Anecdotes

Has sold close to 40 million albums worldwide, has had six multi-platinum albums released in 20 years and has received four Grammy Awards including Best New Artist (1985).

Ranked #66 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.

Her name Sade is pronounced "Shah-day". Some people insert an "r" sound before the hyphen because of a misspelled publicity poster when the singer's band was being introduced to the public.

She was once a backup singer in a British pop group called Pride.

Ranked #34 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.

Daughter Mickalia "Ila" Adu was born on July 21, 1996. Father is producer Bob Morgan.

Attended Saint Martin's School of Art in London, where she studied Fashion design.

Her father, Adebisi Adu, is Nigerian, and her mother, Anne Hayes, is British.

Attended and graduated from Clacton County High School in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to the music industry.

She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Music. She is a singer, songwriter and composer in London, England.

Her bandmates are Stuart Matthewmann, Andrew Hale and Paul Denham.

She moved to the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, to the countryside where she bought a run-down stone-built cottage near Stroud to renovate with her partner Ian Watts (2005).

Her album "Diamond Life" won the British Phonographic Industry Award for British Album (1985).

Has an older brother named Banji.

Is the lead singer of the pop group Sade which is of course her own name.