Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is an English singer-songwriter delivered May 21, 1988 in Tottenham, North London, England. Adele set out singing at the age of four and acknowledges the Spice Girls for exactly what she is today. Being raised, the girl group became a enormous inspiration on her love for music.
Adele graduated from BRIT School in Croydon in May of 2006. Leona Lewis ended up being a schoolmate of hers. At first, Adele was interested in a profession in A&R. Upon recording a 3 track demo, Adele gave the tracks to a mate whom then uploaded her work on MySpace. Adele’s music received much favorable attention and contributed to a phone call received from music label XL Recordings. Questioning the authenticity of the opportunity, Adele brought her close friend with her to the meeting. The offer proved to be authentic and she got a deal to the recording label in September 2006.
Adele’s first song “Hometown Glory” was circulated in October 2007. Adele had written the track when she was just 16 years old. Adele became the first receiver of the BRIT Awards Critics’ Choice and would be named the #1 forecasted breakthrough act of 2008. Adele’s second single “Chasing Pavements” peaked at #2 on the United Kingdom Charts and continued there for four weeks. Adele’s album 19 was released in 2008 and joined the charts at #1.
Later that same year, she finalized a joint venture deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her jump into the United States. In June of 2008, she released her record album in the U.S. as a result of a brief Us tour in March. It was certified gold in 2009.
In 2008, Adele cancelled a US tour in order to be with a former partner. She mentioned in Nylon magazine that “I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn’t bear to be without him, so I was like, ‘Well, OK, I’ll just cancel my stuff then … I can’t believe I did that … It seems so ungrateful”. November of 2008 she moved out of her mom’s house and gave up drinking. By the time October 2008 came around, it seemed her United States career had hit a brick wall. She ended up being lined up for an episode of Saturday Night Live. Because of guest Sarah Palin, the tv show drew in 17 million viewers and sky-rocketed her record 19 to the top the iTunes chart overnight. The week of October 26, her record rose to number 11 on the Billboard 200.
During the 51st Grammy Awards, she landed awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and selected for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Shehad additionally nominated for 3 Brit Awards in the groups of Best British Female, Best British Single and Best British Breakthrough Act.
She published her second cd 21 in 2011. The albums sound is characterized as contemporary origins and country music. She has said that this is as a result of her tour bus driver had played contemporary Nashville tracks when traveling in the American South. The album peaked at number one in Ireland, Germany, Holland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria, and Belgium. In March 2011, the record premiered at number 1 in the United States Of America. Soon after her BRIT awards performance in February 2011, her single “Someone Like You” went straight to number one on the United Kingdom Singles Chart. To advertise her cd Adele will do a performance in Europe and North America on her Adele Live tour.
As of April 2011, Adele has sold the most albums of all artists in 2011 in the United States Of America, having purchases totaling over 1,070,000. Adele went on to receive a Mercury Prize nomination, 3 MTV Video Music Awards, three Guinness World Records, four American Music Award nominations, the MOBO Award for Best R&B/soul act, 2 Q Awards and three Soul Train Award nominations in 2011. Adele also produced a video for her hit track ‘Someone Like You’ and a DVD – Live at The Royal Albert Hall.
Adele had her song Rolling in the Deep called Spin’s song of the year.
