Emeli Sande

EMELI SANDE. Scottish recording artist and songwriter. She first became prominent after she was featured on the track "Diamond Rings" by the rapper Chipmunk (2009). It was their first UK Top 10 single. In 2010, she was featured on "Never Be Your Woman" by the rapper Wiley which was another Top 10 hit. In 2012, she received the Brit Awards Critics' Choice Award. She released her first solo single "Heaven" in August 2011. She has to date had two UK No1 singles with "Read All About It" (with Professor Green) and "Beneath Your Beautiful" (a collaboration with Labrinth). Her album "Our Version of Events" spent ten non-consecutive weeks at No1 and became the best-selling album of 2012 in the UK (with over 1 million sales). In 2012, she performed in both the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. She won two Brit Awards in 2013 (Best British Female Artist and British Album of the Year)