S A D E

S A D E

She is the most successful solo female artist in British history, having sold over 110 million albums worldwide...

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Born 16 January 1959 Helen Folasade Adu in Ibadan, Nigeria, about 50 miles from Lagos, (Folasade, means honour confers your crown).
Her parents, Adebisi 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. Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents. When Sade was 11, she moved to Holland-on-Sea to live with her mother, and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
She listened to Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, and Billie Holiday, and studied fashion design at St. Martin's School of Art in London while also doing some modeling on the side.

Around 1980, she started singing harmony with a Latin funk group called Arriva. One of the more popular numbers that the group performed was an Adu original co-written with bandmember Ray St. John, "Smooth Operator." The following year, she joined the eight-piece funk band Pride as a background singer. Pride's opening acts often featured members of the band in different combinations. Pride and their off-shoots performed often around London and stirred up record company interest. Initially, the labels wanted to sign only Sade -- technically a trio featuring Adu, Stuart Matthewman, and Paul Denman -- while the whole of Pride wanted a deal. The members of Pride not involved in the Sade trio eventually told Adu, Matthewman, and Denman to go ahead and sign a deal. Adding keyboardist Andrew Hale, Sade signed to the U.K. division of Epic Records.
The band's debut album, Diamond Life (with overall production by Robin Millar), went Top Ten in the U.K. in late 1984. January 1985 saw the album released on CBS' Portrait label, and by spring, it had gone platinum on the strength of the Top Ten singles "Smooth Operator" and "Hang on to Your Love." The second album, Promise (1985), featured "Never as Good as the First Time" and "The Sweetest Taboo," the latter of which stayed on the U.S. Hot 100 for six months. Sade was so popular that some radio stations reinstated the '70s practice of playing album tracks, adding "Is It a Crime" and "Tar Baby" to their playlists. In 1986, Sade won a Grammy for Best New Artist.
Sade's third album was 1988's Stronger Than Pride, and featured their first number one single on the U.S. R&B chart, "Paradise," as well as "Nothing Can Come Between Us" and "Keep Looking." The fourth Sade album didn't appear for four years: 1992's Love Deluxe continued the unbroken streak of multi-platinum Sade albums, spinning off the hits "No Ordinary Love," "Feel No Pain," and "Pearls."

Matthewman, Denman, and Hale went on to other projects, including the low-key Sweetback, which released a self-titled album in 1996. Matthewman also played a major role in the development of Maxwell's career, providing instrumentation and production work for the R&B singer's first two albums. Sade eventually reconvened to issue Lovers Rock in 2000. The lead single "By Your Side" was a moderate hit, peaking at number 18 on the adult contemporary chart; the following summer, Sade embarked on their first tour in more than a decade and sold out many dates across America. In early 2002, they celebrated the tour's success by releasing a live album and DVD, Lovers Live. The mostly somber Soldier of Love was released in 2010.
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Helen Folasade Adu
más conocida como Sade (nacida el 16 de enero de 1959 en Ibadán, Nigeria) es una cantante y compositora británico-nigeriana.
De madre británica y padre nigeriano, a los cuatro años se fue con su madre a vivir a Inglaterra, cuando ésta se separó de su padre. Durante su adolescencia no paraba de escuchar discos de Nina Simone, Peggy Lee y Astrud Gilberto. Este estilo de música la fascinaba.

Ella todavía no pensaba en cantar en aquella época, sino en estudiar moda en la facultad de Saint Martin, y sólo se decide a presentarse como vocalista cuando un par de viejos amigos de la facultad crean un grupo "hasta que encuentren una cantante". Sus estudios de diseño la llevaron a abrir una boutique, pero su amor por la música la llevó a cantar en un grupo funky de cierto carácter latino que respondía al nombre de Arriva. Desde ese momento descubrió un extraño placer al escribir letras. Más tarde esta banda pasó a llamarse Pride y luego cambió a Sade, que es una abreviatura de Folasade. Y con Sade comenzó a conocerse también a su vocalista.

La banda consigue firmar un contrato en 1984, y se convierte en el espectáculo de los clubs de la capital inglesa, en gran parte gracias a la belleza de su cantante que se vería reflejada en revistas de tirada internacional como Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Times... y en pocos meses se convirtió en la reina del cool. En 1984 su primer sencillo "Your love is king" pasó a ser un éxito dentro de los Top Ten. Y de manera bastante repentina Sade se convirtió también en un símbolo. Sólo un año después se convirtió en uno de los pocos artistas que han aparecido en la portada de la revista Time.
Mantuvo una relación con el periodista Robert Elms. En 1989 se casó con el director de documentales español Carlos Scola Pliego. Se divorciaron en 1995.

Tiene una hija, Ila, nacida el 21 de julio de 1996, fruto de la relación con un músico y productor jamaiquino al que conoció en Londres, Bob Morgan. La niña la acompaña en un corte de su último disco.
En los últimos años ha llevado una vida tranquila en la campiña inglesa (en un pueblo cerca de Stroud, en Gloucestershire) junto a su hija, su novio desde hace cuatro años, Ian Watts, un químico que fue marine de la Armada Real Británica, y el hijo de éste, Jack.

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