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Infobox musical artist| name = Sade| image = Sade Adu 1.jpg| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Helen Folasade Adu| Alias| birth_date = Birth date and age|1959|01|16|df=y| birth_place = Ibadan , Oyo State , Nigeria| origin = United Kingdom| genre = Smooth jazz , soul music|soul , jazz, rhythm and blues|R& B , quiet storm , soft rock , adult contemporary music|adult contemporary | occupation = Singer-songwriter , composer , arrangement|arranger , record producer | years_active = 1980–present| label = Portrait Records|Portrait / Sony Music Entertainment|CBS Records Epic Records|Epic / Sony Music Entertainment|SME Records | associated_acts = Sade (band)|Sade | website = http://www.sade.com/ www.sade.com Helen Folasade Adu Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE (born 16 January 1959; better known as Sade ), is a British singer-songwriter , composer , and record producer . She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit Awards|Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade (band)|Sade .
Biography
Sade was born in Ibadan , Oyo State , Nigeria.cite news |first=Robert |last=Sandall |title=Sade emerges from her country retreat |url= http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7005060.ece |work=The Sunday Times |date=31 January 2010 |accessdate=31 January 2010 Her middle name, Folasade, means honour confers your crown . http://www.nigerian.name/w/index.php? title=Folasade Meaning of Folasade in Nigerian.name Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba people|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 http://www.sade.com/gb/biography.html Sade.com 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,Cite book|title=Sade|author=Jessica Berer|publisher= Spin (magazine)|Spin |url= http://books.google.com/books? id=9ugCQfxwym0C& pg=PA12& dq=spin+magazine+1985+Sade& hl=en& ei=4D5wTOzLOouesQPPk9nUDQ& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=1& ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q& f=false|pages=12|month=May|year=1985|accessdate=2010-08-21 and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design .
While at college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals. 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. Sade and her band produced the first of a string of hit albums. Their debut album Diamond Life was in 1984. She is the most successful solo female artist in British history, having sold over 110 million albums worldwide.
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
She squatted in Tottenham in the 1980s, with her then boyfriend Robert Elms .cite news|last=Mahoney|first=Elisabeth|title=Radio review: From Frestonia to Belgravia – the History of Squatting|url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/22/from-frestonia-to-belgravia-review? newsfeed=true|accessdate=22 November 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 November 2011 In 1989, she married Spanish film director Carlos Pliego . Their marriage ended in 1995. She gave birth to a daughter, Ila Adu, in 1995 after a relationship with a Jamaican musician.
In 2002, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to popular music. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/56430/supplements/9 New Year’s Honours List — United Kingdom - Official announcement in The London Gazette , 31 December 2001, Supplement No.1 S9 Prior to the release of Soldier of Love (album)|Soldier of Love in 2010, the Daily Mail described her as "famously reclusive".Cite news|author=Georgina Littlejohn|title= Sade displays her youthful looks as she dresses down after her glamorous magazine cover hits the shelves|url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1257610/Sade-displays-youthful-looks-dresses-glamorous-magazine-cover-hits-shelves.html |work= Daily Mail |date= 2010-03-13|accessdate= 2010-03-13
Discography
Sade
: For more details on this topic, see Sade (band)#Discography|Discography of Sade col-begincol-2 ;Studio albums
1984: Diamond Life
1985: Promise (Sade album)|Promise
1988: Stronger Than Pride
1992: Love Deluxe
2000: Lovers Rock (Sade album)|Lovers Rock
2010: Soldier of Love (album)|Soldier of Love
col-2; Other albums
1992: Remix Deluxe
1994: The Best of Sade
2002: Lovers Live
2011: The Ultimate Collection (Sade album)|The Ultimate Collection
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