LONDON’S MOST INTERESTING UPCOMING SOUL SINGER 2020年BBC年度之声冠军，英国新生代爵士名伶。 Celeste出生在洛杉矶，成长于英国布莱顿。成长过程中，她痴迷爵士和灵魂音乐。爵士传奇Billy Holiday， Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin都是她的偶像，因此在她的音乐中你也能找到这些传奇的痕迹。 除了年度之声，她还获得了全英音乐奖的Rising Star大奖（原乐评人大奖）。另外她还入围了MTV，Vevo， NME等众多权威媒体的年度新人推荐。 Celeste Waite is an American-English singer-songwriter. Born in Los Angeles, CA in 1994, she moved with her mother to England when she was three years old. Initially brought up in Dagenham in the outskirts of London, she settled in Brighton by the age of 5. Her father is Jamaican. She started making music at age 16 and it was at that age that she “accidentally” wrote her first song with her former bandmates. It was that track that was found online by her first manager, who urged her to take professional writing classes while she completed her studies. At age 18, she started working in the studio and after she graduated, she began to take her music career seriously. At age 22, she signed to Lily Allen‘s Bank Holiday Records, was named one of Annie Mac’s “New Names” (marking her first radio play in December 2016 on BBC Radio 1), and premiered her debut EP The Milk & The Honey, which was released March 10, 2017. Later signing to Polydor, she released the Lately EP in March 2019. The singles “Coco Blood” and “Strange” followed in June and September respectively; after winning the inaugural BRITs Rising Star Award that December, Compilation 1.1 was released featuring the two singles and previously-released EP tracks. January 2020 saw her place first on the BBC’s Sound of 2020 list, and the release of the single “Stop This Flame.”