Estelle Swaray (London, 18 January 1980) is a British hip hop artist and producer.
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Biography[Edit][]
Estelle is the daughter of a Senegalese mother and a father from the Caribbean island of Grenada. Estelle turned her own record company, where they Stellarants on the album The 18th day and the singles 1980, Free and Go gone on took.
In 2005 she sang the song Why go? by Faithless in again, that was sung by Boy George . The song ended up in Netherlands in the tipparade.
She is then discovered by John Legend after which they label as first artist signed on the Home school of Legend. The London with Senegalese blood has successfully made the crossing of EastLondon to New York. There is her promising Shine album came into being. The album was released on May 9, 2008 and was produced by, amongst others:Mark Ronson (the man behind Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen), Will.i.am, Wyclef Jean, Cee Lo ( Gnarls Barkley's known) and John Legend
"The album is a mix of funk, Reggae, pop, R & B." [1]
Discography[Edit][]
Albums[Edit][]
| Album (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Album Top 100 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 18th day | 2004 | - | |||
| Shine | 09-05-2008 | 17-05-2008 | 53 | 16 |
| Album (s) with chart positions in
the Flemish Ultratop 200 albums |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shine | 2008 | 17-05-2008 | 32 | 17 |
Singles[Edit][]
| Single (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Top 40 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why go? | 2005 | 21-05-2005 | tip12 | - | with Faithless |
| 1980 | 2006 | 12-05-2005 | tip12 | - | |
| American boy | 2008 | 26-04-2008 | 6 | 21 | with Kanye West |
| No substitute love | 2008 | 12-07-2008 | tip4 | - | |
| Come over | 2008 | 01-11-2008 | tip2 | - | with Sean Paul |
| One love | 2009 | 28-11-2009 | 19 | 9 | with David Guetta |
| Single (s) with chart positions
in the Flemish Ultratop 50 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why go? | 2005 | 09-07-2005 | tip11 | - | with Faithless |
| American boy | 2008 | 26-04-2008 | 1 (2 wk) | 24 | with Kanye West/ Gold |
| No substitute love | 2008 | 06-09-2008 | ice skater | - | |
| One love | 2009 | 28-11-2009 | tip4 | - | with David Guetta |