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When their daughter was born, nobody locally called her by her English name, and a shortened version of Folasade stuck. The couple met in London while he was studying at the LSE and they moved to Nigeria shortly after getting married. Her father was Nigerian, a university teacher of economics her mother was an English nurse. Helen Folasade Adu was born in Ibadan, Nigeria. вЂњAnd that becomes a more interesting challenge for us the longer we carry on togetherвЂќ. вЂњI never want to repeat myself,вЂќ Sade herself says. But with songs such as the joyously quirky reggae chant Babyfather, and the dramatically arranged album opener The Moon and the Sky, Sade were exploring new territory. At times the band sounded like the original Sade, with Matthewman back blowing soft sax on In Another Time and the vocal on Long Hard Road hymning.

The feel of the music this time had moved away from the old country soul styling of Lovers Rock and assumed a more eclectic identity. The album was completed in the summer of 2009, mainly at Real World. According to Andrew Hale: вЂњThe big question for all of us at the beginning was, did we still want to do this, and could we still get along as friends?вЂќ The answer soon came back as a passionate affirmative.

In particular, the sonic layering and martial beats of the title track, Soldier Of Love, sounded quite different from anything they had previously recorded.

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In a series of fortnightly sessions at Real World, Sade sketched out the material for a new album which, they all felt, was probably their most ambitious to date. Guitarist and saxophone player Stuart Matthewman interrupted his film soundtrack work in New York, and London based keyboardist Andrew Hale gave up his A&R consultancy. Bassist Paul Spencer Denman de-camped from Los Angeles, from where he managed his sonвЂ™s punk band, Orange. It was the first time the four principals had met up since the Lovers Rock tour wrapped in 2001.

The call went out in 2008 for the group to re-convene at Peter GabrielвЂ™s Real World studios, in the countryside of south west England. IвЂ™m not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. For Sade herself, as the lynchpin of the groupвЂ™s song writing effort, itвЂ™s a simple matter of integrity and authenticity: вЂњI only make records when I feel I have something to say. February 2010: Soldier of Love is released, the sixth studio album the band Sade have released during their 25 year career, and the first since Lovers Rock in 2000.

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