[Musicinas] Adele Laurie Blue Adkins

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• Musician Name: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins
• Birthday / Location: May 5, 1988 (age 33) Tottenham, London
• Main instrument: Soul Pop
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• Other Information: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE (London, May 5, 1988) is a British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is one of the record-selling artists in the world, with more than 120 million records sold. Born and raised in the Tottenham district of London, she began singing at the age of four and began her artistic career in 2006 after graduating in music from the BRIT School and signing a contract with XL Recordings. Adele was discovered by the label through music demos posted on her profile on the MySpace social network. In 2007, she received the Critics' Choice award from the Brit Awards and reached the top of the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in January 2008 to commercial and critical acclaim. It has been certified Platinum 8 times in the UK and three times in the US. The album yielded four singles, including "Hometown Glory", the first song Adele wrote at age 16, based on her life in the suburb where she lived, West Norwood, London. An appearance she made on Saturday Night Live in late 2008 boosted her career in the US. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele was awarded Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
• Adele reached the peak of her career when she released her second album, 21, with which she broke several records and dominated the US and UK charts with the single "Rolling in the Deep". 21 has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. The success has earned Adele mentions in the Guinness Book more than ten times. For being the first woman to have simultaneously two singles and two albums in the top 5 of the British charts, a fact that only the band The Beatles had achieved in 1964, for being the first artist to sell more than 3 million albums. copies of one album in a year in the UK and with the third single from the album, "Set Fire to the Rain", as she became the first artist in history to lead the Billboard 200 consecutively at number one. For breaking the record for the video to reach one billion views in the shortest period on YouTube, 88 days. She has also broken records for artists such as Michael Jackson, Oasis, 'N Sync, Whitney Houston, Madonna and Beyoncé.
• The singer was named fifth on the list of the "100 Greatest Women in Music" by VH1. Already by the American magazine Time, she was elected one of the most influential people in the world. She was also listed at number six on Forbes' list of the most successful and best paid celebrities under thirty for 2011. In 2013, Adele was listed as VH1's 15th Sexiest Artist. Adele has been a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire since 2013, having been awarded by Prince Charles for her contributions to the British recording industry.
• In 2012, she released "Skyfall", which she co-wrote and recorded for the eponymous James Bond film. The song won the Oscar and Golden Globe for "Best Original Song" as well as a Grammy and a Brit Award for British Single of the Year. After a three-year break, Adele released her third studio album, 25, in 2015. It became the biggest selling album of the year and broke first week sales records in the UK and US. 25 was her second album to receive diamond certification in the US and won five Grammy Awards, including the singer's second Album of the Year and four Brit Awards. Among the top awards won during his career are fifteen Grammy Awards, nine Brit Awards, eighteen Billboard Music Awards, a Golden Globe and an Oscar. In the years 2011, 2012 and 2016, Adele was named Artist of the Year by Billboard.