Emeli Sandé

United Kingdom

Scottish soul and RnB singer Emeli Sandé is in a class of her own - a grande dame inspired by Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell or Lauryn Hill. When she made her debut in 2011 with the song Heaven, she had already helped many well-known musicians become world-famous with her songwriting. Understatement or versatile talent, a scientific career had always been as important to Sandé as music. There was no stopping the response to her first album. The album Our Version of Events reached # 1 on the UK charts. She performed unplugged at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in London. The album Long Live the Angels followed in 2016. The creativity of Sandé seems to feed on an inexhaustible source. It is never used up. It is always unusual. And highly esteemed in Switzerland.