gibson of the Wellington based Gibson Group. "MIrror Mirror" was also nominated for best children's drama in both New Zealand and Australia. It secured an AFI for best new talent in Petra Yared and won Best Childrens Drama in the annual Listener awards in New Zealand. Posie then went on to co-create and co-produce the many times Logie winning, and Daytime Emmy nominated, Hi-5" seen now in more than 80 countries worldwide. In 1997, Posie produced Doom Runners. Starring Tim Curry and commissioned by Nickelodeon and Showtime, this was a made-for-TV film about a group of children in a post-apocalyptic Earth trying to reach the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. She was also creator and producer of the high-rating, much loved and many times awarded Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters (2000-08). Posie also produced the 1996 pilot TV movie of the same name starring Jack Thompson as Jack McLeod. Shown on mothers day 1996 the pilot became the highest rating Australian TV movie of all time. Her husband, Andrew Blaxland also worked on McLeod's Daughters as Executive in Charge of Production. During this period, Posie also co-wrote three best selling CDs of "Songs from the Series" of McLeods Daughters with composer and long-time collaborator, multiple Aria winner, Chris Harriott.

In 2001, the Screen Producers of Australia awarded Posie its innaugural Independent Producer of the Year award for her body of work and in late 2002, she was named alongside Meryl Streep by Variety Magazine as "one of 20 Significant woman working in film and television" in its annual worldwide survey.

In December 2002, Posie became Director of Drama for the Nine Network. Also, between October 2002 and June 2006 her first three novels were published worldwide. "The Innocent" ISBN 0-7318-1120-8, "The Exiled" ISBN 0-7318-1121-6 and "The Beloved" ISBN 0-7318-1122-4 (in the US, "The Uncrowned Queen") are a trilogy set in C15th England during the tumultuous Wars of The Roses. In November 2005 and resigned from Nine to take up a new multi-book international deal from her publishers, Simon and Schuster in New York. In October 2010 "The Dressmaker" ISBN 978-0-7318-1472-5, Posie's fourth book, was again published nationally and internationally by Simon and Schuster. At the time of writing "The Island House", Posie's fifth book, is being redied for publication in early 2012

Selling out their interest in Hi-5 in 2008, Posie Graeme-Evans and Andrew Blaxland now divide their time between Tasmania and Sydney. At the current time, Posie is concentrating on her career as a novelist.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Posie Graeme-Evans at the Internet Movie Database
• Posie Jacobs at the Internet Movie Database

Catherine Gaskin (2 April 1929 – 6 September 2009) was a romance novelist.

She was born in Dundalk Bay, County Louth, Ireland in 1929. When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she grew up. Her first novel This Other Eden, was written when she was 15 and published two years later.^[1] After her second novel, With Every Year, was published, she moved to London. Three best-sellers followed: Dust in Sunlight (1950), All Else is Folly (1951), and Daughter of the House (1952). She completed her best known work, Sara Dane, on her 25th birthday in 1954, and it was published in 1955. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, and was made into a television series in Australia in 1982.^[2] Other novels included A Falcon for a Queen (1972) and The Summer of the Spanish Woman (1977).^[3]

Catherine Gaskin moved to Manhattan for ten years, after marrying an American. She then moved to the Virgin Islands, then in 1967 to Ireland, where she became an Irish citizen.^[3] She also lived on the Isle of Man.^[1] Her last novel was The Charmed Circle (1988). She then returned to Sydney, where she died in September 2009, aged 80, of ovarian cancer.^[4]

List of works[link]

A full list is at Fantastic Fiction.

References[link]

Source[link]

• Obituary, The Age, p. 25, 24 September 2009

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Charlaine Harris Schulz
Born	Charlaine Harris (1951-11-25) November 25, 1951 (age 60) Tunica, Mississippi, U.S.
Pen name	Charlaine Harris
Genres	Mystery fiction
www.charlaineharris.com

Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children.^[1] Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later. Her later books have been in the urban fantasy genre. She is best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries series.

Life and career[link]

Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi. After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris began the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote several books in the series before the mid-1990s when she began branching out into other works.^[2] She did not resume the series until 1999, with the exception of one short story in a Murder, She Wrote anthology titled "Murder, They Wrote".

In 1996, she released the first in the Shakespeare series, set in rural Arkansas. Harris "lives in small-town Arkansas", according to a New York Times interview.^[2] The fifth book in the series, Shakespeare's Counselor, was printed in fall 2001, followed by the short story "Dead Giveaway" published in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in December of the same year. Harris has stated on her website that she has finished with the series.

