WIKIPEDIA INFORMATION ON SADE

Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú [fɔ̄láʃādé ādú]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade (/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-DAY), is a British singer, songwriter, and actress, known as the lead singer of her eponymous band. She has been credited as one of the most successful British female artists in history, and is often recognised as an influence on contemporary music. Her services to music were recognised in the UK with an award of the OBE in 2002, and a CBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours.

Born in Ibadan, Nigeria and brought up partly in Essex, England since age 4, Sade gained modest recognition as a fashion designer and part-time model, prior to joining the band Pride in the early 1980s. After gaining attention as a performer, she formed the band Sade, and secured a recording contract with Epic Records in 1983. A year later the band released the album Diamond Life, which became one of the best-selling albums of the era, and the best-selling debut by a British female vocalist. In July 1985, Sade was among the performers at the Live Aid charity concert at Wembley Stadium, and the following year she appeared in the film Absolute Beginners. Following the band’s third and fourth albums, Stronger Than Pride (1988) and Love Deluxe (1992), they went on hiatus after the birth of Sade’s child, while the singer experienced widespread media coverage during the period for unsubstantiated claims of mental health and addiction issues.

After a spell of eight years without an album, the band reunited in 1999, and released Lovers Rock in 2000. The album departed from the jazz-inspired inflections of their previous work, featuring mellower sounds and pop compositions. The band then underwent another hiatus, not producing music for another ten years until the release of Soldier of Love. Following that album’s release, the band entered a third period of hiatus, and have only released two new songs (2018’s “Flower of the Universe” for the soundtrack of Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time and “The Big Unknown“, part of the soundtrack for Steve McQueen‘s film Widows) to date.

Sade rarely grants interviews. She doesn’t trust the media in general.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

Every Year

• 27 B.C. ROMAN SENATE GRANTED GAIUS OCTAVIUS TITLE OF AUGUSTUS

1540s

• 1547: IVAN THE TERRIBLE CROWNED AS FIRST RUSSIAN CZAR

1870s

• BORN 1874: ROBERT SERVICE (POET)

1900s

• BORN 1908: ETHEL MERMAN (SINGER & ACTRESS)

1920s

• 1920: PROHIBITION WENT INTO EFFECT IN THE U.S.
• BORN 1928: WILLIAM KENNEDY (AMERICAN WRITER)

1930s

• BORN 1934: MARILYN HORNE (OPERA SINGER)

1940s

• DIED 1942: CAROLE LOMBARD (ACTRESS)
• BORN 1944: RONNIE MILSAP (SINGER)

1950s

• BORN 1950: DEBBIE ALLEN (ACTRESS, DANCER, & CHOREOGRAPHER)
• BORN 1959: SADE (SINGER)

1960s

• 1961: US DEPARTMENT OF STATE ISSUES A BAN ON TRAVEL TO CUBA

1970s

• BORN 1974: KATE MOSS (SUPERMODEL)
• 1974: RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS BECAME THE FIRST TRIBE IN THE U.S. TO ISSUE TRIBAL LICENSE PLATES
• BORN 1979: AALIYAH (SINGER)
• DIED 1979: TED CASSIDY (ACTOR)

1990s

• 1991: OPERATION DESERT STORM LAUNCHED
• DIED 1994: LELAND STOWE (JOURNALIST)

2000s

• 2004: 121.5-POUND BLUE CATFISH CAUGHT, LAKE TEXOMA, TEXAS
• DIED 2009: ANDREW WYETH (ARTIST)

2010s

• DIED 2010: CARL MILTON SMITH (AMERICAN COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER)
• DIED 2013: PAULINE FRIEDMAN PHILLIPS, PEN NAME ABIGAIL VAN BUREN (“DEAR ABBY” ADVICE COLUMNIST)
• DIED 2014: RUSSELL JOHNSON (ACTOR)

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