It’s only my second day here interning at EMI and already I’ve been given the exciting honour of writing about one of our most incredible new artists, Emeli Sandé. Hailing from Northern Scotland, the 23 year old multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter has already made her mark on the industry and formed a pretty wide fan base. 2011 proved to be a huge year for Sandé, she was snapped up to support Coldplay on their most recent European and UK tour, collaborated with fellow EMI artist Professor Green on UK chart-topping single “Read All About It” and completed her own headlining tour. The year wrapped up with Sande being awarded the pretty prestigious Critics Choice by the Brit Awards (which takes place next month) and with over 100 artists considered, she came out on top and joined other successful Brit pop songstresses who have previously won the top award (including Florence and the Machine and Adele)… perhaps putting my 23 year old self to shame!

2012 is set to be even better. February sees the release of Our Version Of Events, the highly anticipated debut album from the lovely lass; and with her song writing ability, melodic vocals (and awesome hair do!) I’m sure it won’t dissappoint. It will include previous singles; Heaven and Daddy, as well as some new tracks. It is now available to preorder on iTunes.

She recently appeared and performed on the Graham Norton Show. Here is her outstanding performance, which will actually go to air here on Saturday at 8.30pm on Channel 10.