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Smooth Operator
1984 single by Sade
This article is about the song by Sade. For other uses, see Smooth operator (disambiguation).
"Smooth Operator" is a song by English band Sade from their debut studio album, Diamond Life (1984), and was co-written by Sade Adu and Ray St. John. It was released as the album's third single in the United Kingdom as a 7-inch single with "Spirit" as its B-side, and as a 12-inch maxi single with "Smooth Operator" and "Red Eye" on side A and "Spirit" on side B. Released on 28 August 1984, it reached number 19 on the UK Singles Chart.
In the United States, "Smooth Operator" was released in February 1985, serving as the album's second US single. The song became Sade's first top-10 entry in the US, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in May 1985. It spent 13 weeks in the top 40, and also topped the BillboardAdult Contemporary chart for two weeks.
Although "Your Love Is King" remains Sade's highest-peaking single in
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Born January 16, 1959 in Nigeria, Helen Folasade Adu’s fame is inextricably intertwined with the band she co-leads, Sade.
Of course, there’s always been a push to make the public aware that Sade is a band, not just a person, but here and now we’re honoring the person as she turns 65.
Sade’s parents are Nigerian economics teacher Adebisi Adu and English nurse Anne Hayes, who met in London and married in 1955, with Adu returning to Nigeria with Hayes. The couple divorced when Sade was four years old, at which point her mother returned to England. Sade studied fashion design in London, worked as a model, and joined the band Pride in 1981 as a backing vocalist despite her stage fright.
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She and the band’s guitarist (and saxophonist), Stuart Matthewman, began writing songs together and soon began performing as a jazzier sub-unit during Pride shows with the band’s bassist and drummer, garnering so much attention
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Smooth Operator
The Story Behind The Song
April 1983. A striking face overlayed with blue geometric lines appears on the front cover of trend-setting i-D magazine. It's an African woman, her black hair scraped back from her forehead. She's smiling and winking, the characteristic expression of every face that adorns the prestigious cover. "The issue was a turning point for i-D," explains former editor Dylan Jones. "This was not only Sade's attempt at going for the big time, it was ours too."
It certainly worked for the Nigerian-born singer. A hastily arranged gig at the Heaven nightclub in Charing Cross to capitalise on the publicity attracts massive queues. Invited press and record label representatives see Sade perform and less than six months later she signs a contract with CBS. Prior to the gig, she had been rejected bygd every label she approached because her jazz 'n' soul songs were deemed to be out of step with the drum-machine zeitgeist, but she wasn't fazed. Producer Ro