Culture Club Madonna Depeche Mode UB40 Thompson Twins Sade Helen Folasade Adu was born on 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.[14] Her middle name, Folasade, means "crowned with wealth" in Yoruba.[15] Her parents are Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse; they met in London, married in 1955, and moved to Nigeria.[14] When Sade was four years old, her parents separated. Hayes returned to England with Sade and her elder brother, Banji, to live with their grandparents near Colchester, Essex.[16] When Sade was 11 years old, she moved to Holland-on-Sea, Essex, to live with her mother.[17] After completing her education at Clacton County High School and Colchester Institute at the age of 18, she moved to London and studied fashion design at Saint Martin's School of Art.
