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The main thing about water fasting to bare in mind is that you are experiencing a deep transformation. It allows you to come into time within yourself. Becoming more connected within your higher self and enhances all of your senses.

People have had experiences of their cancers disappearing http://www.goodhealthinfo.net/cancer/what_i_learned.htm

From what? KFC? Whey Protien? Stressing the intestines on a daily basis and not giving it a rest because humans were not designed to stress eat which people do and not realize why they have certain problems with themselves? Those chemical infested foods that will cause problems when you get older? Start off the first week by doing it for 1 day Next move to 3 Days Then move to 7 Days

Yes But it depends why you want to Water Fast What are you trying to achieve from it? Im doing it for all around general positive health and body repair The benefits are endless. I advise you to research into it though

Drinking when hungry but only sips And i get as much sun as a can since this is a perfect week to do it But its important to feel symptoms of all sorts. Its a signal the body is cleansing. The symptoms i feel right now is my energy levels are up and down consistently. So something is happening. Sometimes i feel liek walking for no reason but at least its a sign of something happening

ok, so why would you go to the trouble of getting lawyers involved if it isnt you?

Water Fast You can fast from 1 to 40 days. Try to drink 2 liters of water or more per day. The ten day water fast has become a recommended number of days. Ten days on water will cause the same weight loss as 30 days on juice. But water fasting is far more difficult, especially if you have a fast metabolism. Water fasting cleanses the body aggressively removing toxins rapidly. Water fasting can be more beneficial than juice fasting in combating more persistent forms of cancer, cleansing the tissues more aggressively. Water fasting demands mental preparation, the less pressure and responsibility you have during a water fast the better. Think of it a holiday away form the normal patterns of living. Some recommend that the week before your fast, you drink fresh juices and eat mostly raw fruits and vegetables to cleanse the body so that the detoxification during water fasting will be less aggressive. Water fasting should always include two of three days of juice fasting before and after the water fast. This alternating between juice and water fasting is the most effective method of achieving a full cleansing through fasting.

Im expecting to have better mental clarity and for me to absorb fat better. The mucus build up has caused me not to gain weight from all that crap food which has likely caused inflammation. This water fast will heal those symptoms within 3 days. But this week i am only doing 1 day. Next week its 3 Days. Following week ill do the full 7. Benefits of Fasting Mental clarity is improved and brain fog is lifted. Rapid, safe weight loss is achieved without flabbiness The nervous system is balanced Energy level and sensory perception is increased. The longer the fast, the bigger increase in energy and vitality. You normally need less sleep. Organs are revitalized Cellular biochemistry is harmonized The skin becomes silky, soft, and sensitive There is greater ease of movement Breathing becomes fuller, freer and deeper The digestive system is rejuvenated and becomes more effective; the peristaltic action of the intestines (the cause of a natural bowel movement) is stronger after fasting. Fasting retrains your tasting sense back to more healthy food as acute sensitivity is restored. Fasting can increase confidence in our ability to have control over our lives and our appetite, and that our body is self-regulating and a self-healing organism capable or establishing balance when given the possibility to do so. Normal metabolic and cell oxygenation are restored. Detoxification - as soon as the body realizes that it's fasting it will begin to eliminate those things that cause disease, such as fat cells, arterial cholesterol plaques, mucus, tumors, stored up worries and emotions.

Has anyone attempted this? Im not talking about ramadan fasting. Just strictly water fasting. Im doing one right now and im feeling like sh*t But i know the benefits are amazing. The healing process of the whole body is incredible. I really want to heal my digestive area due to all those processed craps, eggs and all that shitty mucus causing foods that ive had since a little kid. But if you attempt to do the Water Fast you have to have a positive mental mind. Wipe out anyone/anything negative during the process because it may cause mood swings. In the body, the first stage of cleansing removes large quantities of waste matter and digestive residues. The first few days of a fast can be rough due to the quantity of waste passing into the blood stream. The tongue becomes coated and the breath foul as the body excretes waste through every opening. After the third day of the fast, there is little desire for food. The second stage is the cleansing of mucous, fat, diseased and dying cells, and the more easily removed toxins. As the fast continues, the cleansing process becomes more thorough. The last stage is the cleansing of toxins that have been accumulating in your cellular tissue from birth, and the microscopic tubes that carry vital elements to the brain. Cleansing of the last layer is only possible through a combination of juice fasting, water fasting, and a healthy diet high in raw foods. To overcome a severe disease like cancer, it is important to continue through a series of fasts, to the point where the full scouring action of catabolism removes the disease from the tissue. During extended fasts the body removes: dead, dying and diseased cells; unwanted fatty tissue, trans-fatty acids, hardened coating of mucus on the intestinal wall; toxic waste matter in the lymphatic system and bloodstream; toxins in the spleen, liver and kidney; mucus from the lungs and sinuses, imbedded toxins in the cellular fibers and deeper organ tissues; deposits in the microscopic tubes responsible for nourishing brain cells and excess cholesterol. Nearly everyone who fasts, discovers the same thing, that when they fast they actually have no hunger and more energy than they normally have. It is indeed liberating to find out that if we let go and trust that we will be taken care of. Fasting is the simplest, easiest and most effective way to find out that we do indeed have the power and freedom to heal and take control of our bodies.

