Sade Biography

Promise

Sade's 1985 follow-up, "Promise" quickly reached No. 1 on the U.S. Pop and R&B charts, and containing the Top Five hit "The Sweetest Taboo" as well as "Never As Good As the First Time," "Jezebel" and "Is It A Crime". The album further established her sensitively sultry vocal approach and seamless musical depth, maintaining and expanding its predecessor's soulful sound and lyrical considerations of love, life and loss.

Promise's success further established Sade, not particularly willingly, as a much sought- after media figure. As a result, she took a much needed sabbatical to escape from media attention, relocating to Madrid. The singer, who rarely does interviews and is seldom spotted in public when she's not actually performing, staunchly resists "the myth that I'm a shy, reclusive diva. I'm a diva, of course. But I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists."