- Has sold close to 40 million albums worldwide, has had six multi-platinum albums released in 20 years and has received four Grammy Awards including Best New Artist (1985).
- Ranked #66 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.
- Her name Sade is pronounced "Shah-day". Some people insert an "r" sound before the hyphen because of a misspelled publicity poster when the singer's band was being introduced to the public.
- She was once a backup singer in a British pop group called Pride.
- Ranked #34 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
- Daughter Mickalia "Ila" Adu was born on July 21, 1996. Father is producer Bob Morgan.
- Attended Saint Martin's School of Art in London, where she studied Fashion design.
- Her father, Adebisi Adu, is Nigerian, and her mother, Anne Hayes, is British.
- Attended and graduated from Clacton County High School in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
- She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to the music industry.
- She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Music. She is a singer, songwriter and composer in London, England.
- Her bandmates are Stuart Matthewmann, Andrew Hale and Paul Denham.
- She moved to the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, to the countryside where she bought a run-down stone-built cottage near Stroud to renovate with her partner Ian Watts (2005).
- Her album "Diamond Life" won the British Phonographic Industry Award for British Album (1985).
- Has an older brother named Banji.
- Is the lead singer of the pop group Sade which is of course her own name.
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