After six years of waiting, Adele is finally making her long-awaited comeback to the world of music with her new album titled ‘30’. She’s back where she belongs.
Adele would definitely be considered a shining star of British music with both her harmonious voice and incredible songwriting.
Now that she is back with her new album – due to be released on November 19 – she continues with her tradition of titling the album by her age at the start of the writing process.
In her most recent social media post, the star revealed how she began working on the album three years ago, and that she has “learned a lot of blistering home truths about [herself] along the way”.
She pays a dedication to her friend who has helped her to get to where she is today and simply finishes the post with “Home is where the heart is.”
Her most recent interview with Vogue was a tell-all, where she also talks about how her divorce, body image, romance and of course her new album, described by the icon as her “self-redemption record.”
Additionally, she reveals how her new album will explain her divorce to her now nine-year-old son, Angelo Adkins.
With her new album in mind, it is only right we look back on her amazing career so far and her journey to how she became and thrives in being a British music icon.
Born on May 5, 1988, Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born in Tottenham, London to mother Penny Adkins and father Marc Evans.
Adele has not hidden away from her childhood of being brought up by a single mother in London, as her father left when Adele was only two years old.
At age four, Adele already showed promise as she was beginning to sing. At nine years old, Adele and her mother made their way down south as they moved to Brighton for her mother’s work.
However, in 1999 they moved back to the capital, settling in Brixton and then West Norwood in South London.
It is where she found her second home in South London that is the inspiration between her first hit ‘Hometown Glory’, a song she wrote in only 10 minutes.
In her teenage years, she attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in May 2005. Classmates included other notable British singers including Leona Lewis and Jessie J.
Four months after graduating in 2006, she published two of her own songs in the fourth issue of an arts publication known as ‘PlatformsMagazine.com’ (no link).
After a friend of Adele’s posted a demo of the singer on MySpace, it wasn’t long before she was receiving a phone call from Richard Russell, the boss of music label XL Recordings.
She was then recommended to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management, and Dickins became her official representative in 2006.
A year later, Adele was making her TV debut on BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland, where she performed ‘Daydreamer’.
Her debut single and breakthrough hit Hometown Glory was released in October 2007.
As the years went on, Adele was gaining fame and fortune as she became the first recipient of the Brit Awards’ Critics’ Choice prize and her debut album ‘19’ soared to number one in the British charts.
Her debut album is now certified eight times platinum in the UK and triple platinum in the US.
Only three years later in 2011, Adele was releasing her second album ‘21’ (which you guessed right, she correlated with her age).
The success of this album surpassed her debut and was critically well-received by audiences.
The album won numerous awards a year later, including six Grammy Awards, the Brit Award for British Album of the Year, and the American Music Award for Favourite Pop/Rock Album.
21 is now certified 17 times platinum in the UK and sits in fourth place in the all-time list of best-selling albums in the Official UK Chart.
2012 proved a busy year for the singer, as she also released the single ‘Skyfall’, a song co-wrote and recorded by Adele herself for the James Bond film of the same name.
She was once again adding to her awards cabinet too, as she won not only the Brit Award for British Single of the Year but the Golden Globe and of course the Academy Award.
Adele then took a three-year break and released her third studio album, ‘25’, in 2015
The album became the year’s bestseller, breaking first-week sales records in both the UK and US.
It is now certified diamond in the US and earned her an additional five Grammy awards that year, including Album of the Year.
It was this award that beat Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’; a record Adele paid respect to in her acceptance speech.
Flash forward six years and here we are, awaiting her new album.
Adele is a true British talent of the age, and I for one cannot wait for the release of her next album.
It is almost guaranteed to surpass the success of her already ground-breaking past work.
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