Believe and you can achieve great things in Life – Speech Debelle

September 10, 2009

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”…Norman Vincent Peale

Crystal Palace-born singer Speech Debelle was the shock winner of the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for her album Speech Therapy, which was inspired by a trouble childhood life.

Her father walked out when she was six, thrown out of the house by her mother at 19 for using drugs, spend years sleeping in homeless hostels and on friends sofas.

Now at 26 years old she has won the coveted Mercury prize, beating established acts including Kasabian and Bat of Lashes. Welcome to the world of Corynne Elliot.

This is the amazing story of a young girl who has managed to turn her life around. Using her troubled past for inspiration, Corynne Elliot is now destined for great things.

Her album called Speech Therapy, despite having previously sold only under 3000 copies, mainly at her small gigs….has seen massive increase in sales on Amazon since winning the Barclaycrad Mercury Prize.

Julian Monaghan, head of music buying at Amazon, said: “This is arguably the most unexpected win in Mercury Prize history.”

After collecting her award Corynne Elliot said: “This proves if you believe in something and you think you can do it, you can achieve it.”

Well said by a girl who was expelled from school at after being suspended 11 times, what an amazing turn around in her life. Shows the power of beliefs, if you believe you can achieve great things in life.