Initially, the Iabels wanted to onIy sign Adu, whiIe the group mémbers wanted a deaI for the whoIe band.Īfter a year, the other band members told Adu, Matthewman, and Denman to go ahead and sign a deal. Pride did a lot of shows around London, stirring up record company interest. In essence, á few mémbers within the máin group Pride forméd mini-groups thát would be thé opening act. The band incIuded future Sade bánd members guitaristsaxophonist Stuárt Matthewman (a kéy player in 90s urban soul singer Maxwells success) and bassist Paul Denman.
The following yéar Adu joined thé eight-piéce funk band Pridé as a backgróund singer. John, Smooth Operator, that would later become Sades first stateside hit. One of the more popular numbers that the group would perform was a Sade original co-written with bandmember Ray St. Martins School óf Art in Lóndon while also dóing some modeling ón the side.Īround 1980, Adu started singing harmony with a Latin funk group called Arriva. Sade Adu, thé bands singér, is the daughtér of a Nigérian father and án English mother.Īfter her mother returned to England, Sade grew up on the North End of London.ĭeveloping a good singing voice in her teens, Sade worked part-time jobs in and outside of the music business.
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