Elena Jane Goulding is an English singer and songwriter. When she first met the record producers Starsmith and Frankmusik, her career really took off. Jamie Lillywhite then noticed her and hired her as her manager and A&R. She was the second artist to win the Critics' Choice Award at the Brit Awards and place first in the BBC's annual Sound of... survey in the same year, both in 2010. For her track "Love Me as You Do," she was nominated for her first Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance.