Meet Yoruba Woman Who Has Won Grammy Award 4 Times

Four-time Grammy award winner, Sade Adu, pictured above
being carried by her dad, Adebisi Adu in 1959. With
them are Sade’s mum, Anne and older brother,
Banji.

Helen Folasade Adu, known professionally as Sade
Adu or simply Sade, was born on January 16, 1959
in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Her parents, Adebisi
Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba
background, and Anne Hayes, an English district
nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and later
moved to Nigeria.
Her parents separated, however, and Anne Hayes
returned to England, taking four-year-old Sade and
older brother Banji with her to live with their
grandparents outside of Colchester, Essex.
Brief music history: Helen Folasade Adu, OBE (born
16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade
Adu or simply Sade is a Nigerian English singer-
songwriter,composer,arranger and record
producer. With members Paul S. Denman, Andrew
Hale, and Stuart Matthewman, she gained
worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the English
band Sade. Following a brief stint as a fashion
designer of men's clothing and part-time model Adu
began backup singing for the band Pride. Growing
attention from record labels led her, along with
other fellow band members, to separate from Pride
and form the band Sade. Following a record deal
with Epic Records the band released their debut
album Diamond Life(1984). The album sold over six
million copies, becoming one of the top-selling
debut recordings of the 1980s, and the best-selling
debut ever by a British female vocalist.
Following the release of the band's debut album
they went on to release a string of multi-platinum
selling albums. Their follow up Promise was
released in 1985 and peaked at number-one in the
UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200, and went on
to sell four million copies in the US. Sade would
later go on to make her acting debut in the British
film, Absolute Beginners (1986), before the release
of the band's albums,Stronger Than Pride (1988)
and Love Deluxe (1992). After the release of the
fifth album, Lovers Rock (2000), the band embarked
on a ten-year hiatus in which Sade raised her
daughter. Following the hiatus the band returned
with their sixth album, Soldier of Love (2010) which
became a commercial success and won a Grammy
Award.
Grammy Awards: She won the award in 1986 for
Best New Artist,1994 for her song 'No Ordinary
Love',2002 for 'Lovers Rock' and in 2011 for
'Soldier of Love'.Apart from Grammy Award,she
has won several other awards like BRIT,American
Music Awards and nominated in several others like
MTV Video Music Awards,MOBO Awards,Billboard
Music Awards,BET Awards,American Music Awards
and more