photo credit: Sophie Muller
In case you missed it, New York Times music critic Jon Pareles profiled Sade (above) in Sunday's paper. Here's what one of the singer's close friends told him about her:
“With most artists they’re more of a big person in their public persona than they are in their private persona, and I’d say with Sade it’s almost the other way around,” said Sophie Muller, a friend she met while attending Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design who became her video director and, for “Soldier of Love,” the album-cover photographer. “Her whole self is not for public consumption.”
Ms. Muller added, “Somehow the idea of being a singer and making music has been confused with being an international personality. She’s bravely decided she doesn’t have to do the other thing. It’s not something she’s thought about, deciding, ‘Let’s make it more mysterious.’ It’s just her own way.”
Read the full profile, as well as hear audio clips from the interview here.
