Emeli Sande

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Adele Sandé (SAN-day) (born 10 March 1987) is a British singer and songwriter who is best known as Emeli Sandé.

Sande, born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, and raised in Aberdeenshire by an English mother and Zambian father, rose to fame after being a featured artist on the 2009 Chipmunk album "Diamond Rings."

It was their first top ten single on the UK Singles Chart.

In 2010, she appeared on "Never Be Your Woman" by the rapper Wiley, which was another top ten hit.

She received the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice Award in 2012. Sandé released her first solo single "Heaven" in August 2011.

With "Read All About It" and "Beneath Your Beautiful," a partnership with Labrinth, she has two top-one singles around the UK and Ireland.

Our Version of Events spent ten weeks at number one before becoming the country's best-selling album with over 1 million sales.

She appeared in both the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the London Olympics in 2012.

She received two awards at the Brit Awards in 2013: Best British Female Solo Artist and British Album of the Year. In 2016, she debuted her second studio album Long Live the Angels, which debuted at number two on the UK album chart.

She received the British Female Solo Artist award in 2017, her fourth win in total. Sandé was also inducted into the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for her contributions to music.

Early life

Adele Sandé was born in Sunderland, to a Zambian father, Joel Sandé, and an English mother, Diane Sandé-Wood, on March 10th, 1987. While her father was evicted from Zambia, she met her mother when they were both at the polytechnic in Sunderland. When she was four years old, the family moved to Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Sandé performed her first song at the age of 11, for her first-school talent showcase. That was "the first time I thought I might be a songwriter," she says. I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew I wanted to write because the people I was listening to all wrote. "I never thought it was a possibility to perform someone else's songs." She wrote the first song, "Tomorrow Starts Again" – the album had proper structure and even a middle eight.

Sandé attended Alford Academy, where her father was a tutor. "I hated to be sick and missing a day because I was so eager to learn," she said. I was extremely shy, nerdy, and well behaved. It was inevitably, throughout secondary school, that it was part of my identity that I was a member of Mr. Sandé's family. Since it would've brought him right back to him within minutes, there is no way I could complain or get into trouble. And Dad was stifling, let me tell you. Sandé, a 15-year-old Sandé, was invited to London by Choice FM to compete in the "Rapology" competition. Richard Blackwood performed gospel in MTV's Camden studios. It was her first London appearance of her career. 23. By the time she turned 16, she had a lifetime contract with Telstar within reach. However, knowing that the university might have offered her a chance, she turned down the offer.

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Sandé studied medicine in the University of Glasgow's five-year MBChB degree, but after obtaining a degree in clinical medicine, specialising in neuroscience, she left. She has said that education was incredibly important to her because, if her musical career faltered, she would have something to fall back on. Adrian Sykes, her company's CEO, had waited patiently since she was 16 years old: "Adrian really respects that I have an education behind me." "I also know that my parents are very concerned that I do not finish university."

Sandé has been inspired by many people throughout her life. Frida Kahlo, who was so popular that she had a tattoo of the artist's portrait on her forearm, was one of her main influence. She made the decision to get the tattoo, which, for her, represented power and courage. Kahlo was a source of inspiration for Sandé because of the extraordinary tale of her polio battle at a young age that inspired her art. She knew that her decision to pursue music and leave school would require a sense of apprehension that she gained by Kahlo's art.

Personal life

Sandé revealed in January 2012 that she had been engaged to her then unidentified, long-term boyfriend of seven years. Sandé said he was not in the music business but was a scientist. When the pair married in Montenegro on September 15, 2012, Sandé's fiancé was named marine biologist Adam Gouraguine. Sandé said she would legally use his name, but she would also be known as Emeli Sandé. Sandé announced in November 2014 that the couple had divorced after two years of marriage.

Sandé was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to music.

Sandé has been appointed as the University of Sunderland's new chancellor on May 23, 2019.

Sandé revealed in a Metro interview on March 31 that she was in a friendship with an unidentified female classical pianist. When asked if this means she is bisexual, she replied, "I'm not sure what I identify as but I guess so." I just feel like I should fall in love with whoever I fall in love with.' Sandé posted a snapshot of herself and her partner on Twitter on April 2nd. Sandé revealed her engagement to classical pianist Yoana Karemova in September 2022.

