Speech Debelle

Quick Facts

Full Name	Speech Debelle
Occupation	Rapper
Date Of Birth	Mar 17, 1983(1983-03-17)
Age	41
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Speech Debelle Biography

Speech Debelle is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on March 17, 1983 in London, England, United Kingdom. Corynne Elliot was born in 1983 in London, England, and was raised by her mother, who was from an upper-middle class Jamaican family in London situated to the south from the River Thames. She was a student at Harris City Academy, and when she was 9 years old, was writing her first poem. Although she was aspired to sing however, she was unhappy with her voice singing when she was younger and decided to take up singing rap at the age of 13. Within a week, other pupils in the class mastered the entirety of her lyrics. At the age of 16 writing became an outlet for emotional turmoil for her. Debelle took inspiration from Michael Jackson and in particular the hit song “Human Nature”, as along with Blackstreet, Mary J. Blige, TLC and reggae music. Debelle left home following a dispute with her mother when she was 19 and for the next three years she resided in London in homeless hostels or with her friends. Although she was estranged from her mother in the beginning she claims she kept in constant contact. Since her reconciliation with her mother, Speech cites these years as the beginning of her goals and her material.

In 2009, Debelle performed with Gary Barlow, David Arnold and Jimmy Carr for a CARE charity concert to raise funds for youth education. Debelle was requested to 10 Downing Street to celebrate “British Talent”, in collaboration and the Talent and Enterprise Taskforce.

In a review of the album, The Guardian said “Debelle’s songs are vulnerable, open, unafraid. The overall sound…is full of light and air, acoustic guitars and pianos. There is a gracious, almost stately air to the record, yet the songs still sound entirely joyous.” Paul Macinnes of The Guardian wrote “There’s something intriguing about Speech Debelle, with a voice both husky and sweet, and a back story that’s emotive if unclear.” Macinnes also nominated Speech Therapy as his favourite album of 2009.

Despite the Mercury Prize win, 10,000 units of Speech Therapy were sold by November 2009 in comparison to the 300,000-album sales of the 2008 winner, Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid and 2010’s winners The xx whose winning album xx went platinum (300,000+) shortly after winning the award. Debelle reportedly quit the Big Dada record label in November 2009, blaming them for failing to adequately market and distribute the album.

Debelle went back to mom’s home at the age of 23 and began making calls to record companies. In November 2007, she got signed to Big Dada records, a small version from Ninja Tune. The label, she claims, has helped her grow as an artist and gave her total creative control over her music.

Speech Debelle Net Worth

Speech Debelle is one of the richest Rapper from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Speech Debelle 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Corynne Elliot (born 1983 in London, England), more popularly called Speech Debelle, is a British rapper who is signed with the Big Dada record label. She won the 2009 Mercury Prize for her debut album Speech Therapy. Her second album, Freedom of Speech in 2012, and the third one, tantil before I breathe in 2017.

OHM Monthly cited Speech’s work as “biggest thing in UK hip-hop for many a long year”. The Times praised the production of the album and ranked it as the 76th most popular album of 2000s.

In August 2009, Debelle performed at Africa Express in Paris, an event set up by Blur and Gorillaz front-man Damon Albarn.

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In 2010, she was a guest speaker at the Progressive London conference alongside Ken Livingstone, Sadiq Khan MP, and other notable academics. The annual conference explores and discusses the application of liberal politics to the benefit of London. She joined with the National Union of Students to Support Ken Livingstone’s “save EMA” pledge.

Facts & Trivia

Speech Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Speech Debelle celebrates birthday on March 17 of every year.

She began teaming up with Chuka Umunna the MP for Streatham on her community work to speak about the importance of voting. She has also volunteered with Barnardo’s to promote youth inclusion through a project to deliver an alternate Christmas Day video message to their elders on YouTube, as well as writing about gender equality for the VSO Godmothers blog. On 4 October 2011 Debelle was part of the Young Voter’s Question Time panel during the Conservative Party Conference in Salford.