Adele

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988) is a singer and songwriter from England. Adele received a recording deal with XL Recordings when a friend put her demo on Myspace the same year she graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology. Her international smash songs include Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You, Hello, Easy On Me, and the success of her second, third, and fourth studio albums, which are titled 21, 25, and 30.

Adele has received fifteen Grammy Awards and twelve Brit Awards. Billboard named her Artist of the Year in 2011, 2012, and 2016. Adele was voted Songwriter of the Year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors at the Ivor Novello Awards in 2012 and 2016. She was ranked fifth on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music in 2012. In 2012 and 2016, Time magazine named her one of the world's most important people. She was awarded an MBE in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours for her contributions to music.