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Grammy-winning band Sade could formally break their musical silence after 12 years, Billboard reports .

In a recent Billboard cover story, Oscar-winning actor Brad Pitt and French composer and producer Damien Quintard discussed the renovation of the legendary recording facility, Miraval Studios , in Correns, France. Quintard and Bitt named the band the first artist to lay down new vocals at the newly restored recording studio.

“You could feel the love that she and the band had for this place. And when we talked to musicians who came here previously, they all have this special connection with Miraval that can’t really be explained… It’s a dream come true to see this place activate again,” Quintard said. 

In terms of a full-length album, Sade — composed of Sade Adu (vocalist), Stuart Matthewman (saxophonist), Andrew Hale (keyboardist) and Paul Spencer Denman (bass guitarist) — have been missing in action since releasing Soldier of Love in February 2010.

Matthewman confirmed to Rated R&B in 2018 that the group was working on a new album. He mentioned “ a bunch of songs ” were in the can, but they wouldn’t be released until the moment felt suitable for them.

“When we’re happy, then we’ll let everyone else hear it. [Sade’s] not interested in fame or any of that [other] stuff. She likes to put out art. So when it’s ready, it will come out,” Matthewman affirmed . 

He added , “The record company knows there’s no point in nagging us or giving us deadlines. It doesn’t help the process.” At the time of that interview and this publishing, Sade are still under the roster of their longtime label Epic Records . 

In 2020, Rated R&B spoke with Sophie Muller , an acclaimed music video director who has worked with Sade on several videos in the past. She revealed the band could have very well released a new album sometime that year, but the events of the world didn’t make that possible.

“Well, I think it would have been this year,” Muller shared in July 2020. “Of course, there’s been a lot of series of events occurring where things have slowed the world up. Maybe next year.”

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While 2021 did not produce a new Sade album, in October 2020, the group spoke to a British GQ Magazine , where they teased recording music at Adu’s home in Gloucestershire.

In the interview, Denman explained why the band was readying This Far , a career-spanning box set collection of their six studio albums that debuted later that fall.

“There wasn’t a specific date in mind when we embarked on the project — just the wish to collect a body of work together on vinyl, some of which wasn’t widely available at the time of release. Box sets sometimes can have a finality attached to them, but for us, the title This Far alludes to a point on the road, not the end of it,” Denman told British GQ ’s Dylan Jones in October 2020.

Sade counts six studio albums, including Lovers Rock and Love Deluxe . The former celebrated its 20th anniversary in November 2020, which Rated R&B highlighted in a retrospective .

Love Deluxe , 4x multi-platinum, will celebrate its 30th anniversary later this fall.

In 2018, Sade recorded two songs for film soundtracks. They shared “ Flower of the Universe ” for Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time and “ The Big Unknown ” for Steve McQueen’s Widows , which starred Viola Davis.

Revisit Sade’s “The Big Unknown” below. 

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Antwane joined Rated R&B in January 2013 after graduating from the University of South Carolina. He is the assistant editor. His niche is seasoned R&B acts, along with radio stats on urban and R&B formats.

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Sade equals pure perfection Three times. That’s the approximate number of times I've seen Sade in concert.

And I remember each one. The first instance, I was a concert newbie. It was 1990 something and I was still in high school. I vaguely recall the opening acts (Digable Planets and, according to my sister who attended with me, Boyz II Men). The main thing I recollect about that show? It was the best concert ever!

Up until that point, I think the only other concert I had attended was New Edition (that was 1989 and I only know this because I still have the program). Between Sade and New Edition, I don’t know who I loved more. As a child of the 80s, Sade was one artist on constant play in my cassette player. As I reminisce, I wonder what I knew about love being a crime in the fifth grade, but back then you could catch me belting out Is It A Crime like the boy in my social studies class had mistreated my poor10-year-old heart.

But back to the second time I attended a Sade show. It was Sept.18, 2001 – The Lover’s Rock Tour (at this stage of my life, I kept concert stubs. Maybe I knew one day I would need to refer to it because blogging would be an important aspect of my life). Seven days prior, hijackers changed America forever, so the mood was somber.

India.Arie, who was a relatively newcomer, opened the show. I was already in love with her, so to see both women on the same stage had me in heaven. There was only one problem – I was on the lawn at the Chronicle Pavilion. Afterwards, I realized that I will never, EVER again sit on the lawn. Sade looked like an ant and jumbo screens weren’t that effective in translating what was really happening on stage. You know what I remember most about this show? It was, again, the BEST concert I had ever been to! Sade's stage presence was mesmerizing; the show just left you speechless. There isn’t an artist out then (or now) that can put on a concert like Sade. Absolutely, positively NO ONE! (Well, maybe Michael Jackson, but I’ll never know because, well, I didn’t get a chance to see him in action before he, well, you know.) Ten years later, I still stand by that statement. Sade doesn’t need back up dancers; she doesn’t have to fly through the air or dance from one end of the stage to the other in four-inch stilettos.

