Chords for Sade turns 54
Tempo:
90.9 bpm
Chords used:
D
B
A
C
Abm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
She's a [Ebm] smooth operator.
[Fm] Welcome to WatchMojo.com and [Bb] today we're taking a
look at the life and career of Chade.
Helen Folasade Addo was born on [Eb] January 16th, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria.
After her
parents separated when [Abm] she was four, her mother took the family to England.
It was
there that Chade was first exposed to American soul music.
While studying
fashion design at college, she was asked to sing backup in a friend's band.
This
led her to join a group called Pride.
[Am] [Em] With
[Am] [Fm] them, she toured the UK [E] for several
years during the early 1980s.
Chade was soon singled out by record companies.
[D] They were especially captivated by her [E] performance of a song she had co-written
entitled Smooth [Dm]
[Gm] Operator.
However, [Dm] the labels were not interested in the [G] rest
of Pride.
[A] Chade ultimately signed with [D] Epic Records and [Gm] took bassist Paul Denman,
[Am] keyboard player Andrew Hale and [Em] saxophonist Stuart Mathewman with [D] her.
Chade and her band [Db] released their debut, [E] Diamond Life, in the UK in 1984.
[D] The
smooth soul effort reached the second [A] position on the UK Albums Chart and
spawned the [A] top-ten hit Your Love is King.
[G] Following a UK tour, the group released the [A] album in the US in 1985 [B] and this
gave them their first top-ten [D] US hit with [A] Smooth Operator.
That same year,
Chade appeared [D] at Live Aid at London's Wembley Stadium.
[Ab] These successes, along
with her exotic looks and sophisticated [Abm] sense of style, were turning the [Bbm] front
woman into a star.
Up next [Ab] was the group's sophomore album, Promise.
The R&B
and soul record topped both the US and UK charts.
It also generated the top-ten
US hit The Sweetest Taboo [Ab] and [Eb]
[Bbm] was promoted by a world tour.
In 1986, Chade
was recognized with a Grammy Award for Best [F] New Artist.
1988 saw the release of
Stronger Than Pride.
The successful album yielded the top 20 US single Paradise and
[C] was supported by another tour Around the Globe.
Chade and her band continued
their top-ten success [Fm] with 1992's Love Deluxe.
[C] That disc featured the top 30 US
single No Ordinary Love, which later won the group [Bm] another Grammy.
[Bm]
Next, Chade
contributed the Percy Mayfield cover Please Send Me Someone to Love to the
soundtrack of [Db] the movie Philadelphia.
[B] They embarked on the Love [D] Deluxe tour and
released [Bm] the greatest hits compilation The Best of Chade in 1994.
The members of
Chade then decided to focus on their personal lives and projects outside the
band for the next few years.
The mid-90s saw the end of Chade's marriage to
Spanish filmmaker Carlos Pliego and the birth of her daughter.
Meanwhile, Denman
Hale and Matthewman released an album as [A] the jazz funk band Sweetback.
Following a
performance at the [G] Mobile Awards in 2000, [Ebm] Chade dropped Lover's Rock.
Though the CD
only [Gb] peaked within the top 20 in the UK, it reached number three in [B] the States.
[Abm]
[B] [Db] [E]
[Gb] After [B] a sold-out tour, Chade came out with the CD [Bb]-DVD Lover's Live in 2002.
[Abm] That
same year, [B] Lover's Rock was awarded a [E] Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Though
the singer [Gbm] was made an officer of the order of the British [Abm] Empire, things were
quiet for her and the band on the musical front during the next few years.
Instead, Chade concentrated [B] on raising her daughter and moved from North London
to [Gm] Gloucestershire.
The band got back together to [C] start recording their sixth
[G] album at the end of the decade.
Released in 2010, Soldier of Love mixed elements
of pop, soft rock, R&B and jazz.
It topped the US chart and peaked within the top
five in the UK.
The mostly positively reviewed disc also produced the Grammy
winning title [Gm] track.
That same year, Chade appeared on the [C] American reality show
Dancing with the Stars.
In 2011, the band began the Chade Live World Tour and came
out with the ultimate collection.
This greatest hits compilation contained two
new songs including Love is [Ab] Found.
With her soulful [Cm] vocals, smooth [Db] jazz sound and
reserved but classy [C] image, it's no wonder [C] that Chade is the most successful solo
female artist in the history of British music.
