Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demos on Myspace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics’ Choice" and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album, 19 was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success in the UK. 19 was certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She has also won a total of 8 Grammy Awards and 1 Brit Award.

Adele released her second album, 21 in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut commercially. 21 has been certified 14 times platinum in the UK; in the US the album held the top position longer than any other album since 1993. The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness Book Of 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 , Adele became the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously after the Beatles did it in 1964.

With her third release from the album Set Fire to the Rain becoming her third number one single in the US, Adele became the first artist in history to lead the US album chart concurrently with three Billboard Hot 100 number ones. 21 is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK albums chart and is tied for the longest cumulative stay at number one by a female solo artist as well. In 2011, Billboard named Adele artist of the year. The 23-year-old underwent surgery on her vocal cords late last year and had been resting her voice on doctor’s orders until US music’s biggest night. In 2012, The soul singer Adele triumphed on her return to the music stage, collecting six Grammies after winning every category in which she was nominated, including album of the year for 21 and best record for Rolling In the Deep .

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自幼受爵士樂熏陶，14歲開始嘗試作曲，阿黛爾·阿德金斯18歲畢業(yè)于被譽(yù)為英國藝術(shù)界“大腕的搖籃”的Brit School。阿黛爾在2008年和2011年分別為樂迷貢獻(xiàn)了專輯《19》和《21》，用以記錄她在19歲和21歲所度過的時(shí)光。《19》讓她一舉拿下2008年全英音樂獎(jiǎng)的“評委會(huì)推薦獎(jiǎng)”以及2009年格萊美“最佳流行女歌手”和“最佳新人”兩項(xiàng)大獎(jiǎng)?！?1》則讓她蟬聯(lián)11周英國唱片榜冠軍，并第9次成為美國專輯榜單的冠軍。2012年第54屆格萊美她拿下了“最佳專輯”、“最佳制作”、“最佳單曲”、“最佳流行專輯”、“最佳流行歌手”、“最佳短片MV” 六座獎(jiǎng)杯，順利達(dá)成“全滿貫”的目標(biāo)。 阿黛爾傲視群雄，驚艷樂壇，問鼎格萊美，成為時(shí)尚界的風(fēng)向標(biāo)，讓她“這道來自隧道的光芒”璀璨全球。