Adele

Like fellow crooners Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash, Adele Adkins polished her skills at the
Brit School in south London — as good a finishing academy as American Idol. Her debut,
which topped the British charts earlier this year, lacks the bad-girl brio of those grads, but
it shows off a vocal instrument that smokes the competition. Check out "Cold Shoulder," a
lover's blues, produced by Winehouse's secret weapon, Mark Ronson: Over swi... More >