Ella Travolta Talks Musical Upbringing With Dad John

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Music is, merely put, in Ella Travolta’s blood. “It is at all times been a giant a part of my life,” she tells POPSUGAR. “I’ve grown up round music.”

After all, the 22-year-old did not simply develop up round music — she was raised by the star of one of many greatest film musicals of all time. Her dad, John Travolta, famously starred in “Grease” alongside the late Olivia Newton-John, whom he not too long ago paid tribute to on the 2023 Oscars. Throughout her childhood, Ella remembers spending a number of time bonding over music with each her father and late mom, Kelly Preston. “He was at all times singing loads or simply improvising track and dance,” Ella says of her dad. “Identical with my mother. That was at all times a giant a part of my life — taking part in music, and him singing alongside, and me singing with him. It is positively been an enormous inspiration.”

Now, Ella is following in her father’s footsteps and gearing as much as launch her first EP, titled “The Colours of Love.” “It is positively been a studying expertise and a very long time coming,” she says. “I’ve discovered a lot. I have been doing it with out a label, simply to see the way it works and actually get my arms into it. It has been a number of enjoyable.” Every observe on the six-song EP is predicated on a colour, she says, and every paints a portrait of a special kind of affection. “Every track can be a totally different take and totally different viewpoint on the topic, whether or not it is a relationship with a accomplice or a member of the family or a good friend or unrequited love,” she explains.

Along with inheriting her love of music from her dad, she’s additionally taking after her mother, who died of breast most cancers in July 2020. Ella is taking part in Silk Nextmilk’s Subsequent Gen marketing campaign, which places a contemporary spin on the enduring ’90s “Obtained Milk” marketing campaign — which Preston herself was part of. “It is completely wonderful. To see that she did that again then — it is simply so stunning,” Ella says. “They’ve put such a cool twist on it. For my era, so many extra individuals are going plant-based and utilizing plant-based merchandise, and it has been nice to be part of it and rep the plant-based ‘stache.”

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Between her music and modeling ventures, Ella is busy, however she nonetheless at all times manages to remain near her household. In February, Ella accompanied her dad to Las Vegas for his 69th birthday. “The journey was wonderful. It was a dream of his to re-create that outdated TWA poster of Vegas,” she laughs, referencing a Las Vegas–themed Trans World Airways poster her dad had beloved as a baby. “He positively introduced it to fruition. It was pretty.”

From her early days performing impromptu musical theater exhibits for her household, to weathering tragedies and launching her skilled music profession, her dad has remained a relentless in Ella’s life. “It is wonderful,” she says of their relationship. “He is my greatest good friend and my greatest fan, and I am positively his. Having that assist is simply essential, and I am so fortunate to have that from him.”

Under, watch Ella play a snippet of her first single, “Dizzy” — full with a short cameo by her dad.