Tulisa 'sex tape': Star's lawyers act over alleged oral sex tape Lawyers for Tulisa Contostavlos took swift action after a video allegedly showed her performing oral sex on an ex-boyfriend. The video, posted on a website named Not Tulisa, features a blonde-haired female, prompting suggestions that it could be the N-Dubz star prior to her role on ITV1's The X Factor. UK website pappzd.co.uk carried the video but later removed it, tweeting: "So ummm….. Tulisa's lawyers just left our office after serving us a handwritten cease and desist notice. So basically we've had to take the video down." In a message on the seller's website, it is noted that the video has been filmed "backstage at a music gig" on the unidentified male's BlackBerry. Having made the 6-minute, 35-second recording available to download for $5.99, the poster adds: "As Not Tulisa has gone on record saying she "has never allowed anyone to film her having sex", this is definitely Not Tulisa. Just to make that clear. Not Tulisa, okay." Last August, it was reported that someone had tried to sell a BlackBerry-filmed sex tape for £500,000. At the time, a spokesperson for an "outraged" Contostavlos said that the footage was "100 per cent fake", adding that she has "categorically never allowed anyone to film her having sex". Last week, Contostavlos hit back at her cousin and former bandmate Dappy, warning him not to "gass the fans" about the reasons behind the group's split. A photograph of Dappy, wearing nothing but a baseball cap and sunglasses, was leaked online last year. Representatives for Contostavlos said that they would not be commenting on "speculation about her personal life". http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a371920/tulisa-sex-tape-stars-lawyers-act-over-alleged-oral-sex-tape.html

Dappy: 'Fazer trying to get Tulisa back with alleged sex tape' Tulisa Contostavlos's rumoured sex tape features ex-boyfriend Fazer, according to messages posted on Dappy's Twitter account. The X Factor star's cousin and N-Dubz bandmate appeared to write in an explicit tweet that he and Fazer have been involved in threesomes. "JUST SO EVERY 1 KNOWS ME AND FAZER HAVE F...CKED MANY BITCHES 2 GETHER,SO I AM CLEARLY STATING THAT THE D..K IN T'S ALLEGED SEX TAPE IS FAZERS," he wrote. A separate tweet minutes later added: "SECOND OF ALL, THAT WAS MORE THAN THREE YEARS AGO WHEN FAZER TOOK THEM PICS..THIS IS SIMPLY @IamFazer TRYING 2 GET @officaltulisa BACK! NUFF SAID!" However, both posts were deleted soon after they went up this evening. The six-minute 35-second recording was posted on a website named Not Tulisa and later on UK website pappzd.co.uk, before it was removed. Contostavlos's lawyers took swift action to ensure the video, which allegedly shows her performing oral sex on a former lover, was deleted. Representatives for Contostavlos said that they would not be commenting on "speculation about her personal life". http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a371987/dappy-fazer-trying-to-get-tulisa-back-with-alleged-sex-tape.html

"do you like that c*ck bubu"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndQFYXYLKw8

New video http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/#.T2X9bhE9Xcx

