Posted on 01/30/2010 11:05:54 PM PST by pissant
Sade is so very private, so extremely wary of the press that her friends - all of whom are bound to silence - have nicknamed her Howie, after Howard Hughes. The most reclusive British singer of the 1980s has kept such a low profile since her Smooth Operator days - one tour in 14 years - that, when we meet at the London office of her record label to hear the songs from her new album, Soldier of Love, I am the only person in the room who has met her before.
It’s 10 years since her last album release, the 2000 offering, Lovers Rock. Despite or maybe because of that, the reverence she commands is palpable. She is the most successful solo female artist Britain has ever produced: she has sold more than 50m albums in a career that stretches back 27 years. And more than half of those albums were sold from the mid-1990s onwards, when Sade all but disappeared from view. Since then, she has only surfaced a few times — and this is the only face-to-face interview she will consent to now.
Paradoxically, in person she is open, friendly and relaxed - she’s happy to let me into her spacious Georgian house in leafy north London - and willing to laugh at herself. Unlike her songs, which are often freighted with introspective sadness and regret, her conversation is punctuated with a lively and very English self-mockery. She tells me about a graffitied poster of herself that her guitarist Stuart Matthewman spotted in New York. Above her glamorous image, some wag had sprayed the observation: “This bitch sings when she wants to.” Sade thinks this hilarious. It sums up her career pretty well. She makes music on her own terms.
(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk ...
just oy.
Agree. Her first 2 albums were superbly made. Of course, it helps that she’s attractive. Had so many times when I would play her songs in the car to get lucky’ with my dates.
I like her music and have 4 of her albums.
To me she looks anorexic, and I feel sad for her.
Disagree, her first albums were excellent.
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You must have never seen an anorexic
Play it while under sail and they turn to butter.
HOT! so very HOT!
Thanks - I think the word I was searching for is ‘Authentic’.
I hate cold chicken pot pie.
One of them is decent. Sade vs. Captain Crook -Soldier of Love (remix)
Not enough of her voice but listenable.
She is superb, and her band is also superb.
So Hotttttttttttttttttttt, Love her work, Oh Yeahhhhhh
Sade. “Smooth Operator” Long version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efdfGeUKXuU&feature=related
Listen into it at least two minutes, and if you don’t recognize her, I’d be surprised.
Sade was my fave back in the day.
Thank you for posting the article.
After reading the entire article
I really like her more.
Nice woman, great voice, independant
and not a typical mouthy Hollywood
Star gone political know it all we
get so much of now a day.
Wish her the best and would
buy her music if she produced again.
I saw her live in Concord Cali over
20yrs ago and I thought she was a
beautiful, talented woman then.
I like her down to earthy ness and
her non need to impose on others.
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I went to see this woman once... in San Diego, about 20 years ago. I was stunned by how utterly emotionless she was.