Since then, Lemar has had seven top ten UK singles and sold over two million albums. He rose to fame after finishing in third place on the first series of British talent show Fame Academy, which was won by songwriter David Sneddon. Lemar has had a run of chart success in the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. Lemar Obika born 4 April 1978, professionally known simply as Lemar, is an English R&B singer–songwriter and record producer. She recorded a remix of her hit single, “By Your Side”, for the album and was billed as a co-producer. In 2002, she appeared on the Red Hot Organization’s Red Hot and Riot, a compilation CD in tribute to the music of fellow Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti. She is the most successful solo female artist in British history, having sold over 110 million albums worldwide.
Their debut album Diamond Life appeared in 1984. While in college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals. Her solo performances of the song “ Smooth Operator” attracted the attention of record companies and in 1983, she signed a solo deal with Epic Records taking three members of the band, Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale and Paul Denman, with her.Sade and her band produced the first of a string of hit albums. When Sade was 11, she moved to Holland-on-sea, Essex to live with her mother, and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art. Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Her middle name, Folasade, means honour confers your crown. Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria. Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents. Later on Sade and her brother lived with their grandparents just outside Colchester, Essex. In 2002, she received an OBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace for services to music, and she dedicated her award to “all black women in England”. In 2012, Sade was listed at number 30 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women In Music. Sade has a contralto vocal range. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the front-woman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade. Helen Folasade Adu, OBE born 16 January 1959, better known as Sade (Shah-DAY), is a Nigerian-born British Singer-songwriter, composer, and Record producer.