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New Sade in 2009
Sade's new album will be released November 24, 2009. Just in time for theHolidays
The title of the Album has not been released.
If you know Sade, you know she does not make albums for the money, Sade is an artist who creates music purely on inspiration. Hencewhy we've waited nearly a decade for another release, like a poet with a 9 year dry spell until she fell in love again, Sade will bless us with anotherclassic.
November 2000 was the last time Sade had a new album out, here we are, 9 years later and we are once again being blessed with another November release date,Why november? Sade loves the Holidays...
While some political observers lament a return of the same old, same old, fans of the Nigerian-born singer have gladly welcomed a fresh batch of takes on thelabors of lost love.
Regardless of the new talent and musical trends that have come and gone since her last studio album, one thing will never change, her honeyed voice. With onlyslight stylistic changes marking each new collection of songs, Sade has sold more than 40 million albums since the mid-'80s, each marked by tales ofheartache and longing, and none more spare and haunting than Lovers Rock.
The 50-year-old singer, who got her first break in the early '80s fronting the English Latin soul band Pride, reveals little about her closely shieldedprivate life on her #5 album.
From her signature first hit, 1984's "Smooth Operator," off her Diamond Life debut, to "The Sweetest Taboo," Sade has avoidedtrend-hopping. It's a pattern she told MTV Europe she's continuing on her latest release. "We're lucky that we have some platform alreadyestablished that we can step back onto," she said. "We haven't ever adapted to fit in and even right at the very beginning we didn't reallyfit in. We have our own kind of course and that's the route we go. So we either sink or swim."
www.sade2009.com
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From Billboard:
Exclusive: New Sade On The Way, 2009 Release Possible
Sade Adu, the reclusive "quiet storm" soul signer who takes notoriously long breaks between releases, has regrouped with the band that bears her nameand is recording her first album of new material since 2000's "Lovers Rock," Billboard.com sources confirm. The group is in the studio throughJune and Sony hopes to put the record out by the end of 2009 though, despite rumors, there is no set release date on the calendar.
"She is in the studio and the album will come when it is ready," a source at Sony tells Billboard. "You don't wait for years for one andthen rush it."
Sade's longtime bandmate Stuart Matthewman, a.k.a. Cottonbelly, also confirms that new material is in progress, though he says the project is still in its"early days" and won't be close to finished until "later in the year."
Last week, rumors of a new Sade album surfaced when the official-looking website sade2009.com went live with a message claiming a release date of November 24,2009 for a new album. However, the source at Sade's label denies any connection to that site. "We do not know where that fan site could have got thatrelease date from, but it is 100% not true." Billboard contacted the site's owner and web developer, who insisted that the release date was"official;" since his response, however, the site's posting has been updated with a correction: "The date above has been changed, arepresentative from Sony confirmed the new date to be unknown. Please check back for the update on Sade's album release."
Though no details about Sade's new music have yet been revealed, one artist may have already heard snippets: Maxwell, a fellow Sony recording artist andlongtime friend and collaborator with Matthewman, who will soon release a new record of his own ("BLACKsummer'snight," July 7) after a multi-yearhiatus. The R&B singer sent a message to fans in March via his private Facebook page in which he indicated that he'd heard some of his labelmate'snew recordings. "Trust me, it's so monolithic it'll shake you in your shoes!" he wrote.
Sade's 2000 release, "Lovers Rock," sold 3,881,000 copies in the U.S. and the prior album, 1992's "Love Deluxe," sold 3,407,000.Since 1985's "Diamond Life" debut, Sade has sold nearly 17 million units in the U.S. alone according to Nielsen SoundScan.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/exclusive-new-sade-on-the-way-2009-release-1003978338.story