Introduction
Adele is a well-known musician in...
Introduction
Adele is a well-known musician in the world. Her music is
always appealing to her fans and listeners making her both famous and popular
at the same time. Her strong and ambitious vocal strength makes her very unique
among other musicians both locally and internationally, this is because her
voice is unique and is able to pass across the message she intends to (Tieck, 2013).
Her voice type is ‘mezzo-soprano’. She uses her voice well
in her songs to be able to express herself efficiently in her songs. Her voice
has two octaves and three notes which is summarized as c3-f5. Adele has a
balanced head voice. It is a positive trait that she is gifted with and uses it
to produce intriguing songs which always leave her fans demanding for me. She
professionally alters her tone to create different timbres in her songs (Adele &
Norey).
These different timbres are able to outline and express different levels of
power and different types of emotions as high pitches often symbolize strong
times and low pitches symbolize weak periods.
Adele was born 5’Th May 1988. She started her career
immediately after completing her college education. She was studying at Brit
School for Performing Arts and Technology. Among her last days in school, they
were doing a project with her friends. One of her friends posted a record on
‘My Space’ in 2006. In the same year XL recordings, gave her a recording
contract where her career began. Adele has been able to emulate her role models
such as, listen to the words of her directors and producers (Adele &
Boritz, Adele, 2012). This usually makes the production of
her music easy to produce, easy to release and make almost all her fans happy
and contented with what she gives them to listen to. One year after her career
commenced, in 2007, she was won the Brit awards ‘critics’ choice’. Many people
I Britain wanted to know her type of music as they felt it was new, relevant
and appealing. She addresses current issues in her song, especially the pain
and agony people face in relationships. She is able to pass the message as well
as entertain listeners in her music (Adele & Boritz, Adele, 2012). She later produced
an album called ‘19’, in 2008, which composed of many songs, entered the
British charts and topped as number one. In that year, she made a historical
breakthrough, winning so many awards in the same year. She was nominated for
the 2008 Mercury Prize award for her album, 19, won an ‘Urban Music Award’ for
the ‘Best Jazz Act’, received a ‘Q Awards’ nomination in the category of
‘Breakthrough Act’ and a ‘Music of Black Origin’ nomination in the category of
‘Best UK Female’ artist. In 2009, she received the award for Best New Artist,
at the 51’st Grammy Awards, held annually (Tieck, 2013). At the 59’Th Annual
Grammy Awards, she won all five of her nominations. This was a very big
achievement for a British female artist competing against many popular American
artists. Adele has covered over five world tours visiting different nations,
sharing her music to her fans, mentoring and inspiring young and upcoming
artists in different regions.
Conclusion
She has adversely used her degree in her career. This is
because as she was studying music she learnt a lot about setting, equalizing,
altering and balancing tones in her music. She learnt about music recording,
production and management (Hadlock, 2011). This enables her to
actively participate in the management roles of her music as she is the one who
knows what her fans want, where they are as well as their suggestions. Actively
participating in her management as young as she is enables her to know her
areas of strengths and weaknesses. This way she is able to work on her
weaknesses and improve on her strengths. Using the skills she got as she was
acquiring her degree, she is able to make herself a better musician every day
in her career in the very competitive music industry.