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FEMUSINDO.com - Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, with her famous name Adele, was born in London, England, on May 5, 1988.
She is a British singer and songwriter, graduated from BRIT School in 2006.
Adele first got a recording contract with XL Recordings after a friend uploaded her song demo on MySpace in the same year.
Album Releases and Receives Awards
In 2007, she received the Critics' Choice award at the Brit Awards and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll.
Her debut album, 19, released in 2008, was a commercial and critical success.
The album received seven-times platinum certification in the UK and double platinum in the United States.
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Adele released her second studio album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received and surpassed the success of her debut album.
The album also brought Adele numerous awards in 2012, including six Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards and three American Music Awards.
The album was certified sixteen times platinum in the UK and is the fourth best-selling album of all time in the UK.
Tops the Billboard Albums Chart
In the United States, 21 became the longest-running number one album on the Billboard 200 since 1985, and was certified Diamond by the RIAA.
The success of Adele's 21 earned her a number of Guinness World Records world records.
Adele, the first female artist in Billboard Hot 100 history to have three top 10 singles and two top 5 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Release of Song for James Bond Film
In 2012, she released "Skyfall" which she wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name.
The song won her a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award.
After a three-year hiatus, Adele released her third studio album 25 in 2015.
25 became the best-selling album of the year and broke the record for the fastest-selling album in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The lead single "Hello" became the first song to sell one million downloads in a week in the United States.
World's Best-Selling Artists
Adele is one of the world's best-selling artists. Billboard named Adele "Artist of the Year" in 2011 and 2012.
In addition, in 2012, she was ranked fifth on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music.
Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2016. (*)
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