PIXIE LOTT
Victoria Louise “Pixie” Lott was born on January 12, 1991 in Bromley, south-east London. It was her mother who gave her the nickname Pixie because she was “such a tiny, cute baby who looked like a fairy.” She began singing in her church school and attended Italia Conti Associates Saturday school in Chislehurst when she was five. At eleven, she went on to the main school, Italia Conti Academy of Theater Arts, where she gained a scholarship. She appeared in the West End Production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Paladium and The Sound of Music as Louisa von Trapp (BBC One’s Celebrate) when she was still a student. She still got straight As in school despite being unable to attend most of the time while recording her album.
Pixie sang for L.A. Reid at the age of fifteen in 2006. She was then signed onto the Island Def Jam Music Group and after a change of managers bidding war, she left the said Group to join Mercury Records in the UK and Interscope Records in the US. With Sony/ATV Music Publishing, she formed a publishing deal as a songwriter in December 2007. During that time, she was smack dab in the middle of writing and recording tracks for Turn It Up.
On June 8, 2009, she released Mama Do, her debut single. It was directed by Trudy Bellinger and released in Lott’s news section in MySpace and consequently gained three million views on YouTube. It was able to enter both the iTunes and UK Singles Charts at number one with over 50,000 sales. She was “shocked” at the single’s success, and was also recorded for Electronic Arts’ The Sims 3 in Simlish. It also had success outside the UK, reaching the top forty in eleven countries and top ten peaks of number ten in France and eight in Denmark. It was certified silver on August 28, 2009 by the British Phonographic Industry after selling more than 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Lott was featured together with The All-American Rejects, Boys Like Girls, Raygun, Estranged, Kasabian and Hoobastank as part of the live acts at the very first Asia MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia concert.
Pixie’s second single Boys and Girls was released on September 6, 2009. It was directed by Diane Martel and it topped the UK Singles Chart on September 13, 2009. Her debut album Turn It Up was released on September 14, 2009 and was followed up by an intensive promotional tour in the Asia-Pacific region to promote her first single, Mama Do. The album debuted at number 6 in the UK Album Chart and was certified Double-Platinum by the British Phonographic Society in August 2010 after selling over 600,000 copies in the United Kingdom.
Pixie sang for L.A. Reid at the age of fifteen in 2006. She was then signed onto the Island Def Jam Music Group and after a change of managers bidding war, she left the said Group to join Mercury Records in the UK and Interscope Records in the US. With Sony/ATV Music Publishing, she formed a publishing deal as a songwriter in December 2007. During that time, she was smack dab in the middle of writing and recording tracks for Turn It Up.
On June 8, 2009, she released Mama Do, her debut single. It was directed by Trudy Bellinger and released in Lott’s news section in MySpace and consequently gained three million views on YouTube. It was able to enter both the iTunes and UK Singles Charts at number one with over 50,000 sales. She was “shocked” at the single’s success, and was also recorded for Electronic Arts’ The Sims 3 in Simlish. It also had success outside the UK, reaching the top forty in eleven countries and top ten peaks of number ten in France and eight in Denmark. It was certified silver on August 28, 2009 by the British Phonographic Industry after selling more than 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Lott was featured together with The All-American Rejects, Boys Like Girls, Raygun, Estranged, Kasabian and Hoobastank as part of the live acts at the very first Asia MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia concert.
Pixie’s second single Boys and Girls was released on September 6, 2009. It was directed by Diane Martel and it topped the UK Singles Chart on September 13, 2009. Her debut album Turn It Up was released on September 14, 2009 and was followed up by an intensive promotional tour in the Asia-Pacific region to promote her first single, Mama Do. The album debuted at number 6 in the UK Album Chart and was certified Double-Platinum by the British Phonographic Society in August 2010 after selling over 600,000 copies in the United Kingdom.
