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Estelle Talks Duffy And Adele
EXCLUSIVE | She gives MTV News her real view on the girls as she supports our HIV/Aids awareness event…
Estelle has clarified comments she made about Duffy and Adele concerning music industry racism.
Talking to MTV News she said: “My quote was that you can’t tell me that you can redefine soul music as Duffy and Adele because I didn’t grow up (with it) and I don’t identify with it.”
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The American Boy singer- whose excellent album Shine comes out today- added: “I get them as musicians and that’s my opinion. I’m sure they have an opinion on me.”
Estelle had previously singled out the singers when telling The Guardian there is a ‘blindness to Black talent’ in the UK.
Today she was raising awareness of HIV/Aids at the Get Lippy launch- which is supported by MTV and The Body Shop.
When asked why people don’t she said: “I think it’s about stigma like-‘oh well I don’t want to go into a shop and buy a condom.’
“It’s 2008 get over it! This is the age we’re living in and if you want to be alive you’ve got to take responsibility for your health.”
Half of all new HIV infections are among young adults under 25 – it is estimated every 15 seconds a person aged 15-24 becomes infected with HIV/AIDS.
- WRITTEN BY
TOM THOROGOOD
MON 31/03/08 @ 17:27
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No one person is soul. Duffy posses soul because it's clearly an influence, just as it is for Estelle. But Estelle highlights a fact which was also raised by Beverley Knight a few years ago whilst on the BBC's Soul Deep programme. The uk black community as a whole have moved on somewhat from Soul music and have embraced more modern alternatives such as Hip-Hop and so called R'n'B (which used to mean Rhythm and Blues but now seems to mean Rhythm and Boasting as far as I can see!). Which is a crying shame and as a result there are sadly not as many black uk based soul acts as there should be. I think theres an expectation for black people to be excellent soul singers because they always have been as after all it is black music in origin after all. I'm white and consider myself a soul singer and whether it is right or wrong my worth seems to be judged on how black I sound and I must confess its a judgement I also make of others. In lamens terms If I was stood next to a black guy and we both had exactly the same voice and we sang together people would think I am the more talented as it's not as expected of a white person to possess a soulful voice as it is of a black person.
The be all and end all is that ultimately soul music, no matter what colour should be judged on expression of emotion and nothing more.
Personally I love all the fore-mentioned artists in varying degrees because as long as they make the music I love more accesable all the better...
.... next argument is why it's only female soul artists who dominate!!!! But that's another story!
Cheers, Hewy
The Spheres
www.thespheres.co.uk
Estelle is right - Duffy aint soul, it's prime time x factor pop rubbish, manipulated and contrived by a team of experts and played by a bunch of session musos' ... Lucie Silva's ex band for gawd's sake!!!! perfectly sung, bland hogwash - it makes me mad
Who is Estelle? Never even hear of her