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'Smooth Operator' reached number 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts in 1985." [ 8 ] Sophie Heawood of The Guardian commented: "Arguably the band's signature single, the accuracy with which its suave music, complete with sax solo, conveyed the business-class lifestyle of its subject set the tone for how they would be perceived over ...
Sir Robin John Christian Millar CBE (born 18 December 1951) is an English record producer, musician and businessman, known variously as 'The Original Smooth Operator', 'The man behind Sade', and 'Golden Ears' by Boy George. He was born in London to an Irish father and West Indian mother, and is blind. He is one of the world's most successful ...
From 1985's jazzy 'Smooth Operator' to tracks from last year's excellent Soldier of Love, it's all state-of-the-art slow-jams all the time, driven by Sade Adu's touch-me-now contralto." [4] Lloyd Bradley of BBC Music commented, "The best thing about this set is it'll allow anybody who didn't quite get the band first time around to catch up."
Following the release of their debut album, Sade went on to release a string of multi-platinum-selling albums. Their follow-up, Promise , was released in 1985 and peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and the UK Albums Chart , and went two times platinum in the US at the time of its release, and now stands at four times platinum.
[15] Rolling Stone called it soul music with "self-possessed sophistication", and described Sade's vocal as "thick and rich". [16] The album opens with the single "Smooth Operator", which combines elements of R&B, jazz, adult contemporary, pop, and dance music. [17] "Your Love Is King" is a smooth ballad that contains a saxophone solo performed ...
Helen Folasade Adu was born on 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. [15] Her middle name, Folasade, means "crowned with wealth" in Yoruba. [16] Her parents are Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, from Ikere-Ekiti and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse; they met in London, married in 1955, and moved to Nigeria. [15]
"Young Lion," which was released in October, is the singer's first new music in six years
Smooth Operator" is a 1984 song by Sade. Smooth operator or smoothing operator may also refer to: "Smooth Operator" (Big Daddy Kane song), 1989 "Smooth Operator", a song by Sarah Vaughan released in 1959 "Smooth Operator", a song by Dorothy Dandridge recorded in 1958 but not released until 1999; A smoothing operator, used to remove noise from data