Pixie Lott character profile and information about Gravity

“Gravity” was released in March 2010 and  was the fourth single off Pixie Lott’s debut album “Turn It Up”. Although it is performed by Lott it was actually written by Ina Wroldsen, Jonas Jeberg, Mich Hansen and Lucas Secon. Gravity was Lott’s lowest charting single to date as it peaked at number 20 on the Official chart on the 28^th March 2010 but it earned her her fourth consecutive UK top twenty hit.

Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott

Born 12th January 1991

Bromley, Kent

Lott gained the nickname Pixie from her mother who said she was “such a tiny, cute baby who looked like a fairy”. Lott moved around London a lot when she was younger and her first experience of singing was at her church school. When she was five she started attending Italia Conti Associates Saturday school and she went on to attend the main school Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts when she was eleven where she received a scholarship. Whilst she was a student she appeared in the West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and when she was fourteen in BBC One’s Celebrate the Sound of Music in 2005. Also at the age of fourteen she was in the chorus of Roger Walter’s opera Ça Ira. Although she missed a lot of school she was very bright and achieved straight As at GCSE. For the last three years she has also featured on FHM’s Sexiest Women list in the top fifty.

In 2006 at the age of fifteen Lott sang for L.A. Reid and after he had heard her he signed her to Island Def Jam Music Group but after a change of managers and other issues Lott had to leave this label and later signed with Mercury Records in the UK and Interscope Records in the US. She also signed a publishing contract as a songwriter with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in December 2007. Her first full British tour was supporting The Saturdays on their “The Work Tour”.

Lott’s debut single was named “Mama Do” and was released in June 2009 spending one week at Number 1 and eleven weeks in the UK Top 40. It also reached the Top 40 in eleven other countries. Her second leading single off the album “Boys and Girls” was released in September 2009 and also made the Number 1 spot on 13^th September 2009. Her debut album was also released in September 2009 which was followed by a huge promotion your across the world. The album reached Number 6 on the UK Singles Chart and has sold over 600000 copies to date in the UK. The third single from the album “Cry Me Out” was released in November 2009. Around this time Lott was also chosen as the face of Nokia’s “Illuvial Pink Collection” mobile phone range and Casio’s range of Baby G watches.

The fourth single “Gravity” was released in the UK in March 2010 but that didn’t have much chart success. She won two MTV EMA Awards in 2009 for Best UK and Ireland Act and Best Breakthrough Artist. She was the opening act for Rihanna’s Last Girl on Earth Tour in the UK during May of 2010. Lott has also been involved in a new Lipsy clothing range which she co-designed in April 2012 and also in September 2010. During the seventh series of the X Factor she was also a guest judge whilst Dannii Minogue was on maternity leave and she also recorded a song for the British film Street Dance 3D. In June 2010 she released the title song of her album “Turn It Up” which was the fifth single off the album to be released.

Lott’s debut single in the US was “Boys and Girls” and that was released on the 24th August 2010 with coincided with the release of her debut film Fred: The Movie which aired on Nickelodeon in the US on the 18th September 2010. The single “The Way the World Works” off her debut single was also used on the American medical drama Private Practice. Turn It Up was rereleased in the UK with new singles on it including “Broken Arrow”.

In July 2011, it was announced that Lott has signed a deal with Select Model Management. Soon after this in early September the leading single from her second album “All About Tonight” was released which got Lott her third Number 1 single. This was followed up by the release of “What Do You Take Me For?” featuring the rapper Pusha T in early November and this was the first of Lott’s singles to reach the top 10 without being Number 1. By the end of November, Lott had released her second album named Young Foolish Happy and on the 29^th January 2012 Lott released the final single from the album titled “Kiss The Stars”. This single peaked at Number 8 which made Young Foolish Happy her first album to produce three consecutive top 10 singles.

Lott was lucky enough to perform “Kiss The Stars” and her cover of The Kings of Leon track “Use Somebody” at the Men’s Gymnastics Final at London 2012. She also played a few festivals over the course of summer 2012 including her second appearance at V Festival.