Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born May 5, 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. After graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted a demo on Myspace that same year. In 2007, she received the "Critics" award of the Brit Awards and won the Sound of Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19 , was released in 2008 for commercial and critical success. It's certified seven times platinum in the UK, and three times platinum in the US. The album contains her first song, "Hometown Glory", written when she was 16 years old, based on the outskirts of her home in West Norwood in London. An appearance he made on Saturday Night Live at the end of 2008 improved his career in the US. At the 51st Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received an award for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Adele released her second studio album, 21 , in 2011. The album was very well received and surpassed her debut success, earning numerous awards in 2012, among which six Grammy Awards are linking records, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including the British Album of the Year; and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK, and overall the fourth best-selling album in the country. In the US, it has held the top position longer than any album since 1985, and got a diamond certificate. Best-selling album worldwide in 2011 and 2012, 21 has sold over 31 million copies. The success of 21 resulted in many Adele mentioning in the Guinness Book of World Records. She is the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five Billboard 200 and two singles on the top five of Billboard Hot 100 and first woman in history > Billboard Hot 100 has three simultaneous 10 singles as the main artist with "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone Like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain", all of which also top the chart. 21 is the longest number one album by female solo artist in UK history and US Album Chart.
In 2012, Adele released "Skyfall", which he wrote and recorded for the James Bond movie of the same name. The song won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, as well as a Brit Award for the British Singles of the Year. After three years of rest, Adele released her third studio album, 25 , in 2015. It became the best-selling album of the year and broke the first week sales record in UK and USA. 25 is the second album to earn a diamond certificate in the US and received five Grammy Awards, including a second Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards. The main single, "Hello", became the first song in the US that sold over a million digital copies within a week of its release. Her third concert tour, Adele Live 2016, visited Europe, North America and Oceania, and ended with a final concert at Wembley Stadium in late June 2017.
In 2011, 2012 and 2016, Adele was named Artist of the Year by Billboard . At the Ivello Novello Awards 2012 and 2016, Adele was named Best Songwriter of the Year by the Songwriters Writers Academy, Composer, and British Writers. In 2012, she is listed at number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. Time magazine named him one of the most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2016. The 2016-17 tour saw him breaking records of attendance in a number of countries, including Britain, Australia and the United States. With sales of over 100 million records, Adele is one of the best selling music artists in the world.
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1988-2006: Little
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on May 5, 1988 in Tottenham, London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and Welsh father, Marc Evans. Evans left when Adele was two years old, leaving his mother to raise him. She started singing at the age of four and confirmed that she became obsessed with the sound. Growing up, Adele spent most of her time singing rather than reading; the last book he read was Roald Dahl's
In 1999 she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, then to the neighboring district of West Norwood in south London. Adele graduated from BRIT School for the Performing Arts & amp; Technology at Croydon in May 2006, where she was Leona Lewis and Jessie J. Adele's classmates praised the school by nurturing her talent even though, at the time, she was more interested in getting into A & R and look forward to launching another career person.
2006-2010: Beginning and 19
Four months after graduation, he published two songs in the fourth edition of the online art publication PlatformsMagazine.com. He has recorded a demo of three songs for a class project and gave it to a friend. Friend posted a demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and caused a phone call from Richard Russell, the boss of the music label XL Recordings. He doubted whether the offer was real because the only record company he knew was Virgin Records, and he brought a friend with him to a meeting.
Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins in Management September, and in June 2006, Dickins became his official representative. September managed Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a huge fan of British singer-songwriters. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2006. Adele provided vocals for the song Jack PeÃÆ'Â ± ate, "My Yvonne," for his debut album, and during this session he first met producer Jim Abbiss, who will continue to produce both. the majority of her debut album, 19, and tracks on 21. In June 2007, Adele made her television debut, performing "Daydreamer" on BBC Later... with Jools Holland . Adele's breakthrough song, "Hometown Glory", was released in October 2007.
