Sade

British singer · United Kingdom · Musicians · Born 1959 · age 67

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She built a career on restraint - cool, precise, unhurried - and became one of Britain's best-selling artists by refusing to chase trends.

Musicians Singer / Musician Singer-Songwriter Classical Fashion Music United Kingdom Europe

A life in dates

2017Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward2001Officer of the Order of the British EmpireAward1986Grammy Award for Best New ArtistAward1985“I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.”In their wordsOn her maternal side in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” in SPIN (2019 Jul 20)Read the whole statement

“One bloke approached an entire interview as if I was trying to be a jazz musician. I’ve never said that. I’ve never even tried it.”In their wordsOn her comparisons to torch singers such as Billie Holiday in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” in SPIN (2019 Jul 20)Read the whole statement

“Most things around are very similar in every respect, the music and the way people look. In order to be in a band, you have to have certain colors in your hair - still!”In their wordsOn the appeal of her band in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” in SPIN (2019 Jul 20)Read the whole statement

“I don’t like segregation…Music is something which should be available to all people.”In their wordsOn how the music scene was divided between Black and White musicians during the 1980s in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” in SPIN (2019 Jul 20)Read the whole statement

1959Born16 January 1959

Also in Deutsch

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Sade performing in 1985

Sade onstage at the SAP-Arena, Mannheim, Germany, 2011-11-16

Sade performing in 2011

In their own words 4

Sade

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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
1985, On her maternal side in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” in SPIN (2019 Jul 20), Own words
One bloke approached an entire interview as if I was trying to be a jazz musician. I’ve never said that. I’ve never even tried it.
1985, On her comparisons to torch singers such as Billie Holiday in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” in SPIN (2019 Jul 20), Own words
Most things around are very similar in every respect, the music and the way people look. In order to be in a band, you have to have certain colors in your hair - still!
1985, On the appeal of her band in “Sade: Our 1985 Interview” in SPIN (2019 Jul 20), Own words

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Awards

Commander of the Order of the British Empire2017

Officer of the Order of the British Empire2001

Grammy Award for Best New Artist1986

About this person

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.

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United Kingdom

In common with Sade

David BowieAlso in Absolute Beginners (1986)

Sandie ShawAlso in Absolute Beginners (1986)

Sophie MullerAlso in Sade: Lovers Live (2002)

Ray DaviesAlso in Absolute Beginners (1986)

Patsy KensitAlso in Absolute Beginners (1986)

Lauryn HillBoth received Grammy Award for Best New Artist

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