Emeli Sandé
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Adele Emily Sandé ( SAN-day; previously Gouraguine; born 10 March 1987), known professionally as Emeli Sandé, is a British singer and songwriter. Born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England and raised in Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Sandé rose to prominence after her guest appearance on Chipmunk's 2009 single "Diamond Rings", which peaked within the top ten of the UK Singles Chart. The following year, she guest appeared on Wiley's single "Never Be Your Woman" also peaked within the chart's top ten. In 2012, she received the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice Award.
Sandé's first solo single, "Heaven", was released in August 2011. She peaked atop both the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Chart twice with her guest appearance on Professor Green's single "Read All About It" that same year, and her 2012 single "Beneath Your Beautiful" (with Labrinth). Her debut studio album, Our Version of Events (2012), spent ten non-consecutive weeks atop the UK Albums Chart, and, with 1 million domestic sales, became the best-selling UK album of 2012. That same year, she performed in both the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. She won Best British Female Solo Artist and British Album of the Year at the 2013 Brit Awards.
Her second studio album, Long Live the Angels (2016), debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart. In 2017, she won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist, becoming her fourth win in total. In 2018, she performed the singing voice of Thethuthinnang in the miniseries Watership Down.
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