Estelle has taken back comments she made about two of her contemporaries.
In a recent interview with The Guardian, the 'American Boy' singer criticised the music press for favouring Adele and Duffy over black soul singers.
"How the hell is there not a single black person in the press singing soul?" she was quoted as saying. "Adele ain't soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she's got a deeper voice - that don't mean she's soul."
However, Estelle said she now believes her words were twisted into an attack on white singers.
She explained: "They asked about the genre, and I spoke about the genre - and they took it into a race thing. The interesting thing for me is that they never mentioned that I thought Amy Winehouse is soul.
"I love Duffy, Adele - I don't have any ill feelings. Me and Adele are cool. I have no beefs," she added.
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