[Fm] Welcome to WatchMojo.com and [Bb] today we're taking a
look at the life and career of Chade.
Helen Folasade Addo was born on [Eb] January 16th, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria.
After her
parents separated when [Abm] she was four, her mother took the family to England.
It was
there that Chade was first exposed to American soul music.
While studying
fashion design at college, she was asked to sing backup in a friend's band.
This
led her to join a group called Pride.
[Am] [Em] With
[Am] [Fm] them, she toured the UK [E] for several
years during the early 1980s.
Chade was soon singled out by record companies.
[D] They were especially captivated by her [E] performance of a song she had co-written
entitled Smooth [Dm]
[Gm] Operator.
However, [Dm] the labels were not interested in the [G] rest
of Pride.
[A] Chade ultimately signed with [D] Epic Records and [Gm] took bassist Paul Denman,
[Am] keyboard player Andrew Hale and [Em] saxophonist Stuart Mathewman with [D] her.
Chade and her band [Db] released their debut, [E] Diamond Life, in the UK in 1984.
[D] The
smooth soul effort reached the second [A] position on the UK Albums Chart and
spawned the [A] top-ten hit Your Love is King.
[G] Following a UK tour, the group released the [A] album in the US in 1985 [B] and this
gave them their first top-ten [D] US hit with [A] Smooth Operator.
That same year,
Chade appeared [D] at Live Aid at London's Wembley Stadium.
[Ab] These successes, along
with her exotic looks and sophisticated [Abm] sense of style, were turning the [Bbm] front
woman into a star.
Up next [Ab] was the group's sophomore album, Promise.
The R&B
and soul record topped both the US and UK charts.
It also generated the top-ten
US hit The Sweetest Taboo [Ab] and [Eb]
[Bbm] was promoted by a world tour.
In 1986, Chade
was recognized with a Grammy Award for Best [F] New Artist.
1988 saw the release of
Stronger Than Pride.
The successful album yielded the top 20 US single Paradise and
[C] was supported by another tour Around the Globe.
Chade and her band continued
their top-ten success [Fm] with 1992's Love Deluxe.
[C] That disc featured the top 30 US
single No Ordinary Love, which later won the group [Bm] another Grammy.
[Bm]
Next, Chade
contributed the Percy Mayfield cover Please Send Me Someone to Love to the
soundtrack of [Db] the movie Philadelphia.
[B] They embarked on the Love [D] Deluxe tour and
released [Bm] the greatest hits compilation The Best of Chade in 1994.
The members of
Chade then decided to focus on their personal lives and projects outside the
band for the next few years.
The mid-90s saw the end of Chade's marriage to
Spanish filmmaker Carlos Pliego and the birth of her daughter.
Meanwhile, Denman
Hale and Matthewman released an album as [A] the jazz funk band Sweetback.
Following a
performance at the [G] Mobile Awards in 2000, [Ebm] Chade dropped Lover's Rock.
Though the CD
only [Gb] peaked within the top 20 in the UK, it reached number three in [B] the States.
[Abm]
[B] [Db] [E]
[Gb] After [B] a sold-out tour, Chade came out with the CD [Bb]-DVD Lover's Live in 2002.
[Abm] That
same year, [B] Lover's Rock was awarded a [E] Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Though
the singer [Gbm] was made an officer of the order of the British [Abm] Empire, things were
quiet for her and the band on the musical front during the next few years.
Instead, Chade concentrated [B] on raising her daughter and moved from North London
to [Gm] Gloucestershire.
The band got back together to [C] start recording their sixth
[G] album at the end of the decade.
Released in 2010, Soldier of Love mixed elements
of pop, soft rock, R&B and jazz.
It topped the US chart and peaked within the top
five in the UK.
The mostly positively reviewed disc also produced the Grammy
winning title [Gm] track.
That same year, Chade appeared on the [C] American reality show
Dancing with the Stars.
In 2011, the band began the Chade Live World Tour and came
out with the ultimate collection.
This greatest hits compilation contained two
new songs including Love is [Ab] Found.
With her soulful [Cm] vocals, smooth [Db] jazz sound and
reserved but classy [C] image, it's no wonder [C] that Chade is the most successful solo
female artist in the history of British music.
