ADELE英语介绍.ppt

She is a British.Borned in 1988 and grew up in the north of London. She is a very young and famous singer. At the 2009 Grammys,she earned the Best New Artists and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance prizes. She is well known for a song named Someone Like You. Her first record 19 Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards Critics Choice(全球音乐奖) award and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. It certified four times platinum(白金) in the UK, and double platinum in the US.Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards(格莱美), Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Her second record 21. Adele released her second studio album, 21, in early 2011.The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her début, earning the singer six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equalling the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. The album has also led to her receiving numerous other awards, including two Brit Awards and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK;in the US the album has held the top position longer than any other album since 1985, and is certified Diamond.According to the IFPI, the album has sold over 28 million copies worldwide. The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness World Records. She is the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK.With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You, she became the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously(同时地) since The Beatles in 196