SINCE COMING OUT last year, Emeli Sandé has never felt happier. “It’s all about understanding, accepting and embracing yourself,” the singer-songwriter tells me. We’re speaking on the phone so I can’t see her face, but I imagine she’s smiling as she adds: “It has unlocked so many doors both creatively and emotionally within me and I feel so much more grounded within myself.”
Sandé is engaged to classical pianist Yoana Karemova and says of the wedding: “We don’t have a date yet but it’s definitely in talks. We’re very deep in love and it just makes life glorious.”
Now 36, Emeli (who was previously married to marine biologist Adam Gouraguine before they split up in 2014) is much more settled in her thirties than she was
