Katherine Ellis
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Katherine Ellis is an English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 vocalist and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

. A mainstay of the genre past and present, she has been making records since 1990.

Background

She records under the aliases Katherine Ellis, Kathy Wood, Arrola and K. Ellis and her maiden name Katherine Wood (Ellis is her married name, and she is mother to two sons). She has no connection with the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 vocalist Katherine E (also born Katherine Ellis), even though some biographies and websites have understandably mistaken the two artists as being the same person.

Katherine has been a vocalist since the age of 15, performing lead and backing vocals. Her touring credits include that of working with Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...

, Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...

, Boy George
Boy George
Boy George is a British singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by...

 and Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez, also known as Roger S. and The S Man, is a Grammy award-winning American House music DJ who has scored many hits in the European and World Charts...

.

She has recorded with a variety of prominent names in dance music including Freemasons
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...

, Soul Avengerz
Soul Avengerz
Soul Avengerz is a British Dance & Techno Group. They have worked with Javine Hilton in a new forthcoming single called "Don't Let The Morning Come", and this single will show Javine's new music style, before she left the R&B Style to perform Dance Music....

, Dave Lee, Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez, also known as Roger S. and The S Man, is a Grammy award-winning American House music DJ who has scored many hits in the European and World Charts...

, Meat Katie
Meat Katie
Mark Pember, also known as Meat Katie, is a London-based tech-funk producer and DJ. He has gained popularity in recent years in developing his style of tech-funk, combining techno, tribal, electro, breakbeat and house music...

, Dylan Rhymes, Lee Coombs and Tom Stephan
Tom Stephan
Tom Stephan is a house music producer and DJ.-Biography:Tom Stephan was raised in the western New York town of Olean but moved to London to go to college. It was in London that he started his DJ career, opening up for Danny Tenaglia and eventually hosting regular house nights at the Turnmills club...

.

From 1997 to 2000, Ellis was the vocalist for Ruff Driverz
Ruff Driverz
Ruff Driverz were the aliases of British DJ / remixers Brad Carter and Chris Brown. The duo also recorded under the names 2000BC and Transit.Between 1997 and 2000 the duo scored a string of dance hits in the UK...

, singing "Deeper Love," "Don’t Stop," "Shame," and the international hit
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...

 "Dreaming" (for which she also wrote the Spanish topline for under the credited alias name of 'Arrola').

In 2008, Ellis' releases included "When You Touch Me" with Freemasons
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...

 (Loaded), "Ain't Nothin' Goin’ On But The Rent" with 7th Heaven (Hard2Beat
Hard2Beat
Hard2Beat was a British independent record label which is a subsidiary of Ministry of Sound. In 2010 it was rebranded as 'Dance Nation'.The label's first release was "Now You're Gone" by Basshunter in 2007, and they have released other singles and compilation albums since then.In April 2009 they...

), "Poza (Got What I Need)" with Countparis (Eyezcream), "Do It" with DJ Prom (GFab), "Gotta Get Through" with Paul Emanuel & Gav McCall (Born to Dance), and "One Luv" with Soul Avengerz
Soul Avengerz
Soul Avengerz is a British Dance & Techno Group. They have worked with Javine Hilton in a new forthcoming single called "Don't Let The Morning Come", and this single will show Javine's new music style, before she left the R&B Style to perform Dance Music....

 (Milk & Sugar/One Love Recordings); as well as "Laisser Toucher" with Cerrone
Cerrone
Marc Cerrone is a French disco drummer, singer-songwriter and record producer.Marc Cerrone has sold over thirty million albums and has often performed in front of hundreds of thousands of people at huge concerts and events such as The 2005 Dance Party Live in Versailles and The 2000 Los Angeles...

 which is featured in the French film
Film
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, Disco!.

In 2009, her releases include the re-release of "Dreaming", "You're Mine" with Solitaire (Muzik K) and "Time 2 Play" with Soulshaker (Audiofreaks) as well as an acoustic version of "Hideaway" featured on New State Music's UnClubbed Album. She also wrote and performed two tracks, "Control" and "You Make Me Crazy" that featured on Lee Coombs' 2009 album, Light & Dark.

Ellis is also a member of the band Bimbo Jones
Bimbo Jones
Bimbo Jones is a UK dance music group comprising producers Lee Dagger and Marc JB and vocalist Katherine Ellis. Known for their remix work and white label releases, they produced a remix of Meck's 2006 UK number-one single "Thunder in My Heart Again"...

, who are signed to Tommy Boy Records
Tommy Boy Records
Tommy Boy Entertainment is an independent record label started in 1981 by Tom Silverman.-History:...

. The group released its album Harlem 1 Stop in late 2008. Ellis received cowriting and vocal credit for all tracks, including lead single "And I Try", which reached #1 on the US
United States
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 Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

's Hot Dance Club Songs chart in October 2008.

Aside from her music career, Ellis has also done television commercial work, was heard as the vocalist on the Gaviscon
Gaviscon
Gaviscon is a non-prescription medication for the treatment of heartburn and GERD. It is produced and distributed in the UK by Reckitt Benckiser and by GlaxoSmithKline in the US and Canada.Gaviscon is taken to treat heartburn, similarly to other antacids...

 "What A Feelin'" advertisement in the UK, and appeared in the 2001 Disney movie Motocrossed
Motocrossed
Motocrossed! is a 2001 Disney Channel Original Movie , about a girl named Andrea Carson who loves motocross, despite the fact that her father finds her unsuited for the sport, being that she is "just a girl"...

.

Discography & writing credits

Featured vocalist
  • 1990 Less Stress featuring Katherine Wood / "Don't Dream It's Over" / Junior Boy's Own (Vocalist)
  • 1991 Bocca Juniors / "Substantially Soulful" / Junior Boys Own (Vocalist)
  • 1992 Cappella
    Cappella
    Cappella was an Italian Eurodance act formed in 1987 by producer Gianfranco Bortolotti. The act went through a number of line-up changes over the years but was most successful in the early 1990s when it was fronted by British performers Kelly Overett and Rodney Bishop...

     featuring Katherine E / "Take Me Away" (Vocalist)
  • 1995 Kathy Wood / "Give me Joy" / Phuture Trax (Vocalist)
  • 1996 Eruption featuring Katherine Wood / "Let The Music" (Vocalist)
  • 1997 Eruption featuring Katherine Wood / "Reach Out" (Vocalist)
  • 1997 Eruption featuring Katherine Wood / "Surrender" (Vocalist)
  • 1997 Ruff Driverz
    Ruff Driverz
    Ruff Driverz were the aliases of British DJ / remixers Brad Carter and Chris Brown. The duo also recorded under the names 2000BC and Transit.Between 1997 and 2000 the duo scored a string of dance hits in the UK...

     / "Don't Stop" / Undisputed & Inferno (Vocalist) UK
    UK Singles Chart
    The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

     #30
  • 1997 Ruff Driverz / "Deeper Love" / Inferno (Vocalist) UK #19
  • 1998 Ruff Driverz / "Shame" / Inferno (Vocalist) UK #51
  • 2006 Roger Sanchez
    Roger Sanchez
    Roger Sanchez, also known as Roger S. and The S Man, is a Grammy award-winning American House music DJ who has scored many hits in the European and World Charts...

     featuring Lisa Pure & Katherine Ellis / "Lost
    Lost (Roger Sanchez song)
    "Lost" is a single by Grammy Award winning Dominican-American progressive house DJ Roger Sanchez, featuring Lisa Pure and Katherine Ellis. The song was featured in Sanchez's album Come with Me which was released in 2006...

    " / Stealth Recordings (Vocalist)
  • 2007 ASBO featuring Katherine Ellis / "Let the Beat Hit 'Em" / Hed Kandi
    Hed Kandi
    Hed Kandi is an UK-based record label and a music brand which was established in 1999 by Mark Doyle, specialising in funky, soulful house music. Hed Kandi's catalogue includes both artist albums and various genres of club compilations. As well as producing music albums and compilations, Hed Kandi...

     Records (Vocalist)
  • 2007 Wilder & Clarke featuring Katherine Ellis / "Stand Up" / Hed Kandi
    Hed Kandi
    Hed Kandi is an UK-based record label and a music brand which was established in 1999 by Mark Doyle, specialising in funky, soulful house music. Hed Kandi's catalogue includes both artist albums and various genres of club compilations. As well as producing music albums and compilations, Hed Kandi...

     Records (Vocalist)
  • 2008 Cerrone
    Cerrone
    Marc Cerrone is a French disco drummer, singer-songwriter and record producer.Marc Cerrone has sold over thirty million albums and has often performed in front of hundreds of thousands of people at huge concerts and events such as The 2005 Dance Party Live in Versailles and The 2000 Los Angeles...

     vs Katherine Ellis / "Laisser Toucher" / Maligator Productions (Vocalist)
  • 2008 7th Heaven featuring Katherine Ellis / "Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent" / Unreleased Ministry of Sound (Vocalist)
  • 2009 Katherine Ellis / "Hideaway" / UnClubbed (Album) / New State Music (Vocalist)
  • 2010 DJ Nick Corline vs Katherine Ellis / "I Love This Life (Could You Be Loved)" / Net's Work International (Vocalist)
  • 2010 Oxford Hustlers
    Oxford Hustlers
    Oxford Hustlers are a dance band from Sydney, Australia. Composed of DJs Brett Austin, and Murray Hood. They have worked along side Katherine Ellis on their debut single "Love U More", a cover of the 1992 hit of Sunscreem.-Career:...

