阿黛爾:天后進化論 The Road to Success
A talent
音樂天才Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born May 5, 1988 in Tottenham, North London, England. She began singing at the age of four and credits the Spice Girls for what she is today. Growing up, the girl group was a huge influence on her passion for music. Adele graduated from BRIT School in Croydon in May of 2006. After recording a three song demo, Adele gave the recordings to a friend who then posted her work on MySpace. Her music received much positive attention and led to a phone call from music label XL Recordings. Doubting the legitimacy of the offer, Adele brought her friend with her to the meeting. The offer proved to be legit and Adele was signed to the label in September 2006.
阿黛爾•勞麗•布魯•阿德金斯 1988年5月5日出生於英國倫敦北部的托特納姆小鎮。阿黛爾4歲便開始唱歌。她非常喜歡辣妹組合，辣妹組合在阿黛爾的成長過程中，對她的音樂激情產生了深遠的影響。阿黛爾還把她今天的成就歸功於這隊曾經的偶像。阿黛爾2006年從郊克羅伊登小鎮的中等藝術學校BRIT學校畢業，然後自己錄了三首單曲。她把自己的單曲送給一個朋友，誰知這位朋友把她的單曲放到MySpace上。她的音樂得到許多人的好評。阿黛爾還因此接到著名的音樂公司XL唱片公司的面試電話。阿黛爾當時還懷疑這個面試的真實性，於是拉了她的朋友陪她一起去面試。面試的確千真萬確，於是同年9月阿黛爾便籤約XL唱片公司。Her debut song "Hometown Glory" was released in October 2007. Adele wrote the song when she was just 16 years old. Her second single "Chasing Pavements" peaked at number 2 on the UK Charts and remained there for four weeks. Her album 19 was released in 2008 and entered the charts at number 1.
2007年10月阿黛爾推出她的首張單曲《Hometown Glory》。她在16歲的時候寫下了這首歌。她的第二首單曲《Chasing Pavements》在英國流行音樂榜上升至第2位並蟬聯四周。2008年阿黛爾推出她的專輯《19》，隨即佔據音樂榜第一名的位置。
A Wrong Choice
錯誤選擇In 2008, Adele cancelled a US tour in order to be with a former boyfriend. She stated in Nylon magazine that "I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my relationship with this boy. I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, Well, OK, I'll just cancel my stuff then … I can't believe I did that … It seems so ungrateful". November of 2008 she moved out of her mother's house and gave up drinking. By the time October 2008 came around, it seemed Adele's US career had failed. She was then booked for an episode of Saturday Night Live. Because of guest Sarah Palin, the show drew in 17 million viewers and made her album 19 top the iTunes chart the next day.
2008年，她爲了見前男友中止了美國巡迴演唱。她對Nylon雜誌坦言，“我在這期間喝了許多酒，只有這樣才能和他繼續在一起。我的生命裏不能沒有他，所以就隨性而爲。現在真不敢相信我當初竟然會這麼做，這實在太沒良心了。”同年11月，她搬出母親的房子，並戒掉了酗酒。但是10月以後阿黛爾的職業生涯看似已經終結了。之後她參加一期週六晚上舉行的現場節目。當期節目還邀請了薩拉•佩林（美國著名籃球運動員），因此吸引了170萬觀衆收看。阿黛爾的專輯《19》第二天便成爲iTunes下載量最多的專輯。《21》
經典之作《21》Adele released her second album 21 in 2011. The album's sound is described as contemporary roots and country music. She has said that this is because her bus driver would play contemporary Nashville music while touring in the American South. She told Spin Magazine "He listened to all this amazing country music and we'd rock out late at night, chain smoking and listening to Rascal Flatts. It was really exciting for me because I never grew up around [that music]." The album hit No. 1 in Ireland, Germany, Holland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria, and Belgium. To promote her album Adele will perform in Europe and North America on her Adele Live tour. As of April 2011, she has sold the most albums of all artists in 2011 in the US, with sales totaling over 1,070,000.
阿黛爾2011年推出她的第二張專輯《21》，專輯的曲風是現代搖滾和鄉村音樂的結合。阿黛爾說，那是因爲在美國南部旅遊的時候，她的司機總是收聽納什維爾鄉村音樂。她對Spin雜誌說，“他（司機）收聽很多鄉村音樂，我們一直瘋玩到很晚，不停地抽菸，聽流氓弗拉德樂隊的歌。我很高興，因爲從小到大從來沒聽過這種音樂。”《21》在愛爾蘭，德國，荷蘭，紐西蘭，瑞士，澳大利亞和比利時許多國家都榮登音樂榜第一名。阿黛爾將在歐洲和北美巡迴演出來宣傳她的專輯。截至2011年4月，她的專輯總銷量已達1,070,000張，她已經超越美國的所有歌手，成爲2011年專輯銷量最多的明星。
