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Sade is the world-known British R&B group that formed in England in 1983. Its history began in 1976 in London, when the popular funk and Latin soul band Pride needed a new female back-vocalist.
This position was given to Helen Folasade Adu, born in Nigeria, whose father was Nigerian and mother was British. Being a back-vocalist, the girl soon developed her own style, and at the suggestion of the manager she and some other band members wrote a set of songs to perform at Pride’s concerts between the sets.
Then together with the saxophonist Stuart Mathewman several tracks were written for their side project bearing the name of its front woman and vocalist – Sade. In 1982 the musicians were allowed to support Pride at the concert, and in May 1983 they did their own performance in the USA. The newly-made band attracted more and more attention of the press, leaving Pride in the shadows, what eventually led to final partitioning of the two teams.In 1984 Sade released their first single Your Love Is King, followed by the debut album called Diamond Life in a couple of months, which climbed to #2 position in charts and later attained multi-platinum status. The great popularity was brought by the single Smooth Operator, nominated for MTV Video Music Awards in two categories – Best Female Video and Best New Artist. Most of the year 1985 Sade toured with concerts, simultaneously working on the new material called Promise, which saw light in the year’s end. Just like on the debut album, the music represented gentle, restrained and profound soul and jazz riffs.
The disc soon ascended the UK charts’ top and became double-platinum, and the vocalist Sade Adu was awarded Grammy for Best New Artist. During eight months the band gave performances across USA and the UK, and as the tour wound down, Sade found herself in the centre of a whirl of rumours, saying that she was depressed because of her failed love affair, that she got addicted to drugs, and that she had a serious nervous break-down.Exhausted from concerts and unwanted attention, Sade decided to withdraw from the limelight and returned to the stage only in 1988 with her new work called Stronger Than Pride. Expectations of fans and critics were not disappointed and the disc turned out to be a hit, receiving platinum status after a mere two weeks after the release. After a long world tour in support of the album, Sade moved to Spain, where she suffered through a short unsuccessful marriage to documentary filmmaker Carlos Scola. She moved back to London, bought and old house and equipped her own recording studio in the basement. Reassembling the band, Sade started to work on the new material called Love Deluxe, which saw the light in 1992.
Despite the long absence, the fans did not forget her and the album sold out very well. Single No Ordinary Love earned the Grammy for Best R&B Duo or Group and was included in the Indecent Proposal OST.In 1996 Sade bore recording producer Bob Morgan a daughter and moved to Jamaica to concentrate on parenthood. Her new creation, called Lovers Rock, was released in 2000. Despite the top single By Your Side and Grammy award for Best Pop-Vocal Album, the disc could not gain great success – #18 in the UK, #3 in America and golden status. After spending the whole following year in the US tour, the artist proved once more that she needed no fame and attention, again leaving the world of music.
Thirst for creativity returned her to stage only in 2010 with her sixth album Soldier Of Love. A ten-year break could have become a commercial suicide for any musician, but not for Sade, whose fans are notable for patience and loyalty and know that music should be created only in case the musicians have something to say. The title single, released in late 2009, made history by entering the Urban Hot AC chart at #11, making it the highest debut of the decade.
All album’s tracks sound very harmoniously, demonstrating the close spiritual connection between the band members once again, and the voice of Sade did not change at all in 25 years of work – graceful, tender and pacifying singing delights the year as before.
B: Borneo Art CollectiveSB: Sada BorneoB: Who / what influenced you to start Sada Borneo?SB: We started Sada Borneo because we want to continue the legacy of our native/traditional music. Looking at the level of interest of native music, we are hoping to spread our music, especially traditional music amongst the younger generation, but if possible to everyone regardless of age. This band is formed out of friendship and when we realized that we shared the same idea and passion for traditional music, it motivated us to do more for our traditional Borneo music. B: Could you tell us more about the history and story of your instruments, where is the best setting to appreciate them?SB:Based on our understanding, Sape is a music instrument played by the Orang Ulu during the harvest festival.It belongs to the lute family, a string family in traditional music instruments. Usually, the Sape has two to four strings, with the body of the instrument decorated and adorned with traditional Orang Ulu motifs.
In terms of history, apart from festive purposes, Sape is played to cure sickness, social events (such as gotong-royong), to search for missing villagers, to boost spirit and morale, and for entertainment purposes (on weekends and greeting guests). The Sape is not only performed by the Orang Ulu-Kayan but other ethnicities such as Kenyah, Kelabit and other inland ethnic groups of Sarawak and Kalimantan, Indonesia play the Sape as well.The Sape is said to be created when a farmer had a dream while sleeping in a hut in a paddy field after consulting a witch doctor to cure his sick wife. In his dream, an old man instructed him to cut 'adau' wood from the jungle and make a Sape out of it.
He obeyed the old man in his dream and when he attempted to play the Sape for his sick wife – she was cured.Nonetheless, Sape has an obscure history and is based on a folklore. There could be other versions regarding the history and origin of Sape.For Kulintangan, we believe that the kulintangan can be found all over the Southeast Asian region.
The kulintangan looked simliar across the region, it is an idiophone made out of metal or brass shaped in mini gong structure which produces sound by hitting the kulintangan's knob with wooden sticks. The tuning are set to pentatonic scale but the scale may vary depending on the region/ethic groups.Note that the name for Kulintangan may differ according to the region.
For example, KULINGTANGAN in Sabahan language, ENGKERUMONG in Sarawakian language, while KULINTANG in Filipino language, etc. B: How do you see Borneo Music at the moment?SB: Borneo music is getting less popular these days. However, yes, there are bands focusing on performing Borneo music but it needs more exposure in mainstream media. There should be more platforms in the mainstream to give more opportunity for musicians who are in this less common genre. To us, Borneo music is unique and beautiful.
For instance, the sound of Sape itself is very delicate and exceptional. The design and build of Sape are one if its kind and Malaysia is one of the countries (apart from Indonesia) to produce Sape, hence the need of exposure to Borneo music. B: How about the musical instrument making and appreciation platform in Borneo? What do you see could be done for its development?SB: In terms of musical instrument making, there are not many people who have that expertise. For example, the Sape instrument, there could be less than 5 people who are able to make the Sape.In regards to appreciation platform, apart from Rainforest World Music Festival, there are not many platforms for Borneo music.
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We believe that there should be more performance-based platform so that we can give the opportunity for Borneo music enthusiast to perform. It would be great that if there would be more competition too, to generate interest in Borneo music among the society. Other than that, setting up a Borneo music academy would also help in cultivating the interest and to preserve and teach the art/knowledge.B: As a local musician trying to promote original native sounds, what challenges have you faced and how did you overcome them?SB: We understand that our music is very niche, perhaps that could be one of our challenges. Another one would be getting the radio to play our music since our music is instrumental-based. Nevertheless, we figure that we must continue performing and promote original native sounds because that's the only way the music could reach the public- that is one of the things we could do to overcome the challenges.B: Could you share with us your experience on Asia's Got Talent? And how has your journey been so far?SB: We were excited and proud to share our culture in AGT. The response from Malaysia and other Asian regions are overwhelmingly positive as well.
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We were glad that people are able to appreciate what we did. We not only got to share our culture with other the Asian region but we get to learn theirs as well - it was simply beautiful and amazing. It's been an eye-opening experience for us. And as for now, that positive support remains as well – we received various invitation to perform all over Malaysia and overseas. We have also met people with interesting stories, in a nutshell, it has been a rollercoaster ride and the ride is still on.