Speech Debelle has won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2009 for her album 'Speech Therapy'. The rapper, who sold only around 3000 copies of her record before the ceremony, was named as winner of this year's honour by presenter Jools Holland at the award ceremony in the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Tuesday night (September 8).

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