In 2008, Adele has become a headliner and performs an acoustic set, in which he is supported by Damien Rice. She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the # 1 breakthrough act in the BBC's annual poll of music critic, Sound of 2008. This album 19, named after her age he wrote and composed many of his songs, entering the UK charts at number one. The Times Modern Encyclopedia of Music named 19 an essential "blue-eyed" soul recording. She released her second single, "Chasing Pavements", on January 14, 2008, two weeks before her debut album, 19 . The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks. Adele was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize award for 19 . She also won an Urban Music Award for "Best Jazz Act." He also received a Q Awards nomination in the Breakthrough Act category and a Music of Black Origin nomination in the Best UK Female category. In March 2008, Adele signed an agreement with Columbia Records and XL Recordings to plunge into the United States. She started a short tour of North America in the same month, and 19 released in the US in June. The magazine's Billboard stated it: "Adele really has the potential to become one of the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation." The An Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2008 and ended in June 2009.
He then canceled the 2008 US tour schedule with his ex-girlfriend. He said in Nylon magazine in June 2009, "I'm like, 'I can not believe I did that.' It seems ungrateful.... I drink too much and that's sort of the basis of my relationship with this child. I can not stand without him, so I'm like, 'Well, I'll just abort my stuff then. '"He calls this period his" early life crisis. "He is also known for his dislike of flying and homesickness when away from his native London.In mid-October 2008, Adele's attempts to break the United States seemed to have failed, but then he was booked as a guest of the October 18, 2008 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. The episode, which included an appearance expected by US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program the best, ranking in 14 years with 17 million viewers Adele performs "Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder," and the next day, 19 topped the iTunes charts and ranked number five on Amazon.com while "Chasing Pavements" climbed to the top 25. reached number 11 on Billboard 200 as a result, a 35-place jump over the previous week.At November 2008 Adele moved to Notting Hill, London after leaving his mother's home, an act of terror ongnya to stop drinking. The album was certified gold in February 2009 by the RIAA. As of July 2009, the album has sold 2.2 million copies worldwide.
At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in February 2009, Adele received the award for Best New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Chasing Pavements", which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Adele performs "Chasing Pavements" at a ceremony in a duet with Jennifer Nettles. In 2010, Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Hometown Glory." In April, the song "My Same" went to the German Singles Chart after it was performed by Lena Meyer-Landrut in a talent show Unser Star fÃÆ'¼r Oslo, or Our Star for Oslo, > where the German entry into Eurovision Song Contest 2010 is determined. At the end of September, after being shown on The X Factor, The Adele Version of Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love" went back to the British single at number 4. During 2010 CMT Artists of the Year privileged, Adele did a widely publicized duet from Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" with Darius Rucker. This performance was later nominated for the CMT Music Award. 2011-2014: 21 , recognition and hiatus worldwide
Adele released her second studio album, 21 , on January 24, 2011 in England and February 22 in the US. He said that the album was inspired by the breakup with his ex-spouse. The sound of the album is described as country music and the roots of classical and contemporary music. The sound change from his first album was the result of his bus driver playing contemporary music from Nashville while he was on a tour of South America, and his title reflects the growth he experienced in the previous two years. Adele said to Spin magazine: "It's fun for me because I never grow around [the music]." 21 reached number 1 in 30 countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States.
The emotional performance of "Someone Like You" at the 2011 Brit Awards on February 15 pushed the song to number one in the UK. Her first album, 19, re-entered the UK album chart along with 21, while the first and second singles "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You" were on the top 5 single chart UK, making Adele the first live artist to achieve the achievements of two of the top five hits on Official Official Chart and Official Album Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964. Both songs topped the charts in many markets and solved many sales performance records. Following the appearance of "Someone Like You" at the MTV Video Music Awards 2011, it became Adele's number one number on Billboard Hot 100. In December 2011, 21 sold over 3, 4 million copies in the UK, and became the 21st century bestseller, overtaking Amy Winehouse Back to Black, with Adele being the first artist to sell three million albums in the UK in a calendar year. "Set Fire to the Rain" became Adele's third number one single on Billboard Hot 100, as Adele became the first artist to have the album, 21, holding the number -One position on < i> Billboard 200 along with three number one singles. In addition, 21 has at most weeks in the Billboard 200 chart of any album by a woman.
