Rachel Chinouriri ‘Shaking’ After Adele Sends Flowers Celebrating Brit Awards Nominations

The 2025 Brit Awards nominations revealed two first-time nods for singer-songwriter Rachel Chinouriri, who released her debut album What a Devastating Turn of Events in 2024. The record won over the voting body for the show but long before the awards acclaim it found a fan in Adele. Coming out of her post-nomination haze, Chinouriri received a flower delivery from the singer celebrating the recognition.

“Congratulations on your Brit nominations Rachel,” Adele wrote on a hand-written card. “I’m so happy for you and can’t wait to come to a show! Lot’s of love, Adele.” The note accompanied a bouquet of more than two dozen pink roses. “Help how do I recover from this,” Chinouriri, 26, wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “I’m shaking … violently.”

Over on Instagram, the singer reflected on her experience watching Adele at the BRIT School, a creative institution with an alumni roster that also includes Amy Winehouse and Raye, among others. “I know this stuff is sometimes not a bid deal to some other artists,” she said. “But I think because I went to BRIT School, I remember seeing Adele standing on the stage and she was like, ‘I used to be like you,’ when she was performing. And she pointed down to the bit and I was in the pit. I remember being like, wow, that’s so cool — I’ll never be able to do that, though.”

Chinouriri is up for both Best New Artist and Artist of the Year at the 2025 Brit Awards, scheduled for March 1.

Adele previously boasted about the singer during a show in Las Vegas around this time last year. “There’s a new artist, she’s British, her name is Rachel and she does like indie music,” she told the crowd at her residency. “She’s absolutely amazing, she has a show in L.A. in March and I’m going to go on my own. That’s what I’m gonna do.”

Chinouriri has only performed three shows in the U.S., selling out the Echo in Los Angeles and two nights at Baby’s All Right in New York in early 2024. She was scheduled to open for Remi Wolf on the Big Ideas tour this past October, but pulled out due to financial complications. Over in Europe, Chinouriri completed an almost entirely sold-out headlining tour, drew a massive crowd at Glastonbury, and announced that she will join Sabrina Carpenter for 20 dates of the Short n’ Sweet tour in March.

“I get to this level, then everyone’s like, ‘She’s so underrated, she needs way more listeners,’” Chinouriri told Rolling Stone last year. “And I’m like, I got 1.7 million people listening to me every month on one app. I can’t even count 1.7 million people in my brain.” Currently, her monthly listener count stands at 2.4 million.