| Net Worth: | $8 Million |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth: | March 10, 1987 (37 years old) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Height: | 1.61 m |
| Profession: | Musician |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
What is Emeli Sandé’s Net Worth
Emeli Sandé is a Scottish singer and songwriter who has a net worth of $8 million. She started writing songs at the very tender age of 11 and by the time she was fifteen years old, she had started performing on local radio stations and talk shows.
She enrolled in the University of Glasgow to study medicine, this was meant to be a backup plan in case she failed at music; she ended up leaving the university in her fourth year of study. Sande eventually won Trevor Nelson’s BBC Urban Music competition, but the record label attached to the award refused to sign her. Despite this, a CD of her songs sent to BBC Radio 1xtra led to her writing a track for Naughty Boy, and her career got a breakthrough.
Since her breakthrough, Emeli has been successful and she has won several awards for the excellent music she keeps putting out.
Early Life
Adele Emily Sandé was born on 10 March 1987 she is known professionally by the name; Emeli Sandé. She is a Scottish singer and songwriter who was born in Sunderland to an English mother, Diane Sandé-Wood, and a Zambian father, Joel Sandé, she was raised in Alford Aberdeenshire.
At the age of 11, Emeli wrote her first song for her primary school talent show. Emeli Sandé has confirmed several times that she always wanted to be a musician. The first song that Emeli Sande ever wrote was called Tomorrow Starts Again”. At 15 years old, Emeli was invited by Choice FM to take part in the “Rapology” competition, and she was also invited by Richard Blackwood to Camden Studios to sing a gospel song, this happened to be her first career appearance.
She turned down a record deal with Telstar at the age of 16 in order to attend college so that she could have a backup career in case music failed. Emeli studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, she eventually left after obtaining a clinical medicine in neuroscience degree.
She has stated severally that education was as important to her as her music so that she could have something to fall back on in event that her music career failed. Her manager, Adrian Sykes waited for Emeli to finish her education because he had respect for her decision to finish her education. She has named her parents as her greatest inspiration, she also named Frida Kahlo as her influence; she has a tattoo of the artist on her forearm.
Career
2008-2010
Emeli Sandé’s sister made a video of her playing the piano and singing “Nasty Little Lady” which happens to be her favorite song. This clip was sent to Trevor Nelson’s BBC Urban Music Competition, she was offered a record deal, but her management declined the deal.
She later became involved with Urban Scot, it was through Urban Scot that her career evolved and improved because her career was promoted in Scotland. Emeli Sande’s parents sent a CD of her songs to BBC Radio 1Xtra, and Ras Kwame played her songs on “Homegrown Sessions”
She began writing tracks for artists like Preeya Kalidas, Cheryl Cole, Tinie Tempah, Chipmunk, Alesha Dixon, etc with Shahid Khan Aka Naughty Boy. She later signed a deal with EMI Records and Virgin Records.
Emeli made her singing debut with a track she wrote for chipmunk’s debut single “Diamond Rings”, the song reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Charts, making it their first ever Top 10 Hit appearance. Emeli collaborated with Wiley on his single “Never Be Your Woman”, the song appeared at number 8 on the UK Singles Charts which became Emeli’s second Top 10 Single. Due to Adele’s growing success, Emeli decided against using Adele Sande as her stage name.
2011-2013
Emeli Sande revealed to fans that she would release her debut single in the early months of 2011. She released her first official single from her debut album on August 2011; the track released was called “Heaven”.
The song garnered positive reviews from the media, she also confirmed that the track “Daddy” would be the next track she would release. She reached number one on UK Singles Chart with the song “Read All About It”
Emeli performed at the LG ARENA in Birmingham for BRMB 2011, IN November 2011. She was named the Brit Awards Critics’ Choice winner for 2012. Her album ” Our Version of Events” was released in February 2012, and the album also reached number one in the UK immediately after its release. Some of the songs on the “Our Version of Events” Album were written by her, these songs have been described as “richly melodic, classically powerful, retro-futurist soul-pop songs”
She received another BRIT Award for British Breakthrough Act in 2012. She also performed for Q Magazine at XOYO, London in a one-off gig. Emeli recorded a cover of David Guetta’s Titanium which they performed together at the NRJ Music Awards in France. She wrote a track for Naughty Boy’s “Hollywood” featuring the singer Gabrielle.
At the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in July 2012, she performed “Abide With Me”, her song “Heaven” was used as an accompaniment for the section of Sir Tim Berners- Lee. Her song “Wonder” was also used by NBC during the credit roll of the tape-delayed ceremony broadcast in the US.
In 2013, Sande won the 2013 European Border Breakers Awards, this Award was to honor the best new music acts in Europe. In that same year, she won two more BRIT 2013 Awards; one for Best British female and the other for Best British Album. She worked with Ella Henderson on the song “Next To Me”, the song won two Ivor Novello Awards for Best Song Musically and Lyrically and PRS for Music Most Performed Work in 2013.
2013- Present
She performed at the White House in Washington DC in 2013 during the award ceremony where President Obama present the Library of Congress Gershwin Medal to Carole King. Emeli released her second album in 2016, she wrote some of the songs on the album including “Call Me What You Like”, “You and Me’, “This Much Is True”, ‘Pluto”, and “Enough”.
Sande’s success/popularity grew rather fast, especially in the UK and the US. In 2014, she joined Band Aid 30 alongside other British and Irish Acts, they recorded a track “Do they Know its Christmas?” to raise money for the Ebola Crisis of 2014 in West Africa.
The album was released on the proposed date and the album debuted at number 2 on the UK album chart. In 2017, Sandé gave her Long Live the Angels Tour which was her first tour that include Arena dates. In 2017, she received the Brit Awards’ Best British Female Solo Artist award, this was her fourth win, she was also awarded a BASCA Gold Badge award in recognition of her contributions to music.
Emeli released her third album in 2019, and some tracks from the album had already been released early in anticipation of the album itself. The tracks previously released were “Shine” and “You Are Not Alone”. The album debuted at number 6 on the UK Official Charts, which was the lowest for her at the time.
Vocal Style
Emeli Sandé possesses a soprano range, she wishes for her music to be remembered like that of Nina Simone. She first discovered Nina Simone’s music at the age of 8 and from then, she was inspired to have the same musical career as Nina Simone.
Charitable Causes
Personal Life
Sandé announced her engagement to an unidentified boyfriend of seven years; her boyfriend requested that his identity be kept out of the media as he is not in the entertainment industry but a scientist.
She was appointed the Chancellor of the University of Sunderland in 2019. She announced that she was in a relationship with a female pianist; questions were raised as to whether she was bisexual and replied that she was unsure of what she identifies. In September 2022 the partner was revealed to be Yoana Karemova and later that year, they announced their engagement.
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