The concept of the group was that there could shoot-offs.

The band included future Sade band members guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman (a key player in '90s urban soul singer Maxwell's success) and bassist Paul Denman.

The following year she joined the eight-piece funk band Pride as a background singer. John, 'Smooth Operator,' that would later become Sade's first stateside hit. One of the more popular numbers that the group would perform was a Sade original co-written with bandmember Ray St. Martin's School of Art in London while also doing some modeling on the side.ДЄround 1980, she started singing harmony with a latin funk group called Arriva. She listened to Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, and Billie Holliday. Developing a good singing voice in her teens, Sade worked part-time jobs in and outside of the music business. After her mother returned to England, Sade grew up on the North End of London. Sade Adu is the daughter of an African father and an English mother.

Sade, named for the moniker of their lead singer, made their debut in December 1982 at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, England, in support of Pride. Sade was formed in 1982, when members of a Latino-soul band Pride - Sade Adu, (real name Helen Folasade Adu - born 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria) Stuart Matthewman and Paul Spencer Denman - together with Paul Cook formed a splinter group and began to write their own material. Their music features elements of jazz, funk, soul and rnb. Sade (pronounced 'shah-day') is a Grammy-winning, world-famous artist, who has achieved success in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

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