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Sade Adu is a British female artist who began her professional career in 1980. She performs under the pseudonym "Sade" and is associated with the United Kingdom. Her musical style is categorized by tags including soul, jazz, female vocalists, chillout, and pop.
Adu has one child and maintains an official website. Her work has been referenced by 525 other encyclopedia articles. She has 513,000 social media followers and has accumulated 3,469,031 listeners with a total playcount of 143,275,040.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Ibadan
- Occupation
- model
- Educated at
- Central Saint Martins
- Languages spoken
- Yoruba
- Notable work
- Your Love Is King
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- soft rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Epic Records
- Official website
- sade.com
- Image
- Sade Adu 1 (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- London
- Voice type
- contralto
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- Art+Feminism
- Commons category
- Sade Adu
- date of birth
- 1959-01-16
- different from
- Sade
- member of
- Sade
- name in native language
- Sade Adu
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- pseudonym
- Sade
- nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist
- social media followers
- 509000
- ethnic group
- English people
- birth name
- Helen Fọláṣadé Adu
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Encyclopedic overview
Helen Folasade Adu (listen;Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú [fɔ̄láʃādé ādú]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade (/ˈʃɑːdeɪ/ SHAH-day or /ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-DAY) or Sade Adu, is a Nigerian-British singer-songwriter. She is the principal songwriter and lead vocalist of the band Sade. One of the most successful British female artists in history, she is often recognised as an influence on contemporary music. Her success in the music industry was recognised with the honour Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2002 New Year Honours, and she was made Commander in the 2017 Birthday Honours.
Sade was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, and was brought up in England from the age of four. She studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London and gained modest recognition as a fashion designer and part-time model before joining the band Pride in the early 1980s. After gaining attention as a performer, she formed the band Sade, and secured a recording contract with Epic Records in 1983. A year later, the band released the album Diamond Life, which became one of the era's best-selling albums and the best-selling debut by a British female vocalist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sade Adu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.