Contestants on Take Me Out have reportedly labelled the ITV dating programme a sham amid claims producers are telling them who they are allowed to pick. Several girls have alleged that producers told them they would be kicked off the programme unless they agreed to show an interest in men who did not attract them. And male contestants were apparently left humiliated by leaving the show dateless, after women were ordered not to choose them. 'The whole thing is totally misleading and leaves a whole lot of people feeling humiliated and exploited afterwards,' one girl apparently complained. Programme makers Talkback Thames have denied the claims. The TV show has been dogged by controversies this season, after it emerged a male contestant was an escort, and the girl he picked later revealed she used to work as a prostitute. On the popular programme, a single man tries to impress 30 single ladies across a series of rounds. Each girl has a light which they switch off if they are not interested. If any girls have their lights on at the end, the men can pick one of them to take on a date. One contestant reportedly complained that production staff had ordered the girls to be less picky and keep their lights on for a man who didn't interest them. 'The producers pulled some of the girls in and said, 'If you're waiting for George Clooney or Brad Pitt, they're not coming'. They told us to keep our lights on for the next contestant, who was more than 10 years younger than me. I refused and was taken off,' she told the Daily Mirror. Girls who had not picked any men after a few weeks may also be cut from the show. Another girl reported that producers also deliberately dragged out scenes with the 'more eccentric male contestants' by ordering girls to leave their lights on even when none of the women were interested. Producers also apparently ordered them to reject men down even if they liked them, 'to make better television', one girl claimed. 'I really fancied a bloke on my first week on the show, he was just my type, but the producers made it quite clear I wasn't to pick him and he left without a date. 'It's a shame because in the end he went away feeling a fool for going on the show.' The girl ended up going on a date with another man she wasn't really interested in, billing it 'a waste of time'. But after telling the original beau when filming finished that she had actually been interested, they ended up seeing each other outside the show. One prospective Romeo apparently took his complaints to the programme-makers, telling them he knew that some girls had wanted to pick him but had been asked to turn him down. The makers, Talkback Thames, denied all the claims. 'We strongly refute any claims that we tell the contestants how to act or how to respond - turning a light on or off is entirely up to individual choice,' a spokesperson said. The show has been beset by scandals over recent months. A male contestant was later revealed to be a £50-an-hour escort - with a criminal conviction for punching a girl in a pub. And it later emerged that the girl who won a date with him had worked as a prostitute. Wen-Jing Mo won at date with Aaron Withers on the hit ITV show in January and the pair were whisked off to Cyprus in the hope that romance would blossom. But the embarrassed programme had to axe footage of the pair together after their colourful work histories were revealed. Take Me Out contestants also caused thousands of pounds of damage to a £4.5 million Grade II listed mansion in a two night sex and alcohol party organised by one of the people appearing on the show. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2116295/New-Take-Me-Out-scandal-producers-tell-girls-partners-pick.html

Chaleo Yoovidhya, one of Thailand's richest man, died of natural causes on Saturday, Thai state television broadcaster MCOT said. Mr Chaleo founded T.C. Pharmaceuticals. In the 1970s, it formulated an energy drink prototype called Krathing Daeng, or Red Bull in English. It was popular among Thai truck drivers and laborers. Mr Chaleo then co-founded a company in 1984 with an Austrian partner who helped turn Red Bull into a global brand. Forbes magazine has ranked Mr Chaleo among the richest men in the world, with assets estimated to be worth several billion dollars. His eldest son Chalerm Yoovidhya runs the company as well as the family-owned wine business, Siam Winery. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/9150040/Red-Bull-founder-Chaleo-Yoovidhya-dies-aged-89.html

TMZ has footage of "Kony 2012" honcho Jason Russell in the midst of his naked meltdown in San Diego ... pounding his fists in anger and screaming maniacally. As we previously reported, Russell was detained by police yesterday ... after witnesses say he was running around naked and making sexual gestures. Russell was held on a 5150 psychiatric hold ... so authorities can decide if he poses a danger to himself or others. A rep for Invisible Children says Russell was suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition as a result of a strenuous PR campaign. Video Here > http://www.tmz.com/2...y/#.T2SHeRFYx8E

