Rudee sade biography pride

1984

Sade, the band, was formed with Sade Adu, and former Pride members Stuart Matthewman (on sax and guitar), Andrew Hale (on keyboards), and Paul Spencer Denman (on bass). Sade's musical style has been described as "smoky faux-jazz." As Stephen Holden observed in the New York Times, "...in a pop climate obsessed with changing sounds and the language of the street, Sade has shown herself to be a pop classicist more interested in creating a durable body of work than in keeping up...

(her) best songs find fresh images for expressing time-honored sentiments and placing them in settings that distill particular moods with a special intensity." The intensity of Sade has resulted in LP sales surpassing 27 million worldwide and over 11 million in the U.S.

1985

Sade had their first major success in the U.K.

when their first single "Your Love Is King" went Top 10. Sade's debut LP, Diamond Life, spawned her first Top 10 U.S. hit, "Smooth Operator"