Estelle Shine LP (Transparent Orange with Opaque Center Vinyl)

Estelle soared to international prominence on 2008's Shine. The lead single, "American Boy" featuring Kanye West, won a 2009 GRAMMY® in the category of Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. As vinyl was declining, Atlantic chose not to keep this vinyl in print. It goes for over $100 if you can find it at all. Round Hill Records is now reissuing the vinyl and adding a new remix of "American Boy." It is updated here with an Afro-Beat remix by up and coming DJ NASHUP. NASHUP won a contest put on by Timbaland's Beat Club and is hand picked by Estelle as she looked for a new take on the classic. NASHUP is also a member of acclaimed Hot Chelle Rae.

As a recording artist Estelle has released five solo albums and countless features and collaborations that have crossed multiple genres and generations of artists. She released the follow-up All of Me in 2012, and the single "Thank You" received a GRAMMY® nomination for Best R&B Performance. 2015's True Romance yielded the anthem "Conqueror." Guest starring in a popular episode of Fox's Empire, it stood out as "one of the show's highest-charting songs" and fueled the Original Soundtrack to a #1 bow on the Billboard Top 200.

Through it all, Estelle is the main attraction and is never upstaged or out of her depth, whether she is trading lines with Cee-Lo or Kanye West, switching between singing and rapping on 'More Than Friends,' or swapping out blissful rocksteady reggae for nerved-up glitz-pop. Most impressive is 'So Much Out the Way,' where she does the work of at least three vocalists of varying modes, all over a Wyclef concoction that alternates between tautly snapping jazz-funk (courtesy of Louis Johnson's bass from Grover Washington, Jr.'s 'Hydra') and Wall of Sound soul (transformed from Bob Marley's 'So Much Things to Say'). Not many vocalists could possibly navigate all this terrain without losing a beat, but Estelle has no trouble pulling it off with her versatility and easy-to-like personality.