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Career

Sandé's sister produced a video of her playing the piano and singing to "Nasty Little Lady," one of her favorite songs. The clip was sent to Trevor Nelson's BBC Urban music competition. Sandé won the show and was given a record contract, but the show's board, who she encountered via the competition, refused to approve the contract. According to Emeli Sandé's biography: Have You Heard, Emeli had become involved in the Urban Scot collective, which supported her and enhanced her career by promoting her in Scotland. Souljawn Records in Glasgow, which was on sale at gigs, was sold at gigs. Several songs were also available for download.

A CD of her songs was also sent by her parents to BBC Radio 1Xtra. Ras Kwame appeared on his "Homegrown Sessions" and four artists from last year were selected to appear in Soho. She worked with Watford-born music producer/writer Shahid Khan, who had previously worked with Ms Dynamite and Bashy, and the two of them began writing songs for musicians including Alesha Dixon, Chipmunk, Professor Green, Devlin, Preeya Kalidas, Cheryl Cole, and Tinie Tempah. Sandé and Virgin Records and EMI Records soon signed a multi-year contract.

"I was doing a show in London for 1Xtra, and I ran into this guy named Naughty Boy," she said in an interview. We arrived in the studio and decided to focus on work. We just started writing, not necessarily for me; rather, we thought, 'let's write a pop tune and have a blast,' and experiment. And I had no idea of it. Naughty Boy sent it off to Chipmunk, who loved it so much and wrote his own story about it." In 2010, she signed a record deal with Virgin Records. In early 2011, she signed a new contract with EMI Records. Sandé made her singing debut in 2009 after appearing on the track she wrote for Chipmunk's debut single, "Diamond Rings." At No. 1, the single ranked at No. 77. Chipmunk and Sandé's first ever Top 10 Hit on the UK Singles Charts, placing him at number 6 on the list.

Sandé's second consecutive Top 10 Singles chart appearance followed her as she appeared on another single singing guest vocals after collaborating with Wiley on his comeback single "Never Be Your Woman." Sandé decided against using Adele Sandé due to Adele Sandé's increasing success, so she switched to her middle name instead. "I changed it as soon as Adele came out," she explained. I just thought, 'You've just taken the [name] now,' so I went with my middle name.' She was just getting bigger and bigger, so I thought I just really needed it.

Sandé's first solo album would be released in early 2011. After several newspapers reported that it will be "Daddy," there has been some rumors about which track she would debut. "Heaven" was her first official single from her forthcoming debut album, which was released on August 14th. The album received praise from blogs such as This Must Be Pop and Robot Pigeon. "Daddy" will be the second official single from Our Version of Events, according to the singer. Sandé's first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart debuted at number one after "Read All About It" debuted at number one on the charts.

Sandé performed at the LG ARENA in Birmingham on November 26th, 2011. She was named as the Brit Awards Critics' Choice for 2012 on December 15, 2011. Following its debut in February 2012, her album Our Version of Events debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. Sandé's debut album features songs written by her, and has been praised as having "fully melodic, classically strong, retro-futurist soul-pop songs."

In 2012, it was revealed that she was up for another BRIT Award for the British Breakthrough Act. Sandé went on to write for Supremo's original line-up. Sandé performed a one-off gig for Q Magazine at XOYO, London, on January 24, 2012. Michael Kiwanuka, a British soul singer, was assisting her. The artist produced a version of David Guetta's "Titanium" and the pair performed the song at the NRJ Music Awards in France. Sandé has written a song for Naughty Boy's forthcoming album, "Hollywood," which features soul singer Gabrielle. It's about fame, and it will be published in November.

Sandé performed "Abide with Me" at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony on July 27, 2012, and her song "Heaven" was used to accompany the section with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Both musicians appear on the Isles of Wonder CD of the opening ceremony's music. During the credits roll at the end of the tape-delayed ceremony broadcast in the United States, NBC also used her song "Wonder" during the credits roll. Sandé sang "Read All About It (Part III)" at the closing ceremony on August 12, 2012, when a video montage of emotional scenes from the games was displayed. She also covered a version of John Lennon's "Imagine" exclusively for the BBC, which was used for the BBC's end credits montage at the end of their Olympics coverage. Sandé is the recipient of the 2013 European Border Breakers Awards. The European Border Breakers Awards honor the best new music acts in Europe. The award ceremony takes place in Groningen, Netherlands, at the Eurosonic Noorderslag music festival. She received two BRIT 2013 awards for Best British female and Best British Album. Ella Henderson had hoped to work with Sandé on her debut album in January 2013. In 2013, the album "Next to Me" received two Ivor Novello Awards for "Best Song Rhythm and Lyrically" and "PRS for Music Most Performed Work."