(blackmediaSCOOP) Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is no longer the richest black person in the world. He’s been ousted by Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Al-Amoudi who’s worth an estimated $12.5 billion. That’s $1.3 billion richer than Dangote. Saudi Arabia. Oil Born to a Saudi father and Ethiopian mother, Mohammed Al-Amoudi immigrated to Saudi Arabia as a child where he made a fortune handling lucrative construction contracts for the Saudi Royal family. He subsequently invested in Sweden, Morocco and Ethiopia. His most prominent assets include oil companies Svenska Petroleum Exploration, which produces crude oil in Africa, and refinery operator Preem. Al-Amoudi stays committed to the country of his birth: Ethiopia. In February, he announced a $3.4 billion investment in Ethiopia via his newly formed Derba conglomerate. The funds will be invested in agriculture, cement production, steel and transport. He also owns gold mines in the country and the very prestigious 5-star Sheraton Hotel, Addis. Passionate soccer fan. Aliko Dangote, $11.2 billion Nigeria. Sugar, Cement, Flour Dangote loses his position as the world’s richest black man, but he remains Africa’s wealthiest individual nevertheless. He shed more than $2.6 billion from his net worth since last year as a consequence of Nigeria’s floundering stock market. His $15 billion (market cap) Dangote Group is Nigeria’s largest industrial conglomerate, with interests in everything from sugar refineries, flour milling, salt processing and cement plants in Nigeria, Zambia, Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa. Passionate philanthropist has given away millions to education, health and social causes. Mike Adenuga, $4.3 billion Nigeria. Telecom, banking, oil Adenuga started off trading lace and Coca-cola before Nigeria’s former military president, Ibrahim Babangida took him under his wing. Adenuga was subsequently rewarded with lucrative oil blocks which changed his fortunes forever and saw him become the first Nigerian to strike oil in commercial quantities in the early 1990s. Today, his Conoil Producing Company is Nigeria’s largest indigenous oil exploration company. Daily production: 100,000 barrels per day. New ambition: Striving to build Africa’s largest mobile telecommunications network. His mobile phone operator, Globacom, already has over 15 million subscribers in Nigeria and over 500,000 in Benin Republic. Patrice Motsepe, $2.7 billion South Africa. Mining South Africa’s first black billionaire trained as a lawyer at the University of Witwatersrand and went on to become the first black partner at storied Johannesburg law firm, Bowman Gilfillan. He later founded a small contracting business doing scut work, then acquired low-producing gold shaft mines in 1994. He turned the shafts profitable using lean management style. Today he is the Executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), a South African mining company with interests in platinum, nickel, chrome, iron, manganese, coal, copper and gold. He owns 41% of the company. Also owns Mamelodi Sundowns, a South African Football Club. Oprah Winfrey, $2.7 billion USA. Television The Queen of all media is having a difficult time working her magic on OWN- the lifestyle-themed cable network she founded in a joint venture with Discovery Communications. The network completed its first full year, marked by ratings disappointments and turnover at the top. Never mind: She’s still the world’s richest black woman. In January, her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa graduated its first set of students. Mo Ibrahim, $1.1 billion United Kingdom. Telecoms The Sudanese-born telecoms magnate conceptualized an unorthodox approach to solving Africa’s leadership problems. Through his Mo Ibrahim Foundation, he awards $5 million annually to democratically-elected African leaders who deliver the dividends of good governance to their people and equally transfer power to their successors in democratic fashion. Mo made his fortune by founding Celtel, a mobile a mobile phone company that serves 23 countries in Africa and the Middle East. He sold it off in 2005 for $3.4 billion. He subsequently founded Satya Capital, a $150 million private equity firm which invests solely in African companies. Enjoys smoking pipe. http://www.blackmedi...k-billionaires/

Well this forum is obsessed with racism topics so i might as well start posting some A new study from Oxford University has found that a commonly used blood pressure medication – propranolol – seems to reduce subconscious racist behaviour. The study – which involved only 36 white student volunteers – found that the drug somehow reduces fear that is involved in some forms of racial prejudice, according to one of its authors Sylvia Terbeck, a PhD student in the experimental psychology, philosophy and neuroscience department at Oxford. Terbeck said she wanted to look more closely at the role fear might play in prejudice in an interview with the Star. Previous studies have found that a region in the brain known as the amygdala – which has a role in the emotion fear – becomes activated when white people are shown black faces. And many believe fear plays a role in prejudice. The drug propranolol is believed to block some brain chemicals in this region of the brain, as well as the activation of the autonomic nervous system, which controls key functions of the body, including heart rate and blood pressure. The study, which was published in the journal Psychopharmacology, divided up the 36 volunteers into two groups. One got a placebo. The other got the blood pressure medication. Then both groups were given the Implicit Association Test which was developed by Harvard University. The test, designed to measure implicit racial prejudice, asks people to make associations between good and bad words, and black and white faces on the computer. “What usually happens,” said Terbeck, “is that people seem to favour white over black faces. That means they find it easier to associate the positive words with white faces as compared to black faces. And they find it easier to associate negative words with black faces compared to white faces.” The study found that 100 per cent of the placebo group ended up being implicitly racially prejudiced in some way, Terbeck said. But in the group that took the medication only one-third of the group had a score at all and it was marginal. The other two-thirds of the group showed no prejudice whatsoever and didn’t register any score on the IAT. Concludes Terbeck: “I think that it’s the first step to show or to understand the neurobiology of racial prejudice and to say that probably fear plays a role in some forms of racial prejudice.” Terbeck rejects the criticism that the study sample is too small to draw any conclusions, saying that most pharmacological studies have a small sample. And while she doesn’t envision a time when everyone in the world is taking the blood pressure medication to end prejudice, she believes the study will prompt more research and better understanding of how implicit racism and prejudice occur. This is only the beginning of research in this area, she said. Follow up work is needed, she emphasized. “Like any other study, you make valid suggestions and you need to do more research,” she said. To that end, she’s already working on another study on how this drug might make physical changes to the brain’s chemistry that could reduce implicit racism. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1144676--can-the-blood-pressure-pill-propranolol-cure-racism

