Despite 10-year courtship, Emeli Sande divorces her husband

Adele Emily Gouraguine, better known as Emeli Sandé, is a British recording artist and songwriter. She has confirmed she has divorced her husband after just a year of marriage.

Emeli, from Alford, Aberdeenshire, had been dating the marine biologist for 10 years after they met while working in Glasgow city centre.

The 27-year-old songstress Emeli was born in Sunderland, to a Zambian father, Joel Sandé, and English mother, Diane Sandé-Wood, on 10 March 1987.

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