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7 January 2008
Soul Music Has a New Voice
Teenage soul singer Adele has reigned supreme on the list of the BBC's Sound of 2008 poll to find the most promising new music talent for the year 2008.
The results of a poll, conducted among 150 UK music critics, editors, and broadcasters, are out. The most promising new talent in the world of music for the year 2008 is the 19-year-old singing sensation, Adele, followed in second place by fellow soul singer Duffy. Adele joins the ranks of Mika, and Corrine Bailey Rae, who were winners of 2006 and 2007 respectively.
The Sound of... Poll, now in its 6th year, asks participants to pick the artists or groups they thought were the most exciting talents for the year, and the ones to look out for in the future. Ranging from radio heads, TV personalities, to newspaper critics and music magazine editors, the participants of this annual poll picked out Adele as a clear favourite this year.
London girl Adeles singing career began when she discovered she could sing along to Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald CDs. She then went to a performing arts school in Croydon, the same school that was also attended by Amy Winehouse, Katie Melua and Kate Nash. Now signed to the XL Label (home to the White Stripes, Radiohead, and her close friend Jack Penate), her great voice has found many a supporter, including Jools Holland and Jonathan Ross, on whose TV show she appeared. BBC 1 and 2 also favour her sensational voice.
BBC Two's Later with Jools Holland gave Adele a slot a month before her first release, and the show's producer Alison Howe described her as "special. Adeles voice melted our hearts when we first heard her last spring and we had to have her on the show," she said. We sandwiched her between Sir Paul McCartney and Bjork before she'd even released a record. But like any confident, self-assured, sassy 19-year-old south London girl, it didn't phase her one bit."
Paul Rees, editor of Q magazine, said it was "refreshing to hear something different" after being inundated with "identikit bands who want to sound like The Libertines". "That Adele also has a voice that could stop traffic makes it doubly so," he said.
Talking about her rapid rise, she says, "I'm really excited. I hope it's always about the music and I hope I don't become scandalous and it takes me an hour to get out of my front door. I hope I always enjoy it, and I think I will. I'm having a laugh." Adele, who does not use her surname Adkins in public, said soul singers would do well in 2008 because the music was "believable". "I think Duffy's wicked and I think people believe me and my music, so I think that's why we're at the top, she says. Duffy, who has a classic soul sound, has drawn comparisons with Dusty Springfield.
"Garage pop" duo The Ting Tings and Scottish indie group Glasvegas - both of whom have been championed by music weekly NME - are in third and fourth places of this poll, respectively, with Oxford punk-funk pioneers Foals, in fifth position, completing the top five.
The poll predicts the best of the coming years musical talent. The music pundits name their favourite three new acts, with the choices tallied up to compile the list. Acts were ineligible if they had scored a UK top 20 single or were already famous for any reason, such as appearing on a TV talent show or enjoying success in a previous band. Klaxons, Kaiser Chiefs, KT Tunstall and Keane are among the other acts, which have appeared on previous lists of this poll before making it big.
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