I bet you didn’t know singer Sade Adu is a lowkey tattoo artist? Yeah, neither did we. The 53-year old beauty admitted in an interview with Associated Press how she gave people tattoos on tour to help relieve stress and performance butterflies before hitting the stage:
“It was giving me something to divert me from the chaos of getting ready psychologically to go out there. I think I was more stressed about giving that tattoo than I was (doing) the show that night. [...] That impression that you give onstage is what people go away with … and remember you, and I feel in a way that’s what that tattoo was. I was going to mark him for life. I had to get it right.”
The singer-songwriter chatted about her newest DVD, Bring Me Home – Live 2011 which features performance footage and music from her 54-date U.S. tour following the release of her 2010 studio album, Soldier of Love. Ms. Adu also talked about how she manages to look younger than her age and whether we can expect any new music from her and the band any time soon…
ON HOW SHE MANAGES TO LOOK YOUNGER:
“I do move a lot. I’m always doing stuff. I don’t lounge around much. … I’m always moving and I’m always active. … I’ve tried things and I’ve tried exercise because I know it’s good and I’ve tried to do yoga, but my life just doesn’t seem to allow it.”ON WHEN WE CAN EXPECT A NEW ALBUM:
“I’d like it to be sooner and I always think that. It’s not like I go off of music or I go off the feel of it, but there’s a lot to it. I can’t work unless I go and I have to find the right moment to cut off. I’m not someone who can just sit in the middle of chaos of my life and write songs. I have to go away somewhere and cut off … I would love to make an album soon, but it just doesn’t happen that way.”ON WHY FANS RESONATE WITH THE SADE SOUND:
“The key is probably the songs — they come from the heart, and when we’re making an album, we put our whole heart in and everything we’ve got. And it isn’t about making a hit album; it’s not about second-guessing and predicting what people want to hear or what they want to buy. There’s sort of integrity in that. Continue
