I love her! Wikipedia gave this background for Adele:

Adele was born in London [5] she began singing at age four and asserts that she became obsessed with voices.[6][7] Adele would impersonate the Spice Girls at dinner parties and, as a preteen, she sang Destiny's Child songs at her school.[8] To make her look like the singer Gabrielle, her mother made an eye patch with sequins, which Adele said was embarrassing.[9] Adele went through a phase where she wore Slipknot clothing and a studded dog collar.[10] Adele then claimed she was influenced by the music of Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald in her teens by accident, as she stumbled on the artists' CDs at a local HMV store while looking for a new hairstyle. She only got to listen to those songs for the first time as she was clearing her room.[11] Adele wrote her first record, "Hometown Glory" when she was 16 years old.[12]

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