Sade Adu said in one of her interviews: 'When we play I know that the people love the music. They dismantled many of the old music business ways and quite promptly became a fully functioning autonomous unit with a firm grip on every aspect of the recording process. Sade made a great contribution to development of modern music. In early 2002, Sade celebrated their success of the tour by releasing their first ever live album and DVD, Lovers Live. The following summer, Sade embarked on their first tour in more than a decade, selling out countless dates across America. Debut single вЂњBy Your SideвЂќ was also a hit among radio and adult-contemporary listerners. She issued Lovers Rock in fall 2000 and incoporated more mainstream elements than ever before. The new millennium did spark a new scene for Sade. 1992вЂ™s Love Deluxe continued the unbroken streak of multi-platinum Sade albums, spinning off the hits вЂњNo Ordinary Love,вЂќ вЂњFeel No Pain,вЂќ and вЂњPearls.вЂќ While the albumвЂ™s producer Mike Pela, Matthewman, Denman, and Hale have gone on to other projects. SadeвЂ™s third album was 1988вЂ™s Stronger Than Pride and featured their first number one soul single вЂњParadise,вЂќ вЂњNothing Can Come Between Us,вЂќ and вЂњKeep Looking.вЂќ A new Sade album didnвЂ™t appear for four years. In 1986, Sade won a Grammy for Best New Artist. Sade was so popular that some radio stations reinstated the вЂ™70s practice of playing album tracks, adding вЂњIs It a CrimeвЂќ and вЂњTar BabyвЂќ to their play lists. January 1985 saw the album released on CBSвЂ™ Portrait label and by spring it went platinum off the strength of the Top Ten singles вЂњSmooth OperatorвЂќ and вЂњHang on to Your Love.вЂќ The second album, Promise (November 1985), featured вЂњNever As Good As the First TimeвЂќ and arguably her signature song, вЂњThe Sweetest Taboo,вЂќ which stayed on the U.S. Their debut album, Diamond Life (with overall production by Robin Millar), went Top Ten in the U.K. All Sade albums were released through this label. On 18 October 1983 Sade Adu signed with Epic Records. They received more attention from the media and record companies and separated finally. In May 1983, Sade performed at Danceteria Club in New York, NY, United States.

Adding keyboardist Andrew Hale, the group signed to the U.K.

After a year, the other band members told Adu, Matthewman, and Denman to go ahead and sign a deal. Initially, the labels wanted to only sign Adu, while the group members wanted a deal for the whole band. Pride did a lot of shows around London, stirring up record company interest. In essence, a few members within the main group Pride formed mini-groups that would be the opening act. The concept of the group was that there could shoot-offs. The band included future Sade band members guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman (a key player in вЂ™90s urban soul singer MaxwellвЂ™s success) and bassist Paul Denman.

The following year Adu joined the eight-piece funk band Pride as a background singer. John, вЂњSmooth Operator,вЂќ that would later become SadeвЂ™s first stateside hit. One of the more popular numbers that the group would perform was a Sade original co-written with bandmember Ray St. MartinвЂ™s School of Art in London while also doing some modeling on the side.ДЄround 1980, Adu started singing harmony with a Latin funk group called Arriva. She listened to Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, and Billie Holliday. Developing a good singing voice in her teens, Sade worked part-time jobs in and outside of the music business. After her mother returned to England, Sade grew up on the North End of London. Sade Adu, the band's singer, is the daughter of a Nigerian father and an English mother.

Sade made their debut in December 1982 at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, England, in support of Pride. Sade was formed in 1982, when members of Latin soul band Pride - Sade Adu, (real name Helen Folasade Adu - born 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria) Stuart Matthewman and Paul Spencer Denman - together with Paul Cook formed a splinter group and began to write their own material. The band's music features elements of smooth jazz, soul, sophisti-pop, and R&B. Sade (pronounced 'shah-day') is a Grammy-winning British band named after its lead singer Sade Adu.

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