On her debut album, 2012’s Our Version of Events, she blended R&B and pop with orchestral strings and rhythms descended from decades of club music-a bold, buoyant sound, swollen with feeling and the perfect match for her unstoppably expressive voice. ![]() ![]() Born Adele Emily Sandé in Sunderland in 1987, she took early inspiration from her Zambian choirmaster father, then got her start featuring on singles by Tinie Tempah and Wiley. ![]() That duality resonates in the Scottish singer/songwriter’s unique brand of adult-contemporary soul music, which focuses her powerhouse voice on more intimate questions of honesty and self-knowledge. “To be able to have that privacy with someone is something I don’t take for granted,” she tells Apple Music. Emeli Sandé is no stranger to crowds-she performed to roughly a billion people at the London 2012 Olympics-but she knows that music’s deepest meaning is often experienced alone.
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