Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 05 May 1988, in North London, England.
Early on, Adele developed a passion for music. She gravitated toward the songs of Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige and Destiny's Child. But her true, eye-opening moment came when she was 15 and she came across a collection of Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald records at a local shop.
Adele enrolled in the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology. While at school, she cut a three-track demo for a class project that was eventually posted on her MySpace page. When executives at XL Recordings heard the tracks, they contacted the singer and, in November 2006, just four months after Adele had graduated school, signed her to a record deal. In 2007, she received the Brit Awards"Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008 poll.

At the 2009 Grammy awards, Adele took home Best New Artist. That same year, she earned the Critics' Choice prize at the BRIT Awards.
Adele has released 3 albums "19", "21" and "25" which are all named after her age when they were released. In February 2011, she found herself with two UK Top 5 singles and a pair of Top 5 albums in the same week, becoming the only artist besides the Beatles and 50 Cent to achieve that milestone. And with 21 staying at No. 1 for 11 weeks, Adele also broke the solo female artist record previously held by Madonna's Immaculate Collection for consecutive weeks at the top the UK album charts.

In 2012, Adele swept the Grammy Awards, taking home six wins, including Album of the Year. In 2013, Adele won her seventh Grammy (Best Pop Solo Performance) for her hit single "Set Fire to the Rain." That same year, the singer won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for "Skyfall," the theme song for the 2013 James Bond film of the same name. Moreover, she won the Ivor Novello Awards by being named Songwriter of the Year. 

In 2015, after becoming a mother, Adele released her third album "25". "Hello" debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's pop charts, thus becoming Adele's fourth chart-topper and making history as the first single to receive more than one million downloads in a week's time. The song has remained at No. 1 for multiple weeks in the U.K. as well.   
With sales of more than 100 million records, Adele is one of the best-selling recording artists in the world.