Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, (born 5 May 1988), is a multiple Grammy Award-Winning English singer-songwriter from Tottenham, North London. Her debut album, 19, was released in January 2008 and entered the UK album chart at #1. The album has since received four-times Platinum certification in the UK and has sold 5,500,000 copies worldwide. The album included the hugely popular song Chasing Pavements. 19 earned Adele two Grammy Awards in February 2009 for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Read Full BioAdele Laurie Blue Adkins, (born 5 May 1988), is a multiple Grammy Award-Winning English singer-songwriter from Tottenham, North London. Her debut album, 19, was released in January 2008 and entered the UK album chart at #1. The album has since received four-times Platinum certification in the UK and has sold 5,500,000 copies worldwide. The album included the hugely popular song Chasing Pavements. 19 earned Adele two Grammy Awards in February 2009 for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Her second album, 21, was released on January 24th 2011 in the UK and propelled Adele to unprecedented mega-stardom. In just eleven months, 21 received fourteen-times Platinum certification in the UK for shipments in excess of 4,500,000 copies, and has sold a further 6,200,000 copies in the US denoting sextuple-Platinum status. As of January 2012, 21 has sold an estimated seventeen million copies worldwide. The album has produced three global chart-topping singles thus far: Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You, and Set Fire to the Rain. 21 won Adele six awards at the 2012 Grammy Awards, among them Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Adele graduated from BRIT School in Croydon in May 2006, where she was classmates with Leona Lewis. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent. In school, she was more interested in going into A&R, and hoped to launch other people's careers. Four months later, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com. She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend who posted it on Myspace where it became very successful and led to a phone call from music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting. Nick Huggett at XL Recordings recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management and in June 2006 Dickins became her official representative. September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major attraction for Adele who was a big fan of the English singer-songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL Recordings in September 2006.
Adele's breakthrough song, Hometown Glory, was released in October 2007. Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate's song, My Yvonne, from his debut album. Adele became the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. She released her second single Chasing Pavements on 14 January 2008, two weeks ahead of her debut album, 19. Chasing Pavements reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks, finally remaining in the Top 40 14 weeks after its release. The album itself entered the British charts at number one. The Times Encyclopedia of Modern Music would name 19 an "essential" Blue Eyed Soul recording.
In June 2013, Adele was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to music.
The much-anticipated third studio album "25" was released on November 20, 2015 on the label XL. The first single from the album, "Hello", was released on Friday, October 23, 2015.
Grammy Awards (2017) - At the 59th Grammy Awards on Sun, February 12, 2017, Adele took the awards for "Album of The Year" and "Best Pop Vocal Album" for "25". and "Song Of The Year" and "Best Pop Solo Performance" for "Hello".
Adele is set to release her fourth studio album, the hotly-anticipated 30, on November 19, 2021. It will be preceded by lead single "Easy on Me," which is due out on October 15.
Her second album, 21, was released on January 24th 2011 in the UK and propelled Adele to unprecedented mega-stardom. In just eleven months, 21 received fourteen-times Platinum certification in the UK for shipments in excess of 4,500,000 copies, and has sold a further 6,200,000 copies in the US denoting sextuple-Platinum status. As of January 2012, 21 has sold an estimated seventeen million copies worldwide. The album has produced three global chart-topping singles thus far: Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You, and Set Fire to the Rain. 21 won Adele six awards at the 2012 Grammy Awards, among them Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Adele graduated from BRIT School in Croydon in May 2006, where she was classmates with Leona Lewis. Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent. In school, she was more interested in going into A&R, and hoped to launch other people's careers. Four months later, she published two songs on the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com. She had recorded a three-song demo for a class project and gave it to a friend who posted it on Myspace where it became very successful and led to a phone call from music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a friend with her to the meeting. Nick Huggett at XL Recordings recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at September Management and in June 2006 Dickins became her official representative. September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major attraction for Adele who was a big fan of the English singer-songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL Recordings in September 2006.
Adele's breakthrough song, Hometown Glory, was released in October 2007. Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate's song, My Yvonne, from his debut album. Adele became the first recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. She released her second single Chasing Pavements on 14 January 2008, two weeks ahead of her debut album, 19. Chasing Pavements reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks, finally remaining in the Top 40 14 weeks after its release. The album itself entered the British charts at number one. The Times Encyclopedia of Modern Music would name 19 an "essential" Blue Eyed Soul recording.
In June 2013, Adele was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to music.
