Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, (born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade, is a British[1] singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Brit and Grammy Award winning English group, Sade. Biography Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.[2] Her middle name, Folasade, means honor confers your crown.[3] Her parents, Bisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria.[2] Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old [4] Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents.[2] When Sade was 11, she moved to live at Holland-on-Sea with her mother,[5] and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.[2] While at college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals.[2] Her solo performances of the song Smooth Operator attracted the attention of record companies and in 1983, she signed a solo deal with Epic Records taking three members of the band, Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale and Paul Denman, with her.[2] Sade and her band produced the first of a string of hit albums, the debut album Diamond Life, in 1984, and have subsequently sold over 50 million albums.[2] She is the most successful solo female artist in British history.[2 <b>...</b>
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