This article will answer every question you have about Adele. Below are some of the frequently asked questions about her.
- What does Adele do for a living?
- Who are Adele’s parents and siblings?
- What are Adele’s interests and hobbies?
- Is Adele married or does she have a boyfriend?
- Does Adele have any children?
- Where is Adele now?
- How tall is Adele?
- How much money does Adele earn?
- What is Adele’s net worth?
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Who is Adele?
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is a famous English artist and songwriter. Adele signed a record contract in 2006 with XL Recordings right after her high school graduation. 19, her first album was released in the year 2008. The album hit commercial success with two of her singles, “Chasing Pavements” and “Make You Feel My Love”hit in the United Kingdom. This album was certified triple platinum in the US and 8× platinum in the UK. Due to her hit songs at an early age, Adele received the Grammy Award for Best New Artist as well as the Brit Award for Rising Star.
Adele continued with her songwriting and in 2011, she released her second album which was among the best-selling album of the 21st century with over 31 million copies sold. The UK certified the album 17× platinum (the highest by a solo artist of all time) and Diamond in the US.
Adele became the first female artist on the Billboard Hot 100 to release three consecutive top-ten singles as a lead artist. She wrote and released “Skyfall”, a soundtrack single for the James Bond film of the same name in 2012. The single track won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award.
In 2015, Adele released her third album 25, which broke first-week sales records both in the US and the UK. Additionally, it became her second album to be certified Diamond in the US and brought her four Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year as well as five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
How Old Is Adele?
Adele was born to her parents in the Tottenham district of London on 5th May 1988. She is 34 years of age as of 2022. Adele shares her birthday with celebrities such as Danielle Fishel, Michael Palin, Brian Williams, Lance Henriksen, Vincent Kartheiser, John Rhys-Davies, Raheem DeVaughn, Niki Demartino, Jenna Davis, Chris Brown, Gabi DeMartino, Henry Cavill, among others.
Adele’s Family
Who Are Adele’s Parents?
Adele is a daughter to Penny Adkins and Marc Evans. Her mother has English ancestry while her father was Welsh. Evans, Adele’s biological father left his family when Adele was two years old. She was brought up by her loving mother Penny. Adele and her mother moved to Brighton on the south coast of England in 1997 when she was 9 years old.
Penny and her daughter returned to London; first to Brixton, then to the neighboring district of West Norwood in south London in 1999. Here in London, Adele spent most of her time playing guitar in Brockwell Park and singing to her friends.
Does Adele Have Siblings?
Despite Adele being raised by a single mother, she has a half-brother, Cameron O’Sullivan who they share the same father. However, the two do not get along so well and they hardly talk.
Adele Education
Adele began singing when she was barely four years old. She became obsessed with sounds. Adele spent most of her teenage years in Brockwell Park playing guitar. She enrolled at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon and graduated in May 2006. Adele credits the school for naturing her talent and enhancing her skills. During her tenure at school, Adele loved going into artists and repertoire (A&R) and hoped to launch other people’s careers.
Adele Marital Status
The famous artist began a romantic relationship in 2011 with the love of his life, Simon Konecki. They both had a son together on 19th October 2012. Adele said that she found a reason to live after becoming a mother. The couple sued a UK-based photo agency for publishing intrusive paparazzi images of their son taken during family outings in 2013.
There were speculations that Adele and Simon had tied knots in early 2017 as they both wore matching rings on their ring fingers. Adele didn’t deny the reports and addressed Simon as her husband. The couple officially married in 2018 but separated the same year. In 2019, Adele filed for a divorce which was finalized on 4th March 2021. Later the same year, Adele started a romantic relationship with Rich Paul.
Does Adele Have Children?
Adele is a proud mother of one son, Angelo James, born on 19th October 2012.
Adele Career
Artist Adele made her career debut in 2006, four months after her graduation. She released two new songs in the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com. Previously, she had recorded a three-song demo for a class project which she gave to a friend. This opened up her doors as she received calls from the boss of the music label XL Recordings, Richard Russell. Jonathan Dickins became her official representative. In September 2006, Huggett signed Adele to XL. She served as a vocalist for Jack Peñate’s song, “My Yvonne,” where she met producer Jim Abbiss.
Adele began her television career in June 2007 when she performed “Daydreamer” on the BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland. She released “Hometown Glory”, in October 2007, a song she wrote when she was 16 years old.
2008 to 2010
Through Damien Rice’s support, Adele made headlines and performed an acoustic set in 2008. She made history as 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. On 14th January 2008, Adele released her second single, “Chasing Pavements”. The song hit number two on the UK Chart and stayed there for four weeks.
She released 19, an album named after her age at moment. The album entered the British charts at number one. She received a nomination for a 2008 Mercury Prize award for 19. Additionally, she won an Urban Music Award for “Best Jazz Act,”[27] and a Music of Black Origin (MOBO) nomination in the category of Best UK Female.
Adele signed a contract with Columbia Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States in March 2008. Her album 19, was released in the US in June 2008. She began a world tour, An Evening with Adele in May 2008 and ended in June 2009.
2010 to 2015
Adele received the award for Best New Artist in February 2009 at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. Additionally, she won the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Chasing Pavements”, which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In a duet with Jennifer Nettles, Adele performed “Chasing Pavements” at the ceremony. She won a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Hometown Glory” in 2010.