Key:
D
B
A
C
Abm
D
B
A
_ She's a [Ebm] smooth operator.
[Fm] Welcome to WatchMojo.com and [Bb] today we're taking a
look at the life and career of Chade. _ _ _
Helen Folasade Addo was born on [Eb] January 16th, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria.
After her
parents separated when [Abm] she was four, her mother took the family to England.
It was
there that Chade was first exposed to American soul music.
While studying
fashion design at college, she was asked to sing backup in a friend's band.
This
led her to join a group called Pride.
[Am] _ _ [Em] With _
[Am] _ [Fm] them, she toured the UK [E] for several
years during the early 1980s.
Chade was soon singled out by record companies.
[D] They were especially captivated by her [E] performance of a song she had co-written
entitled Smooth [Dm] _ _
[Gm] Operator.
However, [Dm] the labels were not interested in the [G] rest
of Pride.
[A] Chade ultimately signed with [D] Epic Records and [Gm] took bassist Paul Denman,
[Am] keyboard player Andrew Hale and [Em] saxophonist Stuart Mathewman with [D] her.
Chade and her band [Db] released their debut, [E] Diamond Life, in the UK in 1984.
[D] The
smooth soul effort reached the second [A] position on the UK Albums Chart and
spawned the [A] top-ten hit Your Love is King.
_ _ _ [G] Following a UK tour, the group released the [A] album in the US in 1985 [B] and this
gave them their first top-ten [D] US hit with [A] Smooth Operator.
That same year,
Chade appeared [D] at Live Aid at London's Wembley Stadium.
[Ab] These successes, along
with her exotic looks and sophisticated [Abm] sense of style, were turning the [Bbm] front
woman into a star.
Up next [Ab] was the group's sophomore album, Promise.
The R&B
and soul record topped both the US and UK charts.
It also generated the top-ten
US hit The Sweetest Taboo [Ab] and _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Bbm] was promoted by a world tour.
In 1986, Chade
was recognized with a Grammy Award for Best [F] New Artist.
1988 saw the release of
Stronger Than Pride.
The successful album yielded the top 20 US single Paradise _ and
[C] _ was supported by another tour Around the Globe.
Chade and her band continued
their top-ten success [Fm] with 1992's Love Deluxe.
[C] That disc featured the top 30 US
single No Ordinary Love, which later won the group [Bm] another Grammy. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
Next, Chade
contributed the Percy Mayfield cover Please Send Me Someone to Love to the
soundtrack of [Db] the movie Philadelphia.
[B] They embarked on the Love [D] Deluxe tour and
released [Bm] the greatest hits compilation The Best of Chade in 1994.
The members of
Chade then decided to focus on their personal lives and projects outside the
band for the next few years.
The mid-90s saw the end of Chade's marriage to
Spanish filmmaker Carlos Pliego and the birth of her daughter.
Meanwhile, Denman
Hale and Matthewman released an album as [A] the jazz funk band Sweetback.
Following a
performance at the [G] Mobile Awards in 2000, [Ebm] Chade dropped Lover's Rock.
Though the CD
only [Gb] peaked within the top 20 in the UK, it reached number three in [B] the States.
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [Db] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Gb] After [B] a sold-out tour, Chade came out with the CD [Bb]-DVD Lover's Live in 2002.
[Abm] That
same year, [B] Lover's Rock was awarded a [E] Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Though
the singer [Gbm] was made an officer of the order of the British [Abm] Empire, things were
quiet for her and the band on the musical front during the next few years.
Instead, Chade concentrated [B] on raising her daughter and moved from North London
to [Gm] Gloucestershire.
The band got back together to [C] start recording their sixth
[G] album at the end of the decade.
Released in 2010, Soldier of Love mixed elements
of pop, soft rock, R&B and jazz.
It topped the US chart and peaked within the top
five in the UK.
The mostly positively reviewed disc also produced the Grammy
winning title [Gm] track. _ _ _
That same year, Chade appeared on the [C] American reality show
Dancing with the Stars.
In 2011, the band began the Chade Live World Tour and came
out with the ultimate collection.
This greatest hits compilation contained two
new songs including Love is [Ab] Found.