The much-anticipated third studio album "25" was released on November 20, 2015 on the label XL. The first single from the album, "Hello", was released on Friday, October 23, 2015.
Grammy Awards (2017) - At the 59th Grammy Awards on Sun, February 12, 2017, Adele took the awards for "Album of The Year" and "Best Pop Vocal Album" for "25". and "Song Of The Year" and "Best Pop Solo Performance" for "Hello".
Adele is set to release her fourth studio album, the hotly-anticipated 30, on November 19, 2021. It will be preceded by lead single "Easy on Me," which is due out on October 15.
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Hometown Glory
Adele Lyrics
I've been walking in the same way as I did
Missing out the cracks in the pavement
And turning my heel and strutting my feet
"Is there anything I can do for you dear?
Is there anyone I could call?"
"No and thank you, please Madam
I ain't lost, just wandering"
'Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
'Round my hometown
Ooh the people I've met
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of this world
Are the wonders of now
I like it in the city when the air is so thick and opaque
I love to see everybody in short skirts, shorts and shades
I like it in the city when two worlds collide
You get the people and the government
Everybody taking different sides
Shows that we ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
Shows that we ain't gonna take it
Shows that we ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
'Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
'Round my hometown
Ooh the people I've met yeah
Do-dily-di-da-da-da-da-day, yeah
Do-dily-di-da-da-da-da-day, yeah
Do-do-do-do-ohh-ohh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, hey, ay
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of this world
Are the wonders of my world
Of my world, yeah
Of my world
Of my world, yeah
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins
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Hari Wilson
After Contemplating Your Most Enjoyable Observations Regarding
The ♡One♡ Who Would Most Definately Have Betrothed Me If
"Ifs" Were that Little Bit Better at Getting "Real"
Ive Come to the Conclusion that Perhaps We Were Somehow Unvolitiinally
Drawn On Global Mass (( Due to...Well My Guess "Was"
Of Course Such Zombified Like United Fervour Was Fueled By The
Chinese Having Sex Under the Tabloid Table With One Of Their Bed Buddys MI6 In a Threesome With Sony Musics Dark Shadow Sweat Shop Society
Who Claim to Be Universal Ally Ethical...
But then SuddenlyThrough the Clouds Of Hysterical Dementia Sedused By Your👉🏽🤣👈🏻Az Comment ...
The Larfarting Fog Induced by You Cleared and
I...
I...
⚡ I Far King Remembered⚡
And the Truth Of It All Was Revealed...
I "Saw" That Such Global Honey Soaked Power Pipe Like Hypnotism on Mass...
Nearly Almost Exactly
Most Likely Surely "Perhaps"
Possessed Us All Thusly By Way Of
👉🏽 "Yo" 👈🏻
Oooooh I Dunno
Maybz Something "Rather" to do With
You Know Like Um....
🔊⚡Every Single Air Wave Jock Johanna Slash Net Vibe Server Fave
Add Talk Show Host Shouted Out n Spouted Long n Loud About ♡Her Otherworldy Gift (s)
And the Oft It Seems Forgotton Fact That "My" Most Bel9ved "If" Wife Adele~♡
Our "Otherworldly" Half Woman 99% Godess Was Played n Played n Re Played Till a Billion Hearts Bled n "Some" Stayed👈🏻
Was Talked About Over Watercoolers...
In Men "and" Lgbtqi abc 123 not too far till Interspeeshe (🙏sorry kinda) Freindly Gyms n Locker Rooms the World Over...
All in
⚡ Random Unision⚡
Just a #Random Theory...
🙏No Almost Serioysly Though.. Ta 4Da👉🏽🤣
Hey !!! 👉🏽👄 !!!
And May God and Her His Its Fave Angel Adele Bless Your Most Random Bliss~♡
💜
Nicholas
"Hometown Glory"
Adele
[Verse 1]
I've been walking in the same way as I did
Missing out the cracks in the pavement
And tutting my heel and strutting my feet
"Is there anything I can do for you dear?"
"Is there anyone I could call?"