In May 2013, she appeared at the White House in Washington, D.C., as one of the top artists at the award ceremony when President Obama awarded Carole King with the Library of Congress Gershwin Medal. Sandé's second forthcoming studio album, which was announced in 2016, was released in June 2013. "Pluto," "Enough," "Call Me What You Like," "You and Me," and "This Much Is True" were already written for her late husband Adam, and she had already written several songs, including "Pluto" with Naughty Boy, "Enough," "Enough," "Call Me What You Like," "You and Me," and "This Much Is True" that was written for her ex husband, Adam. Sandé performed "Free" from Rudimental's album Home, as "Lifted" from Naughty Boy's album Hotel Cabana during the US Summer Tour in July 2013.

Sandé has been a part of many important campaigns, apart from her groundbreaking position on social justice through her songwriting, with her rapid success around the world and especially between the United Kingdom and the United States. She backs up her lyrics of social change and equality with action, whether through appearances at fundraising concerts or campaigns of her own. With the honor of appearing at the Elton John's AIDS Foundation Event in 2013, she has demonstrated her support for raising funds and awareness of the global HIV epidemic. More specifically, she acknowledges the seriousness of HIV/AIDS in her father's home country, Zambia, which gives her a greater desire to support the cause. She is also a spokesperson for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, which is also aiming to raise money and support for breast cancer research. Sandé has also started "Community Clavinova," a national initiative for organizations of all sizes of organizations to gain free Clavinovas through Sandé's collaboration with Yamaha UK. She understands the importance of having resources and is thrilled to assist organizations that have the opportunity to make such a positive contribution to their organizations.

Sandé revealed in 2013 that she was working on her second studio album, which is expected to be out in 2016. Sandé and other British and Irish pop stars joined the charity group Band Aid 30 on November 15, 2014, and the new version of the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" was released on November 15, 2014. Fundraising for the 2014 Ebola crisis in Western Africa can be raised at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London.

Sandé posted a sneak peek of a song from her forthcoming album 'Intermission' on her social media pages on August 25, 2016, with the tag "Inhale, exhale, and let yourself be forgivene." Following a string of teasers, it was announced that "Hurts" would be released on September 16th as the lead single. "I wanted to debut 'Hurts' first because it seemed like everything I've avoided saying for so long," the singer described. It's a real blast. It's everything I wish I'd said years and years ago. I didn't want to hold anything back anymore." Sandé revealed on her social media pages on September 15 that her latest album titled 'Long Live The Angels' will be released on November 11th, 2016. Hurts from the album Long Live the Angels was released on October 5th. On the date that was originally planned, the album was released. The album debuted at number 2 on the UK album chart, placing it at number two. Sandé performed her Long Live the Angels Tour in 2011, which was her first to include Arena dates.

She received the Best British Female Solo Artist award in 2017, her fourth win in total. Sandé was also given a BASCA Gold Badge award on October 2nd for her contribution to music.

Following an intense personal journey of self-doubt and self-discovery, Emeli Sandé launched Real Life, her third album, out on June 7th on Virgin/EMI/Universal Music.

The song "Extraordinary Being" from the forthcoming album's soundtrack was announced on May 23rd as the soundtrack for the film X-Men - Dark Phoenix. Sandé released Real Life, her third studio album, on September 13, 2019, ahead of two commercial singles "Shine" and "You Are Not Alone." The album debuted on the Official Charts in the United Kingdom, with 7,650 units sold, the lowest debut for the singer on the charts to date.

Emeli Sande quit recording label EMI in February 2021 and signed a deal with independent record label Chrysalis Records. "Family" (1997), she released the video on September 16, 2021. "Look What You've Done" was the duet with Jaykae on October 26, 2021. Sandé released the promotional single "Brighter Days" in January 2022 and announced that her fourth studio album Let's Say for Instance would be released on May 6, 2022.

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