Awards season success makes it So Easy (To Fall in Love) with Olivia Deanpublished at 17:28 GMT
17:28 GMT
Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from the Mobos
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What a start to the year Olivia Dean has had.
Last month, she scooped four awards at the Brits, including album of the year. A couple of weeks earlier, she’d been crowned best new artist at the Grammys.
Tonight, she’s up for another four awards at the Mobos and it’d be inconceivable for her to leave empty-handed.
Behind all that success is her second album, The Art Of Loving, a smooth and elegant collection of pop songs that draw on the lineage of Amy Winehouse, Sade, Carole King and Lauryn Hill.
Songs like Man I Need and So Easy (To Fall In Love) made her the first British woman since Adele to land three singles simultaneously in the UK Top 10. Later this year, she’ll play six sold out nights at the O2 Arena.
Born in Tottenham and raised in Highams Park, north-east London, the singer has also made headlines by blasting Ticketmaster and other providers for charging eye-watering resale prices for tickets to her US tour.
After posting a statement calling them “disgusting”, Ticketmaster relented and refunded fans who’d overpaid.