Adele performed a duet of Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” with Darius Rucker during the 2010 CMT Artists of the Year special. On 24th January 2011, Adele released her second studio album, 21 in the UK. The same album was released on 22nd February in the US.
On 15th February, Adele performed “Someone Like You” at the 31st Brit Awards making the song reach number one in the UK. This led to her first album, 19, to re-enter the UK album chart with his second album. The first and second singles “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You” was in the top 5 of the UK singles chart. This made her the first artist in history 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.
Vocal-cord hemorrhage
Due to continued live performance, Adele was risking permanent voice damage. She canceled two tours in October 2011 due to a vocal-cord hemorrhage. She underwent laser microsurgery done by Steven M. Zeitels in the first week of November 2011. In February 2012, A dele returned to the 2012 Grammy Awards following the throat microsurgery. She became the second female artist in Grammy history, after Beyoncé, to win numerous awards in a single night. During that night, Adele won six categories including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year.
Wiz Khalifa collaborated with Adele in September 2013 on a song for his fifth studio album, Blacc Hollywood, although the collaboration never made the final track listing. Adele won her tenth Grammy Award with “Skyfall” winning Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in January 2014.
2015 to 2017
Billboard released a report on 27th August 2015 that Adele’s label, XL Recordings, had intentions of releasing her third studio album sometime in November 2015. Sia revealed that Adele helped her in co-writing her song, ‘Alive’ which was originally intended for Adele’s third album. She stated that her album, 25, was sort of a makeup record. She intended to make up for the things she did wrong, things she never did, time lost.
The album was about knowing the woman she had become. On 20th November, Adele released the album with the lead song “Hello”. It was first played on 23rd October on Nick Grimshaw’s Radio 1 Breakfast Show on the BBC in the morning while she had a live interview. With the release of the Hello video on October 22nd, it gained over 27.7 million views within 24 hours on YouTube.
The song broke the Vevo record for the most views in a day, surpassing the 20.1 million views for “Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift. BBC released a report on 28th October that the single was being viewed on YouTube an average of a million times per hour. The album 25, reached number one on the UK Albums Chart on 27 November. Additionally, it was the fastest-selling album in UK chart history having sold over 800,000 copies in the first week.
Adele’s tour
Adele’s tour was announced in November 2015 her first tour since 2011. She performed live on four dates at the Manchester Arena in March 2016, and six dates at the O2 Arena, London. Adele also performed in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany, among others. She began her North American Tour began on 5 July in St. Paul, Minnesota. Again, she broke Taylor Swift’s five-show record for most consecutive sold-out shows at the Staples Center.
Adele won the awards for British Female Solo Artist, British Album of the Year for 25, British Single of the Year for “Hello”, and British Global Success, at the 36th Brit Awards in London on 24 February. She released two more singles from the album in 2016, “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” and “Water Under the Bridge”.
Vanity Fair magazine wrote a cover story in 2016 referring to Adele as the “Queen of Hearts”. Billboard named Adele the end of 2016 Artist of the Year for the third time. They awarded her the Top Billboard 200 album.
Adele’s first performance in Australia was in February and March 2017.
Adele made the biggest YouTube viral video of 2016 with 235 million views, Adele’s Carpool Karaoke through the streets of London with James Corden. She received five nominations in 2017 for the 59th Annual Grammy Award. She received Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for 25, and Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Hello”.
2018 to 2022
Adele posted numerous pictures on her Instagram account on 5th May 2019 on her 31st birthday. She added a message saying “30 will be a drum n bass record to spite you”. She announced the release of her fourth album in September 2020 on 15th February. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, her production and release were delayed. On 24th October 2020, Adele appeared on television. This was after almost four years when she hosted the 24 October 2020 episode of Saturday Night Live, with musical guest H.E.R. Projections and billboards with the number “30” appeared on significant landmarks and buildings in different cities around the world on 1st October 2021.
On 5th October 2021, she announced the release of “Easy on Me” a single on the 15th of the same month. Both Vogue and British Vogue announced Adele as the November cover star, becoming the first to simultaneously cover both publications at the same time. Adele released Easy On Me on 15th October as promised.
It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, Adele’s third UK number one, and had the highest first-week sales for a single since January 2017. Adele’s pre-sale tickets for her two shows in Hyde Park, London, scheduled for 1 and 2 July 2022, sold out in less than an hour on 28th October 2021.
On 19th November 2021, Adele released “30” and reached number one in 24 territories. She became the third consecutive Billboard 200 number-one album and the year’s best-seller as well.
Las Vegas residency
Adele released a report of Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on 30th November 2021. The residency would start on 21 January 2022, until 16 April 2022. Later on 20th January 2022, she announced the postponing of the Las Vegas residency due to “delivery delays and COVID”.Her album “30” won British Album of the Year at the 42nd Brit Awards on 8th February 2022. This made her the first solo artist in history to win the honor three times.
Adele’s height and Measurements.
Adding to her well-curved body, Adele stands at a height of 1.75 meters. Additionally, she is approximated to have a weight of 63 kilograms.
Adele’s salary and Net worth
As a famous artist all over the world, Adele earns not less than $2 million and above per month. She has accumulated a net worth of about $225 Million from her career. A report stated that she bought Sylvester Stallone’s 21,000-square foot former mansion in Beverly Park, Los Angeles, for $58 million in February 2022.