To promote the album, Adele embarked on the "Adele Live" tour, which sold the feet of North America. In October 2011, Adele was forced to cancel two tours due to vocal bleeding. He released a statement saying he needed a long break to avoid permanent damage to his voice. In the first week of November 2011 Steven M. Zeitels, director of the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Sound Rehabilitation at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, performed laser micro surgery on Adele's vocal cords to remove benign polyps. Her live record, Live in the Royal Albert Hall, was released in November 2011, debuting at number one in the US with 96,000 copies sold, the highest one-week count for a music DVD in four years, becoming the best-selling music DVD 2011. Adele is the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have 1st year album ( 21 ), number one ("Rolling in the Deep"), and music video number one. At the American Music Awards 2011 on November 20th, Adele won three awards; Favorite Pop/Rock Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for 21. On December 9th,
After throat micro surgery, he made a live comeback at the Grammy Awards 2012 in February. She won in all six nominated categories, making her the second female artist in Grammy history, after Beyoncà © ©, to win many categories in one night. Following that success, 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales increase after the Grammy win since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking data in 1991. Adele received a Brit Award for Best British Women's Solo Artist, and this year's British Album presented to him by George Michael. Following the Brit Awards, 21 reached number one for the non-consecutive 21st week in the UK. The album has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK where it is the fourth best-selling album. In October, the album sales surpassed 4.5 million in the UK, and in November surpassed 10 million sales in the US. Best-selling album worldwide in 2011 and 2012, by 2016, the album has sold over 31 million copies. By the end of 2014, he has sold around 40 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide. Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn a RIAA diamond certification for one disc album in less than two years.
In October 2012, Adele confirmed that he has written, composing and recording the theme song for the 23rd James Bond film "Skyfall," . The song "Skyfall," written and compiled in collaboration with producer Paul Epworth, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and featured an orchestration by J. A. C. Redford. Adele stated the recording of "Skyfall" was "one of the proudest moments of my life." On October 14th, "Skyfall" climbed to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000 copies resulting in overall sales being 176,000, and "Skyfall" entering Billboard Hot 100 at number 8, selling 261,000 copies in the US in the first three days. It's tied "Skyfall" with "A View to a Kill" from Duran Duran as the highest James Bond theme song on the UK Singles Chart; a record that surpassed in 2015 by Sam Smith's "Writing's on the Wall".
"Skyfall" has sold over two million copies worldwide and won the Adele the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and Academy Award for Best Original Song. In December 2012, Adele was crowned as Billboard Artist of the Year, and 21 was named Album of the Year, making it the first artist to receive both awards for two consecutive years.. Adele has also been named the top female artist. The Associated Press named Adele Entertainer of the Year for 2012. The Grammy Awards 2013 saw Adele's live version of "Set Fire to the Rain" winning a Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, bringing her total win to nine.
On April 3, 2012, Adele confirmed that her third album would likely be at least two years away, stating, "I have to spend some time and life a bit.There are two good years between my first and second albums, so it's 'It will be this time.' stated that he would continue writing and composing his own material. At the Grammy Awards 2013, he confirmed that he was in the early stages of his third album. He also stated that he would most likely work with Paul Epworth again.
