Emeli Sande reveals the best advice she's received (and it came via Alicia Keys)

By Kate Waterhouse
Updated February 26 2017 - 1:18am, first published 12:15am
Emeli Sande lunches with Kate Waterhouse on her first visit to Australia. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Emeli Sande lunches with Kate Waterhouse on her first visit to Australia. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Emeli Sande is enjoying huge success both as a singer and songwriter. Photo: John Phillips/Getty Images
Emeli Sande is enjoying huge success both as a singer and songwriter. Photo: John Phillips/Getty Images

Emeli Sande has topped 4½ million album sales and written songs for Rihanna, Alicia Key and Katy Perry. The Scottish singer recently released the long-awaited follow-up to her debut album Our Version of Events, which was Britain's biggest-selling album of 2012, beating Adele's 21. Sande, 30, tells Kate Waterhouse about fame's highs and lows, why she doesn't use her first name, and the best advice she received from Alicia Keys.

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