AN UP-AND-COMING singer-songwriter is set to release her debut single.

Ella Shaw, a former St Augustine’s RC High School pupil, will be launching her dance track If You Want to Love Her on iTunes in the coming weeks.

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The 17-year-old from Langho, took part in this year’s X Factor after being talent scouted for the show.

She made it through several rounds but was not shown in later programmes.

Ella, whose influences include jazz music, said she had some exciting opporunities coming up.

She said: “I am working on a couple of songs at the moment.

“I have done my first dance track and I have another song, which I have been singing for a while called Summertime and hope to release at the beginning of next year.”

Ella said she was also working on ‘something exciting’ on the back of her X Factor experience, but was not allowed to announce it yet.

The teenager, who writes all her own material, records and produces her music from her converted toy room in her Ribble Valley house, where she lives with her mum Janine and dad Dave, who run a manufacturing company, as well as her two sisters.

She said: “I really enjoy the writing side of it, it is my main thing.

“I have done everything myself on my dance track – I produced it all and I did the loops and track in the background from home.

“I am really excited because I have not released anything on iTunes before. I have only ever just sung my songs at gigs and so to release something is the next step for me. I really just want to keep writing and for people to keep buying my music.”

The teenager added she was adamamant she would stick to her own orginial style and not allow herself be turned into a manufactured pop star.

Ella, who is studying music at college in Media City, Salford, said: “It is often quite a big thing that we have to fit into a certain genre, but because my voice is so versatile, I do not like to stick to one genre.

“Last year, I took a jazz song that I made dubstep and I like to make things my own and keep all of my options open.

“It is good to have a broad knowledge of all of the different genres.”