After Shakespeare, Harris created The Southern Vampire Mysteries series about a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a northern Louisiana bar.^[2] The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows Sookie as she tries to solve mysteries involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures.^[2] The series has been released in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Spain, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Argentina, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Great Britain, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Portugal, Iceland, Czech Republic, Romania, Estonia and Israel.

Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO television series Six Feet Under, undertook the production of an HBO series based upon The Southern Vampire Mysteries.^[3] He also wrote and directed the pilot episode for the series, True Blood, which premiered on September 7, 2008 on HBO.^[4] Harris has written twelve novels in the series, and the television show is a hit for HBO.^[2]

October 2005 marked the debut of Harris's new series entitled The Harper Connelly Mysteries, with the release of Grave Sight. The series is told by a young woman named Harper Connelly, who after being struck by lightning, is able to locate dead bodies and to see their last moments through the eyes of the deceased. In October 2010, it was announced Harper Connelly's series had been optioned for a television series named, "Grave Sight".

Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance.

In her personal life, Harris is married and the mother of three teenagers.^[2] A former weightlifter and karate student,^[5] she is an avid reader and cinemaphile. Harris resides in Magnolia, Arkansas, where she is the senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church.^[2][6]

Bibliography[link]

Aurora Teagarden Series[link]

1. Real Murders (1990)^[7]
2. A Bone to Pick (1992)^[8]
3. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (1994)^[9]
4. The Julius House (1995)^[10]
5. Dead Over Heels (1996)^[11]
   • "Deeply Dead" in Murder, They Wrote (1997)^[12]
6. A Fool And His Honey (1999)^[13]
7. Last Scene Alive (2002)^[14]
8. Poppy Done to Death (2003)^[15]

Lily Bard (Shakespeare) Series[link]

1. Shakespeare's Landlord (1996)^[16]
2. Shakespeare's Champion (1997)^[17]
3. Shakespeare's Christmas (1998)^[18]
4. Shakespeare's Trollop (2000)^[19]
5. Shakespeare's Counselor (2001)^[20]
   • "Dead Giveaway" published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (December 2001)

Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series[link]

1. Dead Until Dark (2001)^[21]
2. Living Dead in Dallas (March 2002)^[22]
3. Club Dead (May 2003)^[23]
4. Dead to the World (May 2004)^[24]
   • "Fairy Dust" in Powers of Detection (October 2004)and in "A Touch of Dead" (October 2009)^[25]
   • "Dancers in the Dark" a novella in Night's Edge (October 2004)^[26][27]
5. Dead as a Doornail (May 2005)^[28]
   • "One Word Answer" in Bite (2005) and in "A Touch of Dead" (October 2009)^[29]
6. Definitely Dead (May 2006)^[30]
   • "Tacky" in My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding (2006) - a Dahlia short story ^[27][31]
7. All Together Dead (May 2007)^[32]
   • "Dracula Night" in Many Bloody Returns (September 2007) and in "A Touch of Dead" (October 2009)^[33]
   • "Lucky" in Unusual Suspects^[34] (December 2008) and in "A Touch of Dead" (October 2009)
8. From Dead to Worse (May 2008)^[35]
   • "Gift Wrap" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008) and in "A Touch of Dead" (October 2009)^[36]
   • "Bacon" in Strange Brew (July 2009) - also makes an offhand reference to Jim Butcher's wizard, Harry Dresden; - a Dahlia short story ^[27]
9. Dead and Gone (May 2009)^[37]
   • "The Britlingens Go To Hell" in Must Love Hellhounds (September 2009)^[27]
   • "Dahlia Underground" in Crimes by Moonlight (April 2010) - takes place during All Together Dead - a Dahlia short story ^[27]
10. Dead in the Family (May 2010)
    • "Two Blondes" in Death's Excellent Vacation (August 2010)
    • "A Very Vampire Christmas" in Glamour Magazine (December 2010) - a Dahlia short story ^[27][38]
    • "Dying for Daylight" (2011) - The First All New Video Game Written By Charlaine Harris Released By iPlay Games - Starring Dahlia ^[27][39]
11. Dead Reckoning (May 2011)
    • "If I Had a Hammer" in Home Improvement: Undead Edition (August 2011)
    • "Small-Town Wedding" a novella in The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (August 2011) - an anthology with interviews, FAQ, recipes, and more ^[40]
    • "Death by Dahlia" in Down These Strange Streets (October/November 2011) - a Dahlia short story ^[27][41]
12. "Deadlocked" (May 2012)
13. "Dead Ever After" (May 2013)

