Sade released her debut album, the BRIT Award-winning Diamond Life, the following year, as well as a brace of hit songs such as Your Love Is King, Smooth Operator and When Am I Gonna Make A Living. Sade built up a songwriting relationship with Pride’s Stuart Matthewman, and along with Pride’s rhythm section, they began supporting Pride as their own thing before departing in 1983 to launch Sade as a band with a debut show in New York. Sade was brought up in Colchester, Essex, England, and initially started out as a fashion designer and part-time model, prior to joining the band Pride in the early 1980s. The band were ranked at #50 on VH1's list of the '100 greatest artists of all time.Sade was born Helen Folasade Adu in Ibadan, Nigeria, on Januand is a British singer, songwriter, and actress, and also known as the lead singer of her eponymous band. Sade's US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAAand have sold more than 75 million records worldwide to date. Their 2000 fifth studio album, Lovers Rock, won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. In 1986 Sade won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

It was certified double platinum in the UK, and quadruple platinum in the US. In late 1985, Sade released their second studio album Promise, which peaked at No. Sade's 1984 debut studio album Diamond Life, was a hit internationally, reaching # 1 in several countries and the Top Ten in the US where it has sold in excess of 4 million copies. Their music features elements of soul, R&B, jazz, soft rock, and funk.

However, three of their members were originally from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was originally released in November 1994. The Best of Sade is the first greatest hits album by vocalist Sade Adu and her band.

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