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After being championed by Stormzy and Adele, the chart-topping British pop, soul and R&B singer is back with a new album and huge tour – and answering your questions

Born and raised in London, her career burst out of the blocks in 1993, with debut single Dreams – a poignant pop-R&B track that introduced her distinct, resolute singing style – going straight to No 2 in the UK and also becoming a hit in the US. It was the first of 10 UK Top 10 hits, joined by the likes of Give Me a Little More Time, a retro soul song that matched the very best of classic Motown; If You Ever, a none-so-90s breakup duet with East 17 given a spike of real pain by Gabrielle’s heartfelt delivery; and her ballad Out of Reach, which sat at the heart of the Bridget Jones’s Diary soundtrack. After a stint on The Masked Singer, her most recent album Do It Again took her back to the UK Top 5, she was namechecked in a monologue delivered by Michaela Coel for Stormzy’s track Mel Made Me Do It – “Gabrielle once told us, dreams can come true, and that sentence emancipated the minds of our pioneers” – and was picked by Adele to support at her Hyde Park concerts in 2022.

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