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| background = solo_singer | years_active = 2006–present | instrument = | label = }} }} Adele Laurie Blue Adkins〔Frehsée, Nicole (22 January 2009), "Meet Adele, the U.K.'s Newest Soul Star," ''Rolling Stone.'' (1070):26〕 MBE (; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. Graduating from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in 2006, Adele was given a recording contract by XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace the same year. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, ''19'', was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It is certified seven times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. An appearance she made on ''Saturday Night Live'' in late 2008 boosted her career in the US. At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in 2009, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Adele released her second studio album, ''21'', in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut, earning the singer numerous awards in 2012, including a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; two Brit Awards, including British Album of the Year, and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK, and is the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Certified Awards Search )〕 In the US it has held the top position longer than any album since 1985, and is certified Diamond.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Recording Industry Association of America )〕〔Keith Caulfield (27 Nov 2012). ("Adele's '21' Hits 10 Million in U.S. Sales" ). ''Billboard''. Retrieved 29 November 2012〕 The album has sold 30 million copies worldwide. The success of ''21'' earned Adele numerous mentions in the ''Guinness Book of World Records.'' She is the first woman in the history of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist, and the first female artist to simultaneously have two albums in the top five of the ''Billboard'' 200 and two singles in the top five of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. ''21'' is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist in the history of the UK and US Album Charts. In 2011 and 2012, ''Billboard'' named Adele Artist of the Year. In 2012, Adele was listed at number five on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music,〔 and ''Time'' magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world.〔 In 2013, she received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her song "Skyfall", which she wrote and composed for the James Bond film of the same name. After taking a three-year hiatus, Adele released her third studio album, ''25'', in November 2015. The album debuted at number one in most major markets and broke first week sales records in a number of countries, including the UK and US. The lead single, "Hello", debuted at number one in many countries around the world, and became the first song in the US to sell over one million digital copies within a week of its release. == Early life == Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1988 in Tottenham, London, the daughter of an English mother, Penny Adkins (born c. 1970), and a Welsh father, Mark Evans. Evans left when Adele was two, leaving her 20-year-old mother to raise her. She began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices. Growing up Adele spent most of her time singing rather than reading; the last book she read was Roald Dahl's ''Matilda'' when she was six years old. In 1997, at the age of nine, Adele and her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult-learning activities organiser, relocated to Brighton in the south coast of England. In 1999, two years later, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, and then to neighbouring district West Norwood, in south London. West Norwood is the subject for Adele's first record, "Hometown Glory", which she wrote and composed in 2004, when she was 16. Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon in May 2006, where she was a classmate of Leona Lewis and Jessie J.〔〔Collis, Clark (19 December 2008), "Spotlight on... Adele." ''Entertainment Weekly.'' (1026):62〕 Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent〔 even though, at the time, she was more interested in going into A&R and hoped to launch other people's careers.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adele」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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