With her soulful [Cm] vocals, smooth [Db] jazz sound and
reserved but classy [C] image, it's no wonder [C] that Chade is the most successful solo
female artist in the history of British music.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Fm] Welcome to WatchMojo.com and [Bb] today we're taking a
look at the life and career of Chade. _ _ _
Helen Folasade Addo was born on [Eb] January 16th, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria.
After her
parents separated when [Abm] she was four, her mother took the family to England.
It was
there that Chade was first exposed to American soul music.
While studying
fashion design at college, she was asked to sing backup in a friend's band.
This
led her to join a group called Pride.
[Am] _ _ [Em] With _
[Am] _ [Fm] them, she toured the UK [E] for several
years during the early 1980s.
Chade was soon singled out by record companies.
[D] They were especially captivated by her [E] performance of a song she had co-written
entitled Smooth [Dm] _ _
[Gm] Operator.
However, [Dm] the labels were not interested in the [G] rest
of Pride.
[A] Chade ultimately signed with [D] Epic Records and [Gm] took bassist Paul Denman,
[Am] keyboard player Andrew Hale and [Em] saxophonist Stuart Mathewman with [D] her.
Chade and her band [Db] released their debut, [E] Diamond Life, in the UK in 1984.
[D] The
smooth soul effort reached the second [A] position on the UK Albums Chart and
spawned the [A] top-ten hit Your Love is King.
_ _ _ [G] Following a UK tour, the group released the [A] album in the US in 1985 [B] and this
gave them their first top-ten [D] US hit with [A] Smooth Operator.
That same year,
Chade appeared [D] at Live Aid at London's Wembley Stadium.
[Ab] These successes, along
with her exotic looks and sophisticated [Abm] sense of style, were turning the [Bbm] front
woman into a star.
Up next [Ab] was the group's sophomore album, Promise.
The R&B
and soul record topped both the US and UK charts.
It also generated the top-ten
US hit The Sweetest Taboo [Ab] and _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Bbm] was promoted by a world tour.
In 1986, Chade
was recognized with a Grammy Award for Best [F] New Artist.
1988 saw the release of
Stronger Than Pride.
The successful album yielded the top 20 US single Paradise _ and
[C] _ was supported by another tour Around the Globe.
Chade and her band continued
their top-ten success [Fm] with 1992's Love Deluxe.
[C] That disc featured the top 30 US
single No Ordinary Love, which later won the group [Bm] another Grammy. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
Next, Chade
contributed the Percy Mayfield cover Please Send Me Someone to Love to the
soundtrack of [Db] the movie Philadelphia.
[B] They embarked on the Love [D] Deluxe tour and
released [Bm] the greatest hits compilation The Best of Chade in 1994.
The members of
Chade then decided to focus on their personal lives and projects outside the
band for the next few years.
The mid-90s saw the end of Chade's marriage to
Spanish filmmaker Carlos Pliego and the birth of her daughter.
Meanwhile, Denman
Hale and Matthewman released an album as [A] the jazz funk band Sweetback.
Following a
performance at the [G] Mobile Awards in 2000, [Ebm] Chade dropped Lover's Rock.
Though the CD
only [Gb] peaked within the top 20 in the UK, it reached number three in [B] the States.
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [Db] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Gb] After [B] a sold-out tour, Chade came out with the CD [Bb]-DVD Lover's Live in 2002.
[Abm] That
same year, [B] Lover's Rock was awarded a [E] Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Though
the singer [Gbm] was made an officer of the order of the British [Abm] Empire, things were
quiet for her and the band on the musical front during the next few years.
Instead, Chade concentrated [B] on raising her daughter and moved from North London
to [Gm] Gloucestershire.
The band got back together to [C] start recording their sixth
[G] album at the end of the decade.
Released in 2010, Soldier of Love mixed elements
of pop, soft rock, R&B and jazz.
It topped the US chart and peaked within the top
five in the UK.
The mostly positively reviewed disc also produced the Grammy
winning title [Gm] track. _ _ _
That same year, Chade appeared on the [C] American reality show
Dancing with the Stars.
In 2011, the band began the Chade Live World Tour and came
out with the ultimate collection.
This greatest hits compilation contained two
new songs including Love is [Ab] Found.
With her soulful [Cm] vocals, smooth [Db] jazz sound and
reserved but classy [C] image, it's no wonder [C] that Chade is the most successful solo
female artist in the history of British music.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _