Speech Debelle

Corynne Elliot (born 17 March 1983), better known as Speech Debelle, After the win, sales of Speech Therapy were comparatively low to other Mercury winners with reported total sales by 2012 of being 15,000 copies. The album peaked on the UK Albums Chart at 65. Debelle criticised the Big Dada record label for indequately marketing the album and was reported to have dropped them. and the Independent rating the album 3/5.

Later music Debelle release her third album entitled Tantil Before I Breathe in 2017 and her fourth album called Sunday Dinner On A Monday in 2023 (both self-released).

Social and political activism In August 2009, Debelle performed at Africa Express in Paris, an event set up by Blur and Gorillaz front-man Damon Albarn. an exhibition at the Southbank Centre, London, presented by the Koestler Trust who exhibit art works by prisoners, detainees and ex-offenders. In 2015 she co-curated Re:Form, also presented by the same trust. This time her co-curators were Jeremy Deller, Carol Ann Duffy and Hot Chip and the category theme was 'journey'.

Employment tribunal case with Arts Council England In January 2025, it was reported that Debelle had been ordered by an employment tribunal to pay £9,870 in costs to Arts Council England after losing a discrimination case deemed "vexatious and unreasonable."

Discography Studio albums Year Album details2009 Speech Therapy Released: 1 June 2009 Label: Big Dada Released: 13 February 2012 Label: Big Dada Released: 17 March 2017 Label: Self-released Formats: Digital download2023 Sunday Dinner On A Monday Released: 9 June 2023 Label: Monday Sessions Records (self) Formats: 2LP, CD