Harper Connelly Series[link]

1. Grave Sight (2005)^[42]
2. Grave Surprise (2006)^[43]
3. An Ice Cold Grave (2007)^[44]
4. Grave Secret (2009)^[45]

Other/non-series[link]

• Sweet and Deadly (1981)^[46] republished in UK as Dead Dog
• A Secret Rage (1984)^[47]
• "An Evening With Al Gore" in Blood Lite (October 2008)^[48]

As editor[link]

• Many Bloody Returns (September 2007) (co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)
• Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008) (co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)
• Crimes by Moonlight (April 2010)
• Death's Excellent Vacation^[49] (August 2010) (co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)
• Home Improvement - Undead Edition (August 2011) (co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)

See also[link]

Novels portal

True Blood Sookie Stackhouse

List of crime writers Romance novel

Notes[link]

1. ^ Charlaine Harris- Biography & Interviews, retrieved on 2009-10-27.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Deborah Solomon, "Questions for Charlene Harris: Once Bitten: The writer talks about her 10th vampire novel and the hit TV series it inspired," New York Times Magazine, May 2, 2010, p. 18.
3. ^ "TV News, TV Recaps, TV Reviews, TV ratings - From Inside the Box - Zap2it". Tv.zap2it.com. http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C98313%7C1%7C,00.html. Retrieved 2012-01-27. 
4. ^ Creepy, Uncle (2010-02-28). "True Blood Creator Comic Coming Along With Some Surprises". Dreadcentral.com. http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36161/true-blood-creator-comic-coming-along-with-some-surprises. Retrieved 2012-01-27. 
5. ^ "Charlaine Harris: Putting the Bite on Cozy Mysteries", retrieved on 2009-10-27.
6. ^ Shepard, Martha Hunter (Fall 2007). "Charlaine Harris: Dead-On Author". Rhodes Magazine. Rhodes College. http://www.rhodes.edu/155_9930.asp. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
7. ^ hardback ISBN 0-8027-5769-3, reprint 2007, paperback ISBN 978-04252187161992, UK paperback, ISBN 0-373-26104-7, 1991, paperback ISBN 0-7927-0752-4.
8. ^ hardback ISBN 0-8027-1245-2, reprint 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-0-425-21979-9, 1992, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26136-5.
9. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-19643-3, reprint 2008, ISBN 978-0-425-22052-8, 1995, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26177-2.
10. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-19640-9, 1996, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26217-5.
11. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-80429-8, reprint 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-0-425-22303-1, 1998, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26260-4.
12. ^ ISBN 1-57297-194-0.
13. ^ (1999, hardback ISBN 0-312-20306-3, 2001, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26384-8.
14. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-26246-9, reprint 2006, paperback, 978-0778323648, 2003, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26476-3.
15. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-27764-4, 2004, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26504-2.
16. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-14415-6, 1997, paperback ISBN 0-440-22418-7, 2005, paperback reprint ISBN 0-425-20686-6.
17. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-17005-X, 1997, paperback ISBN 0-440-22421-7.
18. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-19330-0, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-440-23499-9.
19. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-26228-0, 2004, paperback ISBN 0-425-19699-2.
20. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-27762-8, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-425-20114-7.
21. ^ ISBN 0-441-00853-4.
22. ^ ISBN 0-441-00923-9, 2009, hardcover ISBN 0-441-01673-1.
23. ^ ISBN 0-441-01051-2.
24. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01167-5, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-441-01218-3.
25. ^ ISBN 0-441-01197-7.
26. ^ ISBN 0-373-77010-3.
27. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} a Southern Vampire story without the character of Sookie Stackhouse
28. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01279-5, April 2006, audio book ISBN 1-4193-3730-0, paperback ISBN 0-441-01333-3.
29. ^ ISBN 0-515-13970-X.
30. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01400-3, audio book ISBN 1-4193-9326-X.
31. ^ paperback ISBN 0-312-34360-4.
32. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01494-1.
33. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01522-0.
34. ^ December 2008, paperback ISBN 0-441-01637-5.
35. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01589-4.
36. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01633-2.
37. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01715-0.
38. ^ "August 15, 2010, August 21, 2010, and November 16, 2010 Wall Posts". Facebook.com. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlaine-Harris-Official-Fan-Site/130129293663972. Retrieved 2012-01-27. 
39. ^ "Dying for Daylight". Dying for Daylight. 2010-12-22. http://www.dyingfordaylight.com. Retrieved 2012-01-27. 
40. ^ "September 11, 2010 Wall Post". Facebook.com. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlaine-Harris-Official-Fan-Site/130129293663972. Retrieved 2012-01-27. 
41. ^ "Bibliography - Sookie Stackhouse". Charlaine Harris. http://www.charlaineharris.com/bibliography/bibliog-sookie.html. Retrieved 2012-01-27. 
42. ^ hardback Berkley, 2005, ISBN 0-425-20568-1; ISBN 978-0-425-20568-6.
43. ^ hardback Berkley 2006, ISBN 0-425-21203-3; ISBN 978-0-425-21203-5.
44. ^ hardback Berkley 2007, ISBN 0-425-21729-9; ISBN 978-0-425-21729-0.
45. ^ hardback Berkley, October 27, 2009, ISBN 0-441-01830-0; ISBN 978-0-441-01830-7.
46. ^ hardback ISBN 0-395-30532-2, 1985, paperback ISBN 0-345-32101-4, 1982, UK hardback ISBN 0-7091-9700-4, UK paperback ISBN 0-263-74030-7.
47. ^ hardback ISBN 0-395-35323-8, 1984, paperback ISBN 0-345-32102-2, 1984, UK hardback ISBN 0-7278-1079-0.
48. ^ paperback ISBN 1-4165-6783-6.
49. ^ "February 6, 2009". Charlaineharris.com. 2009-02-06. http://www.charlaineharris.com/bb/bb140.html. Retrieved 2012-01-27. 

