Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE (born 5 May 1988) is an English singer-songwriter who goes by the moniker Adele. Her mezzo-soprano vocals and tender compositions have earned her acclaim. Adele has won 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards (three of which were for British Album of the Year), an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Adele received a record deal with XL Recordings after graduating from the BRIT School of Arts in 2006. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and featured the top-five hits “Chasing Pavements” and “Make You Feel My Love” in the United Kingdom. 19 has sold over 2.5 million copies in the United Kingdom and is one of the top 20 best-selling debut albums of all time. She received the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Adele’s second studio album, 21, was released in 2011.
Who are Adele influencers and favorite musicians?
Adele has stated that the Spice Girls had a huge impact on her love and passion for music, claiming that “they made me who I am today.” As a child, she pretended to be one of the Spice Girls at dinner parties. She admits she was “heartbroken” when Geri Halliwell as “Ginger Spice” left the Spice Girls. Lauryn Hill is another huge influence on her.
In a 2011 interview, Adele referred to Hill’s album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as her favorite, stating, “I was analyzing the record for about a month at the age of 8, I was constantly wondering when I would be that passionate about something, to write a record about it, even though I didn’t know I was going to make a record when I was older” while also thanking Hill “for existing” in a penned letter. She also listened to Sinéad O’Connor, the Cranberries, Bob Marley, the Cure, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Jeff Buckley, and Annie Lennox when she was younger.
Adele has looked up to Gabrielle since she was five years old. Adele’s mother created her a sequin eye patch during her school years, which she used to act as the Hackney-born star in a school talent event.
She grew interested in R&B acts such as Aaliyah, Destiny’s Child, Mary J. Blige, and Alicia Keys after moving to south London. Adele has remarked that seeing Pink play at Brixton Academy in London was one of the most defining moments in her life. “It was the Missundaztood record, so I was about 13 or 14,” she explains. I’d never heard someone sing like that live before, even though I was in the room […] I remember feeling like I was in a wind tunnel, her voice just hitting me. It was amazing.”
Adele listened to Etta James in her youth while developing and practicing her singing abilities.
Adele, then 14, discovered Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald when she came across their CDs in the jazz area of her local music store in 2002. Her attention was drawn to their appearance on the record covers Adele claims she then “started listening to Etta James every night for an hour” and “got to know my own voice” in the process.
She has said that Amy Winehouse and her 2003 album Frank inspired her to pick up a guitar, saying, “If it wasn’t for Amy and Frank, one hundred percent I wouldn’t have picked up a guitar, I wouldn’t have written ‘Daydreamer’ or ‘Hometown [Glory]’ and I wrote ‘Someone Like You’ on the guitar too.”
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