Originally Posted by unique:
“Actually Helen Adu is the name of the singer, the band name is taken from her middle name Folasade, and the band without the lead singer is called Sweetback, and they have back the likes of Maxwell. sweetback too the name from the melvin & mario van peebles movie sweet sweetbacks badass song which had the soundtrack by earth wind and fire
and whilst she was born in nigeria, she moved to london when she was 4 years old”
“Actually Helen Adu is the name of the singer, the band name is taken from her middle name Folasade, and the band without the lead singer is called Sweetback, and they have back the likes of Maxwell. sweetback too the name from the melvin & mario van peebles movie sweet sweetbacks badass song which had the soundtrack by earth wind and fire
and whilst she was born in nigeria, she moved to london when she was 4 years old”
Actually her name IS Sade as well. She just goes by her middle name Folasade which has been shortened to 'Sade' which is quite a common thing to do with Nigerian names. Sade is a very popular girl's name in the Yoruba tribe, Nigeria where Sade was born.
