一个十九岁就开始被迫离家游荡的黑人女孩后来成了说唱歌手，她将自己的种种遭遇写成歌并发行了一张专辑《Speech Therapy》，一年之后凭借这张专辑女孩获得了水星奖。经历简单的她在今年的“水星奖”上顺利从丑小鸭变成天鹅，看来英国人也很喜欢讲述美国梦的美国大片。

by Jason Thurston
Layering laid-back poetry and stirring confessionals over wandering jazz and soul beats from another era, Brit MC Speech Debelle quickly earned a following for her honest hip-hop concoctions in the late-‘00s. Her dreamy style a translucent mask for a hard-edged early life of struggle and sorrow, a sense of life truly lived pervades her music, from her fully formed backing band, the Therapists, to her broken cadences and heart-on-sleeve lyrics.

British-born Jamaican Debelle grew up in South London, taking up rap in her early teens, but falling in love with all sorts of music. An absentee father, spells of homelessness, and other hardships poured into the music on her 2009 debut Speech Therapy. The record earned stellar reviews, but she truly burst into national prominence when the record was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.