![]() ![]() I hope people can really hear their stories within it.Į: Even matters of the heart can be political, right? I just feel it’s… I hope it can be our version of events. But, I don’t think it is a necessarily political album at all. I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face. I didn’t want to compromise and make an item that is so left that it would never be in the mainstream or played on the radio. With this album I hope to say things that aren’t being said in pop music at the moment. SANDE: Well, it is an introduction to me and the way I write. It’s such a new place and new people and a new way of doing things.Į: Why call it Our Version of Events? So it feels like a completely new adventure for me. You must be excited.ĮMELI SANDE: Yeah, I’m excited because being from the UK you always look over to the States like this massive big land and if you ever got to release and introduce your music over there it would be really exiting. In the States to promote her album Our Version of Events, Sande took a moment to chat with about her American debut, loving Lauryn Hill and having the same name as that other British chart topper, Adele.Į: Your album Our Version of Events came out in America last week. Like Keys, Sande is a master pop musician who plays piano, writes her own songs and produces. ![]() ![]() But she’s also got a little bit of Nina Simone, and a whole lot of Alicia Keys, whom she refers to as her idol. The 25-year-old former neuroscience student’s big voice conjures up the likes of Jennifer Hudson, and even Celine Dion. Singer-songwriter Emeli Sande is the latest British import taking over music think Adele, Rebecca Ferguson, and Lianne La Havas. ![]()
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