"No and thank you, please madame
I ain't lost, just wandering"
[Chorus]
'Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
'Round my hometown
Ooh, the people I've met
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of this world
Are the wonders now
[Verse 2]
I like it in the city
When the air is so thick and opaque
I love it to see everybody in short skirts, shorts and shades
I like it in the city when two worlds collide
You get the people and the government
Everybody taking different sides
[Refrain]
Shows that we ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
Shows that we ain't gonna take it
Shows that we ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
[Chorus]
'Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
'Round my hometown
Ooh, the people I've met, yeah
[Outro]
Doo-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dah, yeah
Doo-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dah, yeah
Doo-doo-doo-doo ooh-ooh yeah
Yeah, yeah-ey
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of this world
Are the wonders of my world
Of my world
Yeah, of my world
Of my world, yeah
Witit Tiguk
"Hometown Glory"
I've been walking in the same way as I did
Missing out the cracks in the pavement
And tutting my heel and strutting my feet
"Is there anything I can do for you dear? Is there anyone I could call?"
"No and thank you, please Madam. I ain't lost, just wandering."
Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
Round my hometown
Ooh the people I've met
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of this world
Are the wonders of my world
I like it in the city when the air is so thick and opaque
I love to see everybody in short skirts, shorts and shades
I like it in the city when two worlds collide
You get the people and the government
Everybody taking different sides
Shows that we ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
Shows that we ain't gonna take it
Shows that we ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
Round my hometown
Ooh the people I've met
(Do da di di da da da da do do do do oh oh oh yaaaaaa yaa aye)
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of this world
Are the wonders of my world
Of my world
Yeah
Of my world
Of my world yeah
ᴷⁱⁿᵈˡʸ ᴴᵉˡᵖ ᴹᵉ ᴿᵉᵃᶜʰ 10ᴷˢᵘᵇˢᶜʳⁱᵇᵉʳˢ ᵂⁱᵗʰ ᴺᵒ ⱽⁱᵈᵉᵒˢ
I love how we all randomly decided to listen to Adele from 11 years ago
Danie Bello
i’m from the future, i’m watching adele from 472 years ago
Hari Wilson
After Contemplating Your Most Enjoyable Observations Regarding
The ♡One♡ Who Would Most Definately Have Betrothed Me If
"Ifs" Were that Little Bit Better at Getting "Real"
Ive Come to the Conclusion that Perhaps We Were Somehow Unvolitiinally
Drawn On Global Mass (( Due to...Well My Guess "Was"
Of Course Such Zombified Like United Fervour Was Fueled By The
Chinese Having Sex Under the Tabloid Table With One Of Their Bed Buddys MI6 In a Threesome With Sony Musics Dark Shadow Sweat Shop Society
Who Claim to Be Universal Ally Ethical...
But then SuddenlyThrough the Clouds Of Hysterical Dementia Sedused By Your👉🏽🤣👈🏻Az Comment ...
The Larfarting Fog Induced by You Cleared and
I...
I...
⚡ I Far King Remembered⚡
And the Truth Of It All Was Revealed...
I "Saw" That Such Global Honey Soaked Power Pipe Like Hypnotism on Mass...
Nearly Almost Exactly
Most Likely Surely "Perhaps"
Possessed Us All Thusly By Way Of
👉🏽 "Yo" 👈🏻
Oooooh I Dunno
Maybz Something "Rather" to do With
You Know Like Um....
🔊⚡Every Single Air Wave Jock Johanna Slash Net Vibe Server Fave
Add Talk Show Host Shouted Out n Spouted Long n Loud About ♡Her Otherworldy Gift (s)
And the Oft It Seems Forgotton Fact That "My" Most Bel9ved "If" Wife Adele~♡
Our "Otherworldly" Half Woman 99% Godess Was Played n Played n Re Played Till a Billion Hearts Bled n "Some" Stayed👈🏻
Was Talked About Over Watercoolers...
In Men "and" Lgbtqi abc 123 not too far till Interspeeshe (🙏sorry kinda) Freindly Gyms n Locker Rooms the World Over...
All in
⚡ Random Unision⚡
Just a #Random Theory...
🙏No Almost Serioysly Though.. Ta 4Da👉🏽🤣
Hey !!! 👉🏽👄 !!!
And May God and Her His Its Fave Angel Adele Bless Your Most Random Bliss~♡
💜
sa sanou
Exactly
Gabriela Karl
Maybe because shes not a shallow POS like many of the current “artists”?
Mary-Lauren Wilkins
I miss her old music. 30 isn’t hitting it for me…..
potterheadswift 🧣⚡
Unpopular opinion; This is one of her best songs.
Edit: Now, it's popular 😂
AMJH 4LAH
Correction: This is her ONLY good song.
Nevabekka
I think this is her best song!
Cássia Santos
uma das melhores❤😊