(ThyBlackMan.com) Adele Adkins, simply known as Adele, is an English singer, songwriter and musician, is 24 years old and has just come from 4 years that everyone wishes they could have.
Home
Adele will be 25 on May 5th and calls Tottenham, London, England, UK home. She and partner Simon Konecki just welcomed into the world Angelo James Konecki.
The Story of 21
Where does one start with Adele except to say that before 2013 she was pouring her broken heart into her second album and that album just launched Adele to being one of the best named stars in the music world.
Your first clue is how many singers go by only one name – only a handful – Cher, Elvis, and the brain just stops next when the name “Adele” comes up.
Adele has just released her third album and is currently on a world tour with the next 2 weekends in the great state of Texas – Austin to be exact. This time last year, Adele’s single “Skyfall” was named at the 85th Oscar Awards as Best Original Song and Adele was there to accept Oscar together with co-writer Paul Epworth. Earlier in the evening, Adele performed “Skyfall” live for the first time anywhere and boy do her peers love her.
Before Oscar last year there were the Billboard Music Awards where Adele was nominated for 5 awards including Top Billboard 200 Artist and Top Pop Artist. Of course, she wins everything she gets nominated for.
2006, 2007, 2008 – Album 19
These are just the end of a very long list of awards Adele had won since 2009 with one hit after another from her second album, her first being named “19”. She got a recording contract after a friend of hers posted Adele’s demo on Myspace in 2006. In 2007 Adele won the BBC Sound of 2008 and British “Critics’ Choice” award. Her debut album was released in 2008 to critical and commercial success. It certified 4 times platinum in the United Kingdom.
2009 Grammy Awards
Next we see Adele in another boost to her career appearing on Saturday Night Live late 2008. Then there were the 2009 Grammy Awards, where Adele received the Grammy for both Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance,
The first two few probably took notice of but after that Saturday Night appearance everyone of any age knew Adele. She was everyone’s “big sister” or “best friend.” And at the 2009 Grammy Awards, her star was just beginning to shine.
2011, 2012 – Album 21 Wins Big at Grammy
The really big year was 2011 when her second album 21 released early. To say that the album was well received is not the words that describe this album. 2011 was the year Adele released 21 earning 6 Grammy Awards in 2012 and they included:
- Album of the Year
- Most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night
- Two British Awards
- Three American Music Awards
- Certified platinum 16 times in the UK
- In the US the album 21 has held the top position longer than any other album since 1968
- Certified Diamond having sold over 26 million copies worldwide
I was just at the 21 website where they are just giving it away because they know that after you hear this album you will go buy it.
21’s success also gives Adele several mentions in the ‘Guinness World Records’ such as very first artist to sell over 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK. Her 2 albums and first two singles from 21 “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You”, made Adele the first artist still living to accomplish the achievement of having two top 5 hits both in singles UK chart and at the same time the ‘Official Albums Chart’ since the Beatles did this in 1964.
2013
With her 3rd release from her new album “Set Fire to the Rain” which becomes her 3rd number one single in the US, Adele became the first artist ever to Billboard 200 concurrently with 3 Billboard Hot 100 number ones.
2014
Currently – right now Adele is on world tour with Texas being the place for the next several weeks. In fact, the next two weekends she is in Austin, Texas choosing to sing in small venues where she is intimate with the crowd.
Staff Writer; LadyK
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