Sade

Biography

Sade was born in Nigeria. Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse. When the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England from Nigeria, taking four-year-old Sade and her older brother Banji with her.When Sade was 11, she moved to Holland and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. She is the most successful solo female artist in British history, having sold over 110 million albums worldwide.

I bet you didn't know...

I bet you didn’t know singer Sade Adu is a lowkey tattoo artist? The 53-year old beauty admitted in an interview with Associated Press how she gave people tattoos on tour to help relieve stress and performance butterflies before hitting the stage: “It was giving me something to divert me from the chaos of getting ready psychologically to go out there. I think I was more stressed about giving that tattoo than I was (doing) the show that night. [...] That impression that you give onstage is what people go away with … and remember you, and I feel in a way that’s what that tattoo was. I was going to mark him for life. I had to get it right.”