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Speech Debelle holding the much raved Mercury Prize. (c) The Telegraph.
Everybody loves an underdog story: Speech Debelle wins The Mercury Music Award!
The Mercury Music Award has slowly become a big irrelevant bronze statuette (insert Grammy comparison here) in these past few years of more or less worthy nominees and winners. Things are apparently taking a turn for the best though as this year’s winner, debutant rapper Speech Debelle, is the lowest profile artist ever to receive the emblematic award, beating more…