Nigerian-British icon Sade Adu reflects on her early years in Nigeria and the deep musical influence of her father, Adebisi Adu. He was a soul and jazz lover whose passion helped shape the timeless sound that would define her legendary career. . . Helen Folasade Adu, known professionally as Sade, was born on 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria, with ancestral roots in Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Her father, the late Professor Adebisi Adu, was a Nigerian lecturer in economics, and her mother, Anne H