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Charlaine Harris

• Charlaine Harris Official Website
• Fantastic Fiction Author Page
• Charlaine Harris at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Charlaine Harris Collection (MUM00221) owned by the University of Mississippi Department of Archives and Special Collections
• Works by or about Charlaine Harris in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Charlaine Harris's Lifestyle Blog
• List of Charlaine Harris Books
• 2011 Interview on io9's Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast

v t e The Southern Vampire Mysteries Charlaine Harris Novels Dead Until Dark · Living Dead in Dallas · Club Dead · Dead to the World · Dead as a Doornail · Definitely Dead · All Together Dead · From Dead to Worse · Dead and Gone · Dead in the Family · Dead Reckoning · Deadlocked Short stories "Fairy Dust" · "Dancers in the Dark" · "One Word Answer" · "Dracula Night" · "Tacky" · "Gift Wrap" · "Bacon" · "Lucky" · "A Touch of Dead" · "Dahlia Underground" · "Two Blondes" · "Death by Dahlia" · "A Very Vampire Christmas" · "Small-Town Wedding" · "If I Had A Hammer" Characters Sookie Stackhouse  · Bill Compton  · Eric Northman  · Sam Merlotte  · Pam Ravenscroft  · Jason Stackhouse  · Alcide Herveaux  · Quinn · Niall Brigant  · Tara Thornton  · Dahlia Lynley-Chivers · Full list of characters See also True Blood · List of True Blood characters · Charlaine Harris

v t e True Blood Episodes Season 1 · Season 2 · Season 3 · Season 4 · Season 5 Characters Sookie Stackhouse · Bill Compton · Eric Northman · Alcide Herveaux · Sam Merlotte · Jason Stackhouse · Tara Thornton · Lafayette Reynolds · Pamela Swynford De Beaufort · Jessica Hamby See also The Southern Vampire Mysteries · "Bad Things" · Alan Ball · Charlaine Harris

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Date of birth	November 25, 1951
Place of birth	Tunica, Mississippi, U.S.
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Pixie Lott
Pixie Lott at London Fashion Week, February 2010
Background information
Birth name	Victoria Louise Lott[1]
Born	(1991-01-12) 12 January 1991 (age 21)[2] Bromley, London, England
Origin	London, England
Genres	Pop, electropop, dance-pop, R&B, soul
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, actress, dancer
Instruments	Vocals, piano
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Mercury, Interscope
Website	pixielott.com

Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott (born 12 January 1991)^[1] is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Her debut single "Mama Do" was released in June 2009^[3] and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart.^[4] Her second single "Boys and Girls", also topped the UK charts in September 2009. Her debut album Turn It Up was released in September 2009. It reached number six on the UK Albums Chart, spawned five consecutive Top 20 singles, and sold over a million copies. Her second album, Young Foolish Happy, was released on 14 November 2011. "All About Tonight", the first single from that album, entered the charts at number one on 17 September 2011, making it her third UK number one hit.

