She's reached a level of assurance where she can display a comfort with herself and interviewers that belies her reputation as press shy.
Her alto voice eases out answers, shyly but thoughtfully. She giggles a lot, cracking jokes about her age (42) and the team of handlers in the outer room, which she's nicknamed The Force. Leaning forward, Sade plays with the loose waves in her hair, held down with a black velvet headband. "It's amazing to love someone like that and be loved like that." how you want your child to perceive you, and so you learn a lot and grow a lot. When you become a parent, you see yourself very clearly, because you see your weaknesses and. Parenthood has changed Sade: "You learn a lot about yourself and look at yourself in a different way. "I didn't have any desire whatsoever to just walk away from her - a little baby who needs her mummy, what's the point of having a child if you're not going to be there? When I felt she was able to deal with absences from me, then I could allow myself to think of a new album." Laying down tracks took second place to changing diapers after her daughter, Ila, was born four years ago. What's also mellowed the female equivalent of Barry White is her role as a mother. Sade smiles apologetically, laughing at how the man is completely oblivious to who she is, unaware that he's interrupted one of the top-selling female artists, with more than 40 million records sold worldwide. Startled, and a bit uncertain, she leaps up to answer it: wrong room. I don't need the people to see how my life is, or have that sympathy for me that I might be able to gain, if people did know what I've been through."Īt one one point, the doorbell of the hotel suite rings.
"And I have lots of things that I prefer to keep secret about myself and my life and the things that have happened to me. "I don't really want the world to know how I am necessarily any more than what I've told them in my music," Sade says softly. Lovers Rock - time has tempered her attitude toward speaking to the press. The diva looks like a stylish twentysomething in overdyed blue jeans, a black turtleneck and black leather jacket.īut while the legendarily media-shy songstress may look a little weary after a day packed with interviews - her rare appearance is to promote her new album It's been eight years since the record world last heard from Sade, but it seems as though time has gone backward for the woman whose smooth vocals established her as the eighties' icon of soulful pop.