Ms Dynamite's Midas touch continued today with the news that she has won a South Bank Show award. Tipped to pick up several gongs at next month's Brit awards, the R'n'B star now has the approval of the highbrow arts world to add to last year's accolades - the Mercury Music Prize and three Mobo Awards.
The 21-year-old singer, who is expecting her first child later this year, beat David Bowie and Coldplay to be named best pop act at an awards ceremony honouring the greatest achievements in the arts over the past year.
Theatre director and Oscar-winning film-maker Sam Mendes was rewarded for his contribution to theatre with his swansong productions at London's Donmar Warehouse, Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night.
The comedy prize was won by BBC2's The League Of Gentlemen for their dark stories about fictional northern village Royston Vasey.
Writer Sir Tom Stoppard picked up the award for outstanding contribution to the arts from the prize panel, which was headed by ITV1's South Bank Show presenter and editor Melvyn Bragg.
Sir Tom has been one of the most important playwrights in the UK over the past four decades and has also created a number of acclaimed movie screenplays.
His films include Empire Of The Sun and Brazil, and he won an Oscar for his work on Shakespeare In Love.
The controversial film Bloody Sunday - which starred James Nesbitt - was named best TV drama, while director Stephen Frears took the prize for best cinema for his tale of immigrant life in London Dirty Pretty Things.
Anish Kapoor's giant sculpture for the Turbine Hall in London's Tate Modern, Marsyas, took the prize for the visual arts, and writer Sarah Waters, whose steamy tale of Victorian London Tipping The Velvet was recently filmed by the BBC, took the literature prize for her Booker-shortlisted novel Fingersmith.
The ceremony, at London's Savoy Hotel, will be broadcast on ITV1 on Sunday.
The South Bank Show Awards
Classical music Paul Lewis (pianist) for Schubert Piano Sonata Series
Pop Ms Dynamite for A Little Deeper
Opera Graham Vick for Fidelio performed by the Birmingham Opera Company
Visual arts Anish Kapoor for Marsyas at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall
Literature Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Dance Jonathan Cope (Royal Ballet principal male dancer), for Mayerling, Carmen & Tryst
Cinema Stephen Frears (director) for Dirty Pretty Things
TV drama Paul Greengrass (writer/director) for Bloody Sunday
Theatre Sam Mendes (director) for Twelfth Night & Uncle Vanya
Comedy The League Of Gentlemen
Outstanding achievement in the arts Sir Tom Stoppard
