19-598: Wookie may refer to: Wookie (musician) , a UK garage musician The Louisiana Wookie, also known as the Honey Island Swamp Monster See also [ edit ] Wookiee , a tall, hairy humanoid species in the Star Wars fictional universe Wookey , a village and civil parish 2 miles from Wells in Somerset, England Topics referred to by
38-477: A Spell on You ", in aid of the 2010 Haiti earthquake . Her debut single " Skinny Genes " was released on 12 April 2010, reaching No. 22 in the UK Singles Chart. She told BBC 's Steve Lamacq the song is "a funny scenario if you didn't like someone, if they were really annoying, but you had a good time under the sheets." Eliza's second release " Pack Up " was released on 5 July 2010, reaching No. 5 on
57-664: A documentary exploring the legacy of UK garage, Rewind 4Ever: The History of UK Garage . Also in 2013, Wookie produced remixes of Disclosure 's " Voices " and Eliza Doolittle 's "Walking on Water". On 31 December 2013, Wookie together with Zed Bias headlined the Bruk Out party at the Big Chill House in Kings Cross, London. Eliza Doolittle (singer) Eliza Sophie Caird (born 15 April 1988), better known by her former stage name Eliza Doolittle now Eliza ,
76-564: A drama series on BBC One in December 2013. In 2014, Eliza was invited by Burt Bacharach to sing with him at Henley Festival in the summer of 2014. In 2017, she rebranded her name from Eliza Doolittle to Eliza and changed her sound. On 12 December 2018, her album A Real Romantic was released. In 2022, Eliza released a couple of new singles ("Straight Talker" and "Heat of the Moon") after signing to [PIAS] 's Different Recordings and
95-411: A new album, A Sky Without Stars , was announced. A Sky without Stars received praise and acclaim from reviewers. Dom Taylor of R&B website The Pit wrote that the album "let the music lead" and "can be boiled down to an irreplaceable feeling of soul. The foot-tapping, transformative, time-loses-all-meaning kind of soul." Haste magazine's Becca Hemens summarised a live performance by ELIZA following
114-552: A single from British electronic music duo Disclosure 's number one debut album Settle . On 7 June 2013, she premiered a single called " Big When I Was Little ", which was released in July 2013. It subsequently joined BBC Radio 1 's and Radio 2 playlist. It was later included on her second studio album, titled In Your Hands . In 2018, Eliza released the album A Real Romantic , which included tracks like "Wasn't Looking", "Livid" and "Alone & Unafraid". In 2022, she released
133-523: A way I have answers to questions, but then those answers open up a thousand other questions. I guess I've gone through things that so many people go through at the age I am. I've written almost every day about my every thought and emotion and the album is made up of the songs that mean the most to me". On 7 June 2013, she premiered a new single called " Big When I Was Little ", which was released in July 2013. It subsequently joined BBC Radio 1 's playlist, and features on her second studio album. On 17 June 2013
152-532: Is an English singer and songwriter from Westminster , London. After performing her music in live venues around London from the age of 15, Eliza signed to Parlophone in 2008. Her debut album was released on 12 July 2010 and went platinum. The album produced two UK top-40 hits, " Skinny Genes " and " Pack Up ", the latter of which peaked within the top five on the UK Singles Chart . In 2013, Eliza contributed writing and vocals to " You & Me ",
171-723: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wookie (musician) Jason Chue (born 31 October 1972), better known as Wookie , is a UK garage musician. He scored a UK top 10 hit in 2000 with his song " Battle ". Chue's career began in 1991 as a producer for UK R&B/reggae artist Wayne Marshall , producing most of Marshall's debut album 90 Degrees and Rising in 1994. Shortly after, Chue became writer/producer for Soul II Soul at their studio, working with Jazzie B for several years. He would also go on to produce for Dynamite MC and Doom Man. Chue has remixed tracks by Destiny's Child , Public Enemy and Nas , among others. In
190-639: Is one of nine siblings. Her parents divorced when she was four years old. Eliza had a brief career on stage playing Young Cosette in Les Misérables in London's West End in 1996–1997. Her parents had met and began their relationship during the original production, when her father was the co-director and her mother played Eponine. Eliza went on to play the lead role in Lucy Simon's Tony Award-winning musical version of The Secret Garden in 2001 when
