SADE

Sade

Sade

Sade is one of the most prominent British bands and influential contemporary music world. Her creations converge in jazz, soul and pop. This artistic eclecticism has led them to sell more than 40 million albums, earning their outstanding positions on the issues most influential charts. They are also won three Grammy awards, a BPI Award (UK), and vocalist, Sade Adu, was honored the Official Order British Empire in 2002, in recognition of his artistic achievements and contribution in either of the values ??that sustain society (Benjamin, 1984).

The actual name of the singer, a leading figure of the group is Helen Folasade Adu, who was born in Nigeria on January 16, 1959. The daughter of an English mother (Anne, a nurse) and a Nigerian father (Adebisi, teacher) has fact its race in the Islands UK where - after studying fashion design and be a photographic model, without much significance - formed his first band r & b and latin funk called Arriva (1980). But it was since he joined the band Pride, in 1981, where he met the musicians that would become their battle to this day: Stuart Matthewman (guitar and sax), Andrew Hale (keyboards) and Paul Spencer Denmann (bass). Along with them, establishing what would be the most prestigious project of their careers: Sade, the auspicious debut single Smooth Operator, an issue that gave them high and "identify" commercially (Benjamin, 1984).

The starting point for this new album began in 2008 when the band met at Real World, the studio of Peter Gabriel, near the home of Sade in the countryside of southwest England. It was the first time that the four main musicians in the band got together after the tour Lover's Rock in 2001. Bassist Paul Denman arrived from Los Angeles (USA), which had dealt with Orange, the punk of his teenage son. The guitarist and saxophonist Stuart Matthewman interrupted his work in New York as a composer of the soundtrack to a movie and keyboardist Andrew Hale left his consultancy A & R (artists and repertoire) (Bernstein, 1976).

During the trials in Real World, Sade completed the songs for the new album and all felt that was the most ambitious of his career, especially the song that gives title: Soldier of Love. "At first, the big question was whether we really wanted to continue working together on this, if we continued being friends," says Andrew Hale. The answer, as a passionate statement, not long in coming (Bernstein, 1976).

The album was completed in the summer of 2009, almost all recorded in Real World with the band taking a more eclectic identity. In the songs of Soldier of Love, Sade sounds like that band that began a quarter century ago with his saxophone blowing Mattewman soft In Another Time or Long Hard Road. But as the joyful reggae songs or the dramatic Babyfather under The Moon and the Sky that opens the album, the band explores new territory. "I do not want to repeat myself," says ...