Biography of Adele

May 5, 1988 Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on May 5, 1988 in London, in the Northern District of Tottenham, by a single mother (her father is a dissolute young man with alcohol problems, who abandons the family shortly after the birth of the child). Interessatasi since childhood to soul music, listening to early artists such as Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald; He enrolled at fourteen years old, the Brit School in Croydon, a music school which in the same year is attended by Jessie j. graduating in 2006, Adele recorded a few songs, that loads onto your Myspace profile: the songs get immediately a huge success, which leads her to be invited to many British tv shows. Gained notoriety, sign a contract with record label XL Recordings, which has released, in January 2008, "Chasing pavements", his first single. The song you gain some success both in Europe (where he reached the second place in the standings in the United Kingdom and the top spot in Norway) than in the United States.

19: Adele's debut album

Shortly after, Adele debuts with a complete disc, "19", as the years that the album, recorded with Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse's producer for the album "Back to black"), represents the perfect blend of soul and pop songs that talk about friendship and love. The response in the market is exceptional with more than six and a half million copies sold and number one best selling album charts found at the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Winner of the critics ' award at the Brit Awards in 2008, the young London-based artist gets, the following year, the Grammy Award given to the best Rookie, artist and became famous thanks to the singles "Cold shoulder" and "Make you feel my love".

21: the next disk

The next disk arrives in 2011, and is called "21" (recovering, once again, the age of the singer): the first single is "Rolling in the deep", and gets a major success across the continent. Adele also manages to impose significantly on the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained for nearly two months before. The second disc of the girl, in short, is an extraordinary success, confirmed by four million copies sold in the United Kingdom only. Critics and audiences alike are unanimous in appreciating the talents of Adele, demonstrated by the single "Someone like you", which alone sells over 600,000 copies (earning Platinum status), and automatically becomes the first single of the Decade to sell over a million copies. In the United States, Adele conquest nine platinum records, while at the end of 2011 "21" (from which are extracted, in all, five singles, in addition to the already mentioned "Rolling in the deep" and "Someone like you", also "Set fire to the rain", "Turning tables" and "Rumour has it") breaks through the threshold of fifteen million copies. In the same year, the singer received six nominations at the Mtv Video Music Awards, winning categories Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Art Direction, awarded to "Rolling in the deep". In November, however, is forced to cancel his tour dates in America due to a vocal cord hemorrhage, necessitating surgery. And so, while "21" becomes the fifth best selling album in music history of the United Kingdom, his interpreter is forced to stop for health reasons. This doesn't stop, the next year, winning six Grammys Wards, for Song of the year, Record of the year, Best short form music video, Pop solo performance, Album of the year and Pop vocal album, and two Brit Awards, for best British album of the year and as British female singer. In the summer, was released "Adele: The biography" biography of singer created by writer Marc Shapiro, describing Adele as a tabagista constant (for this reason it was necessary surgery tonsils) and even as an alcoholic.

Pregnancy, Skyfall and "25"

On 29 June 2012, regardless of the rumors concerning him, Adele announces that she is pregnant; She and her partner Simon Konecki become parents on 18 October of that year, even as his voice depopulated in cinemas around the world: Adele, in fact, is the interpreter of the soundtrack of "Skyfall", title song to the film of the same name, the 23rd 007 saga. In December, publish "Live at the Royal Albert Hall," audio and video report of the concert held in the famous arena in London a year earlier. His official website is adele.com. After four-year break, the October 23, 2015 Adele published the single "Hello", which anticipates his third Studio album, titled "25", released in November. "Hello" was the first song to have passed the one million downloads in a single week in the USA.

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