To start the day …. “Adele’s Birthday …. she turns 28 today …. “!!

~~May 5, 2016~~ 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

There’s no denying it.

Adele is one of my favorite singers in the world.

I became aware of her as my oldest grand-daughter kept singing “Someone Like You”.

Since then, I’ve been one of the many fans who have followed her career.

With the release of her 3rd album, 25, Adele solidified her stature in the musical world.

She’s an awesome talent, a down to earth human being, a mother and a joy.

Here’s wishing her a happy birthday and many more.

Let’s review her career and successes with Wikipedia’s help.

HortyRex©

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, MBE, (born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. Graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year.

In 2007, she received the Brit Awards “Critics’ Choice” award and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll.

Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the US. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Adele released her second studio album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer numerous awards in 2012, including a record-tying six 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 16 times platinum in the 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 1985, and is certified Diamond.

The album has sold 31 million copies worldwide.

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The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of World Records.

She is the first woman in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist, and the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. 21 is the longest-running number one album by a female solo artist in the history of the UK and US Album Charts.

In 2012, she released “Skyfall“, which she 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.

After taking a three-year break, Adele released her third studio album, 25, in 2015. It became the year’s best-selling album and broke first week sales records in the UK and US. The lead single, “Hello“, became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release.

In 2011 and 2012, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2012, she was listed at number five on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women in Music.

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To start the day …. “#60Mins: Adele’s Best Interview …. “!!

~~February 24, 2016~~ 

ADELE’S BEST INTERVIEW

Warning:

This is for Adele’s die hard fans! LOL …

I was surfing the next yesterday and found this YouTube video uploaded on December 23, 2015.

I wasn’t even aware about Adele’s new, forthcoming CD album then.

And I surely missed this interview.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Hope you do too. I warm you … it’s a bit over 20 mins long.

That’s why I say … for Adele’s die hard fans.

I still can’t get enough of her.

That’s how interesting, charming and entertaining I find her.

When I need a “picker-upper”, I turn to Adele.

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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, born 5 May 1988 is an English singer and songwriter.

Graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards “Critics’ Choice” award and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, “19“, was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the US.

At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Adele released her second studio album, “21“, in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer numerous awards in 2012, including a record-tying six 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 16 times platinum in the 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 1985, and is certified Diamond. The album has sold 30 million copies worldwide.

… and her 3rd album, “25“, we are all aware, is breaking records still.

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~~Adele Best Interview~~

~~Published on Dec 23, 2015~~

‘Hello’ Success, Social Media and Breaking Records

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To start the day …. “Some of the many reasons for loving Adele”!!

~~February 23, 2016~~ 

LOVING ADELE

This morning I needed a little bit of a pick up.

Things are OK but sometimes, some sadness creeps in.

Count on any information about Adele and it’s a sure “pick up” for me.

Love her attitude, her smile, her hearty laugh, her sense of humor, her strength, her resilience, her down to earth persona, her talent.

You will find 11 reasons enumerated in the video included below.

Believe me, in my book, there are so many more.

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Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire, born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter.

Graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards “Critics’ Choice” award and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll.

Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the US. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Early Life

Adele was born on 5 May 1988 in Tottenham, London, the daughter of an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Mark Evans. Evans left when Adele was two, leaving her mother to raise her.

She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. 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. In 1997, at the age of nine, Adele and her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult-learning activities organizer, relocated to Brighton on the south coast of England. 

In 1999, two years later, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, and then to neighboring district West Norwood, in south London. West Norwood is the subject for Adele’s first record, “Hometown Glory“, which she wrote and composed in 2004, when she was 16. Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent.

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~~Before Adele Was Famous~~

~~Published on Nov 6, 2015~~

Before Adele swept the 54th Grammy Awards taking home 6 Grammy’s – a record she now shares with Beyonce. & an Oscar for her track Skyfall.
Before she had to cancel a string of tours and undergo vocal surgery.
Before there was an international man hunt to identify the men who broke Adele’s heart and inspired songs like “Rolling In The Deep” and “Someone Like You”.

Adele’s mother experienced her own heartbreak when her father left her in their early twenties. Growing up she obsessed over music, first the Spice Girls and other pop acts like Pink. Later she took an interest in R&B Aaliyah and Mary J Blige. Later she discovered Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald – but it was Amy Winehouse who inspired Adele to pour out her soul and she would get plenty of inspiration from another singer who dumped her before she penned her album 21.

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Adele and son, Angelo

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