Everything You Need To Know About The Musical Legend, Sade Adu
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- January 17, 2019
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If you grew up listening to hit songs like “Smooth Operator” and “Sweetest Taboo” you’ll definitely remember the musical legend Sade Adu.
Sade Adu is a British-Nigerian singer, who is known for her grace and unmistakably soothing voice. Her sultry, soul-inspired songs struck a cord around the world in the 80s an’9os.
The musical legend and four-time Grammy Award winner hit the big 60 yesterday, January 16, 2019. To honour her let’s take a look back at the life and times of Sade Adu.
Early Life
Helen Folasade Adu was born on January 16, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria to Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse.
At the age of 4, Sade’s parents separated. Her mother, Anne Hayes then returned to England, taking Sade and her older brother Banji with her to live with their grandparents near Colchester, Essex.
When Sade was 11 years old, she moved to Holland-on-Sea, Essex, to live with her mother. After completing her education at Clacton County High School at age 18, she moved to London and studied fashion design at Saint Martin’s School of Art.
Career
After completing three-year course work in fashion design, and later modelling briefly, Sade began backup singing with British band Pride. During this time, she formed a songwriting partnership with Pride’s guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman; together, backed by Pride’s rhythm section, they began doing their own sets at Pride gigs.
Her solo performances of the song “Smooth Operator” attracted the attention of record companies, and in 1983 Sade and Matthewman split from Pride, along with keyboardist Andrew Hale, bassist Paul Denman and drummer Paul Cook, to form the band, Sade.
Following the release of the band’s debut album, they went on to release a string of multi-platinum selling albums. Their follow up Promise was released in 1985 and peaked at number one in the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200, and went on to sell four million copies in the US.
Sade would later go on to make her acting debut in the British film, Absolute Beginners (1986), before the release of the band’s albums, Stronger Than Pride (1988) and Love Deluxe (1992). After the release of the fifth album, Lovers Rock (2000), the band embarked on a ten-year hiatus in which Sade raised her daughter.
Following the hiatus, the band returned with their sixth album, Soldier of Love (2010) which became a commercial success and won a Grammy Award.
Honours, awards and nominations
Her first album Diamond Life was a best-selling debut by a female vocalist and it sold over six million copies.
Her album Promise got multiple platinum certifications in the United States and Europe. In 1986, the album also got her band the Grammy Award for Best New Artist Read more.
She also won three more Grammys in 1994 for her song ‘No Ordinary Love’, in 2002 for ‘Lovers Rock’ and in 2011 for ‘Soldier of Love’.
In 2002, Sade was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to music.
In 2017, She was promoted to Commander of the same Order (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours, also for services to music.
In 2018, Sade returned to the music scene when she released a song titled ‘Flower of the Universe’ for the movie “A Wrinkle In Time”
Sade is said to have an estimated net worth of $70 million.
Personal Life
In 1989, Sade Adu married film director Carlos Pliego. Their marriage ended in 1995. Sade moved briefly to the Caribbean to live with Jamaican music producer Bob Morgan in the late-1990s, but they later separated.
During her relationship with Morgan, Sade gave birth to Mickailia, now known as Izaak, on 21 July 1996. Sade has been in a relationship with a former Royal Marine since 2007, and from this relationship, she has a stepson.
