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=__Early life of Adele__=

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, is 24 in 2012 and born on May 5 1988, was born in Tottenham, north London, England, with her single English teenage mother named Penny Adkins and her other father on May 5 1988. Adele's father Mark Evans split from Adele's mother when Adele was 3 years old, for which Adele had not forgiven him as of 2012. She began singing at age four and that she became obsessed with voices. Adele was in love with the Spice girls as a kid and made her love music even more than she has before and she says "they made me what I am today." At dinner parites, when Adele was young she used to dress up as one of the Spice girls, but to make her look like one of the singers (Gabrielle), her mother made a eye patch with a small shining disk on top of it, which Adele said it was embarrassing to her. At the age of nine, Adele and her mother, a furniture-maker and adult learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton. At the age of 11, Adele and her mother moved to Brixton and then to neighbouring district West Norwood in South London. West Norwood is the subject for Adele's first record, "Hometown Glory", written when she was 16. After moving to South London, she became interested in R&B artists such as Aaliyah, Destiny's Child and Mary J. Blige.

Adele says that one of the most best and awsome moments in her life was when she watched Pink perform at her school, Brixton Academy. "It was the //Missundaztood//record, so I was about 13 or 14. I had never heard, being in the room, someone sing like that live, I remember sort of feeling like I was in a wind tunnel, her voice just hitting me. It was incredible." Adele said. Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J. 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. Although she moved away from North London aged nine, Adele remains an ardent fan of her hometown Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur.

= 2006–08: Career beginnings = = =

Four months after graduation, Adele 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. Nickgett at XL 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 British singer-songwriter. Huggett then signed Adele to XL in September 2006. Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate's song, "My Yvonne", from his debut album, and it was during this session she first met producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce the majority of her debut album "19", and tracks on follow-up "21" Adele's breakthrough song, "Hometown Glory", was released in October 2007. Adele supported Will Young at the 2007 MENCAP Little Noise Sessions, a charity concert at London's Union Chapel. In 2008 she was the headliner and performed a with acoustic set and was supported by Damien Rice.She 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.

= 2008–10: //19// and commercial success = = = //19//, named for her age at the time she started recording it, entered the British charts at number one. //The Times// Encyclopedia of Modern Music named //19// an "essential" blue-eyed soul recording. She released her second single "Chasing Pavements" on 14 January 2008, two weeks ahead of her debut album, //19//. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for four weeks. Adele was nominated for a 2008 Mercury Prize award for //19.// She also won an Urban Music Award for "Best Jazz Act". She also received a Q Awards nomination in the category of Breakthrough Act and a Music of Black Origin nomination in the category of Best UK Female. In March 2008, Adele signed a deal with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the US. She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month. //19// was released in the US in June. //Billboard// magazine stated; "Adele truly has potential to become among the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation." The An Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2008 and ended in June 2009. She later cancelled the 2008 US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend. She said in //Nylon// magazine in June 2009, "I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, 'Well, OK, I'll just cancel my stuff then... I can't believe I did that... It seems so ungrateful". In July Adele paid £8,000 for a commissioned painting by Stella Vine in a charity auction in aid of Keep a Child Alive, a charity which helps African children and their families living with HIV/AIDS. Adele said she planned to ask Vine to paint a portrait of "my mum and me".

= 2010–present: //21//, = = = Adele released her second studio album, //21//, on 24 January 2011 in the UK and 22 February in the US. She said that the album was inspired by the breakup with her former partner. The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary roots and country music. The change in sound from her first album was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary Nashville music when she was touring the American South. Adele told //Spin Magazine// "It was really exciting for me because I never grew up around [that music]." The title choice reflects the growth she has experienced in the last two years. //21// hit number 1 in more than 26 countries, including the UK and the US. An emotional performance of "Someone Like You" at the 2011 BRIT Awards on 15 February propelled the song to number one in the UK. Her first album, //19//, re-entered the UK album chart alongside //21//, while first and second singles "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You" were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making Adele the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top-five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964. Both songs topped the charts in multiple markets and broke numerous sales performances records. In May 2011, Adele caused some minor controversy with critical statements about high taxes. Following her performance of "Someone Like You" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, it became Adele's second number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. By December 2011, //21// sold over 3.4 million copies in the UK, and became the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, overtaking Amy Winehouse's //Back to Black//, with Adele becoming the first artist ever to sell three million albums in the UK in one calendar year. "Set Fire to the Rain" became Adele's third number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, as Adele became the first artist ever to have an album, //21//, hold the number one position on the Billboard 200 concurrently with three number one singles.