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Adele Emily Sandé ( ; born 10 March 1987), better known as Emeli Sandé, is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scots singer Emeli Sande wins critics' choice )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Olympic torch: Highland relay clashes with major events )〕 She first became prominent after she featured on the track "Diamond Rings" by the rapper Chipmunk (2009). 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. Sandé released her first solo single "Heaven" in August 2011. She has three number-one singles across the UK and Ireland with "Read All About It" with Professor Green, "Next to Me", and "Beneath Your Beautiful", a collaboration with Labrinth. Her album ''Our Version of Events'' spent seven non-consecutive weeks at number one and became the best-selling album of 2012 in the UK, with over 1 million sales.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sandé claims biggest selling UK album of 2012 so far )〕 In 2012, she performed in both the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. She won two Brit Awards at the 2013 ceremony, Best British Female Artist, and British Album of the Year. ==Early life== Adele Emily Sandé was born in Sunderland,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Songwriter/Composer: SANDE ADELE EMILY )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006 )〕 to a Zambian father, Joel Sandé, and English mother, Diane Sandé-Wood, on 10 March 1987. Her father, having moved from Zambia, met her mother while they were both at university in Sunderland. The family moved to Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, when she was four.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sande: 'I felt like an alien in Scotland' )〕 Sandé wrote her first song at the age of 11, for her primary-school talent show.〔 She remembers "That was the first time I thought I might be a songwriter. I always knew I wanted to be a musician and I knew I wanted to write because the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.〔 The first song she wrote was called "Tomorrow Starts Again" – the song had proper structure and even a middle eight.〔 Sandé attended school at Alford Academy, where her father was a teacher. She said, "I hated to be ill and to miss a day because I was so hungry to learn. I was very shy, nerdy and extremely well-behaved. Inevitably, throughout secondary school, it was part and parcel of my identity that I was Mr. Sandé's daughter. No way could I muck about or get into trouble, because it would've got back to him within minutes. And Dad was strict, let me tell you." ''Choice FM'' invited the 15-year-old Sandé to London to take part in their "Rapology" competition. Richard Blackwood also had her down to MTV's Camden studios to sing gospel.〔 It was the first London appearance of her career. By the time she reached the age of 16, she had a record deal with Telstar within reach. However, understanding the opportunity that university could also offer her, she turned down the deal. She studied medicine, in the five-year MBChB course at the University of Glasgow, where she obtained a degree in neuroscience.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scottish singing sensation Emeli Sandé in Studio Q )〕 She has stated that education was important to her, because, if her music career failed, she would have something to fall back on. Her manager Adrian Sykes, she said, had waited patiently from when she was 16: "Adrian really respects that I want to get an education behind me. He also knows my parents are keen that I finish university". There have been many who have inspired Sandé throughout her life. One important influence was Frida Kahlo, so important that she has a tattoo of the artist's portrait on her forearm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emeli Sande information, BRIT Awards 2012 )〕 Just after graduating from medical school, she made the decision to get the tattoo, which, for her, represented strength and bravery. Kahlo was inspirational for Sandé due the unique story of her battle with polio at a very young age that went on to inspire her artwork. She knew that her decision to pursue music and quit school would require a sense of fearlessness that she gained through Kahlo's expression of art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frida's art on my sleeve; For a new series of ITV's Perspectives, pop star Emeli Sande reveals how the celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has inspired her throughout her life )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emeli Sandé」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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