[166] As a show of support, fans instead gathered outside Wembley Stadium to perform renditions of her songs, in an event titled "Sing for Adele". Penny only has one child, who is her daughter Adele. [268] In April 2019, Adele's representatives confirmed the separation via Associated Press, and affirmed that she and Konecki would continue to raise their son together. According to Billboard, 21 is the top-performing album in the US chart history, topping the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks (the longest for a female artist ever). Thursday 05 May 1988. . [274] Despite this declared political alignment, Adele received backlash for her comments on paying taxes during a 2011 interview with Q magazine. She was "thrown out" by her parents at the age of 18 to develop a sense of independence. [46] The album was certified gold in early 2009, by the RIAA. [267][273], Politically, she is a supporter of the Labour Party, saying in 2011 that she was a "Labour girl through and through", and in the same interview was critical of the Conservative Party. During this time Penny had hopes of going to University and was in the process of applying for it. According to Adele: "She fell pregnant with me when she would have been applying for uni, but chose to have me instead. The singer is famously private and goes to great lengths to keep herself out of the public eye, however she has finally let fans in on her personal life for the first time during her new album campaign. She was just 18 years old when she got pregnant with Adele. I've never not liked myself. Penny's daughter, Adele, started seeing an English Charity entrepreneur Simon Konecki since 2011. But I'm so proud of myself that I made him in my belly. [129] "Hello" went on to become the fastest video to hit one billion views on YouTube, which it achieved after 88 days. "[252] For their reviews of 21, The New York Times' chief music critic Jon Pareles commended Adele's emotive timbre, likening her to Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, and Annie Lennox: "[Adele] can seethe, sob, rasp, swoop, lilt and belt, in ways that draw more attention to the song than to the singer". [227], After moving to south London, she became interested in R&B acts such as Aaliyah, Destiny's Child, Mary J. Blige,[228] and Alicia Keys. Things weren't easy for her as a young woman; at just 18, she was thrown out of her parents' home to learn some independence. [240][241] Conceived in the aftermath of Adele's breakup with a partner, the album typifies the near dormant tradition of the confessional singer-songwriter in its exploration of heartbreak, self-examination, and forgiveness. However, lastly, she says it is actually Marks and Spencer. [350], Adele has sold more than 170 million records worldwide with 70 million in album sales and over 100 million in single sales as of 2022, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. Trains are always late, most state schools are shit and I've gotta give you like four million quid, are you having a laugh? I can't wait to know who his best friend will be, who his girlfriend or boyfriend is going to be, or what movies he likes. Adele's parents' names are Penny Adkins and Marc Evans, but her father left when she was still a toddler. She has received 136 awards, including 15 Grammy awards, 9 British awards, 5 American music awards, an Academy Award, and 18 Billboard music awards. [49] Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" at the ceremony in a duet with Jennifer Nettles. When Adele was nine months old, Penny and Mark separated. 's daily newsletter . "[230] She has credited Amy Winehouse and her 2003 album Frank with inspiring her to take up the guitar, saying: "If it wasn't for Amy and Frank, one hundred per cent I wouldn't have picked up a guitar, I wouldn't have written 'Daydreamer' or 'Hometown [Glory]' and I wrote 'Someone Like You' on the guitar too. In one picture Mark holds baby Adele on his lap inside the family home and looks at her lovingly. [11] This was described as a third British Musical Invasion of the US. Her father left when Adele was two. Adele is reported to be extremely close with her mum, Penny, but she was not seen on her daughter's ITV show An Audience with Adele. Sales", "RIAA Adele Earns RIAA Diamond for "21", "Chart Watch Extra: Adele Tops 10 Million", "Adele says she battled depression, before and after son's birth", "From Robin Thicke to Mariah and Mick: five blockbuster albums that bombed", "Adele's Next Album and World Tour Confirmed? And I'm sorry it took so long but, you know, life happened. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. [45] [380], Released in 2015, Adele's third album, 25, became the year's best-selling album and broke first week sales records in a number of markets, including the UK and the US. Adele said of Penny: Shes the calmest person, really strong and clever and beautiful. is a registered trade mark of Reach Magazines Worldwide Limited and is used under licence by Reach Magazines Publishing Plc. The pictures were taken at Evans home in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, almost two decades before the Someone Like You singer, now 23, become a household name. So, I reckon I was probably like a teenager.". [11][21] Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent[22] even though, at the time, she was more interested in going into artists and repertoire (A&R) and hoped to launch other people's careers. Her full name however is Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. ADELE often refers to her mother Penny Adkins as her best friend for helping her become the world's best-selling music artist. [79] At the 2011 American Music Awards on 20 November, Adele won three awards; Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for 21. She worked as a furniture maker, sometimes as a masseuse while other times as an adult learning activities