Adele Jenkins was born in Tottenham,England in May 1988, making her just 22 years old. She graduated from the Brit School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she had been classmates with Leona Lewis and Jessie J. She is a very talented singer/songwriter who also plays piano, guitar, bass, celeste and percussion. She is signed to a record label called XL Recordings after they saw a three-song demo that she had posted on MySpace. Her debut album, 19, was released in January, 2008. This album included songs such as 'Chasing Pavements' and a brilliant cover of Bod Dylan's 'Make You Feel My Love'.This album, despite being her first, went straight to number one and has been certified as platinum four times.
She is also very popular in America which is quite rare nowadays as it is quite tough to 'break' America. Her new album, 21, was released in January, 2011. It was extremely popular and sold 208,000 copies in it's first week. The album was number one on the charts in seventeen countries and in the US. She preformed her new single 'Someone Like You' at the 2011 Brit Awards and it went straight to number one in the charts. This single is from Adele's new album, titled 21. This album has also remained number one on the charts for a number of consecutive weeks. The Official Charts Company announced that Adele is the firs tliving artist to achieve two top five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.
She has become extremely popular all over the world in the past year. She has been asked to perform at many events and was on the Graham Norton show two weeks ago where she sang her new single from her album 21, 'Set Fire To The Rain'. In December, she performed at John Mayer's 2nd Annual Holiday Charity Revue, where she opened with a forty minute set.
This was held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California, which is why i'm off to California for my next map point where I will write about Katy Perry.
Ciara Xxx
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