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ESSENCE Festival headliner Emeli Sande sat down with ESSENCE.com to discuss how she’s managed to make her childhood dream a reality and shared a few interesting details about how she’s learned to embrace being loud, despite growing up shy.
“It’s really a dream come true,” say’s Sande. “I was really quiet as a kid and music was the one place I could be loud.
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