page_title: Imogen Heap
section_title: 2008–2010: Ellipse
hierarchical_section_title: Imogen Heap / Career / 2008–2010: Ellipse
caption_attribution_description: Imogen Heap at the O2 Academy, Liverpool, on Friday the 29th of October 2010
context_page_description: Imogen Jennifer Heap is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and audio engineer. Born in the London Borough of Havering, Heap became classically trained in piano, cello and clarinet at a young age. She began writing songs at the age of 13 and, while attending boarding school, taught herself both guitar and drums, as well as music production on Atari computers. Heap signed to independent record label Almo Sounds at the age of 18 and later began working with experimental pop band Acacia, alongside Guy Sigsworth, as a frequent guest vocalist.
  She released her debut album, an alternative rock record, iMegaphone, again with assistance from Sigsworth working as a producer on the album. However, as funding for Almo Sounds began to decline, Heap was dropped from the label. In the following period while without a label she performed multiple songs for the film G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time, released two singles, and was featured on guitarist Jeff Beck's 2001 album You Had It Coming. In early 2002, Heap and Sigsworth formed the electronic duo Frou Frou, and released their only album to date, Details.
context_section_description: Throughout the creation of her album Ellipse, Heap posted vlogs, or VBlogs as she called them, through YouTube.
  She used these to comment on the album as well as update on its release.
  The album's release was pushed back multiple times.
  These included Heap being asked to perform at the annual event PopTech in October 2008. During the event, she premiered one of her album's songs, "Wait it Out".
  Heap announced on her Twitter page that Ellipse's first single would be "First Train Home".
  On 17 August 2009 Heap made the entire album Ellipse available for live streaming via her webpage.
  Ellipse was released in the United Kingdom on 24 August, and in the United States on 25 August.
  On 15 January 2010, Heap accepted the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for her engineering work on Ellipse.
caption: Heap performing in Liverpool, England in 2010
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