PLAYING Anne of Cleves in The Tudors is only one of many extra-curricular activities keeping the global best-selling UK born female artist of the decade busy.

Stone’s distinctive tones can be heard on Chanel’s Coco campaign and the iconic Cadbury Flake jingle, but lest we forget, she is first and foremost one of the country’s finest R&B acts and a great songwriter. She may come over as a dippy-hippie airhead, but Stone has consistently raised her game.

Mostly co-written and co-produced with long-term collaborators Jonathan Shorten and Connor Reeves, this time she gets close to the sensational Stax sound perfected by the Staple Singers. Augmented with two covers, Ray Charles’s I Believe It To My Soul and Candi Staton’s anthemic You’ve Got The Love, Colour Me Free will be cherished by true soul lovers.