organizer - all to stay afloat. If you wish to change your mind and would like to stop receiving communications from hellomagazine.com, you can revoke your consent by clicking on "unsubscribe" in the footer of the newsletter. I had a purpose, where before I didn't". The lead single, "Hello", became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release. [194] Jim King, CEO of the European Festivals division at AEG stated that Adele "could have sold several million tickets to the shows, such is the demand for her". Meanwhile, Adele was yesterday named the fans favourite choice to record the new James Bond theme tune. Here's everything you need to know about who the 'Hello' singers' mother is Penny Susan Adkins was born in1968 in Islington, England. [335], At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, 21-year-old Adele won awards in the categories of Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. [128] On 28 October, BBC News reported that "Hello" was being viewed on YouTube an average one million times an hour. She is so slender, like this Turkish Greek goddess. [132] "Hello" also debuted at number one in many countries around the world, including Australia, France, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Germany, and on 2 November, the song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first song in the US to sell at least one million downloads in a week, setting the record at 1.11million. [257] Their son was born on 19 October 2012. [155], At the 36th Brit Awards in London on 24 February, Adele received 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, bringing her Brit Award wins to eight. For all the latest celebrity news and exclusive interviews, sign up to our daily newsletter here. Their relationship was still strong in a platonic sense for their daughter, up until 1999, when Mark turned to a lifestyle of alcohol addiction. "[336], Rolling Stone has listed her at 22nd in their list of 200 Greatest Singers of all time (2023) while The Times named her as 2nd best singer of the 21st century in their list of 20 best solo singers. [169] 25 was the best-selling album for a second consecutive year in the US. [353] The success of her debut album 19 saw Adele nominated for three Brit Awards in the categories of British Female Solo Artist, British Single of the Year and British Breakthrough Act. Also, her friends used to play there too. This is the first James Bond song to win and the fifth to be nominatedafter "For Your Eyes Only" (1981), "Nobody Does It Better" (1977), "Live and Let Die" (1973), and "The Look of Love" (1967). Adele feels lucky to have her as a mother and always wants to remember her sacrifices, although Penny never wants to make her realize about her sacrifice to give her a better life. And Adele, whose albums 19 and 21 have sold millions, is also pictured behaving like a typical child. [198] It was her first album to be marketed globally by Columbia Records instead of being split between XL Recordings and Beggars Group's regional distribution partners in most of the world and Columbia in North America. Adele was born on May 5th, 1988 in London to Marc Evans and Penny Adkins. Female. [185] On 7 October, Adele was announced to be the November cover star on both Vogue and British Vogue, the first person to simultaneously cover both publications at the same time. Several years later, Mark gave several other interviews in which he claimed he wanted "my daughter back". Oh, he's so funny. Mother: Penny Adkins: Sibling: Brother: Cameron O' Sullivan: Spouse: Divorced: Children: Son: Angelo James: . The change in sound from her debut album was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary music from Nashville when she was touring the American South, and the title reflected the growth she had experienced in the prior two years. [355], Adele's second album, 21, earned her a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year. She never, ever reminds me of that. [18] She spent much of her youth in Brockwell Park where she would play the guitar and sing to friends, which she recalled in her 2015 song "Million Years Ago". "[278][279], In April 2018, it was widely reported that Adele had become an ordained minister in order to officiate at close friend comedian Alan Carr's wedding to Paul Drayton, something which Adele herself subsequently confirmed. [167], At the end of 2016, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year for the third time,[168] and also received the Top Billboard 200 album. [142][143] 25 became the best-selling album of 2015 in a number of countries, including Australia, the UK and the US, spending seven consecutive weeks at number one in each country, before being displaced by David Bowie's Blackstar. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. [267] During this time, Adele became a stay-at-home mother. Described by her daughter as a "hippie mum," [2] [3] Penny was a former art student who dropped out of college to raise Adele after becoming unexpectedly pregnant with her at the age of 18. [175] On 5 May 2019, her 31st birthday, Adele posted several black-and-white pictures of herself on her Instagram account celebrating the occasion along with a message reflecting on the preceding year. [13][14] She began singing at age 4 and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. To British Vogue, Adele said: "In fact, this house always gets spoken about in the press as if it was like really run down and stuff because it was above what became a discount store and all of our little roof terraces were all linked. During her recent CBS special, Adele One Night Only, the singer confessed to Oprah Winfrey how the romance came at the right time in her life. [171] At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2017, Adele won all five of her nominations, bringing her number of awards to fifteen. "In fact, this house always gets spoken about in the press as if it was like really run down and stuff because it was above what became a discount store and all of our little roof terraces were all linked. 