Emeli Sandé is an English-born Scottish recording artist and songwriter. In 2012 she received the Brit Awards Critics' Choice Award for Our Version of Events, which went on to become the biggest selling UK album in 2012 selling over three million copies and spent seven consecutive weeks at number one in the UK album charts. She has also written for a number of artists, including Alicia Keys, Susan Boyle, Gabrielle, Leona Lewis, Alesha Dixon, Cheryl Cole and Tinie Tempah. In 2012 she performed in both the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. Last year she won the Best British Female and Best British Album at the 2013 Brit Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards for her single Next To Me.
John Dingwall has talked to Emeli, her parents, her sister, schoolteachers and those who have been involved with her career to bring the first biography of Britain's hottest female singer/songwriter at the moment. He details her childhood, her first record deal (and how she was initially rejected by Gary Barlow who told her she was never going to be a star), how she eventually landed a deal with Virgin and her collaborations on a string of chart hits with artists including Wiley, Tinie Tempah, Susan Boyle and Professor Green before making it as an artist in her own right.
