Selah Sue

Selah Sue live at the Bardentreffen 2010 in Nuremberg

Selah Sue at the ZMF 2018 in Freiburg

Selah Sue (born May 3, 1989 in Leuven , Flanders ; actually Sanne Greet A. Putseys ) is a Belgian singer-songwriter . Her music belongs to the soul genre with influences from reggae , funk and hip-hop .

Life

Selah Sue took dance lessons in her childhood, but at the age of 15 she became interested in playing guitar and writing songs. Only two years later she was discovered by co-organizer Milow at a contest and invited to play with him in the opening act of his concerts. Radio appearances in Brussels made them more popular. This was followed by appearances as support for Jamie Lidell , James Morrison and others as well as concerts at well-known festivals in Belgium and the Netherlands.

At the age of 20 she had her first record deal and made recordings, including a duet with Cee-Lo Green entitled Please , which was released on his album The Lady Killer and later on his own debut album. At a Prince concert in Antwerp, she appeared in the opening act.

With the songs Raggamuffin and Crazy Vibes she had her first successes from 2010 in both the Dutch and French-speaking countries beyond the borders of Belgium. Her self-named debut album was released in March 2011 and reached number 1 in the charts in her Flemish homeland . It was produced by DJ Farhot and reggae musician Patrice , whom she accompanied on his tour in autumn 2010 in German-speaking countries.

She was named best solo artist at the Belgian Music Industry Awards in early 2011.

Selah Sue live at the Bardentreffen 2010 in Nuremberg

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		BE F	BE W	NL	FR	CH	DE
2011	Selah Sue	BE F1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (125 weeks)BE F	BE W1 (128 weeks) BE W	NL2 gold (89 weeks)NL	FR9 (233 weeks) FR	CH32 (55 weeks) CH	-
2015	Reason	BE F1 gold (87 weeks)BE F	BE W1 (87 weeks) BE W	NL1 (32 weeks) NL	FR3 (95 weeks) FR	CH9 (8 weeks) CH	DE82 (1 week) DE
2020	Bedroom	BE F17 (... weeks) BE F	BE W61 (1 week) BE W	-	FR159 (1 week) FR	-	-	EP

More albums

• Rarities (2012)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		BE F	BE W	FR	CH
2010	Raggamuffin Selah Sue	BE F29 gold (8 weeks)BE F	BE W16 (16 weeks) BE W	FR18 (82 weeks) FR	-
	Crazy Vibes Selah Sue	BE F21st gold (11 weeks)BE F	BE W26 (10 weeks) BE W	FR74 (5 weeks) FR	-
2011	This World Selah Sue	BE F2 platinum (34 weeks)BE F	BE W15 (17 weeks) BE W	FR33 (25 weeks) FR	CH42 (7 weeks) CH
	Zanna	BE F1 gold (11 weeks)BE F	BE W29 (4 weeks) BE W	-	-	Selah Sue & Tom Barman versus the Subs
2014	Alone Reason	BE F5 gold (21 weeks)BE F	BE W1 (25 weeks) BE W	FR9 (53 weeks) FR	-
2015	Reason reason	-	BE W41 (3 weeks) BE W	FR115 (2 weeks) FR	-
2016	Together	BE F46 (2 weeks) BE F	-	-	-	featuring Childish Gambino
	Bang bang	BE F35 (12 weeks) BE F	-	-	-	DJ Fresh versus Diplo featuring R. City , Selah Sue & Craig David
2020	You Bedroom (EP)	BE F43 (... weeks) BE F	-	-	-

More singles

• Summertime (2011)
• Crazy Sufferin 'Style (2012)
• Fade Away (2012)
• Faces ( Patrice featuring Selah Sue, 2014)
• Reason (2015)
• I Won't Go for More (2015)
• Fear Nothing (2015)
• A Million Ways (Pomrad featuring Selah Sue, 2016)
• Pull the Strings (Maverick featuring Selah Sue, 2017)
• So This Is Love (2017)
• The Minute (Maverick featuring Selah Sue, 2018)
• Que sera sera ( Marcus Miller featuring Selah Sue, 2018)
• Guy-Funk ( Zwangere Guy featuring Selah Sue & Darrell Cole, 2019)

Awards

• De Jimmies: Best Zangeres - Nationaal 2012

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1. ↑ https://online.gema.de/werke/search.faces
2. ↑ Selah Sue: Black Part Love / Nobody's Tune , Kulturzelt Kassel, July 15, 2010
3. ↑ Selah Sue , Rockpalast, January 23, 2011
4. ↑ Patrice celebrates chart success with Selah Sue ( memento from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Renzo Wellinger, Musikmarkt, July 24, 2013
5. ↑ 'Alors on danse' hit of the year 2010 , Belgischer Rundfunk online, January 9th 2011
6. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: BE (Flanders) BE (Wallonia) NL FR CH
7. ↑ Awards for Music Sales: BE NL

Web links

Commons : Selah Sue  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official homepage (English / French)
• Official MySpace page (English)
• Selah Sue - English Bio ( Memento from December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; 316 kB)
• Selah Sue at Allmusic (English)