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Along with the celebrations, the singer will also be releasing a special called Adele One Night Only which will cover everything about her newest album. Penny was a single mother and raised her daughter alone since her birth. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins [11] was born on 5 May 1988 in the Tottenham district of London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans. [338] In 2022, she has been ranked number 8 on Yardbarker's The Greatest Singing Voices of All Time list. Along with the celebrations, the singer will also be releasing a special called Adele One Night Only which will cover everything about her newest album. [295] Adele owns and operates two companies, Melted Stone Ltd and Melted Stone Publishing. Loose Women star lined up to be Strictly's first contestant in wheelchair, GMB's Kate Garraway reveals crippling cost of caring for her husband Derek, Stephen Bear 'broke behind bars' as his company is shut down before he's jailed, Mum identified after dead baby is found on heathland, News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. You know, maybe I'm getting a different version of him and who knows? Adele Laurie Blue Adkins. Who are Penny Adkins's Parents? [196] In the UK, the album debuted at number one on the Official Albums Chart with 261,000 copies sold, garnering the largest opening week for an album since Ed Sheeran's Divide in 2017, and also has the highest first-week sales for an album by a female artist since Adele's own 25,[197] becoming the best-selling album of 2021 in the country. His birth sign is Libra. [100] Adele stated recording "Skyfall" was "one of the proudest moments of my life." Adele's father Mark Evans passed away in 2021 at the age of 57, following a battle with cancer. Hi there! [299] She envisioned buying several properties on the same street in a Beverly Hills gated community, beginning with the first home purchased for $9.5million from Don Mischer in 2016. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder,"[43] and the following day, 19 topped the iTunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon.com while "Chasing Pavements" rose into the top 25. Adele and her mother moved to Brighton on the south coast of England, when her mother found a job as a furniture maker and an adult . "Adele: Soul Music's Magical Voice". When their separation was announced, a representative for Adele said: "They are committed to raising their son together lovingly. [53] During the 2010 CMT Artists of the Year special, Adele performed a widely publicised duet of Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" with Darius Rucker. [302][299] In 2017, she and Konecki purchased a $5.3million Tudor mansion called Ridge Hill Manor, located in the English countryside on the outskirts of East Grinstead. Adele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. Cameron O'Sullivan is the half-brother of Adele sharing the same father. [178] However, she later confirmed that the album's production and release had been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Adele's son Angelo is starting to get her fame as he said 'people like you! Penny Susan Adkins was born in1968 in Islington, England. The relationship between mother and daughter is very profound. [26] September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer-songwriter. Adele's Mother. ", The singer's old flat in West Norwood where she lived with her mum Penny, Adele recently opened up about her father in a candid interview with Oprah Winfrey. [212][213] In a 2011 interview, Adele deemed Hill's record The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as her favourite album, while also stating "I was analyzing the record for about a month at the age of 8, I was constantly wondering when I would be that passionate about something, to write a record about it, even though I didn't know I was going to make a record when I was older";[214] while also thanking Hill "for existing" in a penned letter, that she dedicated in honour of the 20th anniversary of Hill's album. The CBS special will also feature an exclusive interview withOprah Winfreyin which the singer opens up about the songs,life after her divorce,weight lossandraising her son. [134], On 27 October, BBC One announced plans for Adele at the BBC, a one-hour special presented by Graham Norton, in which Adele talks about her new album and performs new songs. She celebrated her 33rd birthday in 2021. By the way, Adele has a brother called Cameron Evans. She has won over 15 Grammy Awards and a couple of Oscars. The unexpected similarity she mentioned between her hometown London and Los Angeles is the tea and coffee culture. p. 32. For other inquiries Contact Us. [12] Evans left when Adele was 2, and she was brought up by her mother. [204] Weekends with Adele received widespread critical acclaim, In their review, Billboard called the performance "utterly and breathlessly spectacular" adding: "It was remarkable to see a performer at her level be so present and take in all she had accomplished in arriving at this moment. According to reports, the star has spent her well-deserved millions ensuring her mother now has a plush new pad in London. Journalists have described it as Adele's most creative work sonically, expanding on her past works by incorporating dance-pop, gospel and jazz elements. Adele has repeatedly credited her mum for her success, referring to her as her 'best friend', and revealing that she was the inspiration behind hit tracks Hometown Glory and Million Years Ago. ", MORE:Adele and Rich Paul go Instagram official with new behind-the-scenes photo. [176][177] On 15 February 2020, Adele announced at a friend's wedding that her fourth studio album would be out by September 2020. Soon afterwards, she fell pregnant with Adele and things eventually broke down with her daughter's father, Mark Evans. Get a daily dose of showbiz gossip direct to your inbox. "[237], Adeles work encompasses soul genre with jazz and R&B included in between. 