abbey621:


You have your points and I have mine. Nigeria might be a hell hole but it is still better than some countries. A Nigerian that does not invest in Nigeria either financially, physically or emotionally is not worthy of being called a Nigerian. I know many abroad that claim to be Nigerian yet when they do their taxes or fill any application and it asks for their nationality they quickly write down the country they are living. People like that are nothing short of foreigners. So this leads to my question, how can you claim to be a Nigerian when you have no vested interest in Nigeria? I guess most people do not understand the difference between having Nigerian ancestry and being a Nigerian. Seal and Sade clearly identify more with their foreign heritage than their Nigerian hence their investment in foreign land!

Sirlancelot:
lastmumu indeed.Her father,adele,was a welsh man.Stop deceiving people here.

Destined2win:
Does she know the capital of Nigeria?

michiyke2003:
Somebody should help me tell buhari that we don't need change again,we need transformation,and please explain to him what transformation means before he will hang us on electric transformer. Mr lia mohammed should also be educate about transformation before he will lie about how buhari has been making plan to import electric transformer as our new need. As for professor osibanjo,please help me tell him that transformation is not about promising without actualising. We don't need change again. #Nigeriasaynotochange#

Destined2win:
Does she know the capital of Nigeria?

Tolexander:
She isn't a Nigerian singer but British.

Just like saying Eusebio was a Mozambique football player.

989900:


Those 2 are everyone's favorite -- especially in the 80s.

"By your side" (2002), is my favorite though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QJmI_V3j4

Tolexander:
She isn't a Nigerian singer but British.

Just like saying Eusebio was a Mozambique football player.

modelmike7:
^^^ How is she not a Nigerian with all her biography you read up there?! Even with the pic of her Nigerian father? Some people sha!

modelmike7:
^^^ How is she not a Nigerian with all her biography you read up there?! Even with the pic of her Nigerian father? Some people sha!

modelmike7:
^^^ How is she not a Nigerian with all her biography you read up there?! Even with the pic of her Nigerian father? Some people sha!

abbey621:


You're even more silly than your name suggests! If you knew anything about context you would know that I was referring to their fame and financial capabilities and using it to demonstrate their outright preference for Britain than Nigeria, both stars clearly identify more with Britain than Nigeria. Additionally, you do understand the difference between having a Nigerian ancestry and being a Nigerian? If you don't then educate yourself and get the f*ck out!

Naughtysite:

Me sef dey ponder that name Adele..

cruzita:
yes ,she knows its ghana

Tolexander:
She isn't a Nigerian singer but British.

Just like saying Eusebio was a Mozambique football player.

modelmike7:
^^^ How is she not a Nigerian with all her biography you read up there?! Even with the pic of her Nigerian father? Some people sha!

chukzyblingz:
. You sounded more foolish with this. To you what's the difference between Ancestry and Nationality?

modelmike7:
^^^ How is she not a Nigerian with all her biography you read up there?! Even with the pic of her Nigerian father? Some people sha!

kingston247:
Op if this is her recent pix then this woman must be a vampire...I know her face this way for more than 30yrs now...!

LastMumu:
Op Sade Adu isn't the only Nigerian to have won a Grammy. Adele - whose ancestry can be traced to Ogbomosho has also won a couple of Grammys too.

chimere66:
Meet The Only Nigerian Musician That Have Won Grammy Awards Four Times(photos)


Brief history(her Nigerian origin): Four-time Grammy award winner, Sade Adu, pictured above being carried by her dad, Adebisi Adu in 1959. With them are Sade’s mum, Anne and older brother, Banji.

Helen Folasade Adu, known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, was born on January 16, 1959 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and later moved to Nigeria.

Her parents separated, however, and Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old Sade and older brother Banji with her to live with their grandparents outside of Colchester, Essex.

