"I wanted to disappear" -Emeli Sandé reports back

After a rocky start, Emeli Sandé (29) was at the top four years ago. But then things went quiet for the Scottish soul and R&B singer. Now she's back - with a new single, a new attitude to life and also live: she opens the Baloise Session in October.

In 2012, Emeli Sandé made it to the top of the charts in no time with her debut album "Our Version of Events". However, she was unable to enjoy the huge hype that followed. It simply became too much for her, as she revealed to Female First magazine: "It may sound dramatic, but I really wanted to disappear, it was like a pressure cooker threatening to explode. I had to stop once to figure out who I was. Now I've learned to know what I stand for and to feel comfortable in life."

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Her single "Hurts" has just been released - and although the lyrics are about heartache and other pains, everything is supposed to be okay again, as she says: "I'm saying everything I've always wanted to say for years. I couldn't and didn't want to hold it back any longer."

Nothing now stands in the way of the successful continuation of her career, which she began at an early age: At the age of eleven, the daughter of an English mother and a Zambian father wrote her first song, at fifteen she won a radio station's music competition and was signed to her first record deal while still at school. After quickly abandoning her medical studies in Glasgow, she definitely embarked on a singing career.

Initially, she is even more successful with songs that she writes for others. For example, the song "Diamond Rings" for the rapper Chipmunk. The single makes it into the British charts and is Sandé's first top 10 placement.

Her first own album "Our Version of Events" is released in February 2012 and goes straight to the top of the British charts. The single "Read all about it" also makes it into the top 5 in the UK and German-speaking countries.

In Basel in October, new album in November

Emeli Sandé reached the pinnacle of her career to date in 2013, when she was named Best Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards. Her album "Our Version of Events" is also voted Album of the Year.