Adele

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THE WOMAN. THE VOICE. THE MUSIC. "2011 WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE YEAR OF ADELE." -Anderson Cooper, 60 Minutes -+- Over the past year, Adele has taken the country by storm, sweeping the 2012 Grammy Awards and taking home six titles, including Album of the Year. The British singer-songwriter has been smashing records ever since her 2008 appearance on Saturday Night Live and her 2009 Grammy for Best New Artist. 2/, her second album, hit the number-one spot in eighteen different countries and is the longest-running number-one album by a woman in U.S. Billboard history, surpassing Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard. Her worldwide success is unmatched. Adele: The Biography provides fans with answers to their most pressing questions, including: • What was Adele's childhood like as the daughter of a single, teenage mother? • Growing up, who were her biggest inspirations and influences in the music industry? • What was Adele's reaction to being diagnosed with a vocal cord hemorrhage? • How did... Tovább

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THE WOMAN. THE VOICE. THE MUSIC. "2011 WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE YEAR OF ADELE." -Anderson Cooper, 60 Minutes -+- Over the past year, Adele has taken the country by storm, sweeping the 2012 Grammy Awards and taking home six titles, including Album of the Year. The British singer-songwriter has been smashing records ever since her 2008 appearance on Saturday Night Live and her 2009 Grammy for Best New Artist. 2/, her second album, hit the number-one spot in eighteen different countries and is the longest-running number-one album by a woman in U.S. Billboard history, surpassing Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard. Her worldwide success is unmatched. Adele: The Biography provides fans with answers to their most pressing questions, including: • What was Adele's childhood like as the daughter of a single, teenage mother? • Growing up, who were her biggest inspirations and influences in the music industry? • What was Adele's reaction to being diagnosed with a vocal cord hemorrhage? • How did canceling her Adele Live tour affect her career? • How did she make the decision to perform at the Grammys, while still recovering from vocal surgery? And much more! $ While the world waits with bated breath for Adele's next major move, Marc Shapiro offers insight into her life and career as an artist. A must-read for every Adele fan. -¦- 'Adele is not rock 'n' roll. She is not self-consciously retro. She does not shimmy or shake. Hers is a plant-the-feet-and-belt delivery that has all but disappeared from the pop landscape. It should be deeply uncool. And yet there is something startlingly refreshing about her youthful elegance and commanding presence____Adele transcends all notions of hipness." -Vogue marc shapiro is the New York Times bestselling author of J.K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter, Justin Bieber: The Feverl, and many other bestselling celebrity biographies. He has been a freelance entertainment journalist for more than twenty-five years, covering film, television, and music for a number of national and international newspapers and magazines. Vissza