Singer-songwriter Emeli’s debut album “Our Version of Events” broke a chart record set by the Beatles and was UK’s highest selling album of 2012.

She was born in Sunderland to a Zambian father and English mother, but the family moved to Alford in Aberdeenshire when she was 4. She wrote her first song, “Tomorrow Starts Again”, when she was just 11. She turned down her first record deal at 16 to study Medicine at the University of Glasgow, but she left after obtaining a degree in Neuroscience to purse her dream of becoming a singer and songwriter. Fast forward to 2010 when she was signed with Virgin Records/EMI, and the rest is history.