Emeli Sande
Emeli Sande
Adele Emily Sandé, better known as Emeli Sandé, is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter. She first became prominent after she featured on the track "Diamond Rings" by the rapper Chipmunk. It was their first top 10 single on the UK Singles Chart. In 2010, she featured on "Never Be Your Woman" by the rapper Wiley, which was another top ten hit. In 2012, she received the Brit Awards Critics' Choice Award...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth10 March 1987
CitySunderland, England
I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.
I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.
I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.
I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.
You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue