![]() ![]() Sade soon became the main attraction at concerts, her voice drawing sold-out crowds together with three Pride members, she formed a self-titled band and signed with a major label. Moving to London to study fashion, her fledgling career as a designer and model, as well as any nascent literary aspirations, were put on hold after she found work as a backup singer with the soul band Pride. The daughter of a Nigerian father and English mother, Sade (full name Helen Folasade Adu) was born in her father’s country and raised, after the divorce, by her mother and her family in Essex, where she absorbed much of her grandparents’ Christian socialist beliefs. Yet given that her delivery is instantly recognizable and impossible to replicate, it’s something of a marvel that she almost missed out on singing altogether. ![]() Over a career spanning six albums and 33 years, the art of the singer, backed by her band, has never been anything less than inimitable. Please Send Me Someone to Love - Sade (3.If Sade didn’t exist, no one could have invented her. Nothing Can Come Between Us - Sade (3.54)Ħ. Love Is Stronger Than Pride - Sade (4.17)Ģ. Never As Good As the First Time - Sade (3.57)Ĩ. The album includes songs from her debut album 'Diamond Life' (1984), 'Promise' (1985), 'Stronger Than Pride' (1988) and Love Deluxe (1992).ħ. The daughter of a Nigerian economics lecturer and an English nurse, Sade became one of the most enigmatic stars of the 1980s with her sensuous vocals, jazzily atmospheric songs and striking looks making her a fashion icon as well as a pop star. 'The Best of Sade' is the first greatest hits album by English band Sade, released in October 1994. ![]()
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