Minggu, 19 Februari 2012


Adele


Adele Laurie Blue Adkins she better known mononymously as Adele, she was born in Tottenham, London on 5th May 1988. She is an English singer-songwriter. His mother, Gabriella really knew that her daughter has talent in music. When she was 11th years old, she moved to Brighton. After she moved, she became interested in R&B. Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006.  Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publicationPlatformsMagazine.com. She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend who posted it on Myspace where it became very successful and led to a phone call from music label XL Recordings.



Adele provided vocals for Jack PeƱate's song, "My Yvonne", from his debut album. Adele's breakthrough song, "Hometown Glory", was released in October 2007. She became the first recipient of the BRIT AwardsCritics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. She released her second single "Chasing Pavements" on 14 January 2008, two weeks ahead of her debut album, 19. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks. The An Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2008 and ended in June 2009. She later cancelled the 2008 US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend.
The album reached number 11 on the Billboard 200 as a result, a jump of 35 places over the previous week. The album was certified as gold in February 2009 by the Recording Industry Association of America. By July 2009, the album had sold 2.2 million copies worldwide. At the 51st Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele won awards in the categories of Best New Artist andBest Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2010, Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Hometown Glory".

Adele released her second studio album, 21, on 24 January 2011 in the UK and 22 February in the US. In July "Someone Like You" single set another record, having become the first song to sell over a million copies in the UK this decade. In September the album sold over 3 million units and Adele became the first artist in UK music history to hit 3 million sales of an album in one calendar year. As of June 2011, Adele had sold 2.5 million copies and 992,000 digital copies of 21 in the United States, making it the best-selling album in both categories in the first half of 2011.
The first single, "Rolling in the Deep" reached number 1 in 8 countries including the Billboard Hot 100. To promote the album, Adele embarked upon Adele Live tour, which sold out its North American leg.  Adele's voice is categorised as contralto. Initially, critics suggested that her vocals were more developed and intriguing than her songwriting, a sentiment Adele agreed with. Adele's first album is of the soul genre, with lyrics describing heartbreak and relationship.

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