Adele

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, MBE, is an English singer-songwriter. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and is certified 8× platinum in the UK and triple platinum in US. Her second album, 21, was critically well-received and surpassed the success of her debut. In 2012, she co-wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. In 2015, Adele released her third studio album, 25.

About Adele in brief

Summary Adele Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, MBE, is an English singer-songwriter. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and is certified 8× platinum in the UK and triple platinum in US. Her second album, 21, was critically well-received and surpassed the success of her debut. In 2012, she co-wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name. In 2015, Adele released her third studio album, 25, which became the year’s best-selling album and broke first-week sales records in UK and US. In 2011, 2012, and 2016, Billboard named her Artist of the Year. She was listed at number five on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women in Music in 2012. Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2016. Her third tour, saw her break attendance records globally, including in UK, Australia, and the US, and her album 21 has been listed in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her accolades include fifteen Grammy Awards and nine Brit Awards. She has sold over 120 million records and is considered to be one of world’s top-selling music artists. Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts in 2006. She spent much of her youth in Brockwell Park where she would play guitar and sing to friends, which she recalled in her 2015 song “Million Years Years” She was born on 5 May 1988 in Tottenham, London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins and a Welsh father, Marc Evans.

Her mother left when Adele was two, leaving her mother to raise her. In 1999, she moved back to England as an adult and moved to Brixton, south London; first to Bri, then to the neighbouring district of West Norwood in south London. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards Critics’ Choice Award and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll. In 2009, she won the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2010, she was named Songwriter of the year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In 2013, she became the first female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top-ten singles as a lead artist, with \”Rolling in the Deep\”, \”Someone Like You\”, and \”Set Fire to the Rain\”, all of which also topped the chart. She won a record-tying six Grammy Awards in 2012, among them Album of the. Year; the Brit Award for British Album of. the Year; and the American Music Award for Favorite PopRock Album. In 2014, she earned her five Grammy Awards, including Album ofthe Year, and four Brit Awards,. including British album of theyear. In 2016, she released Adele Live 2016, which visited Europe, North America and Oceania, and concluded with finale concerts at Wembley Stadium in June 2017. The lead single, \”Hello\”, was the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release.