在2012年2月12日舉行的第54屆格萊美頒獎禮上，Adele一舉奪得被提名的全部六個獎項，包括三個音樂界的最高榮譽獎：album (“21”), record （"Rolling in the Deep”）and song of the year ("Rolling in the Deep”)，還獲得了best pop solo performance (“"Someone Like You”), best pop vocal album (“21”) and Best Short Form Music Video（"Rolling in the Deep”）。而在2009年憑借一首“Chasing Pavements”，當時年僅21歲的Adele就贏得了格萊美兩項大獎：最佳新人，最佳流行女歌手。
她的首張專輯《19》便獲得了英國水星音樂獎的提名，並在英國專輯排行榜上得到第一名的佳績。這張專輯在英國銷量超過500,000份，世界各地銷量超過一百二十萬張。於2011年初發行的第二張專輯《21》更是讓全球數千萬歌迷為之傾倒！
Adele是位唱作型歌手，喜歡寫詩的她，在寫歌詞的時候亦有滲進其中，盡顯才情。她寫出“Hometown Glory”這首歌的時候隻有16歲！Adele自我描述她的音樂風格為“sad soul”。她那渾厚低沉的嗓音，惹人心碎的情感穿透力與充滿真摯激情的演譯，讓無數樂迷傾倒，也在當今流行樂壇譜寫出新的神話。Adele 可能也是當今極為流行的social network 的最大受益者，她當初就是把自己的歌曲放在“My Space”上而被發現。還值得一提的是，“Turning Table”這首歌還是她與朋友在中餐館吃飯時，被那大餐桌上的旋轉餐台激發出的靈感而寫出的。
2011年9月22日Adele在倫敦舉行的一場現場音樂會“Live at the Royal Albert Hall”, 為癡迷的歌迷們演唱了多首名曲。在演唱會上，Adele也向大家展現出了她多彩的性格，以及她超強的唱功，非常精彩非常過癮！在帖的最後也附上這場演唱會的Youtube 視頻。
下麵對Adele的介紹節選自“wiki ” :
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), better known simply as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter, musician and multi-instrumentalist. Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success. It certified four times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Adele released her second album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equalling the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. The album has also led to her receiving numerous other awards, including two Brit Awards and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK; in the US the album has held the top position longer than any other album since 1985, and is certified Diamond. According to IFPI, the album has sold over 26 million copies worldwide.
The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness World Records. She is the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK. With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You", she became the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964. With her third release from the album, "Set Fire to the Rain", which became her third number one single in the US, Adele became the first artist in history to lead the Billboard 200 concurrently with three Billboard Hot 100 number-ones.
Adele is the first female in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to have three singles in the top 10 at the same time as a lead artist, and the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously. 21 is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK and US Albums Chart. In 2011 and 2012, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2012, Adele was listed at number five on VH1′s 100 Greatest Women In Music, and the American magazine Time named Adele one of the most influential people in the world. In 2013, she received an Academy Award as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her song "Skyfall", written for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film.
【專輯曲目】
01. Chasing Pavements
02. Make You Feel My Love
03. Set Fire to the Rain
04. Someone Like You
05. Don’t You Remember
06. Daydreamer
07. Rolling in the Deep
08. Turning Tables
09. Cold Shoulder
10. Melt My Heart To Stone
11. Crazy For You
12. One and Only
13. Lovesong
14. Hometown Glory
15. Skyfall
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