Adele Laurie Blue
Adkins was born 5 May 1988. She is better known simply as Adele, is an English
singer-songwriter, musician and multi-instrumentalist. Adele was offered a
recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on MySpace
in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice"
award and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008
to much commercial and critical success. It certified four times platinum in
the UK, and double platinum in the US. Her career in the US was boosted by a
Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008.
Adele is the first
female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three singles in the top
10 at the same time as a lead artist, and the first female artist to have two
albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of
the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. 21 is the longest running number one
album by a female solo artist on the UK and US Albums Chart. In 2011 and 2012,
Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2012, Adele was listed at number
five on VH1′s 100 Greatest Women In Music, and the American magazine Time named
Adele one of the most influential people in the world. In 2013, she received an
Academy Award as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her
song "Skyfall", written for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond
film.
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