Musisi yang saya suka dan saya nilai berkualitas itu biasanya (entah kenapa) kebanyakan dari Inggris, seperti Queen, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Blur, Keane. Dan sekarang, di periode 2011-2013, dunia terpukau dengan karya-karya musik dari seorang gadis muda bernama Adele (gak nyangka ternyata Adele kelahiran tahun 1988 hihihi). Meskipun masih sangat muda, tapi kemampuannya dalam menghasilkan karya musik yang bermutu sudah diakui oleh kalangan musik dunia. Dilihat dari berbagai pernghargaan bergengsi yang diraihnya, dan juga artikel-artikel maupun komentar dari para kritikus dan sesama musisi, gak diragukan lagi, Adele adalah seorang musisi dan penyanyi yang hebat. Satu hal yang membuat masyarakat bisa langsung menerima musiknya dengan mudah, yaitu keahliannya dalam bikin lagu-lagu galau yang nampol banget, baik dalam hal lirik maupun nada lagunya. Hayooo.. siapa yang suka dengerin lagu-lagu Adele saat hati galau? Pasti banyakk.. :p
Berikut salah satu kutipan artikel tentang Adele, diambil dari Wikipedia:
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), better known mononymously as
Adele, is an English singer-songwriter. Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demos on Myspace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" and won the BBC Sound of 2008. Her debut album,
19 was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success in the UK.
19 was certified four times platinum in the UK.
Her career in the US was boosted by a
Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. Adele released her second album,
21 in 2011.
The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut commercially.
21 has been certified 14 times platinum in the UK;
in the US the album became the longest an album has held the top position since 1998.
The success of
21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the
Guinness Book Of World Records. She is the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK.
With her two albums and the first two singles from
21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You", Adele became the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964.