Adele

Known for ActingBorn 1988-05-05 (age 38)Tottenham, London, England, UK

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (/əˈdɛl/; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer-songwriter. Regarded as a British icon, she is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. Her accolades include 16 Grammy Awards, 12 Brit Awards (including three for British Album of the Year), an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award. After graduating from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, 19 (2008), included the UK top-five singles "Chasing Pavements" and "Make You Feel My Love", becoming one of the best-selling debut albums ever in the UK. She received the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Adele's second studio album, 21 (2011), became the best-selling album of the 21st century. 21 holds the record for the top-performing album in US chart history, topping the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks, with the singles "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain" heading charts worldwide, becoming her signature songs. The album received a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. In 2012, Adele released "Skyfall", a soundtrack single for the James Bond film Skyfall, which won her the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Adele's third studio album, 25 (2015), broke first-week sales records in both the UK and the US. In the US, it became the first album to sell over three million copies in a week. 25 earned her five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year. The lead single, "Hello", achieved worldwide success. Her fourth studio album, 30 (2021), contains "Easy on Me", which won her a Grammy Award in 2023. 25 and 30 became the best-selling albums worldwide, including the US and the UK, in 2015 and 2021, respectively. As of 2024, all of her studio albums, except 19, have topped the yearly best-selling albums chart worldwide in the 21st century. Adele is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with sales of over 120 million records worldwide. The best-selling female artist of the 21st century in the UK, she was named the best-selling artist of the 2010s in the US. Her studio albums 21 and 25 were the top two best-selling albums of the 2010s in the UK. Both are listed among the best-selling albums in UK chart history, while in the US, both are certified Diamond, the most of any artist who debuted in the 21st century. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Adele: A New Chapter

Adele: The BBC Sessions

... Sings Dylan II

Adele: Live at iTunes Festival London

An Audience with Adele

Adele: Live in New York City 2015

The True Story of...

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

The Grammys

Adèle - Live from the artists den

Adele: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Adele One Night Only

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

MTV Video Music Awards

Skyfall

Katy Perry: Part of Me

The Graham Norton Show

Adele - Live in London

NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Adele at the BBC

Adele: 30 Greatest Moments

Saturday Night Live

Ugly Betty

Adele: From 19 to 30 - In Her Own Words

P!NK: Staying True

Live from the Artists Den

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

The Sound of 007: Live from the Royal Albert Hall

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Jonathan Ross Show

Entertainment Tonight

ZDF-Fernsehgarten

Still On Strings

Burt Bacharach at the BBC

Busje Komt Zo!

The BRITs at 40

Adele: Homecoming

Adele: Someone Like Me

Adele: VH1 Unplugged

Adele The Only Way Is Up

Royal Variety Performance 2010

BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge

VH1 Divas 2009

Lily Allen and Friends

PowerTürk Müzik Ödülleri

ECHO-Verleihung

Cry to Heaven