Artist: Estelle
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The 18th Day
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Able to rap, sing, and write songs that have everyone from John Legend to Roots Manuva tattle her praises, U.K. MC Estelle got her start in London's notable hip-hop record shop Deal Real. Her fellow employees bucked up her to take a probability and catch on the microphone onstage; presently she was playacting numerous London clubs and appearance with the likes of Manuva and Rodney P. Local hero Skitz asked her to seem on his 2000 album, Countryman, and presently she landed on albums by the likes of the 57th Dynasty and Blak Twang. She made her solo debut in 2003 with the Excuse Me 12" on the Paradise Isle label, simply her breakthrough trail came in 2004 when 1980 was released by the V2 label. A street-level mixtape series called Da Heat and further 12"s like Relinquish and Go Gone helped build a truehearted following, and Estelle gave back to the U.K. rap scene by forming her have Stellarents label to sign new artists. Late in 2004 V2 released her debut album, The 18th Day, which made a heavy encroachment in the U.K. In 2007 U.S. R&B singer John Legend proclaimed that Estelle would be the first signee to his Homeschool label, distributed by Atlantic. The label scheduled her soph album, Shine, for early 2008.
