Born Helen Folasade Adu on January 16, 1959, in Ibadan, Nigeria; raised in Clacton, Essex, England; daughter of Adebisi (an economics professor) and Anne (a nurse) Adu; married Carlos Scola (a filmmaker), c. 1990; divorced, 1991; children: daughter, with Bob Morgan (a record producer), 1996. Education: Bachelor of arts degree from St. Martin's College of Art, London, 1979. Addresses: Record company--Epic Records, 550 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022-3211.
Sade was born Helen Folasade Adu in Ibadan, Nigeria, to a British mother and Nigerian father. Her stage name, a shortened form of her middle name, was adopted almost immediately because her Nigerian neighbors refused to call her by the English name Helen. Sade remained in Nigeria until she was four years old, when her parents separated and her mother took Sade and her older brother to England. The family stayed with Sade's grandparents in a small village in Essex, then moved to Holland-on-Sea when Sade's mother remarried. Despite the fact that the young girl and her brother were the only children of black descent in the area, and Sade was sometimes the target of racial slurs, she had a comfortable circle of friends with whom she went dancing. As a teenager, however, she had no professional musical aspirations. She told a Washington Post interviewer: "Obviously I've stood in front of the mirror with a hairbrush just like anyone. But that was the extent of it." Sade and her friends enjoyed funk and soul music, and she particularly admired the work of Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, and the late Marvin Gaye. She also liked singing along with her mother's record collection, which included the albums of Frank Sinatra and Dinah Washington.
Sade Adu And Heroin Use
Helen Folasade Adu had been born in Nigeria, but at the age of four his parents separated, and when he turned eleven he went to live with his mother England, where he became interested in music from a young age. At age 17 she was already playing the harmonica with a group called Arriva, and in 1983 a caztalentos discovered her singing while working at a street stall in the Camden market. This is how he formed his own band, Folasade, which later cut his name that we all know.
Of course, the blues are normally associated with African Americans. Sade (a.k.a. Helen Folasade Adu) is black but of Nigerian descent. She grew up in England, and her version of the blues diverges quite a bit from the traditional form we most often associate with the idiom. There are no seven- or 12-bar blues here, no high, intricate vocalizing à la Aretha Franklin or Etta James.
Khan is vegan, saying she adopted the diet to lose weight and combat high blood pressure and Type-2 diabetes.[47] In the past, Khan struggled with drug abuse and alcoholism. Her drug use, which at times included cocaine and heroin, ended in the early 1990s. Khan had an on-and-off struggle with alcoholism until 2005, declaring herself sober.
The tradition? Funny folks are ascribing an "80s" vibe to her.... she is in the lineage of the great jazz singers of the 50s... cool, smoky, slow burn, heroin. Billie Holiday, Ella, Shirley Horn, Anita O'Day, June Christy, Carmen McRae,/Sarah Vaughn (in their cool opiate modes). Peggy Lee was the Walmart version of the form.
Nigerian-British singer Helen Folasade Adu, or Sade Adu, often blends Afro-Cuban tunes with soul and smooth jazz in her music. The Grammy Award winner had initially studied fashion designing and been a model. The founder of the band Sade, she has released iconic tracks such as No Ordinary Love.
12: JANIS JOPLIN One of the defining figures of the Sixties, Janis Joplin gained world-wide recognition thanks to her performances at the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company. The Texan singer died of a heroin overdose in 1970, aged just 27. Joplin's raw, bluesy vocals and quietly inventive writing have had a profound influence on several generations of musicians.
45: SADE British-Nigerian singer Helen Folasade Adu is better known as Sade, the lead singer of the Grammy and Brit Award-winning soul, jazz and R&B band of the same name. As the group's chief songwriter, Adu was the driving force behind hit singles Your Love is King and Smooth Operator. The band have sold over 110 million albums worldwide, making Adu one of the most successful British female musicians ever. In 2002, she received an OBE for services to music and dedicated it to "all black women in England".
London Calling is what happens when a punk band develops their music into a force that reflects the uncertainty, angst, and disaffection of an entire generation. London was a mess in 1979, with heroin, unemployment, political, social, and racial tension ripping through the city (and all of Great Britain).
Recorded mainly in a villa in France, the making of Exile on Main St. is the stuff of legend. Keith Richards was in the depths of heroin addiction and Mick Jagger often missed sessions, but somehow when the band did manage to get together they created magic. 2ff7e9595c
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