She is pure entertainment just standing on stage, holding a microphone and singing from her gut. Sade has a stage presence that simply captivates you. Her moves are simple, yet fluid.

But they are enough. Ten years is a long time for an artist to be away. Would Sade still have it? Could she still put on a performance that I had previously proclaimed to be the best shows I had ever witnessed? Aug. 27, 2011 was I received the answer to those questions. As I sit here listening to the playlist I created in iTunes of Sade’s setlist from her Solider of Love Tour, I feel chills running through my body once again – all these months later.

From the first beat of Solider of Love to the encore, Sade kept the crowd mesmerized and on our feet. The best way to describe her vocals is to say they are pure perfection. She sounds exactly like the CD – and I do mean exactly – only 100times better. The same can be said for the rest of the band. While Sade is the front woman, the band deserves as much credit as she does for creating such timeless music. Besides the music, what makes this show so incredible are the stage transformations. I can’t even begin to depict what takes place in the background, so I won’t even make an attempt. I will say, Sade becomes one with the stage at a certain point and you’re left wondering how it’s even possible. The setlist (see below) was a great mix from all albums. Lover’s Rock was the only song missing that I really wanted to hear. She blew the roof off the house with Is It A Crime (which just happens to be my all-time favorite Sade song. Remember the fifth grade?). When she hit that last note – whew is all I can say! You know a concert is beyond anything you’ve ever experienced when you are conversing with a fellow concertgoer and neither one of you can put into words exactly what you saw, but you know you experienced something that was truly amazing and will never be forgotten. So, it’s official. I still have yet to experience anything like a Sade concert (and I say this having seen A LOT of artists). She still has it and I just hope it’s not another 10 years before I get to have these warm, glowing feelings again. One last thing, Sade looked absolutely stunning! At age 52, she blows a lot of these young girls out the water! Favorite moment: Sade’s introductions of the band were cute and very personal.

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Sade Hits The Studio & Gets Our Musical Hopes Up Once Again With Rumors Of A New Album

There are only a few artists that can get our hopes and imaginations up just by someone merely mentioning their name. Sade is one of those acts. The band rose to fame in the 1980s making iconic music that fused jazz and R&B seamlessly while holding music lovers the world over under their sway. But the band's output in the past three decades has been sparse at best, with only three albums released by the group since 1992. That's why a brief mention of the band booking a little studio time has us once again hoping, praying and wishing that the next chapter in their musical legacy is on the way.

During an interview with Billboard about their revitalizing of the France's famed recording space Miraval Studios , record producer Damien Quintard and actor Brad Pitt let slip that the band was one of many acts who have returned to the space to record.

"You could feel the love that she and the band had for this place," Quintard told Billboard about Sade's time there thus far. "And when we talked to musicians who came here previously, they all have this special connection with Miraval that can’t really be explained … It's a dream come true to see this place activate again."

This news has everyone in a tizzy, of course, but it isn't the first time new music from Sade has been hinted at in recent years. When the band dropped two soundtrack singles in 2018 — "Flower Of The Universe" from A Wrinkle In Time and "The Big Unknown" from Widows — the band's saxophonist Stuart Matthewman teased new music to Rated R&B . However, he did specify that vocalist Sade Adu had the final say. "[Sade's] not interested in the fame or any of that [other] stuff," he told the outlet. "She likes to put out art. So when it's ready, it will come out."

Will we be getting a new Sade album in the near future? Only time and Miss Adu will tell. While we wait for confirmation from the band themselves, revisit the time when the elusive and enigmatic songstress spoke to us in 2012 about the Bring Me Home Live 2011 , her music and the possibility of a new album in an exclusive interview .

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Sade Is Recording New Music, According To Brad Pitt

By Tony M. Centeno

October 12, 2022

Sade and her band are back in the studio working on new music. On Tuesday, October 12, The Breakfast Club reacted to the news that the beloved R&B artist is recording new music for the first time in years. During an interview with Billboard , actor Brad Pitt and French producer-engineer Damien Quintard, who co-operate the iconic studio, confirmed that Sade is making music again. The "The Sweetest Taboo" singer was the first artist to record at the newly-reopened Miraval Studios in France. “You could feel the love that she and the band had for this place,” says Quintard. “And when we talked to musicians who came here previously, they all have this special connection with Miraval that can’t really be explained … It’s a dream come true to see this place activate again.”

It's been 12 years since Sade dropped her last album. In 2010, the English band released its sixth album Soldier of Love . the 10-track album was created following a decade-long hiatus the band took following the release of Lovers Rock . Pitt and Quintard didn't reveal any other details about the band's intentions in the studio nor has the band confirmed any upcoming projects. Listen to what The Breakfast Club had to say about the return of Sade above.

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