Sade Adu

Helen Folasade Adu, OBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade ( /ʃɑːˈdeɪ/  shah- day  ), is a singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award-winning English group Sade. She has been nominated six times for the Brit Award for Best British Female.[1]  In 2002, she received an OBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace for services to music, and she dedicated her award to "all black women in England".[2]  In 2012, Sade was listed at number 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women In Music.[3]  Sade has a contralto vocal range.[4]



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[hide]  *1 Biography  ==Biography[ edit] == Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.[5]  Her middle name, Folasade, means "honour confers your crown".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_Jan_10_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bio_7-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_Jan_10_5-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  Later on Sade and her brother lived with their grandparents just outside Colchester, Essex. When Sade was 11, she moved to Holland-on-Sea, Essex to live with her mother,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at Saint Martin's School of Art.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_Jan_10_5-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bio_7-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]
 * 2 Personal life
 * 3 Discography
 * 3.1 Sade
 * 3.2 Collaboration
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">While in college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_Jan_10_5-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_Jan_10_5-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  Sade and her band produced the first of a string of hit albums. Their debut album Diamond Life appeared in 1984. She is the most successful solo female artist in British history.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_Jan_10_5-6" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">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<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She squatted in Tottenham, North London in the 1980s, with her then-boyfriend Robert Elms.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  In 1989, she married Spanish film director Carlos Pliego. Their marriage ended in 1995.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sunday_Times_Jan_10_5-7" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  She gave birth to a daughter, Ila Adu (who studied at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire), in 1995 after a relationship with Jamaican music producer Bob Morgan. (She moved briefly to the Caribbean to live with him in the late 1990s, but they later separated and she returned to England.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] ) In 2002, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to popular music.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  She lives in the English countryside and, prior to the release of Soldier of Love in 2010, the Daily Mail described her as "famously reclusive".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sade_Daily_Mail_12-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12] ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Sade<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * For more information on this topic, see Sade discography.

===Collaboration<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Absolute Beginners OST (Virgin, 1986)