     & Katherine Ellis / "Love U More" / Fierce Angel (Vocalist)
  • 2011 ASBO featuring Katherine Ellis / "Let the Beat Hit 'Em" (Stefano Noferini Mix) / Hed Kandi
    Hed Kandi
    Hed Kandi is an UK-based record label and a music brand which was established in 1999 by Mark Doyle, specialising in funky, soulful house music. Hed Kandi's catalogue includes both artist albums and various genres of club compilations. As well as producing music albums and compilations, Hed Kandi...

     Records (Vocalist)


Vocalist and writer/co-writer
  • 1998 Ruff Driverz presents Arrola / "Dreaming" / Inferno (Vocalist/Writer) UK #10
  • 1999 Ruff Driverz presents Arrola / "La Musica" Inferno (Vocalist/Writer) UK #14
  • 2000 La Fiesta / "Dreaming" / Oxyd Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2001 W.O.S.P / "Gettin' Into U" / Data Records
    Data Records
    Data Records is a record label based in London, the record label is full owned by Ministry Of Sound. Releases by Data Records are often said they are released by Ministry Of Sound.-Albums:-Singles:*Some releases Infomation is From Discogs....

     (Vocalist/Writer) UK #48
  • 2002 Raven Maize / "Fascinated" / Data Records
    Data Records
    Data Records is a record label based in London, the record label is full owned by Ministry Of Sound. Releases by Data Records are often said they are released by Ministry Of Sound.-Albums:-Singles:*Some releases Infomation is From Discogs....

     (Vocalist/Writer) UK #37
  • 2004 Dylan Rhymes featuring Katherine Ellis / "Salty" / Kingsize Records (Vocalist/Writer) UK #70
  • 2004 Lee Coombs featuring Katherine Ellis/ "Shiver" / Finger Lickin' Records
    Finger Lickin' Records
    Finger Lickin' Records is an independent left field dance record label. Founded by Justin Rushmore and Jem Panufnik in 1998, Finger Lickin' is solely dedicated to dance music, mainly covering Breakbeat, electro and hip hop, elements of disco and funk can be found throughout these genres.- Artists...

     / Azuli Records
    Azuli Records
    Azuli Records is an independent record label, focusing mainly on house music and other forms of electronic dance music. The label was founded by DJ Dave Piccioni in London, UK in 1991 and went into liquidation in April 2009. It's assets were sold to Phoenix Music International Ltd...

     (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2005 Tom Stephan
    Tom Stephan
    Tom Stephan is a house music producer and DJ.-Biography:Tom Stephan was raised in the western New York town of Olean but moved to London to go to college. It was in London that he started his DJ career, opening up for Danny Tenaglia and eventually hosting regular house nights at the Turnmills club...

     featuring Katherine Ellis/ "Here I Come" / Chumbomundo Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2005 Dylan Rhymes featuring Katherine Ellis / "Sugar DJ" / Kingsize Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2006 Mark Knight featuring Katherine Ellis / "Insatiable" / Toolroom Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2006 Tom Stephan featuring Katherine Ellis / "DOG" / Chumbomundo Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2006 Soul Flava featuring Katherine Ellis / "We Got Love" / DTPM/Blue Cube (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2006 Lee Coombs featuring Katherine Ellis / "Control" / Thrust Recordings (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2006 Meat Katie
    Meat Katie
    Mark Pember, also known as Meat Katie, is a London-based tech-funk producer and DJ. He has gained popularity in recent years in developing his style of tech-funk, combining techno, tribal, electro, breakbeat and house music...

     featuring Katherine Ellis / "What I Like" / "Lot 49" (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2006 Meat Katie featuring Katherine Ellis / "Round & Round" / Adrift Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2007 Cerrone
    Cerrone
    Marc Cerrone is a French disco drummer, singer-songwriter and record producer.Marc Cerrone has sold over thirty million albums and has often performed in front of hundreds of thousands of people at huge concerts and events such as The 2005 Dance Party Live in Versailles and The 2000 Los Angeles...

