The members of Pride not involved in the Sade trio eventually told Adu, Matthewman, and Denman to go ahead and sign a deal.Īdding keyboardist Andrew Hale, Sade signed to the U.

Initially, the labels wanted to sign only Sade - technically a trio featuring Adu, Stuart Matthewman, and Paul Denman - while the whole of Pride wanted a deal. Pride and their off-shoots performed often around London and stirred up record company interest. Pride's opening acts often featured members of the band in different combinations. One of the more popular numbers that the group performed was an Adu original co-written with bandmember Ray St. Aroundshe started singing harmony with a Latin funk group called Arriva. Martin's School of Art in London while also doing some modeling on the side. Developing a good singing voice in her teens, Adu worked part-time jobs in and outside of the music business.

Though only five more studio albums would follow during the next 25 years, the band's following abated only slightly, and each release was treated like a long-awaited public return of a mysterious yet beloved diva. With the breakthrough Billboard Hot Top Ten single 'Smooth Operator' propelling the debut Sade album, Diamond Life, to the same spot on the Billboard chart inthe band fast came to epitomize soulful, adult-oriented, sophisti-pop. Soon enough, the music had no problem with the correct pronunciation. When singer Sade and her band of the same name were establishing themselves, their record company, Epic, made a point of printing 'Pronounced Shar-day' on the record labels of their releases.

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