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Sade Adu [1959-0] Nigerian

Rank: 103
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a Nigerian-born English singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, and record producer. With members Paul S.

Attitude, Food, Good, Music, Smile

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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.	Good, Smile	101
To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.		102
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.		103
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.	Music	104
Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?	Food	105
People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.		106
When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.		107
I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.	Attitude	108
I don't like looking outrageous.		109
My father was a very difficult man.		110
I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.		111
My musical career was an accident.		112
I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.		113
I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.		114
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.		115
When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.		116
I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.		117
I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.		118
The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.		119
When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.		120
I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.		121
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!		122
London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.		123
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.		124
I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.		125
If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.		126
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.		201
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.		202
I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.		203
From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.		204
People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.		205
I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.		206
I love writing songs.		207
I look a lot like my father and his mother.		208
I'm always late.		209
My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.		210
Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.		211
When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.		212
Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.		213

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