Lott is often credited for her live performances and style.^[5][6][7] In July 2010, Lott appeared as a guest judge for the auditions for the seventh series of The X Factor in Cardiff, covering for Dannii Minogue, who was on maternity leave.^[8]

Lott has released "Boys and Girls" as her debut US single on 24 August 2010. The release coincided with the TV premiere of her first film, Fred: The Movie. In January 2010, Lott was named one of 2010's "Faces to Watch" by US magazine, Billboard.^[9]

Early and personal life[link]

Pixie was born in Bromley and lived initially in Petts Wood and then Bickley, all suburban areas of London.^[10] Her mother gave her the nickname Pixie from when she was born "such a tiny, cute baby who looked like a fairy".^[11] She started singing in her church school^[11] and when she was five she attended the Italia Conti Associates Saturday school in Chislehurst, she went on to attend the main school – Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts – at 11, where she was awarded a scholarship.^[12] At the age of 13, Lott moved with her family to Brentwood.^[13] During her time as a student she appeared in the West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium, and in BBC One's Celebrate the Sound of Music in 2005, aged 14,^[14] as Louisa von Trapp.^[3] At the age of 14, she was part of the chorus, recording vocals on Roger Waters's opera Ça Ira.^[12] Despite missing school time because she was recording her album, Lott says she received straight 'A' grades in her GCSEs.^[15]

She was voted No. 45 in 2010 and No. 31 in 2011 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women list.^[16]

She cites Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston as major influences on her style of singing.^[17]

Music career[link]

2008–09: Early career[link]

In 2006, at the age of 15, she sang for L. A. Reid after he heard a few of her demos.^[12] He then signed her to the Island Def Jam Music Group. After a change of managers a bidding war ensued, and Lott parted ways with the Island Def Jam Music Group, to sign with Mercury Records in the UK and to Interscope Records in the U.S.^[12] She formed a publishing deal, as a songwriter, with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in December 2007, while in the midst of writing and recording tracks for Turn It Up.

Lott played her first festival concert in the Big Top at the Isle of Wight Festival 2009, during her first full British tour, where she supported The Saturdays on The Work Tour.

[edit] 2009–10: Turn It Up

Pixie Lott performing at the launch of Blackpool Illuminations in Blackpool, Lancashire on 4 September 2009

She released her debut single, "Mama Do", on 8 June 2009. The video, directed by Trudy Bellinger, was released to MySpace in Lott's news section and has gained in excess of three million views on YouTube.^[18] It entered both the iTunes chart and UK Singles Chart at number one, after over 50,000 sales. Lott was quoted as being shocked at the success of the single.^[19] The song was also recorded in Simlish for Electronic Arts' The Sims 3.^[20] It spent one week at number one, eleven weeks within the top forty and eighteen weeks within the top seventy five.^[21] The single also had considerable success outside the UK, reaching the top forty in eleven other countries, including top ten peaks of number eight in Denmark and number ten in France. The single was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry on 28 August 2009 after selling over 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom.^[22] On 15 August 2009, Lott was featured alongside Hoobastank, The All-American Rejects, Kasabian, Boys Like Girls, Estranged and Raygun as one of the live acts at Asia's very first MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia concert.^[23] Lott's second lead single "Boys and Girls" was released on 6 September 2009 and topped the UK Singles Chart on 13 September 2009.^[24] During the week in which it reached number one, the single sold just under 50,000 copies.^[25] It spent nineteen consecutive weeks within the top seventy-five, including eight within the top forty, on the UK Singles Chart.^[26] The single has been accompanied by a music video and was directed by Diane Martel.^[27] It was also released in the US as her debut single on 24 August 2010. On 14 September 2009, Lott's debut album, Turn It Up was released. This followed an intensive promotional tour where Lott visited the Asia-Pacific region to promote the album and 'Mama Do'. The album debuted at number six on the UK Album Chart. The album has sold over 600,000 copies in the United Kingdom and was certified Double-Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry in August 2010.^[22] Lott has written a song for Alexandra Burke's debut album, Overcome, titled "You Broke My Heart" and a song for Girls Can't Catch titled "Happy Alone", which was featured as a free Christmas present download on their website. She also has written two tracks on Lisa Lois – the Dutch X Factor's winners album, they are titled "No Good For Me" (1st single from the album) and "Promises, Promises" (2nd single from the album). Lott's third single from the album was confirmed as "Cry Me Out" upon the release of the previous single and the single was later confirmed for physical release on 23 November 2009.^[28] The music video was directed by Jake Nava (director of recent videos for Beyoncé, Leona Lewis and Shakira) and was shot in Cuba.^[29] The fourth single, "Gravity", was released in the UK on 8 March 2010, following the premiere of its video on Channel 4 on 6 February 2010. Lott won two MTV EMA Awards MTV Europe Music Awards 2009, Best UK & Ireland Act and Best Push Artist (best break through artist).^[30] Lott won a Cosmopolitan 2009 Ultimate Women Award for Ultimate Newcomer.^[31] In 2009, Lott won The Caron Keating Breakthrough Talent Award at The Variety Club Awards.^[32]

