According to a Sept. 9 article by Louise Jury of the London Daily Standard, these early setbacks didn't stop Debelle from achieving success in the music world:
A south London rapper who once lived rough was surrounded by the family she left as a teenager as she won the £20,000 Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize.
Speech Debelle, 26, trounced critics' favourites Florence And The Machine and Bat For Lashes as well as big sellers Kasabian to pick up the award established as an alternative to the commercial Brits.
Despite taking her inspiration from her troubled and lonely past when she slept on the streets and in hostels, Debelle celebrated [her victory] with her mother, Marilyn Dennis, with whom she lives again in Mitcham, and grandmother, Madame De Belle, from Streatham.
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