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Introducing... Emeli Sande
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It's not unfair to say that most pop stars can't dazzle you with facts they've collected while studying for their degree in clinical neuroscience.
Emeli Sande is different though.
A hard worker during her schooldays growing up in Aberdeenshire, her father was her tech teacher, into her 20s she'd set herself on the path to become a doctor.
But there was always a nagging feeling that even though that was the sensible, correct thing to do, music was her passion.
'Massive' decisionAnd so she left studying and decided to apply herself full-time to performing.
"It was a massive crossroads. It was the first massive risk I took," she said, looking back.
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"On the medical school course I had seen people who'd dreamed of being doctors since they were four as I had dreamt of doing music since that age - that was my inspiration."
She got up and running quickly by writing a song called Boys which would become a b-side to Cheryl Cole's Three Words track.
An early meeting with London rapper Professor Green also led her to contribute to his last album (and his new one).
But perhaps most surprisingly, she recently wrote a track which may be included on Susan Boyle's forthcoming third album.
"Writing for Susan Boyle was a real challenge for me because it was a full song and it had to be classic because people want to hear that from her," she said.
"It was the same deal and Simon Cowell's label like it. It's been recorded, hopefully it'll go on the album and I'm excited to hear how she's sung it.
"We know that she really enjoyed recording it and got quite emotional recording it."
Now though, the emphasis is firmly focused on her own solo material.
Her breezy track Heaven, currently riding high in the iTunes chart, has been heard spilling out of every shop, restaurant and night club this summer.
Her objective now is to put everything into her debut album, already titled Our Version Of Events, due out later this year or in early 2012.
And she wants to make it a classic.
"I'd love to make a Joni Mitchell Blue," she says thinking of her favourite albums. "The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Amy Winehouse's Back To Black - that's the aim.
"To represent the UK musically worldwide would be an ambition of mine."
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