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Elliot Gleave
Elliot Gleave, better known by his stage name Example, is an English singer and songwriter signed to Epic Records and Sony Music. His name arose due to his initials being E.G., which is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase exempli gratia (“for example”).
Starting out on The Streets‘ independent label The Beats alongside Professor Green and Plan B, Elliot released his debut album, What We Made, in 2007. The album was largely sample-based and mostly involved rapping.
Gleave saw his first mainstream success with his Ministry of Sound-released second album Won’t Go Quietly (2010), which spawned the hit singles “Watch the Sun Come Up”, “Won’t Go Quietly” and “Kickstarts”. The album featured a mixture of singing and rapping, and some high profile production by the likes of Calvin Harris, Chase & Status and Sub Focus.