Adele
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), better known simply as Adele.
She is an English singer-songwriter
and musician.
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. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance.
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. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance.
Adele released her second
album, 21,
in early 2011.
The album was well received critically and surpassed the success
of her debut,
earning
the singer six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year,
The
album has also helped her receive numerous other awards,
including two Brit
Awards and three American Music Awards.
The album has been
certified 16 times platinum in the UK; in the US
the album has held the top position longer than any other album since 1985, and
is certified Diamond. The
album has sold 25 million copies worldwide.
The
success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness World Records.
She is the first
artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK.
With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You".
She became
the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both
the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously
since the
Beatles in 1964.
With her third release from the album, "Set Fire to the Rain",
which became her
third number one single in the US, Adele became the first artist in history to
lead the Billboard 200 concurrently with three Billboard Hot 100
number-ones.
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