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I was lucky enough to meet the lady that made Classical Music a worldwide sensation, Eloise de Campo. When she walked into the coffee shop where we had arranged to meet, I could tell that this would be an interesting interview like no other! She walked in with her beautiful blonde hair loose around her shoulders, an over the shoulder teeshirt which she'd styled herself, and her face was alive with her smile! I was very excited about this and I could tell that it would live up to my expectations!

Morning Eloise! I've been really looking forward to this!
Me too! I love being interviewed, I find it good fun! It makes my incredibly busy life more interesting!

So you're very busy at the moment?
Yes, very much so! I'm currently writing a new album, and the first song will be released next month. I'm also on tour in England at the moment, going all over the place, it is amazing but sometimes I just want some time to sit down and relax! It's a good job I enjoy my work though, it feels more like a hobby that I get paid for than a job!

I imagine that it is very hard work! How do you relax with such a busy lifestyle?
Well normally I have Sunday evenings off, so I draw myself a nice bath, with lots of aromatherapy oils and play some of my favourite songs, and then when I get in I order an Indian take away and spend the night in front of the TV. It sounds like quite a lot to do once a week, but it's the only time I ever get to spend some time doing nothing, so I really enjoy it.

That sounds wonderful!
It really is!

What sort of music is on your iPod then?
Well, I have a large mix of artists that have inspired me such as Katherine Jenkins and Meret Becker. I also have some artists who people wouldn't expect me to like, such as ABBA and also the wonderful Simon and Garfunkel as well as more recent artists, like Ellie Goulding, I am a big fan of hers.

What about your music? Is there any of that on your iPod?
[laughs] Yes, I'm not ashamed to say that I do have some of my music on my iPod! I have an awful memory so I do listen to it from time to time when I'm on tour to help me to remember my lyrics!

Do you write your own songs?
Yes, I write all of my songs, I write most of the lyrics myself and my assistant songwriter Dom helps me put them all together. I don't understand how people can sing songs that haven't been written by them, I write and sing them from my heart, it means that they mean something to me, and that can be conveyed to my fans.

Are all of your songs about things that have happened to you personally then?
Yes, every single one of them!

You sing a lot of love songs [laughs] is there someone special in your life then?
[laughs] Not at the moment no. I love writing about love though, most of it is about things that happened when I was younger, I had a lot of adventures.

Were you a bit of a livewire in your youth then?
Not really, I did get up to quite a lot though. Where I lived in London there was always something going on but I was one of the girls who was always to scared to go to the parties. I didn't get drunk until I was 19, because I was always too scared of what might happen. I grew a very sheltered life, but I was always busy with schoolwork and extra curriculum activites.

What sort of activites did you get up to then?
I used to do tap and ballet dancing, up until I was 18, and I had singing lessons. I also used to be quite interested in music, so I took up extra Music lessons which I had to plan compositions for. As well as this I had to work around 20 hours a week at a little cafe down the road from my house, I loved it there, but it wore me out even more than school did!

Sounds like you were just as busy then as you are now!
Yeah I was, it's set me up for this I guess!

What persuaded you to start singing in the contralto tone?
I always used to practice singing along with my teachers saxophone, and I practiced on my tone so that it would go along with that well. I found that it was my strongest point, and she helped me to build up on that.

Do you ever think that you would of been better off in the higher range of the spectrum, say Soprano, if you could of practiced that more?
I'm not really too sure, when you're younger you have more flexibiltiy with your voice, so maybe if I had started straight away at a higher pitch I could've been better at that. I'm quite comfortable singing in contralto though.

Any plans for the near future?
Well I'm hoping that my new album, 'The Stars' has a good reception, and first off my newest thing, which I'm just writing now will be exciting! I'm also hoping that everything goes well on the tour, and after that who knows? I'm all for living life in the moment, I don't make plans or list, if something happens, then it happens, if it doesn't I move on. I'm 20 now so I'd like to think about settling down and seeing how everything goes!