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Helen Folasade Adu, OBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade (/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-day), is a Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade. In 2002, she received an OBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace for services to music, and she dedicated her award to "all black women in England".[1] In 2012, Sade was listed at number 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women In Music.[2] Sade has a contralto vocal range.[3]

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1 Biography

2 Personal life

3 Discography

3.1 Sade

3.2 Collaboration

4 References

5 External links

[edit]Biography

Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.[4] Her middle name, Folasade, means honor confers your crown.[5] Her parents, Adebisi 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.[4] Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old[6] Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents.[4] When Sade was 11, she moved to Holland-on-Sea, Essex to live with her mother,[7] and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.[4]

While in college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals.[4] 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.[4] Sade and her band produced the first of a string of hit albums. Their debut album Diamond Life appeared in 1984. She is the most successful solo female artist in British history, having sold over 110 million albums worldwide.[4]

In 2002, she appeared on the Red Hot Organization's Red Hot and Riot, a compilation CD in tribute to the music of fellow Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti. She recorded a remix of her hit single, "By Your Side", for the album and was billed as a co-producer

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