     featuring Katherine Ellis / "Loverboy" / Maligator Productions (Vocalist/Co-Writer)
  • 2007 Jason Herd featuring Katherine Ellis / "So Strong" / J Funk Recordings (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2007 Matteo Esse & Sant featuring Katherine Ellis / "Not Hanging Around" / Cosmonote Blue (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2008 Soul Avengerz
    Soul Avengerz
    Soul Avengerz is a British Dance & Techno Group. They have worked with Javine Hilton in a new forthcoming single called "Don't Let The Morning Come", and this single will show Javine's new music style, before she left the R&B Style to perform Dance Music....

     featuring Katherine Ellis / "One Luv" (One Love Recordings/Milk & Sugar) (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2008 Countparis & Katherine Ellis / "Poza (Got What I Need)" / Eyezcream Recordings (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2008 Prom featuring Katherine Ellis / "Do It" / Gfab (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2008 Paul Emanuel & Gav McCall featuring Katherine Ellis / "Gotta Get Thru" / Born to Dance Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2008 Tim Belcher & Katherine Ellis / "Stiletto Strutt" / Fourthcoming on Cosmonote Blue Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2008 Freemasons
    Freemasons (band)
    Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...

     featuring Katherine Ellis / "When You Touch Me" / Loaded Records
    Loaded Records
    Loaded Records was a UK dance record label formed in 1990 by Tim Jeffery and JC Reid. It launched artists like Pizzaman, Slacker, and Wildchild. More recently it released albums by Super_Collider and singles by Annie and Holden & Thompson...

     (Vocalist/Writer) UK Top 30
  • 2009 Ruff Driverz presents Arrola / "Dreaming 2009" / Maelstrom (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2009 Lee Coombs featuring Katherine Ellis / "Control" / Light & Dark (Album) Lot49 (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2009 Lee Coombs featuring Katherine Ellis / "You Make Me Crazy" / Light & Dark (Album) Lot49 (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2009 Solitaire and Katherine Ellis / "You're Mine" / Mukik K Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2009 Soulshaker
    Soulshaker
    Soulshaker is a Dance, Club, and Pop music production company based in the UK. In addition to creating their own productions, they write, produce, mix, and remix tracks for a number of major and independent labels in the UK, Europe, and North America....

     and Katherine Ellis / "Time 2 Play" / Audiofreaks (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2010 Mr D.Y.F and Katherine Ellis / "All Day Lover" (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2010 Katherine Ellis and 3DR Mafia / "Little Bit of Love" (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2010 Alex Nocera & Katherine Ellis / "Living for the Sundown" / Net's Work International (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2010 Regi
    Regi
    Regi may refer to one of five Pokémon:* Regirock* Regice* Registeel* Regigigas* curricuRegi Curricuregi came out in season F10 during the year of commitment to excellence in service...

     & Katherine Ellis / "High on Your Love" / Registrated 2 (Album) Mostiko (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2010 Juan Kidd & Felix Baumgartner
    Felix Baumgartner
    Felix Baumgartner is a skydiver and a BASE jumper. He is renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career...

     vs Katherine Ellis / "All You Need" Subliminal Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2011 Katherine Ellis & Addict DJs / "I'm Coming Out" / Ambassade/Pool e Music (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2011 Katherine Ellis & The Studiopunks / "Feed the Fire" / Vendetta Records
    Vendetta Records
    Vendetta Records was a dance record label subsidiary of A&M Records. It was launched in 1988, but it was shut down in 1990, shortly after its parent was purchased by PolyGram Records.-Artists:*Brat Pack*Denise Lopez*Reimy*Dirty South*The 28th Street Crew...

    /Blanco Y Negro
    Blanco y Negro
    Blanco y Negro can refer to* Blanco y Negro in Spain.* Blanco y Negro Music, a record label in Spain.* Blanco y Negro Records, a record label in the U.K....

     (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2011 Samuel Sartini featuring Katherine Ellis / "Jumping" / Do It Yourself Records (Vocalist/Co-Writer)
  • 2011 Katherine Ellis vs Craig C and Xtra Agenda / "Somebody Close" / [Forthcoming] Nine Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2011 Elektrik Disko & Katherine Ellis / "Nothin' but luv" / [Forthcoming] Club Luxury Records (Vocalist/Writer)
  • 2011 Katherine Ellis & Bailey / "Shock me right" / [Forthcoming] Jeepers Records (Vocalist/Writer)


Writing Credits
  • 2001 M&S Presents the Girl Next Door / "The Salsoul Nugget (If U Wanna)" (Writer) UK #6
  • 2003 4Tune 500 / "Dancing In The Dark" / Black Gold (Writer)

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