In September 2013, Wiz Khalifa confirmed that he and Adele had collaborated on a song for their upcoming fifth studio album, Blac Hollywood, even though the collaboration did not make the last playlist. In January 2014, Adele received his tenth Grammy Award with "Skyfall" winning Best Written Song for Visual Media at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. On the eve of the 26th anniversary in May 2014, Adele posted a secret message through his Twitter account that prompted media discussions about his next album. The message, "Bye bye 25... See you later at the end of the year," is interpreted by some in the media, including Daily Mail and Capital FM, which means that the next album is titled 25 and released later this year. In 2014, Adele was nominated for nine World Music Awards. In early August, Paul Moss suggested that an album be released in 2014 or 2015. However, in an October 2014 account submitted to Companies House by XL Recordings, they ruled out a 2014 release.
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On August 27, 2015, Billboard reported that Adele's label, XL Recordings, had the intention to release his third studio album in November 2015. Danger Mouse has contributed a song, while Tobias Jesso Jr. has written a song, and Ryan Tedder "is back in the mix after producing and writing" Rumor Has It "on 21 ." At the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in early September 2015, Sia announced that his new single "Alive" was co-written by Adele, and was originally intended for Adele's third album. On October 18, a 30 second new material clip from Adele was shown on British television during the commercial break on The X Factor. The ad teases footage of a new song from her third album, with viewers hearing the sound of the song accompanied by the lyrics on the black screen.
In a statement released three days later he confirmed that the album was titled 25 , with Adele stating, "My latest record is a breaking record, and if I have to label this one, I will call This is make-up records, compensate for lost time, compensate for everything I've ever done and never do. 25 is about knowing who I am without realizing, and I'm sorry it takes a long time, but, you know , life happens. "Adele also believes <25> will be her last album with her age as her title, believing that 25 will be the end of a trilogy. On October 22, Adele confirmed that 25 will be released on November 20th, while the main single from the album, "Hello" will be released on October 23rd. The song was first played on Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 Breakfast Show on the BBC on the morning of October 23 with Adele being interviewed live. The video "Hello", released on October 22, has been viewed over 27.7 million times on YouTube in the first 24 hours, breaking Vevo's record for most views in a day, surpassing 20.1 million views for "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift. On October 28, BBC News reported that "Hello" was seen on YouTube an average of one million times per hour. "Hello" then became the fastest video to reach one billion views on YouTube, which was reached after 88 days. The video for "Hello" captures the iconic elements of England like a red phone box and a cup of tea. The song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart on October 30, with first week sales of 330,000 copies, making it the biggest selling number in three years. "Hello" also debuted at number one in many countries around the world, including Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Germany, and on November 2, the song debuted at number one on Billboards > Hot 100, became the first song in the US that sold at least one million downloads a week, with a record of 1.11 million. By the end of 2015, it has sold 12.3 million units globally and is the 7th best-selling single of the year despite being released in late October.
On October 27, BBC One announced plans for Adele on the BBC , a special hour presented by Graham Norton, where Adele talked about his new album and featuring new songs. This is her first television appearance since her appearance at the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony, and the show was recorded before the live audience on November 2 for broadcast on November 20, to coincide with the release of 25 . On October 27th it was announced that Adele will appear in the US entertainment series Saturday Night Live on November 21st. On October 30, Adele confirmed that he will perform a one-night concert entitled Adele Live in New York City at Radio City Music Hall on November 17th. Furthermore, NBC aired a special concert on December 14th.
On November 27th, 25 debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and became the best-selling album in the UK chart history with over 800,000 copies sold in its first week. The album debuted at number one in the US where it sold a record-breaking 3.38 million copies in its first week, the single biggest selling week for the album since Nielsen began monitoring sales in 1991. 25 also broke the week sales record first in Canada and New Zealand. 25 became the best-selling album of 2015 in a number of countries, including Australia, Britain and the United States, spending seven consecutive weeks at number one in each country, before being moved by David Bowie Blackstar . This is the best-selling album worldwide 2015 with 17.4 million copies sold. 25 has sold 20 million copies globally. Adele's seven weeks at the top of the UK Album Ladder Album took her total to 31 weeks at number one in the UK with her three albums, surpassing Madonna's previous record of the most number of weeks at number one for women's acts.
