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artist :: sade
release :: love deluxe (remastered)
year :: 2000
genre :: lo-fi
label :: sony music entertainment
catalogue :: 500598 2
website :: www.sadeonline.com
ripper :: karmacoma
date :: 03-may-2002
quality :: 192kbps/44,1khz
source :: compact disc
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01 no ordinary love 7:22
02 feel no pain 5:11
03 i couldn't love you more 3:50
04 like a tattoo 3:41
05 kiss of life 5:52
06 cherish the day 5:34
07 pearls 4:35
08 bullet proof soul 5:27
09 mermaid 4:24
playtime :: 00h 45m 56s
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when sade first came on the recording scene in the '80s, her
record company, epic, made a point of printing "pronounced
shar-day" after her name on the record labels of her releases.
soon enough the world would have no problem in correctly
pronouncing her name. born helen folasade adu in a village 50
miles from lagos, the capitol of nigeria, she was the daughter of
an african father and an english mother. after her mother returned
to england, sade grew up on the north end of london. developing a
good singing voice in her teens, sade worked part-time jobs in and
outside of the music business. she listened to ray charles, nina
simone, al green, aretha franklin, and billie holliday. sade
studied fashion design at st. martin's school of art in london
while also doing some modeling on the side. around 1980, she
started singing harmony with a latin funk group called arriva. one
of the more popular numbers that the group would perform was a
sade original co-written with band member ray st. john, "smooth
operator," that would later become sade's first stateside hit. the
following year she joined an eight-piece funk band pride as a
background singer. the band included future sade band members
guitarist/saxophonist stuart matthewman (a key player in '90s
urban soul singer maxwell's success) and bassist paul denman. the
concept of the group was that there could shoot-offs. in essence,
a few members within the main group pride formed mini-groups that
would be the opening act. pride did a lot of shows around london,
stirring up record company interest. initially, the labels wanted
to only sign sade, while the group members wanted a deal for the
whole band. after a year, the other band members told sade,
matthewman, and denman to go ahead and sign a deal. adding
keyboardist andrew hale, the group signed to the u.k. division of
epic records. her debut album, diamond life (with overall
production by robin millar), went top ten in the u.k. in late
1984. january 1985 saw the album released on cbs' portrait label
and by spring it went platinum off the strength of the top ten
singles "smooth operator" and "hang on to your love." her third
album, promise (november 1985), featured "never as good as the
first time" and arguably her signature song, "the sweetest taboo,"
which stayed on the u.s. pop charts for six months. sade was so
popular that some radio stations reinstated the '70s practice of
playing album tracks, adding "is it a crime" and "tar baby" to
their play lists. in 1986, sade won a grammy for best new artist.
sade's third album was 1988's stronger than pride and had her
first number one soul single "paradise," "nothing can come between
us," and "keep looking." a new sade album didn't appear for four
years. 1992's love deluxe continued the unbroken streak of
multi-platinum sade albums, spinning off the hits "no ordinary
love," "feel no pain," and "pearls." while the album's producer
mike pela, matthewman, denman, and hale have gone on to other
projects. the new millennium did spark a new scene for sade. she
issued lovers rock in fall 2000 and incoporated more mainstream
elements than ever before. debut single "by your side" was also a
hit among radio and adult-contemporary listerners. the following
summer, sade embarked on her first tour in more than a decade,
selling out countless dates across america. in early 2002, she
celebrated the success of the tour by releasing her first ever
live album and dvd, lovers live.
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greetings :: sb, qdp, sour, dps, it, rac, dh, sfe, hbz, igr and mgc
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