Sade's Soldier of Love Makes Radio History (514 hits)
Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, (born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade (pronounced /shah-DAY), is a British Nigerian singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.
Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Her middle name, Folasade, means honor confers your crown. Her parents, Bisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English nurse, met in London and moved to Nigeria. Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to Clacton-on-Sea, Ess*x, England, taking four-month-old Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents. Living in Colchester, Ess*x, Sade read a good deal, developed an interest in fashion, acquired a taste for dancing and listened to soul artists like Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, and Marvin Gaye...
Recently, Sade's record label has announced that she will be releasing a new CD titled "Soldier of Love" worldwide February 8, 2010. It would be her first installment in 10 years. Single track "Soldier of Love" of same title was released to radio Dec 08, 2009. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu ] "Soldier Of Love," the first single off Sade's highly anticipated new album of the same name, is already making radio history in the wake of its Dec. 8 release...
The track entered the Urban Hot AC tally at No. 11, becoming the chart's highest debut of the decade and its third highest of all-time. Also "Soldier Of Love" debuted at No. 5 on the Smooth Jazz airplay chart and became the first ever vocal to hit No. 1 on the Smooth Jazz Top 20 Countdown. "Soldier Of Love" which Sade co-produced with Mike Pela, was written by Sade along with longtime collaborators Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthew man and Paul Spencer Denman. Recorded in England and set for release on Feb. 9, the album marks her first official studio set since the multi-platinum release of "Lovers Rock" in 2000.
