Below is an email interview with Amelia Ellis. All interviews are published unedited.

• Your tracks have a diverse mixture of styles, how would you describe your tracks?

I couldn’t pinpoint all the influences on my music really. My parents were folk musicians predominantly and I think there is a hint of this in ‘Falling’. I’d say this song is acoustic rock, though, and it’s didactic, not autobiographical! Since I uploaded it, it has undergone a few changes and is now my favourite track.

To describe the songs I’ve written myself, my style, they’re all quite different but I have a few ballads which are similar to ‘Falling’ as there’s quite a similar build-up in them in that they start quite basic with just piano and vocals, except the other ballads are more traditional power-ballady love songs, unlike ‘Falling’.

There are three styles, I suppose, as there are a few album tracks which are pop song arrangements with a lot of backing vocals going on. I spend ages in the studio on these! And then there are a few dance tracks, like ‘Nostalgia’, which I absolutely cannot take all the credit for! My producer Ian and I spent a lot of time working on this track, and it’s getting remixed with a very different sound altogether so I can’t wait to hear it.

• I have two favorite tracks ‘Falling’ and ‘Nostalgia’ which track are you most proud of?

Between ‘Falling’ and ‘Nostalgia’, I would have to say ‘Falling’ because it started out so different from how I initially wrote it.

• I believe you are going to play live, how is that coming along?

I’m rehearsing for live performances which are being planned for next year and they will involve some changes in my life and that’s all I can say at the moment I’m afraid, just in case!

• Who has had the biggest influence on you songs?

The biggest influences on my song writing are Elton John, Carole King, Mariah Carey, Abba, Pink Floyd, The Beatles; just basically a mixture of the music my parents listened to and then far too many bands and artists of my taste to list here! The biggest influence on my song writing is Mariah Carey’s early albums, although vocally, I try not to be too extreme on the ears. (Shouldn’t have said that.)

• Is there anything exciting happening in the near future?

Exciting things started happening for me this time last year when I decided to give music another go, so it’s pretty much excitement all the time for me. I have all these songs because I’d given up and was writing songs for up-and-coming artists, but then people said, why don’t you record them? You wrote them? So here I am!