In November 2015, Adele's 2016 tour was announced, its first tour since 2011. Starting in Europe, Adele Live 2016 includes four dates at the Manchester Arena in March 2016, six dates at the O2 Arena, London, with further dates in Ireland, Spain, Germany , Italy, and the Netherlands among others. His North American tour starts on July 5 at St. Paul, Minnesota. The legs included six nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City, eight nights at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and four nights at the Air Canada Center in Toronto. Adele broke Taylor Swift's five-impression record for the best-selling sold-out show at the Staples Center.
In the 2016 Brit Awards in London on February 24th, Adele received an award for British Solo Female Artist, British Album of the Year for 25 , English Single of the Year for "Hello", and British Global Success, Award to eight. She closed the ceremony by doing "When We Were Young", the second single from 25 . Two more singles from 25 were released in 2016: "Submit My Love (To Your Beloved One)" and "Water Under the Bridge". While on stage at the O2 Arena London on March 17, Adele announced that he would be headlining on the Pyramid Stage at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival, which was later confirmed by the festival organizers. She performed for 90 minutes of fifteen songs at the festival on June 25, and described the experience as "by far, the best moment of my life so far".
As part of her world tour, in February and March of 2017, Adele performed in Australia for the first time, playing outdoor stadiums across the country. His first two shows in New Zealand sold out in a record-breaking 23 minutes, and the third show was announced, with all tickets sold for less than 30 minutes. Adele sold over 600,000 tickets for an eight-year record-breaking Australian tour, setting a stadium record across the country; His performance in Sydney at ANZ Stadium on 10 March was seen by 95,000 people, the biggest single concert in Australian history, a record that he broke the following night with over 100,000 fans. Adele completed her world tour with two concerts, dubbed "The Finale", at Wembley Stadium, London on 28 and 29 June. He announced the show at "football house" by singing the "Three Lions" national anthem of the English football team as well as the theme song for the weekly BBC soccer Weekly Match of the Day. Adele has added two more concerts at Wembley after the first two dates are sold out, but he cancels 1 and 2 Julys concerts after damaging his vocal cords. As a show of support, fans gathered outside Wembley Stadium to perform their songs, in an event titled "Sing for Adele".
At the end of 2016, Billboard was named Adele Artist of the Year for the third time, with the album Top Billboard 200. 25 was the second best-selling album successively in the US. With 160 million views, Adele's Carpool Karaoke through the streets of London with James Corden, a sketch shown on the talk show Corden The Late Late Show with James Corden in January 2016, is the biggest YouTube video viral from 2016. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2017, Adele won all five nominations, taking him to fifteen. She won awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for 25 , and Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Hello". He also paid tribute to the late George Michael singing the song "Fastlove"; because of the technical difficulties that occurred during the show, Adele decided to stop and start over, explaining "I can not mess this up for her".
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Adele has quoted the Spice Girls as a major influence in her love and passion for music, stating that "they made me what I am today". Adele disguised as Spice Girls at a dinner party as a young girl. He stated that he was left "heartbroken" when his favorite Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell aka "Ginger Spice", left the group. He also stated that growing up, he listened to SinÃÆ'Â Ad O'Connor, The Cure, Dusty Springfield, Celine Dion, and Annie Lennox. One of Adele's earliest influences was Gabrielle, whom Adele had admired since the age of five. During Adele's school years, his mother made a blindfold with the sequins he used to perform as a Hackney birth star in a school talent contest. After moving to south London, he became interested in R & amp; B such as Aaliyah, Destiny's Child, and Mary J. Blige. Adele said that one of the most decisive moments of his life was when he watched Pink perform at Brixton Academy in London. He stated: "It was a note Missundaztood , so I'm about 13 or 14. I have never heard, been in the room, someone singing like that instantly [...] I remember some kind of feeling like I was in wind tunnel, his voice is just about me.
