Though Our Version of Events is her first album release, Sandé has been active in the industry since 2009, most notably appearing on singles by Chipmunk ("Diamond Rings") and Wiley ("Never Be Your Woman").

[1] Upon release of the album, Sandé's vocal ability was compared to the likes of Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Beyoncé, Annie Lennox, Tracy Chapman, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Lauryn Hill.

It included three new tracks, a remix and a cover of "Imagine" (originally by John Lennon), replacing Sandé's version of "Abide with Me".

[5] Sandé first appeared in public when she sent a video into Trevor Nelson's BBC urban music competition, where she played piano while singing one of her favourite songs, "Nasty Little Man".

"[1] Sandé began by writing tracks for artists such as Alesha Dixon, Chipmunk, Professor Green, Devlin, Preeya Kalidas, Cheryl Cole, and Tinie Tempah.

"[6][7] Sandé first performed publicly when she provided guest vocals on Chipmunk's hit single, "Diamond Rings" which she also wrote in 2009.

[8] Sandé took her middle name Emeli on professionally two years before she hit the limelight as Adele had just risen to prominence.

[10] She said she would continue to collaborate with Alicia Keys on her upcoming album, and she would be flattered to work with Beyoncé as her voice is unparalleled.

[10] Her vocal ability is often compared to Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera and Annie Lennox.

She said on the album, she wanted people to see every side of her as an artist, so it was important to have songs there where there could be a real connection with the lyric, rather than there just be throwaway pop music.

She said; Great songwriters come along quite rarely, but when I listen to Tracy Chapman or Joni Mitchell, these are people who pay attention to the lyric and are precise about it.

She stated that the key feature to a classical song was keeping the "melody simple" and having big "lyric effective", which was much easier said than actually done.

"[8] Sandé said that the first track on the album, "Heaven" was a huge "epic pop song" which had sweeping strings.

She said; "I love how songs like that develop: before we knew it, we were putting strings on with a synth, Naughty Boy suggested the Funky Drummer loop and it came together really organically.

"Daddy" also represents how that one thing you can keep returning to, like how drug addiction in the music industry and how easy it is to turn to.

The song is about confusion, and the fact that you don't know for sure when you break up with someone in a relationship if this person was not the love of your life and there is a question whether you have made the right decision.

Sandé said she was very nervous to be meeting and writing with her, but she went on to say that Keys was a very warm hearted person who knew how to make people feel at ease.

Heaven has also topped the Shazam chart, which is based on millions of daily requests for the names of songs played on the radio and in bars and clubs."

The first single to be released from Our Version of Events is the Mike Spencer-produced "Heaven", a ballad with house beats, mellow strings and a horns section that resembled productions by DJ Mark Ronson.

[26] "Daddy" was released as the album's second single on 27 November 2011, a month after Sandé's featured on UK Grime artist Professor Green's number one single "Read All About It"[27][28] It is credited as featuring Naughty Boy (songwriter and producer Shahid Khan), who also produced the song and the majority of Sandé's album.

[34] Sandé's Critics Choice Award was followed with the release of the album's third single, "Next to Me", produced by Harry "Craze" & Hugo "Hoax" Chegwin and Mojam Music.

[39][40] In the UK, it narrowly missed out to DJ Fresh and Rita Ora's dubstep collaboration "Hot Right Now",[41] as well as reaching top-ten in Belgium, Finland and New Zealand.

[42] On 10 June 2012, almost a year since "Heaven" debuted, Sandé released the fourth single "My Kind of Love" as part of a remix EP.

[43] The gospel-tinged "My Kind of Love" is another Craze & Hoax production, this time aided by Danny Keyz and Emile Haynie.

[45] "My Kind of Love" peaked at number seventeen on the UK singles chart,[46] top-thirty in Scotland,[47] and top-forty in Belgium and Ireland.

Sandé performed special concerts in Cardiff, Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh as part of Olympic Torch Relay Celebrations Concerts as well as perform at Opening and Closing Ceremonies of 2012 London Olympics as well as some of major festivals of 2012 at T in the Park and V Festival.

As the summer music festival season winded down, Sandé toured in November 2012 with five special dates in Dublin, Glasgow, Birmingham, London and Manchester.

Hattie Collins, editor of RWD Magazine gave Our Version of Events a positive review stating, "This is an album that deserves all the success it will no doubt receive.

"[62] BBC said that they expected the album to be very poppy as she has written for pop acts like Sugababes, Leona Lewis and Alesha Dixon.

However, they pointed out that this does not arrive as they said; "we do have a charming and occasionally moving record full of care and polish, effort and grace.