Eliza Doolittle, is a British singer-songwriter from London, who signed to the Parlophone record label in October 2008. Her debut self-titled album, Eliza Doolittle was released on 12 July 2010, where it debuted at number 3 in the UK. Since the album's release, Doolittle has spawned two top 25 hits, including "Skinny Genes" and "Pack Up", which debuted within the top 5 on the UK Singles Chart. Eliza Doolittle was born in Westminster, London in 1988. She comes from a family with a successful and varied musical background, Her father is John Caird, an English stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas who is also an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her mother is English musical theatre actress and model artist Frances Ruffelle, who won a Tony Award for her role of Éponine in the English language version of Les Misérables. Doolittle is the granddaughter of Sylvia Young, founder of the famous theatre school, and the niece of the singer Alison Ruffelle. She has eight siblings. Her parents separated when she was four years old. Doolittle grew up in Camden Town and attended Channing School For Girls and Westminster Kingsway College. She was used to being around stages and seeing her mother singing, (Ruffelle represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, when Doolittle was 6 years old) she had always wanted to become a recording artist and write music. She chose the stage name of Eliza Doolittle, the My Fair Lady character, because it was her nickname as a child.