Gabrielle: Under My Skin
Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 17 August 2018
IT'S 25 YEARS SINCE Gabrielle scored a No 1 with her first single, 'Dreams' ("can come true …"), virtually the story of her mercurial rise from bullied working-class black south Londoner with an eye condition to one of the 50 wealthiest women in the UK. Her career was subsequently derailed when a former boyfriend beheaded his stepfather and the tabloids descended, but by then she'd already scored another chart-topper ('Rise' in 2000), before eventually stopping music altogether to concentrate on motherhood.
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