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When Sade first came on the recording scene in the '80s, her record company, Epic, made a point of printing "pronounced shar-day" after her name on the record labels of her releases. Soon enough the world would have no problem in correctly pronouncing her name. Born Helen Folasade Adu in Ibadan, Nigeria, about 50 miles from Lagos, she was the daughter of an African father and an English mother. After her mother returned to England, Sade grew up on the North End of London.
Developing a good singing voice in her teens, Sade worked part-time jobs in and outside of the music business. She listened to Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, and Billie Holliday. Sade studied fashion design at St. Martin's School of Art in London while also doing some modeling on the side.
Around 1980, she started singing harmony with a Latin funk group called Arriva. One of the more popular numbers that the group would perform was a Sade original co-written with bandmember Ray St. John, "Smooth Operator," that would later become Sade's first stateside hit. The following year she joined the eight-piece funk band Pride as a background singer. The band included future Sade band members guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman (a key player in '90s urban soul sing
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In 1997, Maxwell was featured as a MTV Unplugged artist. On MTV Unplugged: Maxwell, he recorded songs from "Maxwell�s Urban Hang Suite" live, along with Nine Inch Nails hit, Closer and Kate Bush song, "This Woman�s Work". The album was produced by Alex Coletti. In 1998, Maxwell released his second album, "Embrya", which was a deeply spiritual album. "Embrya" had songs that reflected Maxwell�s search for self-understanding and self-enlightenment. Title tracks; "I�m You: You Are Me and We Are You", "Drowndeep: Hula", and "Submerge: Til we Become the Sun" reflect such views. "Embrya" serves to be a fan favorite especially with songs like "Matrimony: Maybe You", "Luxury: Cococure", and "Each hour each second each minute each day: Of My Life". Maxwell, Stuart Matthewman, and Darrell Smith served as producers for the album. Maxwell�s third album "NOW" which he produced was released in 2001 and debuted at the top of the Billboard charts. The album mostly was about the ups and downs people experience in life and learning from past mistakes. "NOW" has a wide variety of sounds from funk to soul to country, all sounds that blend well over the album�s R&B beats. On "NOW", Maxwell worked with long-time collaborators and friends, Hod David and Stuart Matthewman. From "Now", Maxwell releas