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A self-confessed "spoilt brat" as a child, Speech Debelle was suspended from school, turned to poetry and was rapping by the time she was 13. A major fall-out with her mother led her to leave home at 19 and she spent four years staying with friends and living in homeless hostels. before taking her nickname, Speech, and her grandmother's surname, Debelle, as a tribute, prior to signing with the Big Dada label in 2007. With laid-back jazz influences and an understated flow, debut album Speech Therapy (2009) told the story of her life in candid detail, discussing her homelessness, h...