In 2002, at the age of 14, Adele found Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald when he found a CD artist in the jazz section of his local music store. He was struck by their performances on the cover of the album. Adele stated that he then "started listening to Etta James every night for an hour," and in the process is "to know my own voice." Adele credits Amy Winehouse and her 2003 album Frank Frank to inspire her to take the guitar, stating, "If it were not for Amy and Frank, I would not take a guitar, I would not wrote "Daydreamer" or "Hometown [Glory]" and I wrote "Someone Like You" on the guitar as well. "She also stated that her mother, who is very close to her, exposed her to Aaliyah music, Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, and Alicia Keys, who all inspired him as well. He is also a fan of Lana Del Rey, Grimes, Chvrches, Twigs FKA, Alabama Shake, Kanye West, Rihanna, Frank Ocean, and Stevie Nicks. In 2017, he described BeyoncÃÆ'Â © as a special inspiration, calling him "my artist in my life" and adding "another artist that matters to me all dead." Adele cites the album Madonna Ray of Light as the "ultimate inspiration" behind her album 25 .
Music style
Adele's first album, 19 , is a soul genre, with lyrics describing heartbreak and relationship. His success happened along with several other British female soul singers, with the British press dubbed him the new Amy Winehouse. It is described as the third British Invasion of Music from the US. However, Adele calls the comparison between him and other lazy female singers, saying "we are gender, not genre". AllMusic writes that "Adele is too magical to compare it to anyone."
Her second album, 21 , shares the folk and soul influences of her debut album, but is more inspired by the American country and Southern blues music where she has been exposed during the 2008-09 North American Sore tour with Adele. Consisting of the aftermath of Adele's separation from his partner, the album features an active tradition of singer-songwriters who are not active in the exploration of heartbreak, self-examination, and forgiveness. After calling 21 a "breaking record", Adele labeled her third studio album, 25 , "make-up record", adding it about "Making for lost time. which I once did and never did. "His longing for his old self, nostalgia, and his grief over the passage of time, is a feature of 25 , with Adele stating," I have experienced many regrets since I was aged 25. And sadness hit me in a different way than usual There are many things I think I will never do.
Voice
Adele is a mezzo-soprano with ranges ranging from C 3 to B 5 . But Classic FM claims he is often mistaken for contralto because of the application of a strained chest mix to achieve his undertone, while also noting that his voice becomes the clearest when he rides the register, especially from C 4 to C 5 . Rolling Stone reported that after a throat surgery, his voice became "clearer and pure", and that he had added four more notes to his reach. Initially, critics claimed that his vocals were more developed and interesting than the songwriting, a sentiment that Adele agreed upon. He has stated: "I taught myself how to sing by listening to Ella Fitzgerald for acrobatics and scale, Etta James for the spirit and Roberta Flack for control."
Her voice has received praise from critics. In a commentary on 19 , The Observer said, "The way he stretches his vowel, his sentimental sentence, his unmixed voice, more prominent. is a rare singer ". BBC Music writes, "The melody radiates warmth, the singing is sometimes fascinating and,... he has a song that makes Lily Allen and Kate Nash sound as normal as they are." For their review of 21 , the headline critic of the New York Times ' Jon Pareles praised Adele's timbre emoticon, comparing it to Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, and Annie Lennox: "[Adele] can boil, sob, hoarse, swoop, lilt and belt, in a way that is more attention to the song than the singer". Ryan Reed from the Paste magazine considers his voice as "a terrible, aged beyond his years of totok beauty", while MSN Music's Tom Townshend declared him "the best singer of [us] generation".
