Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known professionally as Adele is an English singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. In 2009, Adele won two Grammy Awards, Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, at the 51st Grammy Awards.
Adele attracted the attention of XL Recordings with a three-song demo posted on MySpace and subsequently signed with the label. Since her debut, 19, Adele has received much recognition both commercially and critically. The album debuted at number one, and has been certified 2x platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a viewer record breaking Saturday Night Live episode in late 2008. Adele released her second album 21 on 24 January 2011 in the UK; the release was 22 February in the US. The album was a critical and commercial success.
The album received generally positive reviews from critics and became a commercial phenomenon, particularly in the United Kingdom selling 208,000 copies in its first week and debuting at number one on the UK Album Chart, and also charted in the same position in nine other countries. After an acclaimed performance at the 2011 BRIT Awards, the album track "Someone Like You" went straight to number one in the UK, while the album also remained at number one.The Official Charts Company announced that Adele is the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born in Tottenham, north London, on 5 May 1988.She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. Adele would impersonate the Spice Girls at dinner parties and, as a preteen, she sang Destiny's Child songs at her school.To make her look like the singer Gabrielle, her mother made an eye patch with sequins, which Adele said was embarrassing. Adele then claimed she was influenced by the music of Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald in her teens by accident, as she stumbled on the artists' CDs at a local HMV store while looking for a new hairstyle. She only got to listen to those songs for the first time as she was cleaning her room.Adele wrote her first record, "Hometown Glory" when she was 16 years old.
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.”
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