Top 20, placed within the U.S. All six of Sade's albums have entered the U.K. From Diamond Life (1984) through Soldier of Love (2010), breaks between Sade albums have increased in duration from a year-and-a-half to a decade, but each return has been warmly greeted. Although they're known most for stylishly seductive ballads, including the international hits "Smooth Operator" (1984), "The Sweetest Taboo" (1985), "No Ordinary Love" (1992), and "By Your Side" (2000), they've also recorded poignant songs regarding slavery, immigration, parenthood out of wedlock, and everyday struggles, often through Sade Adu's third-person narratives. Hit "Your Love Is King" (1984), Sade have remained, across four ensuing decades of intermittent activity, shrewd synthesists of classic jazz, cutting-edge R&B, and mature pop. Since debuting with the Top Ten U.K.
Born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, Adu moved with her mother and brother to southeast England outside Colchester at the age of four. (Pop / Soft Jazz) Sade (Sweetback) - Discography (Japan originals & remasters, EU originals), FLAC (image+.cue), lossless Sade - ( + ) : Pop / Soft Jazz / Funk / Soul / Reggae / Lounge : 1984 - 2010Sade are named after singer and songwriter Helen Folasade Adu. Sade was formed in 1982, when members of Latin soul band Pride Sade Adu, (real name Helen Folasade Adu - born 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria) Stuart Matthewman and Paul Spencer Denman together with Paul. The band's music features elements of smooth jazz, soul, sophisti-pop, and R&B. Additionally, Sade are four-time Grammy winners, having invalidated the Best New Artist curse with subsequent wins for "No Ordinary Love," Lovers Rock, and "Soldier of Love." Seven years after the latter took the award for Best R&B Performance, they returned with contributions to the soundtracks of A Wrinkle in Time and Widows.Diamond Life (1984), Promise (1985), Stronger Than Pride (1988), Love Deluxe (1992), Lovers Rock (2000), and Soldier Of Love (2010) have all been remastered.Sade (pronounced 'shah-day') is a Grammy-winning British band named after its lead singer Sade Adu.
Denman, keyboardist Andrew Hale, and saxophonist and guitarist Stuart Matthewman.The London-based quartet made their recorded debut in February 1984 with the controlled yet expressive ballad "Your Love Is King," which soon entered the U.K. Adu was pursued as a solo act, but she signed with Epic after demanding to bring along some of her partners in Pride: bassist Paul S. John - drew attention from label representatives. These segments, specifically "Smooth Operator" - composed by Adu and the band's Ray St. Their gigs eventually featured a mini-set during which Adu was granted the spotlight, backed by some of her bandmates on intimate jazz-inspired material. After she finished her course work in 1981, she joined the band Pride and into 1983 toured the U.K.
Single "Smooth Operator," Diamond Life - itself falling just short of the top spot on the U.K. Produced by Robin Millar, the album was written primarily by Adu and Matthewman in tandem, finished off with a cover of Timmy Thomas' 1972 hit "Why Can't We Live Together." Reinforced with the number 19 U.K. Another single, the down-but-not-out soul anthem "When Am I Going to Make a Living," preceded the July release of the full-length Diamond Life.
On its way to international multi-platinum success, Promise topped the U.K. Working again with Robin Millar, they started recording their second album around the time Diamond Life was distributed in the U.S., issuing it internationally that November as Promise. And earned sales certifications in several other territories.Sade continued to gradually refine and expand their cosmopolitan mix of jazz, R&B, and pop, and continuously decelerated their writing and recording process. Diamond Life eventually went quadruple platinum in the U.K. In the U.S., it was issued on Epic subsidiary Portrait in early 1985 and reached number five that June, with "Smooth Operator" doing most of the heavy lifting as a crossover smash that climbed to number five on the pop and R&B charts and topped the adult contemporary chart.
Carrying some of the band's airiest arrangements and deepest rhythms - exemplified respectively by the title song and "Paradise," two of its four singles - the album climbed to the third spot on the U.K. This time, production was handled by the band with help from Mike Pela and Ben Rogan, established Sade associates who played comparatively minor roles beforehand. Shortly thereafter, "Never as Good as the First Time" strengthened their hold on urban and adult contemporary radio.Despite a gap of nearly two-and-a-half years between full-lengths, Sade remained a major commercial force with third album Stronger Than Pride. The week after the band won Best New Artist at the 28th Annual Grammy Awards. And peaked at number five in the U.S.
"Feel No Pain," "Kiss of Life," and the pulsing trip-hop precursor "Cherish the Day" all charted, but the LP's biggest single was easily its first, "No Ordinary Love" - it hit number 14 in the U.K. And missed the top of the U.S. More electronic and atmospheric than the band's previous albums, it entered the Top Ten in the U.K.
Toward the end of the decade, Sade reconvened to record their fifth album, Lovers Rock. Maxwell, Amel Larrieux, and Bahamadia were among the guests on the album, a stylistic successor to Love Deluxe that went a little farther out with no concern for hitmaking. Later that year, Matthewman, Denman, and Hale released Sweetback, titled after the name of their new side project. In 1996, Matthewman resurfaced as a co-writer and co-producer on Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, thereby beginning a lasting close association with the album's maverick namesake. The song had a lingering effect strong enough to keep the parent release on the Billboard 200 for almost two years.The band responded in kind with their longest hiatus to that point.
Following a customary album-promoting tour, the band appeased fans in February 2002 with Lovers Live. The Recording Academy awarded it Best Pop Vocal Album at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards. Hit upon its November 2000 arrival, supported with "By Your Side" (number 17 U.K. Top 20 and was yet another number three U.S.
The song made the band Grammy winners for a fourth time, again taking the award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Chart at number four and the U.S. An album of the same title was released the following February, entering the U.K. The song's stark, swaggering theatricality made it feel like more of an event more than any other Sade re-entry.
Seven years passed before Sade released new recordings, both of which were made for soundtracks: "Flower of the Universe" for Disney's A Wrinkle in Time, and "The Big Unknown" for Widows.
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