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Helen Folsade Adu
BORN: January 16, 1959, ADO-EKITI, Nigeria

Lovers Rock is the first collection of new work by Sade in eight years. But it's a record that says less about those years gone by than the promise and vitality of the here and now. It's an album that's by turns moving, elegiac and beautiful. Like the tender, acoustic guitar-driven first single, 'By Your Side', a song about the tensile strength of love, it is music stripped back to its essential elements: voice, melody, and meticulously arranged instrumentation. The result is a record of bare, sometimes startlingly, immediacy.

But then Helen Folasade Adu is a woman who has never had anything to hide. Born in Ibadan, Nigeria and raised in Colchester, Essex, where she moved at 4 after her English mother separated from her Nigerian father, she's spent her life trying to do what feels right, honest and true. Because by comparison nothing else has seemed as important. When she was growing up, Sade would listen to soul artists like Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway and Marvin Gaye. Singers uniquely attuned to the complex sensibilities of heartache and hope, who were skilled enough to create from those feelings, something lasting and transcendent. Still she didn't think about singing herself.

Rather, she studied fashion at St Martin's art college, only signing on as vocalist when a couple of old school friends started a band "until they found a proper singer". From there to singing with early Eighties Latin funk collective Pride, she discovered a rare delight in songwriting. It was while she was with that group, Sade co-wrote 'Smooth Operator' with Ray St. John, and it was from there that Sade abandoned diffidence and finally stepped centre stage to form her own group with fellow Pride members Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman.

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not a fanatic just a fan. | Reviewer: afeisha | 11/10/09

i try not to be fanatic but Sade` sooths my soul. whether I am angry,depressed (often), happy or just in Sade` land (where I sometimes zone out to). lol. I Love You. You are an icon in my books. You make it better when 'it hurts like brand new shoes'. Some ppl think I'm a case because I listen to you so often but I just relate to your music very well. a big fan and friend from Trinidad & Tobago. When are you coming???

sade rules | Reviewer: clea | 9/23/09

i would never forget since the fist time i heard ur voice over radio station smoothjazz 88.3...wowww i was really amazed by ur voice.i really fell in love with ur xtra ordinary voice.ur songs inspired me a lot to 2get through with my life.

im crazy 4 her | Reviewer: william rosero | 5/1/09

i love sade ..no body i mean no body can be like her...........la amo con toda mi alma ..si ella no estubiera casada me casaria con ella..can some body call me and tell me sonthing about her please..4165540781

You are so special! | Reviewer: Biruk Sime | 8/8/08

Did you know how much wonderful you are. My favorite is No Ordinary Love, every day I hear your song sometimes all day only you. Your voice is soft and really not forgotten.
Your music has a life, and sounds like whisper of love.
Thank you and God bless you!

You are so graceful | Reviewer: Noki pakade | 2/4/08

I cant help wondering why you dont perform or record again. The universe needs your new album now more than ever. You give us the hope to love again, love all the time and love endlessly.

Love u always Sade
Noki
Johannesburg

from Sade | Reviewer: Sade Smith | 1/29/08

u r an excellent singer and i love all your songs my fave is Jezebel your voice is so smooth. i wana be a singer like u wen im older.i hope u cum out with another album please please cum out with another album i love your music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you are a gifted woman | Reviewer: zeru | 1/23/08

I never spend a day without hearing your music, wherever I go.......to me your vocal vice can be is everything no matter what I have faced in life
thank you sister!
and GOG Bless you !
Zeru Tige

If it is rumour | Reviewer: Kenneth | 1/19/08

Sade if it is a rumour that you said you don't have anything to do with Nigerians i forgive you.But if it is true "Go to hell and fuck your asshole" Nigeria is a big country and we are proud to be Nigerians.We are rich country.

born Sade fan | Reviewer: Marcea George | 1/8/08

Sade, I have been listening to you since I was conceived. I am 26 and all my mother has listened to since you have been putting out albums is YOU. You are part of me and my existence in this world. I am also biracial and i feel and understand you mind through song. It would be an honor to meet you in person. I give it up, give it all each and everyday. love your eternal fan MARCEA G.

Great,you are | Reviewer: Mohammed alaeddine ferjani | 12/26/07

i've been listening to your songs it has been now 10 years and i've never stopped to listen to the one that most tuches me"No ordinary Love".with your mellow voice you have the ability to turn everybody around the beautiful atmosphere you create.we are in need for more songs from you.i don't know if you ever heard about Tunisia,my country,hoping so that one day you plan for your coming here

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