ESTELLE HITS OUT AT U.K.'S WHITE SOUL STARS

Last updated: Saturday, March 29, 2008

ESTELLE HITS OUT AT U.K.'S WHITE SOUL STARS

Singer ESTELLE has launched a scathing attack on the British music industry - for promoting white stars as soul singers.

Estelle at the Capital Awards held at the Riverbank Park Plaza. London, England - 20.03.08

The R+B diva shot to the top of the U.K. charts last week (beg17Mar08) with her hit American Boy, but is bitter she had to work in the U.S. before she was able to succeed in her native country - unlike fellow British artists Duffy and Adele.

She says, "I'm not mad at them, but I'm wondering - how the hell is there not a single black person in the press singing soul?"

"Adele ain't soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she's got a deeper voice - that don't mean she's soul.

"That don't mean nothing to me in the grand scheme of my life as a black person. As a songwriter, I get what they do. As a black person, I'm like: you're telling me this is my music?"

Source: WENN

| Saturday, March 29, 2008

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