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    Adele: An Unauthorized Biography
    Adele: An Unauthorized Biography
    Adele: An Unauthorized Biography
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    Adele: An Unauthorized Biography

    By Belmont and Belcourt Biographies

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    Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is at the top of her game in both the US and the UK, breaking records for sales and number one status on all the major charts. Her performances are refreshingly authentic and she is known for having no qualms about wearing her heart on her sleeve for her audiences. But just who is Adele and where did she come from?

    Fans have said that she has a knack for capturing how they feel, portraying their emotions and experiences exactly. Yet, the singer-songwriter is known for having written so many of her songs with minimal influence - sometimes penning the lyrics within a matter of minutes. How does she do it?

    This book takes you through Adele's life, starting with her childhood in Tottenham, North London to her 2012 Grammy and BRIT Awards. Having made her name in the music industry at an international level, this book also explores what's next for this next-generation superstar.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrice World Publishing
    Release dateMar 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619840652
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      Adele - Belmont and Belcourt Biographies

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      Adele Becomes the Artist

      Early Days

      Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on May 5, 1988, in Tottenham, North London. These days, she’s better known as Adele, a pop singer with a soulful voice. Adele spent her childhood in London, with her early childhood centered on North London, in Tottenham, then later in Lambeth, South London. The only child to 18-year-old art student Penny Adkins and plumber Mark Evans, Adele openly shares the difficult circumstances of her birth and childhood. [Penny] fell pregnant with me when she would have been applying for uni, but chose to have me instead. She never, ever reminds me of that. I try to remember it.

      Tottenham, North London, where the young family first settled, was mainly an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood and had a reputation for some of the highest rates of poverty, unemployment and gun and gang violence in the UK. Penny later decided to move the family to Brixton, South London, which many would consider an even rougher neighborhood. It was only later in Adele’s life that they settled in West Norwood, a residential suburb in South London.

      Although her childhood was not all smooth sailing, Adele jokes about it now. I always call myself ‘Delly from the block.’ You know J.Lo’s ‘Jenny from the Block?’ she laughs. I think I was just a thick-skinned girl from a very young age.

      Her father left them in 1991, when Adele was three years old, returning to Wales where he spiraled into alcoholism. Evans was estranged from the family during Adele’s teenage years as a result. Adele has shared in interviews that there isn’t much of a relationship between them and that it’s been that way for the last ten years or so. Adele maintains that she never really knew her father. Evans has since admitted, I was a rotten father at a time when she really needed me.

      Penny Adkins raised Adele herself, giving up her own aspirations because she thought Adele was more important. She worked as a freelance masseuse, furniture-maker and organized adult learning

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