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2CD | Pop/Soul/Soft Jazz/Funk | EAC Rip |
MP3 CBR 320Kbps | 17 + 16 Tracks
Sade:
Formed: 1983, England
Genres: Rhythm & Blues
Representative Albums: "Diamond Life", "The Best of Sade", "Promise"
Representative Songs: "Smooth Operator", "Paradise", "The Sweetest Taboo"
Biography:
When singer Sade and her band of the same name were
establishing themselves, their record company, Epic,
made a point of printing "Pronounced Shar-day" on the
record labels of their releases. Soon enough,
the music had no problem with the correct pronunciation.
With the breakthrough Billboard Hot 100 Top Ten
single "Smooth Operator" propelling the debut Sade album,
Diamond Life, to the same spot on the Billboard 200 chart in 1985,
the band fast came to epitomize soulful, adult-oriented,
sophisti-pop. Though only five more studio albums would follow
during the next 25 years, the band's following abated only slightly,
and each release was treated like a long-awaited public
return of a mysterious yet beloved diva.
Born Helen Folasade Adu in Ibadan, Nigeria, about 50 miles from Lagos,
Sade was the daughter of an African father and an English mother.
After her mother returned to England, Adu grew up on the North End of London.
Developing a good singing voice in her teens, Adu worked part-time
jobs in and outside of the music business. She listened to Ray Charles,
Nina Simone, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, and Billie Holiday,
and 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 performed was
an Adu original co-written with bandmember Ray St. John,
"Smooth Operator." The following year, she joined the eight-piece
funk band Pride as a background singer. Pride's opening acts often featured
members of the band in different combinations. Pride and their off-shoots
performed often around London and stirred up record company interest.
Initially, the labels wanted to sign only Sade -- technically
a trio featuring Adu, Stuart Matthewman, and Paul Denman -- while
the whole of Pride wanted a deal. The members of Pride not involved
in the Sade trio eventually told Adu, Matthewman,
and Denman to go ahead and sign a deal. Adding keyboardist Andrew Hale,
Sade signed to the U.K. division of Epic Records.
The band's 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 had gone platinum
on the strength of the Top Ten singles "Smooth Operator"
and "Hang on to Your Love." The second album, Promise (1985),
featured "Never as Good as the First Time" and "The Sweetest Taboo,"
the latter of which stayed on the U.S. Hot 100 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 playlists. In 1986, Sade won a Grammy for Best New Artist.
Sade's third album was 1988's Stronger Than Pride,
and featured their first number one single on the U.S. R&B chart,
"Paradise," as well as "Nothing Can Come Between Us" and "Keep Looking."
The fourth 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."
Matthewman, Denman, and Hale went on to other projects,
including the low-key Sweetback, which released a self-titled album in 1996.
Matthewman also played a major role in the development of Maxwell's career,
providing instrumentation and production work for the R&B singer's first two albums.
Sade eventually reconvened to issue Lovers Rock in 2000.
The lead single "By Your Side" was a moderate hit,
peaking at number 18 on the adult contemporary chart; the following summer,
Sade embarked on their first tour in more than a decade and sold out many dates
across America. In early 2002, they celebrated the tour's success by releasing
a live album and DVD, Lovers Live.
The mostly somber Soldier of Love was released in 2010.
CD1:
Tracklist:
01. Smooth Operator
02. Your Love Is King
03. By Your Side
04. No Ordinary Love
05. Bullet Proof Soul
06. Lovers Rock
07. King Of Sorrow
08. Clean Heart
09. Nothing Can Come Between Us
10. Hang On To Your Love
11. Cherry Pie
12. Keep Looking
13. Frankie's First Affair
14. All About Our Love
15. I Will Be Your Friend
16. Mr. Wrong
17. Every Word
CD2:
Tracklist:
01. The Sweetest Taboo
02. Siempre Hay Esperanza
03. Cherish The Day
04. Tar Baby
05. Paradise
06. Never As Good As The First Time
07. Somebody Already Broke My Heart
08. Love Is Stronger Than Pride
09. Is It A Crime
10. Sally
11. Jezebel
12. Feel No Pain
13. Kiss Of Life
14. Like A Tattoo
15. Haunt Me
16. Pearls
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发表于 2010-7-31 02:04
发表于 2010-7-31 10:06
大多的爵士女声我都听着舒服哈
