Sade

Sade

Helen Folasade Adu (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú [fɔ̄láʃādé ādú]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade ( 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 studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London and gained modest recognition as a fashion designer and part-time model, prior to joining the band Pride in the early 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sade has received more than 322,477 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Sade is the 309th most popular singer (down from 234th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Nigeria and the most popular Nigerian Singer.