Adele wins 2 Brit awards
Written by on February 21st, 2012 in Latest News.
Soul singer Adele followed up her Grammy Awards triumph with a double win at the U.K.’s Brit music awards Tuesday, for best British female and best British album.
Newcomer Ed Sheeran, a 21-year-ancient singer-songwriter, also won two awards — best British male and British breakthrough.
“I honestly didn’t reckon I’d get this one,” he said, after coming out ahead of rapper Professor Green, James Blake, James Morrison and Noel Gallagher.
Sheeran built his fanbase as an unsigned act via Facebook and YouTube and scored a major hit with The A Team, the acoustic song he recorded in a student flat and place online.
Ed Sheeran accepts his breakthrough artist award. He started out as an internet sensation. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters )
Adele, who won six Grammys last week in Los Angeles for her album 21, said it’s “been an incredible year” for her.
The singer, who had to stop performing for five months last fall after having surgery on her vocal cords, thanked her record company “for letting me be the kind of artist I want to be.”
She also performed Rolling in the Deep as part of the London ceremony, her second performance since she took time off to allow her voice to heal.
But Adele’s hit song lost the best single category to What Makes You So Gorgeous by a boy band from reality TV show X Factor, One Direction.
Coldplay was crowned best British group for a record third time, while U.S. pop star Bruno Mars was named best international male.
Other winners:
- Best international female: Rihanna.
- Best internatonal group: Foo Fighters.
- Best international breakthrough: Lana Del Rey.
- Critics choice: Emeli Sandé.
- Outstanding contribution: Blur.
