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
You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue
I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.
I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?
I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.
I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that's what I really aim for.
I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.
I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.
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.
I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.
The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.
I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.