Adele
English singer-songwriter (born 1988) · United Kingdom · Musicians
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She turned a breakup into the biggest album of the century. With a voice that can fill an arena without a single trick, Adele made heartbreak sound inevitable - and then sold 120 million records proving everyone else had felt it too.
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Adele performing in 2007[2]
Adele performing live in January 2009
Adele performing in Seattle, Washington, on 12 August 2011
Adele at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards![Adele singing in St. Paul, Minnesota during her first North American tour in five years in July 2016. Ten million people attempted to purchase tickets for the North American leg of Adele's world tour. Only 750,000 tickets were available.[116][117]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/ADELE_LIVE_2016_-_HELLO_-_ST.PAUL_-_night_1_-_Copy.jpg/1280px-ADELE_LIVE_2016_-_HELLO_-_ST.PAUL_-_night_1_-_Copy.jpg)
Adele singing in St. Paul, Minnesota during her first North American tour in five years in July 2016. Ten million people attempted to purchase tickets for the North American leg of Adele's world tour. Only 750,000 tickets were available.[116][117]![Adele on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2016. Having been going to the festival since she was a child, an emotional Adele cried before she went on stage to 150,000 people.[147]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Pyramid_Stage%2C_Adele%2C_Glastonbury_Festival_2016_IMG_8701_%2827355017094%29.jpg/1280px-Pyramid_Stage%2C_Adele%2C_Glastonbury_Festival_2016_IMG_8701_%2827355017094%29.jpg)
Adele on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2016. Having been going to the festival since she was a child, an emotional Adele cried before she went on stage to 150,000 people.[147]
Adele performing at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Australia, March 2017In their own words 10
, I actually have an ear infection, which is pretty grim. I've never had an ear infection before," she said.
I am no longer in pain, which is great.
No way I was missing the f------ show.
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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins signed with XL Recordings straight out of the BRIT School in 2006, releasing 19 two years later - a debut strong enough to earn her a Best New Artist Grammy. Then came 21 in 2011, which became the best-selling album of the 21st century and sat atop the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks, a US chart record. "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain" became her signature songs, and the album took six Grammys including Album of the Year. She wrote "Skyfall" for the Bond film in 2012, winning an Academy Award. Her third album, 25, broke first-week sales records in 2015 - over three million copies sold in the US alone - and swept five more Grammys. 30 followed in 2021 with "Easy on Me", another worldwide chart leader. Both 25 and 30 became the year's best-selling albums globally, and she remains the best-selling female artist of the 21st century in the UK.
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Susan BoyleAlso in Royal Variety Performance 2010 (2010)
Lorne MichaelsAlso in Adele: Live in New York City (2015)
CherylAlso in Royal Variety Performance 2010 (2010)
Celine DionBoth received Grammy Award for Record of the Year
Lady GagaBoth received Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance
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