Adele Biography :

Biography:

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born in Tottenham, London, on May 5, 1988, the first and only daughter of Penny Adkins, a teenager at the time, which was abandoned by her then-boyfriend, Mark Evans, the father of Adele before she was born. Because of this, Adele was created only by the mother, and never had any relationship with her father.

She began singing at four years, citing the now defunct British pop group Spice Girls as a major influence in relation to his love and passion for music, saying "they made me who I am today." At 9 years, Adele and her mother moved to Brighton, and later, when Adele was 11 to Brixton, and then to the neighboring district of West Norwood, south London.

West Norwood is even the theme for the singer's first single, titled "Hometown Glory" from the album 19, she wrote at age 19. After moving to South London, Adele began to be interested in R & B artists such as Aaliyah, Destiny's Child and Mary J. Blige.

In 2006, Adele has attracted the attention of XL Recordings with their three demos on their MySpace profile and ended up signing with the label. Since its debut album 19, Adele has been acclaimed by critics and was a sales success. The album debuted at number one and three received platinum certifications in the UK. His successful career in the United States began after his presentation on "Saturday Night Live" in 2008. Adele released her second album 21 on January 24, 2011 in England and February 22 in the United States. The album was a commercial success and critics, selling 208,000 copies in its first week of sales in the United Kingdom debuting first in the UK Albums Charte also topped the sales charts in several countries. The CD also debuted well in the United States reaching the top spot on the Billboard 200 selling 352,000 copies its first week.

After an acclaimed performance live at the Brit Awards 2011, the song "Someone Like You" topped the charts in the UK, while the album also remained at number one in the country. The Official Charts Companyanunciou that Adele is the first artist to achieve, still alive, a song and an album at number one at the same time in England since the Beatles in 1964.

On October 28, her Columbia Records announces that she will undergo surgery on his vocal cords and will be a long rest period. The forecast is that it comes back to sing only in 2012.

Adele had a vocal cord hemorrhage (reason for your surgery), she stated that fear of harming his voice due to the constant consumption of cigarettes, however, released their DVD "Adele Live at The Royal Albert Hall" on November 29, 2011.

During the award ceremony of the 2012 Grammy Awards, Adele took six awards, winning in all categories in which it was indicated. She won Best Record of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep"), Album of the Year (21), Song of the Year ("Rolling In the Deep"), Best Pop Solo Performance ("Someone Like You"), Best Pop Album (21) and best music video - short version ("Rolling In the Deep").

Curiosities:

·         In 2008, Adele was awarded the Brit Awards by critics. And in 2009 he won two Grammys - Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the song "Chasing Pavements."

 

 

·         Adele is admittedly influenced by divas of jazz and soul as Ella Fitzgerald and Etta Jones - met them by chance when looking at a record store a new style of haircut. In addition, he studied at the same institute, the Brit School, which formed musically Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Imogen Heap. His compositions, however, have another emotional weight - neither virulent nor ironic. Inspire some tenderness, because warm, without excess glucose.

   

·         Adele holds various record: equaled the Beatles with two albums and two singles simultaneously in the Top5 of England, Madonna topped the stay more than 10 consecutive weeks atop the British Prada, Amy Winehouse and surpassed as the best-selling album of the century UK.

·       Adele wrote the 12 songs on her album in a phase between 18 and 19 years, she harbored an unrequited passion. That is what "Best for Last", for example: "What am I supposed to the / To make you want me enquiry.c?" She herself describes her sound as "the heartbroken soul."

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