# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sade
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:17:54.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sade"
name: "Sade"
slug: "sade"
description: "She built a career on restraint — cool, precise, unhurried — and became one of Britain's best-selling artists by refusing to chase trends. The voice is unmistakable, the output famously sparse: six studio albums across four decades, each one a quiet recalibration of soul and jazz that somehow landed harder than the noise around it."
tagline: "British singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sade_Adu_1_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959-01-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           79.25
  momentum:             1.511669544839508
  historical:           33.177892
  currentAttention:     0.1968448347749242
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  140
  category: null
totalFollowers: 508000
tags:
  - name: "Musicians"
    slug: "musicians"
  - name: "Singer / Musician"
    slug: "singer-musician"
  - name: "Singer-Songwriter"
    slug: "singer-songwriter"
  - name: "Classical"
    slug: "classical"
  - name: "Fashion"
    slug: "fashion"
  - name: "Music"
    slug: "music"
  - name: "United Kingdom"
    slug: "united-kingdom"
  - name: "Europe"
    slug: "europe"
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/sade/"
    handle:    "sade"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755442/"
    handle:    "nm0755442"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/47zz7sob9NUcODy0BTDvKx"
    handle:    "47zz7sob9NUcODy0BTDvKx"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://sade.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9vGD_KFNiQOHSeUoxIM3yQ"
    handle:    "@sadevevo"
    followers: 508000
sources:
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Sade"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "شاده ادو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eade_Adu"
    title: "Şade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шаде Аду"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_(cantant)"
    title: "Sade (cantant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade"
    title: "Sade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade"
    title: "Sade"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AD_(%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B4%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1)"
    title: "Σαντέ (τραγουδίστρια)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_(singer)"
    title: "Sade (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شاده آدو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_(laulaja)"
    title: "Sade (laulaja)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_(mawa%C6%99iya)"
    title: "Sade (mawaƙiya)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99"
    title: "שאדיי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Sade Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sade_Adu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Ibadan in 1959 and raised in England from age four, Helen Folasade Adu studied fashion at Saint Martin's and modeled before joining the band Pride in the early eighties. After forming her own group in 1983, she released Diamond Life the following year — it became the best-selling debut by a British female vocalist and set the template: smooth, unshowy, airtight. Live Aid and the film Absolute Beginners followed in the mid-eighties; Promise, Stronger Than Pride, and Love Deluxe arrived in careful intervals through 1992. The band went silent in 1996 after the birth of her child, returned in 2000 with Lovers Rock — a shift away from the earlier jazz lean — then released Soldier of Love in 2010 and toured worldwide. Since 2011: three songs, long stretches of quiet, and a 2026 Rock Hall induction that arrives decades after the work already landed.