Jazz Articles about Sade

Sade, a Smooth Operator, sings of No Ordinary Love, and Is That A Crime?

by Daniel Garrett
October 25, 2003

An Appreciation of the Music of Sade Adu, Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman, and Paul S. Denman, who write and perform songs about friendship, love, and sympathy in both cosmopolitan and common lives in a world driven by money and roiled by politics “Wisdom is the flame, wisdom is the brave warrior who will carry us into the sun. I pray that it's swift though tears will come that fall like rain," sings Sade Adu in the “Slave Song" ...