Ever since Run DMC rocked adidas Superstars without the laces, sneakers have been a major part Hip Hop culture. Now, Reebok is strengthening the ties between kicks and music with a new endorsement deal with Rick Ross. According to Nice Kicks, Rozay has officially joined forces with Reebok for an endorsement deal. Collaborator and fellow Reebok signed artist Swizz Beatz broke the news over Twitter, which the Bawse confirmed on his own timeline. This isn't the first time that Ross has linked up with Reebok. This past summer, Rozay, Meek Mill and Swizz Beatz released a remix to "Tupac Back," titled "Reebok Back," in promotion of Swizz's line of Reebok Kamikaze shoes. http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.19012/title.rick-ross-signs-endorsement-deal-with-reebok

The BBC confirmed last night that it was planning a TV-downloading service similar to iTunes. Code-named “Project Barcelona,” the service will provide downloads for both recently broadcast shows as well as parts of the BBC archive. In a speech to the Royal Television Society in London last night, BBC Director General Mark Thompson said the new project aims to open a new “window” on its content. Currently the BBC makes its shows available through BBC iPlayer, which is a streaming service. Most shows expire after a seven days, however, with lots of the content no longer available online after that window. “On television, despite all of our existing forms of public service archival and commercial windowing, the overwhelming majority of what the BBC commissions and broadcasts becomes unavailable when that iPlayer window expires,” Thompson said. “We want to change that.” Once the new service is in place, episodes of BBC TV shows would be available online shortly after broadcast — via iPlayer and for “permanent” download through the new service. The BBC means permanent in two ways: first, it’s a file that the customer permanently has access to, and second, it’ll be online for a window that will never expire. Each download would cost a nominal fee. It’s the fee that’s raised some eyebrows in the U.K., since TV watchers there are already hit with an annual charge just for owning a television (it’s how the BBC gets most of its funding). Some see the new downloading fee as charging twice for the same content. Thompson said this isn’t the case at all, and that Barcelona is just the digital equivalent of going to the store to buy a DVD. “This is not a second licence-fee by stealth or any reduction in the current public service offering from the BBC. For decades the British public have understood the distinction between watching Dad’s Army on BBC One and then going out to buy a permanent copy of it.” SEE ALSO: BBC World Service Opens Newsroom to Public in Live Broadcast Since Project Barcelona is still in the planning phase, it’s not known when it would debut and what downloading a show would cost. The BBC is still in the process of acquiring the download rights on many of its shows, although Thompson said taking part in Barcelona wouldn’t preclude a content provider from making its shows available to other services, like iTunes. A previous report said the BBC was going so far as to offer a more lucrative deal to content owners than the standard iTunes 70/30 revenue-sharing model, but the BBC wouldn’t comment on those details. One thing that’s almost certain is that the service will be U.K.-only, at least at the start. Project Barcelona is a BBC effort, as opposed to BBC Worldwide, the company’s global arm. However, the iPlayer service went global last year, so it’s certainly possible the new service could expand to other countries after the launch. UK residents: What do you think of the BBC’s plans for Project Barcelona? As described, is it better than iTunes? Let us know in the comments. http://mashable.com/2012/03/15/bbc-project-barcelona/

