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Sade Adu, nome artístico de Helen Folasade Adu, (Ibadan, 16 de janeiro de 1959) é uma cantora de jazz, da banda Sade, popular no Reino Unido.

Nascida na Nigéria, mas criada em Colchester, Reino Unido, para onde foi viver com a sua mãe (britânica) quando esta se separou do seu pai (nigeriano). Cresceu ouvindo mestres do soul como Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield e Donny Hathaway. Apesar dessas influências e mesmo ouvindo no período de sua adolescência, não decidiu dedicar sua vida à música. Tanto que estudou desenho de moda no 'St Martin's Art College'. Porém, logo descobriu que o mundo da moda não lhe permitia um bom equilíbrio entre o gosto de criar e a necessidade de ganhar a vida.

Descobriu o seu talento musical quando aderiu a uma banda formada por alguns dos seus amigos de colégio. Rapidamente passou a ser a vocalista de uma banda de funk latino chamada Pride. Ganhou gosto por escrever música (foi nesta fase que escreveu o êxito Smooth Operator). Aos 24 anos Helen assumiu-se como elemento central de uma nova banda, Sade, formada por si e por elementos da então extinta Pride - Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale e Paul Spencer Denman.

Biography

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

While at college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals. 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. 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. She is the most successful solo female artist in British history.

A marriage to Spanish film director Carlos Pliego ended in 1995 after six years. She gave birth to a daughter, Ila Adu, in 1996 after a relationship with a Jamaican musician. She was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in 2002. Sade is, as the Daily Mail described her prior to the release of Soldier of Love in 2010, "famously reclusive".

Personal life

Adu currently resides in Stroud, United Kingdom, with her partner Ian, his son Jack and her daughter Ila. In an interview with The Times, Adu stated that Ian is Ila's real father. Regarding her personal life, Sade Adu is generally known as strictly private, which is confirmed on her website's homepage. Despite this, Ila made a cameo in the music video for her mothers' band's latest single, Babyfather.