This week we would be revealing 30 Facts about the English singer and songwriter .….. ADELE
Adele is an English singer and songwriter who rose to fame owing to her distinctive voice and has become one of the best-selling artists of our times.
30 FACTS ABOUT ADELE
1. Adele born as Adele Laurie Blue on May 5th 19882. Adele is a British Singer born in North London , England.
3. Only child of Penny Adkins and Mark Evans. Adele has a welsh linkage as her father was Welsh but left when she was 4 .
5.Attended BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon .
5. She has released 2 super albums , 19 and 21 with a 3rd album 25 to be released on 20th November 2015.
6.She received a songwriting Oscar for the James Bond track “Skyfall.”
7. Growing up she developed her passion for music from works of Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige and Destiny’s Child, Spice Girls .Adele developed a passion for music at a young age and started singing.
8. At 15 , Adele found her new love in music when she stumbled upon a collection of Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald records at a local shop.
9. During her study at the Brit school for performing arts and tech , she wrote and composed songs which she made a 3-track demo for a class project which she uploaded on MySpace .
This was what opened her to a new dawn in her life as executives at XL Recordings heard the tracks, were impressed and they contacted the singer .
10 Just 4 months after she graduated from the Brit school , November 2006 Adele signed her first record deal with XL Recordings.
11. In March 2008, she signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States. Later that year, her world tour ‘An Evening with Adele’ began which lasted till June 2009.
12.The British Singer has bagged awards and recognition for her exceptional Releases .
In 2009, She received Grammy Awards in the ‘Best New Artist’ and ‘Best Female Pop Vocal Performance’ categories.That same year, she earned the Critics’ Choice prize at the BRIT Awards.
In 2012, she was ranked at No. 5 on VH1′s 100 Greatest Women In Music. The same year, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by the American magazine ‘Time’. Also bagged Grammy Award for Album of the Year – 21
In 2013, Adele won the Academy Award in the ‘Best Original Song’ category for the James Bond theme song “Skyfall”.That same year ,she was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of her services to music.
won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for “Skyfall,” the theme song for the 2013 James Bond film of the same name.
13 Adele loves to Cook and Bake
14 Her Album 21 was a monster hit as it sold 352,000 copies within its first week. The record had hits such as “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You,”
15 . Adele broke the Beatles and 50 cent record by In February 2011, she found herself with two Top 5 singles and a pair of Top 5 albums in the same week, becoming the only artist
16. 21 stayed at no 1 spot for 11 weeks. sold over 3.4 million copies in the UK, and became the biggest-selling album of the 21st century. It also made Adele the first artist ever to sell three million albums in the UK in one calendar year.
17 . Adele also broke the solo female artist record previously held by Madonna’s Immaculate Collection for consecutive weeks atop the album charts.
18. In 2012, Adele swept the Grammy Awards, taking home six wins, including Album of the Year.
In 2013, Adele won her seventh Grammy (Best Pop Solo Performance) for her hit single “Set Fire to the Rain.” That same year, the singer
19.On October 22, 2015, Adele announced that she would release her third album, 25, on November 20. After years of being on low-key
20.Adele has an estimated net worth of $75 million.
21 Married to Simon Konecki and has a son Angelo James Konecki October 2012,. Simon Konecki is a charity entrepreneur
22. Adele is associated with various charities and has performed in numerous charity concerts in order to raise money. She is associated with charities for musicians in need, charities related to LGBT, and raises money for organizations that promote research to reduce the loss of babies’ lives
23. In 2012, Billboard announced Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” as the biggest crossover hit of the past 25 years, topping pop, adult pop and adult contemporary charts.
24. She was the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK.
With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, ‘Rolling in the Deep’ and ‘Someone Like You’,
25. January 2011 , she released her second and much-anticipated studio album titled ‘21’. The album was a success and she received much appreciation for its classic American R&B and jazz style.
26. she became the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.
27.Adele was the first female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three singles in the top 10 at the same time as a lead artist
28. the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously.
29. 21’ was the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK and US Albums Chart.
30.Adele’s 2011 set “21” has over sold 11.1 million copies (13.5m+ with TEA) in the U.S. thus far, and more than 30m worldwide
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