Personal life and other business
Adele began dating a charity businessman and Etonian Old Simon Konecki in the summer of 2011. In June 2012, Adele announces that she and Konecki are expecting a baby. Their son Angelo was born on October 19, 2012. On the topic of being a parent, Adele observes that he "feels like I'm really alive, I have a goal, where before me no". Adele and Konecki bring a privacy case against a UK-based photo agency that publishes annoying paparazzi pictures from their sons taken during a family event in 2013. Lawyers working on their behalf received compensation from the company in July 2014. Adele also stated that she has suffered from postnatal depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and panic attacks.
In early 2017, the tabloids began speculating that Adele and Konecki had married secretly when they were seen wearing matching rings on their ring fingers. During his acceptance speech at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Adele confirmed their marriage by calling Konecki her husband while thanking him. She then clarified her marital status in March 2017, telling the audience at a concert in Brisbane, Australia, "I'm married now".
Politically he was a Labor supporter, who declared in 2011 that he was a "Labor Girl through and through", though, in May 2011, he advocated lower tax rates for high-income people; the opposite view of the Labor Party. In 2015, Adele stated "I am a feminist, I believe that everyone should be treated equally, including race and sexuality". In 2017, Adele was ranked as the 30th richest musician in England and Ireland on the Sunday Times Rich List, which valued her fortune of £ 125 million. He was ranked 19th of the richest musicians overall.
He is an icon for the LGBT community. On June 12, 2016 Adele who emotionally dedicated his show in Antwerp, Belgium to the mass casualty victims at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, earlier today added "LGBTQ community, they are like my soul mate since I was really young, so I really touched by it. "In April 2018 it was widely reported that Adele had become an ordained minister to lead the wedding of comedian friend Alan Carr to Paul Drayton, something which was later confirmed by Adele. The wedding, held in January 2018, takes place in his home garden in Los Angeles. However, the news prompted Tim Worstall of The Continental Telegraph to observe that the ordination itself would not allow Adele to marry under California law, and that he would need to apply to be "a commissioner's decision marriage ", a role similar to peace justice and is known as" JP for a day ":" It's certainly a funny story that Adele is now Miss Adele's Rev., but it's not really happening. "
Philanthropy
Adele has performed at various charity concerts throughout her career. In 2007 and 2008 he performed at Little Noise Sessions held at Union Chapel in London, with the results of a concert donated to Mencap who worked with people with learning disabilities. In July and November 2008, Adele appeared in Keep a Child Alive Black Ball in London and New York City. On September 17, 2009 he performed at the Brooklyn Music Academy, for the VH1 Divas event, a concert to raise money for the Save The Music Foundation charity. On December 6, Adele opens with a 40-minute set at John Mayer's 2nd Annual Holiday Revisarium held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. In 2011, Adele gave a free concert for Pride London, a registered charity that organizes LGBT events in London. In the same year, Adele took part in the UK Charity Telethon, Comic Relief for Red Nose Day 2011, featuring "Someone like You".
Adele has been a major contributor to MusiCares, a charitable organization founded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for musicians in need. In February 2009, Adele performed at the 2009 MusiCares charity concert in Los Angeles. In 2011 and 2012, Adele donated items signed for the auction to support MusiCares. During the tour, Adele required all returnstage visitors to donate a charity donation of at least US $ 20 for a British charity, SANDS, an organization dedicated to "supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby and promoting research to reduce the loss of a baby's life." During his UK and European tour of his Adele Live tour, he raised US $ 13,000 for the charity.
On June 15, 2017, Adele attended a show in west London for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire where, by keeping a low profile, he was only seen by a small handful of fans. Four days later he appeared at the Chelsea fire station and brought in a cake for the firemen. The station manager, Ben King, stated, "She came in, came to the mess and drank a cup of tea with the hour and then she joined us for a minute silence." Paying tribute to the victims at his first show at Wembley on June 28, Adele encouraged fans to donate money to help the victims of the fire rather than wasting money on "expensive wine".
