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Written by David Olagunju
IT’s been 10 years since Sade Adu released her last album, but it hasn’t affected the R & B singer’s popularity. Her latest album entitled, Soldier of Love, released on February 9, has already shot to the top of The Billboard 200 chart and has sold over 100,000 copies each week since its release.Born Helen Folasade Adu in Ibadan, about 50 miles from Lagos, she was the daughter of an African father , a Nigerian, an Ekiti man to be precise and an English mother.
After her mother returned to England, she grew up on the North end of London, developing a good singing voice in her teens by listening to artistes like Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Al Green, Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday.
She worked in and around the music industry, studied fashion design at St. Martin’s School of Art in London while modelling on the side.
By 1980, she started singing harmony with a Latin Funk group called Arriva (co writing the hit Smooth Operator) and piquing the interest of record labels. |
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