Sue's first EP was released in January 2009, under the title Black Part Love. She says that she is influenced by artists such as Lauryn Hill, M.I.A., Erykah Badu., Nneka, Meshel Ndegeocello, The Fugees. Two of her well-known songs are "Mommy" and "Black Part Love", both of which are carried out acoustically. Selah Sue often covers songs of Erykah Badu and The Zutons, but she has assembled a whole range of her own songs. Furthermore, she played with the Belgian band Novastar at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. Eventually, she continued doing warm-up performances in collaboration with artists such as Jamie Lidell in London and Paris. According to her, studying psychology helped her to understand more about human emotions, which also is something that she has to deal with in her musical activities. Initially, Putseys managed to work out her musical career path while studying psychology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organizer and singer Milow (born Jonathan Vandenbroeck) had noticed her talents and asked her to perform in his supporting programme. At the same time she performed as the youngest and only female artist at the open-song contest Open Mic-avond at Het Depot in Leuven. She refused, because she wanted to sing her own songs. When she was seventeen a Belgian producer asked her to sing some demos of his songs, after which Universal offered her a contract.
At age fifteen she learned to play the acoustic guitar and started to write her own songs as well.
Sanne Putseys ( Dutch pronunciation: ) was born in Leefdaal (province of Vlaams-Brabant), near the provincial capital Leuven.
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