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Sade has a current estimated net worth of $60 million. Sade’s new album, Soldier of Love, was released in 2010, 10 years after her last studio album, Lovers Rock. It sold nearly 2.5m copies worldwide, making it the second-highest album by a UK artist overseas in 2010, and a No. 1 in 15 countries. A world tour started and runs to September 2011,with more than 50 dates announced.
Born Helen Folasade Adu on 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Oyo State,Nigeria to an English mother and Nigerian father, Sade returned to England with her mother when she was four to live in Essex. At the age of 18, she moved to London to study fashion design at what is now Central Saint Martins, and also worked as a photographic model before turning to music.
Her renewed success has taken her record sales to 50m, and we can see £276,000 assets in two small companies. The 2011 Sunday Times Rich List's rock expert valued her net worth at £33m.
In 1989, she married Spanish film director Carlos Pliego.Their marriage ended in 1995.She gave birth to a daughter, Ila Adu, in 1996 after a relationship with a Jamaican musician.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2011 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the live album Bring Me Home: Live 2011 with the English based soul and R&B band Sade |
$27,500 |
|
2010 |
Performance Fee |
Earnings from Sade Live (also known as the Once in a Lifetime Tour or the Soldier of Love Tour) |
$53,480,000 |
|
2010 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the compilation album The Ultimate Collection with the English based soul and R&B band Sade |
$103,000 |
|
2009 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the album Soldier of Love with the English based soul and R&B band Sade (certified 2x platinum by SNEP, platinum by RIAA, Music Canada and IFPI-SWI, and gold by BPI, BVMI, IFPI-AUT and IFPI-SWE) |
$2,075,000 |
|
2001 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the live album Lovers Live with the English based soul and R&B band Sade (certified gold by RIAA and BVMI) |
$687,000 |
|
2000 |
Performance Fee |
Earnings from Lovers Rock Tour |
$5,860,000 |
|
1999 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the album Lovers Rock with the English based soul and R&B band Sade (certified 3x platinum by RIAA, 2x platinum by Music Canada, platinum by BPI, BVMI and IFPI-SWE, and gold by ARIA, IFPI-AUT, NVMI, RMNZ, and IFPI-SWI) |
$6,200,000 |
|
1993 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the compilation album The Best of Sade with the English based soul and R&B band Sade (certified 4x platinum by RIAA, 3x platinum by ARIA, 2x platinum by BPI, platinum by Music Canada and NVPI, 2x gold by SNEP, and gold by BVMI and IFPI-AUT) |
$7,750,000 |
|
1991 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the album Love Deluxe with the English based soul and R&B band Sade (certified 4x platinum by RIAA, platinum by ARIA, Music Canada and SNEP, and gold by BPI, BVMI, NVPI, IFPI-SWE and IFPI-SWI) |
$5,225,000 |
|
1987 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the album Stronger Than Pride with the English based soul and R&B band Sade (certified 3x platinum by RIAA, 2x platinum by SNEP, platinum by ARIA, Music Canada, BPI, NVPI and IFPI-SWI, and gold by BVMI) |
$4,370,000 |
|
1984 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the album Promise with the English based soul and R&B band Sade (certified 4x platinum by RIAA, 2x platinum by Music Canada and BPI, and platinum by ARIA, BVMI and SNEP) |
$5,730,000 |
|
1983 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from the album Diamond Life with the English based soul and R&B band Sade (certified 4x platinum by RIAA, ARIA and BPI, 2x platinum by Music Canada and SNEP, and platinum by BVMI and NVPI) |
$18,430,000 |