Rising hip-hop star Speech Debelle has won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize for the best British album of the year.
Her debut Speech Therapy, released in June, has not appeared in the UK album chart, but its sales are expected to get a huge boost from her win.
The 26-year-old, from south London, beat contenders including La Roux and Kasabian to win the £20,000 prize.
She said afterwards that her win proved "if you believe in something and you think you can do it, you can".
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Posted on September 8, 2009 at 9:00pm —