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Sade Emerges From Her Country Retreat
Sunday Edition UK Times
January 31, 2010
She is the most successful solo female artist Britain has ever produced: she has sold more than 50 [million] albums in a career that stretches back 27 years...
Audiences are noisily ecstatic in the presence of a performer who, unlike every other Brit-soul export, doesn’t try to play the gospel diva or even an American accent. Our transatlantic cousins like Sade, it seems, because she sounds like nobody but herself...
As an obstinately independent woman, long used to looking after herself, Sade is, as one old associate puts it, "no pushover" at the dating game. "I’ve paid some rugged dues," she observes of her romantic relationships...
As a teenager, she saw the Jackson 5 on television and was "more fascinated by the audience than by anything that was going on on the stage. They’d attracted kids, mothers with children, old people, white, black. I was really moved by that"...
"Whatever anybody might say about me, when I feel the warmth we get back from the audiences, particularly in America, I think it’s worth [it]. I actually prefer singing live now, I feel much more comfortable than I did...
Read the full article at:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7005060.ece
Marty In LA
Sade Emerges From Her Country Retreat
Sunday Edition UK Times
January 31, 2010
She is the most successful solo female artist Britain has ever produced: she has sold more than 50 [million] albums in a career that stretches back 27 years...
Audiences are noisily ecstatic in the presence of a performer who, unlike every other Brit-soul export, doesn’t try to play the gospel diva or even an American accent. Our transatlantic cousins like Sade, it seems, because she sounds like nobody but herself...
As an obstinately independent woman, long used to looking after herself, Sade is, as one old associate puts it, "no pushover" at the dating game. "I’ve paid some rugged dues," she observes of her romantic relationships...
As a teenager, she saw the Jackson 5 on television and was "more fascinated by the audience than by anything that was going on on the stage. They’d attracted kids, mothers with children, old people, white, black. I was really moved by that"...
"Whatever anybody might say about me, when I feel the warmth we get back from the audiences, particularly in America, I think it’s worth [it]. I actually prefer singing live now, I feel much more comfortable than I did...
Read the full article at:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7005060.ece
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