Olivia Dean: BBC Entertainer of the Year finds her voice

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To play this video, you need JavaScript enabled in your browser. < /figure>By Pete Allison and Riyah CollinsBBC Newsbeat

Olivia Dean doesn't strike you as someone who would ever feel like "the odd one out."

She had a top four debut album, played Glastonbury, was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize and was just named Artist of the Year by the BBC.

When she speaks to BBC Newsbeat, she is in a Los Angeles hotel, where she is staying during her sold-out US tour.

But popularity wasn't something Olivia took for granted growing up in Highams Park, north-east London.

She has Guyanese and Jamaican heritage and was one of only a few black girls in her class.

Olivia , who is now 24, says she was "mute" - straightening her hair and trying to assimilate with all the other girls.

"I didn't really know who I was," she says.

One thing she never doubted was her love of music, singing in assemblies "all the time" and, thanks to the support of her parents, landing a place at the prestigious performing arts school Brit School.

She says it That's where she found her tribe.

Olivia then got her big break as a backup singer with Rudimental, and says the decision to leave been difficult.

“I didn’t really know if I could do it on my own,” she says.