Sade Adu

Still in love with you

Born    Helen Folasade Adu

16 January 1959 (age 61) AT PRESENT

Ibadan, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria

Other names   Sade Adu

Alma mater     Saint Martin’s School of Art

Occupation

Singer, song writer, actress

Year’s active   1982–present

Home town     Colchester, Essex, UK

Net worth       £50 million (2015)

Spouse(s)       Carlos Pliego (m. 1989–1995)

Partner(s)       Ian Watts (2007–present)

Children         1

Musical career

Genres

Soul, Smooth Jazz, Sophisti-pop, Quiet Storm

Instruments    Vocals, Guitar

Labels

Portrait Epic RCA Sony

Associated acts

Sade

Website         www.sade.com

Studio Albums

Diamond Life (1984)

Promise (1985)

Stronger Than Pride (1988)

Love Deluxe (1992)

Lovers Rock (2000)

Soldier of Love (2010)

There is a woman in Somalia

Scraping for pearls on the roadside

There’s a force stronger than nature

Keeps her will alive

This is how she’s dying

She’s dying to survive

Don’t know what she’s made of

I would like to be that brave

She cries to the heaven above

There is a stone in my heart

She lives a life she didn’t choose

And it hurts like brand-new shoes

Hurts like brand-new shoes

There is a woman in Somalia

The sun gives her no mercy

The same sky we lay under

Burns her to the bone

Long as afternoon shadows

It’s gonna take her to get home

Each grain carefully wrapped up

Pearls for her little girl

She cries to the heaven above

There is a stone in my heart

She lives in a world she didn’t choose

And it hurts like brand-new shoes