Estelle Withdraws Duffy / Adele Comments
Published Saturday, 7th June, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Estelle has withdrawn her comments about Duffy and Adele made earlier this year.
The singer originally slammed the music press for favouring names like those two white female artists, instead of covering black soul singers.
She told The Guardian, "How the hell is there not a single black person in the press singing soul? Adele ain't soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she's got a deeper voice - that don't mean she's soul."
Estelle has now spoken out about those quotes, saying her words were twisted into sounding like she was lashing out at white vocalists.
She now says, "They asked about the genre, and I spoke about the genre - and they took it into a race thing. The interesting thing for me is that they never mentioned that I thought Amy Winehouse is soul."
"I love Duffy, Adele - I don't have any ill feelings," Estelle added. "Me and Adele are cool. I have no beefs."