Tuesday 12th March

Britain may have all but forgotten her, but 80s popstar Sade is a huge star in the US since her 2010 comeback. So what's the secret of her transatlantic success? Just as we've got used to the idea that Adele is now a massive star in America, triumphing at the Grammys for the second album running, waving at her mum and crying through her mascara that "the girl done good", it transpires there is someone bigger. A British artist whose staggering sales have pushed Adele down the ranking to merely the second biggest-selling British musician in the 2012 US money list. What's really surprising is that the No 1 British act in America isn't Elton John or Paul McCartney or any of those obvious British behemoths abroad (although Irish band U2 did come in higher and Coldplay haven't released anything recently). Nor is it a young stealth interloper such as Mumford & Sons. It is, in fact, Sade, who many of you will have forgotten decades ago, to be reminded only when Your Love Is King and The Sweetest Taboo pop up on daytime radio, or as the soothing soundtrack to buying shoes. (Indeed I did once hear a Sade album, sometimes dismissed as elevator music, being played in a hotel lift.) In the US, her 2010 comeback, which led to a new album, a greatest hits album and a huge tour, was a much bigger deal than it was in the UK. Perhaps it makes sense that Sade's music would find a healthy audience in America, where many original fans were unaware, given her mixed race looks and her soulful style, that she was British not American. Her grown-up brand of pop music – understated, fatalistic, with that sultry voice and her astonishing almond-shaped eye – gave her a sophisticated appeal. But not much of a public persona. Indeed, I was surprised to discover that she is now happily installed in a modest cottage in the Cotswolds with her boyfriend and teenage daughter. (Most of us didn't even know she had one.) In her home country, Sade is something of a comfortable heritage act; her lifestyle is hardly tabloid fodder. Yet in America, she is a star. Brad Wavra, senior vice-president of touring at Live Nation, the world's biggest show promoter, declared Sade to be a "rare jewel. It feels like I'm working with Miles Davis, Elvis Presley and the Beatles all rolled into one." Rolling Stone described her new studio album, Soldier of Love, as "unimpeachably excellent" while Billboard said: "It's been 10 years since Sade released an album, but be forewarned – the giant has awoken." People magazine succinctly summed up Sade's enduring appeal as "the voice of comfort to the wounded heart". All of which led to her — or rather, the four-piece band that bears her name — earning $16.4m from combined album and ticket sales last year. Of course, Adele had to cancel her American tour because of throat surgery, which means her takings were unexpectedly diminished, but even so the average British music fan probably wouldn't have expected to see Sade on the list anywhere at all. She comes in sixth, after Taylor Swift, U2, Kenny Chesney, Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne — a fairly broad church of country, rock, rap and pop. They are followed by Bon Jovi, Celine Dion and Jason Aldean (no, us neither), and then, at No 10, Adele. Given that Sade is one of the least public British popstars we've ever had, does her longevity put paid to the idea that with success comes a pact with the devil of celebrity? The big promo campaigns; the paparazzi; letting the gossipmongers feed on your public romances and your private pain – none of this really sounds like her. Sade's songs do speak of pain; if not battle cries, they are cries from somebody who has battled. But they are gentle, smooth, not seemingly designed to conquer the world or fill a stadium. The music industry still talks in hallowed tones about "cracking America", something Adele has done with huge impact, but when Sade did it, she wasn't so obviously British. She didn't court the chatshow circuit with a gobby accent in the way that Adele does, so her speaking voice went largely unheard. In fact, she has given a couple of interviews in recent years. She told Spin magazine her mother struggled a lot, having married in Nigeria "and then come home to England with two brown children and a suitcase in the early 60s". Sade's father, a lecturer, remained in Nigeria, where Sade lived until the age of 11. "I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage. There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned." She told Ebony magazine that her partner, Ian, "was a Royal Marine, then a fireman, then a Cambridge graduate in chemistry. I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile it didn't bother me if he was an aristocrat or a thug as long as he was a good guy. I've ended up with an educated thug." It seems she quite enjoys being able to live the quiet life in England, while enjoying fame overseas – a lot like Iron Maiden, who earn millons every year touring like rock gods in South America and Asia, but are seen as a thing of the past in England. Bruce d*ckinson says he likes flying a private jet to a show in Rio but then riding a bike to the pub in Chiswick. Says Paul Simper, a journalist who worked with her extensively in the 1980s: "None of the other British solo women from Sade's time, such as Alison Moyet or Carmel, made any impact in the US at all. Sade was unique in that respect. But her Englishness was never a selling point. CBS just wanted to sign her and build her up to be somebody like Whitney, get her a professional studio band, but she resolutely stuck to her guns and stayed with the band from London she'd always had. And she still has – she's always done it on her terms. Being successful in America didn't involve any compromise or sounding any more American; her sound was always the same throughout." And that sound has stood the test of time. Songs like Smooth Operator, No Ordinary Love and Love Is Stronger Than Pride do now feel like classics. The way she sings is the way her career has turned out – in no hurry, not about to change for anybody. Her songs are in it for the long game, and so is she. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/mar/13/why-sade-bigger-adele-us