"The Way The World Works", from Lott's debut record was used in the U.S.-produced medical drama Private Practice.^[33] Lott was chosen as the face of Nokia's "Illuvial Pink Collection" mobile phone range, saying "I spend loads of time on my mobile, so it's important to me that it looks good. The phones in the range all look fab – they're stylish and yet still girlie."^[34] Lott was nominated for British Breakthrough Act, British Female Solo Artist and British Single at the 2010 BRIT Awards.^[35] Lott also served as the opening act of Rihanna's Last Girl on Earth Tour in the UK 7–26 May 2010.^[36] Lott also performed on the main stage at the V Festival in August 2010.

Lott was cast as Judy, Fred Figglehorn's crush, in the film Fred: The Movie, starring alongside Lucas Cruikshank. The comedy was released on America's Nickelodeon channel on the 18 September 2010, and is scheduled to be released in UK theatres in November.^{[37][38][39][40]} The fifth single from Lott's album, the title song "Turn It Up", was released on 7 June 2010.^[41][42] Lott recorded a song for the film Street Dance 3D, entitled "Live For The Moment", which is also featured on the soundtrack. On 23 May 2010, Lott performed at the Radio 1 Big Weekend in Bangor, North Wales, and on 4 July 2010 she performed at T4 on the Beach in Weston-super-Mare.^[43][44]

Turn It Up is due to be released in the US in 2011 with a significantly updated track listing.^[45] For the new "repackaged" version Lott has recorded duets with Jason Derulo and Joe Jonas.^[46][47] The album will include her newest single, "Broken Arrow".

Songwriter Chris Braide confirmed in an interview with HitQuarters that he has written three new songs for the repackaged album together with Cathy Dennis.^[46]

[edit] 2011–present: Young Foolish Happy

In April 2011, Lott told Digital Spy that "[t]here are a couple of really cool collaborations on the album and I've already worked with some big people, but I can't say who they are just in case those tracks don't make the final cut", and described the sound as "still pop stuff, but maybe a little more soulful. That's the kind of thing that I'm into. That influence is stronger on this album."^[48] The album is due out on 14 November 2011.^[49] Lott premiered the lead single "All About Tonight" on BBC Radio 1's The Chris Moyles Show on 11 July 2011; the single was released on 4 September and premiered at number 1, Lott's third UK number 1 single.^[50] On 17 September, Lott announced that her second album would be titled Young Foolish Happy and that it will include collaborations with Stevie Wonder and John Legend.^[51][52] The album will be released in the UK on 14 November.^[52] The second single was confirmed as "What Do You Take Me For?", featuring the rapper Pusha T; the music video premiered on 6 October 2011 with the single being available for download on 4 November 2011.^[53]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

Discography[link]

• Turn It Up (2009)
• Young Foolish Happy (2011)

Tours[link]

As the headline act

• 2010 – The Crazycats Tour

As supporting act

• 2009 – The Saturdays – The Work Tour (Selected Dates)
• 2010 – Rihanna – Last Girl on Earth Tour (UK Dates)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pixie Lott

• Official website
• Pixie Lott at Allmusic
• Pixie Lott at the Internet Movie Database
• Pixie Lott's channel on YouTube

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