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Arts Fair
SADE: SAXY LADY
Arts Fair
SADE: SAXY LADY
SADE: SAXY LADY
SPOTLIGHT
The elegance with which Nigerian-born, British-raised Sade Adu (above, with band member Stuart Matthewman) writes about heartache suggests that it is a condition as impermeably modern as her looks. But the smoke in her voice and the retro noodlings on her debut album, Diamond Life (Epic), endow her songs' careerist Romeos—even upward mobility itself—with the nostalgic patina of passion. Not since Astrud Gilberto walked "The Girl from Ipanema'' onto the beach of our heart twenty years ago has a husky voice so beguiled listeners with its promise of exotic, bittersweet amours.
Ariel Swartley
