Lisa Stansfield. Rochdale, Lancashire. Not exactly the cradle of soul. But when she opened her mouth on All Around the World, geography stopped mattering. The song hit #1 in a dozen countries. She wrote it herself with her band. Blue-eyed soul is a loaded term -- usually code for 'white people doing Black music' -- but Stansfield never sounded like she was borrowing anything. She sounded like she owned it. Because she'd put in the work.