Adele - Wikipedia. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. MBE (; born 5 May 1. English singer- songwriter. After graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2. Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. Pair Of Kings Season 3 Dailymotion. In 2. 00. 7, she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBCSound of 2.

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Her debut album, 1. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and three times platinum in the US. The album contains her first song, "Hometown Glory", written when she was 1. West Norwood in London. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2.

US. At the 5. 1st Grammy Awards in 2. Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She released her second studio album, 2. The album was critically well received and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer numerous awards in 2.

Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year, and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 1.

UK, and is the fourth best- selling album in the UK of all time. In the US, it has held the top position longer than any album since 1. The album has sold over 3. The success of 2. Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records.

She was the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 1. Billboard 2. 00 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 1. UK and US Album Charts. In 2. 01. 2, Adele released "Skyfall", which she co- wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. The song won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Brit Award for British Single of the Year.

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After taking a three- year break, Adele released her third studio album, 2. It became the year's best- selling album and broke first- week sales records in the UK and US. US and earned her five Grammy Awards, including her second Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards. The lead single, "Hello", became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release. Her third concert tour, Adele Live 2. Europe, North America and Oceania, and concluded with finale concerts at Wembley Stadium in late June 2. In 2. 01. 1, 2. 01.

Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2. 01. 2, she was listed at number five on VH1's 1. Greatest Women in Music. Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world in 2. With sales of more than 1. Adele is one of the best- selling music artists of all time.[4]Early life[edit]Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1.

Tottenham, London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans.[5] Evans left when Adele was two, leaving her mother to raise her.[6][7] She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices.[8][9] Growing up, Adele spent most of her time singing rather than reading; the last book she read was Roald Dahl's Matilda when she was six years old.[1. In 1. 99. 7, at the age of nine, Adele and her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult- learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton on the south coast of England.[1. In 1. 99. 9, two years later, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, and then to neighbouring district West Norwood, in south London.[1.

West Norwood is the subject of Adele's first record, "Hometown Glory", which she wrote and composed in 2. Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2. Leona Lewis and Jessie J.[1][1. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent[1.

A& R and hoped to launch other people's careers.[1]2. Beginnings and 1. Teenaged Adele performing on an acoustic guitar in Kilburn, London, in 2.

Four months after graduation, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication Platforms. Magazine. com.[1. She had recorded a three- song demo for a class project and given it to a friend.[1] The friend posted the demo on Myspace, where it became very successful and led to a phone call from Richard Russell, boss of the music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting.[1.

Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and in June 2. Dickins became her official representative.[1.

September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer- songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2. Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate's song, "My Yvonne," for his debut album, and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut album, 1. In June 2. 00. 7, Adele made her television debut, performing "Daydreamer" on the BBC's Later..

Jools Holland.[2. Adele's breakthrough song, "Hometown Glory", was released in October 2. Watch The Nature Of The Beast Download here. By 2. 00. 8, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which she was supported by Damien Rice.[2. She became the first recipient of the Brit Awards. Critics' Choice and was named the number- one predicted breakthrough act of 2. BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2.

The album 1. 9, named for her age at the time she wrote and composed many of its songs, entered the British charts at number one. The Times. Encyclopedia of Modern Music named 1. She released her second single, "Chasing Pavements", on 1. January 2. 00. 8, two weeks ahead of her debut album, 1. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks.[2.

Adele was nominated for a 2. Mercury Prize award for 1. She also won an Urban Music Award for "Best Jazz Act."[2.

She also received a Q Awards nomination in the category of Breakthrough Act[3. Music of Black Origin nomination in the category of Best UK Female.[3. In March 2. 00. 8, Adele signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States.[3. She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month,[3.

US in June.[1. 6]Billboard magazine stated of it: "Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation."[3. The An Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2. June 2. 00. 9.[3.

Adele performing live in 2. She later cancelled the 2.

US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend.[3. She said in Nylon magazine in June 2. I'm like, 'I can't believe I did that.' It seems so ungrateful.. I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, 'Well, I'll just cancel my stuff then.'"[3.

She referred to this period as her "early life crisis".[3. She is also known for her dislike of flying and bouts of homesickness when away from her native London.[3. By the middle of October 2. Adele's attempt to break in America appeared to have failed.[3. But then she was booked as the musical guest on the 1. October 2. 00. 8 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live.

The episode, which included an expected appearance by then US vice- presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 1. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder,"[3. Tunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon. Chasing Pavements" rose into the top 2. The album reached number 1. Billboard 2. 00 as a result, a jump of 3.

In November 2. 00. Adele moved to Notting Hill, London after leaving her mother's house, a move that prompted her to give up drinking.[4. The album was certified gold in February 2. RIAA.[4. 3] By July 2. At the 5. 1st Annual Grammy Awards in February 2. Adele received the award for Best New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Chasing Pavements", which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.[4.