Awards and achievements
At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele won an award in the Best New Artist category and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She was also nominated in the Record of the Year and Song of the Year categories. The success of her debut album 19 saw Adele nominated for three Brit Awards in the category of Best British Female, Best British Single and Best British Breakthrough Act. Then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent a letter of thanks to Adele stating "with the matter that the country is financially, you are the light at the end of the tunnel."
Adele's second album, 21 , earned her six Associate Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including the British Album of the Year. The success of the album saw it receive a lot of mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. With 21 consecutive weeks at number 1 in the US, Adele broke the record for the longest number-one album by a woman in Billboard history, beating records previously held by soundtrack Whitney Houston < i> The Bodyguard . 21 spent 23 weeks at number one in March 2012, making it the longest-running album at number one since 1985, and it became the fourth best-selling album for the last 10 years in the US. The best-selling album in 21st-century England, and the best-selling album by women in the history of the UK charts, 21 is also the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time. 21 is her first certified diamond album in the US. On March 6th, 21 reached 30 consecutive weeks at number one on the Australian ARIA Chart, making it the longest number one album in Australia in the 21st century, and the second longest number ever.
In February 2012, Adele is listed at number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. In April 2012, Time magazine called Adele one of the 100 most influential people in the world. People named him one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every Age. On April 30, 2012, an award for Adele was held in New York City (Le) Poisson Rouge called Broadway Sings Adele , starring various Broadway actors such as Matt Doyle. In July 2012, Adele was listed at number six on Forbes' list of the highest paid-in celebrities in the world under the age of 30, having gained Ã, Â £ 23 million between May 2011 and May 2012.
In the week ending March 3, 2012, Adele became the first female solo artist to have three singles in the top 10 of Billboard Hot 100 at the same time as "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone Like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain" as well as the first female artist to have two albums in the top 5 Billboard 200 and two singles in the top 5 parts of Billboard 100 hot simultaneously. Adele topped the list of Sunday Times Rich List 2012 in the UK under 30 years and became the top 10 "Top 40 Money Makers" Billboard magazine. Billboard also announced on the same day that Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" was the biggest crossover hit in 25 years, topping pop, adult pop and adult contemporary graphics and that Adele is one of four artists women to have album charts at number one for over 13 weeks (three other artists are Judy Garland, Carole King, and Whitney Houston).
At the Ivor Novello Awards 2012 in May, Adele was crowned Best Songwriter, and "Rolling in the Deep" won the award for Most Performed Work 2011. At BMI Awards 2012 held in London in October, Adele won the Song of the Year for "Rolling in the Deep") in recognition of the most played song on US television and radio in 2011. In 2013, Adele won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the James Bond song "Skyfall". This is the first James Bond song to win and the fifth to nominate (after "For Your Eyes Only" (1981), "Nobody Does It Better" (1977), "Live and Let Die" (1973), and "The Look of Love "(1967)). "Skyfall" won the Brit Award for Best British Single at the Brit Awards 2013.
Released in 2015, Adele's third album, <25> , became the best-selling album of the year and broke the first week sales record in a number of markets, including Britain and the United States. 25 is her second album certified diamond in the US and earned five Grammy Awards, including the second Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards for British Women Solo Artist, English Album of the Year, Single English Year This is for "Hello", and Global Global Success. Adele's seven weeks at the top of the UK Album Ladder Album took her total to 31 weeks at number one in the UK with her three albums, surpassing Madonna's previous record of the most number of weeks at number one for female action in the UK. The main single, "Hello", became the first song in the US that sold over a million digital copies within a week of its release. In 2016 Ivor Novello Awards Adele was named Songwriter of the Year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
In June 2013, Adele was promoted to MBE on the Queen's Birthday Honors list for music service, and she received an award from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on December 19, 2013. In February 2013, she was rated as one of the 100 most powerful. woman in the UK by Women's Clock on BBC Radio 4. In April 2016, Adele appeared for the second time in the Time 100 list of the most influential people.
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