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Here she is strumming away on a toy guitar aged four like a true chart-topper in the making. She was thrown outby her parents at the age of 18 to develop a sense of independence. [365] In April 2012, Time magazine named Adele one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Personality: ESFP Education: BRIT School For Performing Arts And Technology. I really don't want him growing up like that. She is the only daughter of her parents, Mr. Marc Evans and his beloved wife Penny Adkins. [42] But then she was booked as the musical guest on 18 October 2008 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. Adele has mentioned a number of times how lucky she is to have a mother like Penny and always wants to remember her sacrifices. In a review of 19, The Observer stated, "The way she stretched the vowels, her wonderful soulful phrasing, the sheer unadulterated pleasure of her voice, stood out all the more; little doubt that she's a rare singer". "[121] At the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in early September 2015, Sia announced that her new single "Alive" was co-written by Adele, and had originally been intended for Adele's third album. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. She shares her only child with ex-husband Simon Konecki, whom she divorced in 2021, they began dating in 2011 and married in 2018 . The singer has previously revealed: "She fell pregnant with me when she would have been applying for uni, but chose to have me instead. Create an account. Adele and her mum lived in a small flat above a shop with a flatmate, which the singer has previously called "the best house I've ever lived in". [277], In 2015, Adele said, "I'm a feminist, I believe that everyone should be treated the same, including race and sexuality". Penny has only one child, who is her daughter Adele. And I know that some people probably think that I wouldnt think that and like I gave up on it. She is also extremely close to her mother Penny Adkins, who at age 53, is just 20 years older than Adele. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. There will be no further comment.". . [202] On 25 July, it was announced the Las Vegas residency will run from 18 November 2022 to 25 March 2023, with eight more dates than initially planned, for a total of 32 concerts. ", MORE:Adele shares first details about battle with chronic pain. The special is scheduled to air on Sunday, November 14, 2021, at 8.30pm EST. [98][99] The song "Skyfall," written and composed in collaboration with producer Paul Epworth, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and features orchestrations by J. The star's relationship with her father had been strained since 2011, when Mark gave an interview in which he said Adele struggled to find love because she had "abandonment issues". "[206] In their four star review of the show, The Times said the performances were "spectacular, intimate and worth the wait".[207]. [56][57] She said the album was inspired by the breakup with her former partner. Adele graced the cover of both US Vogue and British Vogue in October, and took part in Vogue's 73 Questions series, which saw her let the cameras into her LA mansion. Penny shortly fell pregnant unrcprctebly at 18 with Adele. The relationship between the two is very profound. [377], In June 2013, Adele was appointed a MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to music, and she received the award from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on 19 December 2013. She met the singer's father, Mark Evans, in 1987, and the pair welcomed their only daughter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, in 1988. Angelo Adkins's parents are two adorable personalities. ', "Grammys 2017: Read Adele's speech in full, 'my artist of my life is Beyonce', "Taylor Swift Was the Inspiration Behind One of Adele's New Songs", "In the Studio: Adele Goes Country on Fall Disc", "Adele Inspired by Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now", "Adele profile: After two heartbreak albums, can singer's stellar ascent survive the joy of family life? [33] Adele was nominated for a 2008 Mercury Prize award for 19. FAQ About Angelo Adkins. Penny Adkins, the mother of Adele, is a single mother. [235] She stated that the release of 25 and her own comeback was inspired by the enigmatic Kate Bush who in 2014 made a comeback to the stage 35 years after her last live shows from her only tour in 1979. She gave birth to Adele at the age of 18. [125] On 22 October, Adele confirmed that 25 would be released on 20 November, while the lead single from the album, "Hello" would be released on 23 October. In early August, Paul Moss suggested that an album would be released in 2014 or 2015. Cart. Born Adele Laurie Blue Adkins on 5th May, 1988 in Tottenham, London, England, UK, she is famous for 'Rolling In The Deep' and 'Someone Like You' Singles in a . In 1989, a year before leaving her parents, Penny met Mark Evans Adele's father, at The King's Head pub in North London. Cooked him in my belly and then he came out of me! [242], Adele is a mezzo-soprano, with a range spanning from B2 to C6. [160], As part of her world tour, in February and March 2017, Adele performed in Australia for the first time, playing outdoor stadiums around the country. [140] The album debuted at number one in the US where it sold a record-breaking 3.38million copies in its first week, the largest single sales week for an album since Nielsen began monitoring sales in 1991. Adele 10 Fast Facts, Bio, Wiki.