209-629: The Royal Shakespeare Company premiered the show in London. Before entering the charts, Eliza toured the UK with her band. She released an EP including songs Naive produced by Al Shux (A New York State of Mind), Ego and Piano Song produced by Truth & Soul (Lee Fields, El Michels Affair). On 29 November 2009, a further EP release featuring the tracks "Rollerblades", "Moneybox", "Police Car", and "Go Home" (produced by Craigie Dodds, Johnny Dollar, Matt Prime and Phil Thornaley). Tracks from
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#1732783134863228-642: The EP were remixed by Plastic Little ("Rollerblades"), Sam Young and Jamie xx from The xx ("Money Box"). The EP received radio plays from Rob Da Bank , Nick Grimshaw , Fearne Cotton , and Jo Whiley . She recorded the song 'Running For Life", which was featured on the soundtrack of the 2008 cult British film Adulthood . Later that year, she performed at Glastonbury on the Pussy Parlour stage, her first festival performance. In early 2010, she took part in musician Shane MacGowan 's charity single " I Put
247-1218: The Official UK Singles Chart on 11 July 2010. In March 2011, she performed at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas as well at Coachella in California . In April 2011, Eliza was touring the UK. On 19 April 2011, Eliza's self-titled album was released in the United States almost one year from the UK date. In 2013, Eliza collaborated with Disclosure on the track " You & Me " from their debut album, Settle . Early that year, she began recording new material for her second album. In an interview with Elle magazine in April 2013, she stated "I'm definitely showing more of myself than I ever have before. I feel like on my last album, I hadn't experienced very much of anything really, and it's been three years or more since then and I have felt and seen things I hadn't before, and I know things I didn't know before. In
266-512: The album A Sky Without Stars , which including tracks like "Straight Talker", "Heat of the Moon" and "Everywhere I'll Ever Be". Eliza was born in Westminster, London . She comes from a family with a successful and varied musical background. Her father is John Caird , a stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas who is also an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company . Her paternal grandfather G. B. Caird ,
285-542: The alias Exemen, of Sia 's song " Little Man ". Wookie scored his first UK top 10 hit single in 2000 with " Battle ". Two of his other songs, "What's Going On" and "Back Up (To Me)" also made the UK charts. His self-titled debut album was also released in 2000. Wookie has reproduced tracks for artists such as Jessie J , Rizzle Kicks , Sia , Justin Timberlake , Roll Deep , Ray Foxx , and many others. In 2013, Wookie appeared alongside many other garage pioneers in
304-470: The late 1990s, the 'Wookie sound' became apparent in his bootleg mixes of songs by Whitney Houston , Brandy and Debelah Morgan . One of the original innovators of UK garage , Wookie scored a huge underground club hit in 1999 with "Scrappy". Also in that year, he released his first official remix of the Gabrielle song " Sunshine ", under the name 'Wookie'. Another hit remix was released in 2000 under
323-408: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Wookie . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wookie&oldid=937885043 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
342-496: The video for the single premiered on her YouTube channel. Eliza and UK garage artist Wookie wrote a song called "The Hype" in 2013. Wookie contributed a remix to her album In Your Hands for her track "Walking on Water". She featured on "YNSP", a track from hip hop artist Vic Mensa 's Innanetape mixtape produced by DJ Dahi . She had a cameo role as a nightclub singer in The Great Train Robbery ,
361-537: Was the theologian and principal of Mansfield College, Oxford . Her mother is musical theatre actress and artist Frances Ruffelle , who won a Tony Award for her role of Éponine in the English-language version of Les Misérables and represented the United Kingdom in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest . Eliza is the granddaughter of Sylvia Young , founder of the eponymous theatre school . She
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