Estelle
Estelle
Acclaimed British singer and rapper most famous for albums like 2008's "Shine," which was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. She shot to fame after her single "American Boy" hit number one on the U.K. Singles Chart. Later in her career, she became a series regular on the animated program Steven Universe.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth18 January 1980
CityLondon, England
classified females greater human males
. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
grammy hit kept
The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, 'I won. I won.'
five parents played repair
We played every day, like five times a day back there. We probably had to repair it like 500 times. Our parents would get so mad.
corner left people strongest
The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.
respect giving important
It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
want
When I see what I want, I do it.
sad acting actors
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
laughter believe moving
I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
theater
Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.
stuff brian stoke
I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
country
Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!
there-is-hope
When there is hope, there is life.
giving-up leave-me-alone trying
You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.
notebook song crazy
I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!