Brief music history: Helen Folasade Adu, OBE (born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade is a Nigerian English singer-songwriter,composer,arranger and record producer. With members Paul S. Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman, she gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the English band Sade. Following a brief stint as a fashion designer of men's clothing and part-time model Adu began backup singing for the band Pride. Growing attention from record labels led her, along with other fellow band members, to separate from Pride and form the band Sade. Following a record deal with Epic Records the band released their debut album Diamond Life(1984). The album sold over six million copies, becoming one of the top-selling debut recordings of the 1980s, and the best-selling debut ever by a British female vocalist.

Following the release of the band's debut album they went on to release a string of multi-platinum selling albums. Their follow up Promise was released in 1985 and peaked at number-one in the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200, and went on to sell four million copies in the US. Sade would later go on to make her acting debut in the British film, Absolute Beginners (1986), before the release of the band's albums,Stronger Than Pride (1988) and Love Deluxe (1992). After the release of the fifth album, Lovers Rock (2000), the band embarked on a ten-year hiatus in which Sade raised her daughter. Following the hiatus the band returned with their sixth album, Soldier of Love (2010) which became a commercial success and won a Grammy Award.

Grammy Awards: She won the award in 1986 for Best New Artist,1994 for her song 'No Ordinary Love',2002 for 'Lovers Rock' and in 2011 for 'Soldier of Love'.Apart from Grammy Award,she has won several other awards like BRIT,American Music Awards and nominated in several others like MTV Video Music Awards,MOBO Awards,Billboard Music Awards,BET Awards,American Music Awards and more

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/03/meet-sade-aduthe-nigerian-born-british.html

Shymm3x:


Financially: business/investment is about profit making and how conducive the environment is. As a businessman, if you can't maximise ya profits in an environment, why would you make a bad business decision and invest there? Would you those flagship American companies all over China, Indonesia, Philippines et al seeking cheap labour are anti-America for denying unemployed yanks jobs by giving them to Asians? How about IT companies in the West outsourcing jobs to Indian companies? Or Ford and other automobile companies that left Detroit in ruins for other cities?

And when you look at the field they're into - their talents won't be appreciated in a country like Nigeria where bang bang music reigns supreme. Fela Kuti lived in Nigeria...but how many Nigerians really appreciate his genius? But outside Nigeria, he's an iconic figure and a legend. And if he had lived in the UK/US - he would've been one of the most celebrated/richest musicians ever. He ought to be mentioned alongside The Beatles, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie et al. But living in Nigeria denied him that and most people caught on his music quite late. Now you want a Sade Adu who's an icon with one of the most loyal fan base on the planet to take her talent to naij and let it die there, no?

Physically/Emotionally: how more Nigerian can you get apart from ya looks? The last I checked they have Nigerian parents/phenotype/DNA and the emotional stress of being in the world as a black Nigerian is all you need. Ethnic Brits don't have black skin, broad nose, thick lips, and go through the stress the average black person goes through on the planet. What else do you want?

I believe you want them to go to Nigeria. Err, even if they were to move to Nigeria, what problems are they going to solve out there? John Fashanu left everything he was doing out here and moved to Nigeria, how many problems has he solved by being there physically and investing in the country financially?

King44:
A child who does not identify with where he/she comes from is a bastard and an half cast who does not identify with his or her father land is a victim of misplaced sperm talking abt fella he was advised by a white man to come back to nigeria and practice his craft here when his potentials was not appreciated over there, he came back fused his Jazz style of music with some african musical instrument and behold afrobeat was born and today he his a legend internationally and in nigeria he is seen as a god of music you need to start updating ur self abt fella, I personally tot wizkid was silly when he opt for fella style of music fused with modern vibe until I noticed the rate at which he spreads fast after the switch and if not listed among d beatles u should know dat politic is at play and even in his death he his one of the most recognized musician in the globally do ur research

LastMumu:
Op Sade Adu isn't the only Nigerian to have won a Grammy. Adele - whose ancestry can be traced to Ogbomosho has also won a couple of Grammys too.

Islamicpope:
She's not Nigerian anymore, but British-American. Get it ops. No Nigerian has ever won d Grammy for d record.

Tolexander:
She isn't a Nigerian singer but British.

Just like saying Eusebio was a Mozambique football player.