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Sade

Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, (born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade, is a British[1] singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.

Biography

Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.[2] Her middle name, Folasade, means honor confers your crown.[3] Her parents, Bisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria.[2] Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old [4] Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents.[2] When Sade was 11, she moved to live at Holland-on-Sea with her mother,[5] and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.[2]

While at college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals.[2] Her solo performances of the song Smooth Operator attracted the attention of record companies and in 1983, she signed a solo deal with Epic Records taking three members of the band, Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale and Paul Denman, with her.[2] Sade and her band produced the first of a string of hit albums, the debut album Diamond Life, in 1984, and have subsequently sold over 50 million albums.[2] She is the most successful solo female artist in British history.[2]

In 2002, she appeared on the Red Hot Organization's Red Hot and Riot, a compilation CD in tribute to the music of fellow Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti. She recorded a remix of her hit single, "By Your Side," for the album and was billed as a co-producer.

Personal life

Adu currently resides in Stroud, United Kingdom, with her partner Ian, his son Jack and her daughter Ila. She keeps her personal life private.[6]

A marriage to Spanish film director Carlos Pliego ended in 1995 after six years.[2] She gave birth to a daughter, Ila Adu, in 1996 after a relationship with a Jamaican musician.[2] She was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in 2002.[2][7] Prior to the release of Soldier of Love in 2010, the Daily Mail described her as "famously reclusive".[8]

Discography

Sade

For more details on this topic, see Discography of Sade

Collaboration

References

  1. ^ Holden, Stephen (27 November 1985). "The pop life; Sade's 2nd album, a refined fusion". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Sandall, Robert (31 January 2010). "Sade emerges from her country retreat". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
  3. ^ Meaning of Folasade in Nigerian.name
  4. ^ http://www.sade.com/gb/biography.html. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ Jessica Berer (1985). Sade. Spin. p. 12. Retrieved 2010-08-21. {{cite book}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  6. ^ http://www.sade-usa.com/home.html Sade.Usa.com
  7. ^ Sade emerges from her country retreat Sunday Times January 31, 2010
  8. ^ Georgina Littlejohn (2010-03-13). "Sade displays her youthful looks as she dresses down after her glamorous magazine cover hits the shelves". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2010-03-13.

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