Adele Tour Overview
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE (/əˈdɛl/; born 5 May 1988), known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. She is known for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and songwriting. After graduating in arts from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 and spawned the UK top-five singles "Chasing Pavements" and "Make You Feel My Love". 19 has sold over 2.5 million copies in the UK and was named in the top 20 best-selling debut albums of all time in the UK.[4][5] Adele was honoured with the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Adele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. It became the world's best-selling album of the 21st century, with sales of over 31 million. 21 is the top-performing album in the US chart history, topping the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks with singles "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone Like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain" topping the charts worldwide to become her signature songs. The album received a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. In 2012, Adele released "Skyfall", a soundtrack single for the James Bond film Skyfall, which won her the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Her third studio album, 25, was released in 2015 to breaking first-week sales records in the UK and US, where in the US, it is the only album to sell over three million copies in a week. 25 earned her five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year. The lead single, "Hello", became hugely successful worldwide. Her fourth studio album 30 released in 2021 contains the chart-topping and Grammy winning single "Easy on Me". 25 and 30 became the year's best-selling albums worldwide including the US and the UK in 2015 and 2021 respectively. All of her studio albums except 19 topped the yearly best selling albums chart worldwide more than any artist in the 21 century as of 2023.
About Adele
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1988 in the Tottenham district of London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans. After Evans left when Adele was 2, she was brought up by her mother. She began singing at age 4 and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. In 1997, 9-year-old Adele and her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult-learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton on the south coast of England.
In 1999, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, then to the neighbouring district of West Norwood in south London, which is the subject of her first song "Hometown Glory". Adele spent much of her youth in Brockwell Park where she would play the guitar and sing to friends, which she recalled in her 2015 song "Million Years Ago". She stated, "It has quite monumental moments of my life that I've spent there, and I drove past it [in 2015] and I just literally burst into tears. I really missed it." Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent even though, at the time, she was more interested in going into artists and repertoire (A&R) and hoped to launch other people's careers.
Adele Facts
- When she was little, Adele spent many hours listening to the spice girls. They later went on to influence her style of music. She also claims she was heavily influenced by Etta James and Dusty Springfield early in life.
- Adele was always destined to be famous, as she went to school with both Jessie J and Leona Lewis. The trio attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology where Adele graduated in May 2006.
- Adele’s song “Skyfall” was originally written for the 2012 James Bond movie, and the artist herself was originally doubtful when approached for the project.
- Adele’s Albums Were First Popular in the UK and the Netherlands.
