Fun Facts About Adele

Adele won 86 awards and got 168 nominations. These include an Oscar, 10 Grammys, a Golden Globe, two Glamour women of the Year Awards, 13 Billboard Music Awards, a BT Digital Music Award, and four American Music Awards. She needs an Emmy and a Tony to get the EGOT!

Donate at least $20 to SANDS to meet Adele backstage. She raises thousands of dollars for the charity this way.

“Hello” hit 50 million views in its first 48 hours online. This made it the biggest music video debut in 2015.

To calm her nerves before performing, Adele made a persona. She uses her alter ego Sasha Carter to perform, honoring Beyonce and June Carter Cash.

“I was about to meet Beyonce,” Adele told Rolling Stone. “I had a full-blown panic attack. Then she appeared looking gorgeous and said, ‘You're amazing!’ When I listen to you, I feel like I'm listening to God. I went out on the balcony crying hysterically, and I said, ‘What would Sasha Fierce [Beyonce's alter-ego] do?’ That is how Sasha Carter began.”

Adele might get starstruck by idols, but she avoids dating famous people. She said, “I’ve been on a few dates with celebrities, but I don't like it. You go out, and everyone looks at you both. I won't say who. We go to established places that know how to keep their mouths shut. Then, everyone wants to hook up with a celebrity, so I don't trust them.”

In 2013, Adele wasawardedPrince Charles awarded Adele the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace. That puts her three ranks from the title of Dame.

The single sold 333,0000 and got 259,000 downloads across 7.32 million streams in a short time. People Shazam'd it a lot.

In 2015, Adele stopped eating sugar (not carbs) andShe trimmed downbut Adele focuses on health and does not take criticism seriously. She stated, “I’m not going to lose weight because somebody tells me to. I make music to be a musician, not to be on the cover of Playboy.”

Adele filmed a video for her album on a studio lot.She nearly mowed down Sean Combs with a golf cart, 21 times.She took a break and drove a golf cart. Seeing Combs, she got so excited she pressed the gas instead of the brake, nearly hitting him.

“P. Diddy must have been doing a fragrance advert or something. I was in the buggy with a friend and I saw him. I meant to brake and go, ‘Oh, you’re P. Diddy!’ But I hit the gas. He had to swerve out of the way. As we passed, I thought, ‘You’re P. Diddy.’ He just said, ‘Yeah, I know.’ I almost killed him.”

A 2011 vocal hemorrhage and throat surgery made the singer protect her voice more than ever. The work she did to strengthen her voice brought surprising results. “It does make your voice, like,”A brand-new, more rigorous vocal routine added four notes to her top range.Adele said, "Which I actually didn't like at first; I used to have a bit of husk to my voice, and that wasn't there initially."

Adele loved her smokes, but she hates death more now that she is a mother. "It’s not that f—king cool when I'm dying from a smoking-related illness and my kid is, like, devastated," she said.

She is alsoshe cut way back"I used to be able to drink anyone under the table and still put on an all-right show," she says. "But with kids, hangovers are torture. They just know. They pick up on it and go for you."

Adele’s squad consists of smart, funny girls, and she would love to have Rihannajoin them.

"I guess I have my own squad. It’s not as interesting as some of the other squads around now. But maybe Rihanna can be in my squad! That would be really cool. Oh, God. She’s life itself, isn’t she? I love her."

OnGreg James's Radio 1The show asked the legendary naturalist and narrator Attenborough to narrate the video's opening. It is pretty great.

During the UK’s troubled times from the global economic crisis, Brownthankedthe singer for being a “light at the end of the tunnel.”

"When I had him, it made everything all right, and I trusted everything because the world gave me this miracle, you know, so I became a bit of a hippie, an Earth mother," Adele said about her son, born in 2012. "All the things I really like about myself, he brings out in me, and he is the only person that tells me no. He completely rules me. He isthe bosshe is the boss of me, and it is funny for others to watch because I am the boss of everything in my work life.

Her 2008 appearance on SNL, which featured Sarah Palin, earned the show’s highest ratings in 14 years with 17 million viewers. Adele said, "Sarah Palin made my career."

Adele wrote “Hometown Glory” after beingblown away by Winehouse’s work. "I don't think she ever realized just how brilliant she was and how important she is." Adele said about the late singer on her website, "We believed every word she wrote, and it would sink in deep when she sang them."She was blown away by Winehouse’s work. "I don't think she ever realized just how brilliant she was and how important she is." Writing about the late singer on her website, Adele said, "We believed every word she wrote, and it would sink in deep when she sang them."

Adele was three when she went to herfirst concertwith her mum. This doesn't make us feel old at all. Nope.

A long time passed since Dick Van Dyke ruined cockney for the Brits and confused Americans. So when Yankees heard this songbird talk with a real andawesome cockney dialect and accent, they had no idea what she was saying.

They also could not get over how real she was. Americans expect their celebrities to be a bit crazy, guarded, or fake, but Adele’s honesty and openness is one of her best qualities.

Adele has gotten into trouble before for social networking and drinking. Everyone does it, but as a celeb, it takes time defending, deflecting, and explaining. So Adele’s people decided she neededat least two sets of eyesDescription of 'Two People Have to Approve Her Tweets Because of Previous Drunk Tweeting' in the list 'Fun Facts About Adele'

Adele did a George Michael drag for her 27th birthday.GM dragShe had a wonderful time for her 27th birthday. She tweeted, “Thank you for the birthday wishes I had a wonderful time! I was my hero x #gottahavefaith.”

Michael loved it. He tweeted back, “Happy Birthday @OfficialAdele !!! I'm so flattered, love The Singing Greek! xxx.”

Adele hassix tattoosShe has two on her left wrist, one on each hand, an "A" behind her ear, and the word "Paradise" on her hand so far.

Amy Winehouse compared Adele to early in her career, and now Adele feels some guilt.about gawking at the singer’s public slow descent.Adele regrets gawking at the singer’s public slow descent.

Adele says, “People think I hate being famous. And I don't. I'm really frightened of it. I think it's really toxic, and I think it's really easy to be dragged into it. Watching Amy deteriorate is one of the reasons I'm a bit frightened. We were all very entertained by her being a mess. I was f*cking sad about it, but if someone showed me a picture of her looking bad, I'd look at it. If we hadn't looked, then they'd have stopped taking her picture. That level of attention is really frightening, especially if you don't live around all that showbiz stuff.”

Adele asked Albarn to collaborate with her on 25. They did not complete any tracks; instead, Albarn called Adele “insecure.” He explained to Contact Music.Contact MusicAdele asked me to work with her, and I made time for her. I am not a producer, so I do not know what is happening. Will she use any of the stuff? I do not think so. Let’s wait and see. She is very insecure. She does not need to be; she is still so young.

Adele toldRolling StoneShe said, “It ended up being one of those ‘don’t meet your idol’ moments. The saddest thing was that I was such a big Blur fan growing up. But it was sad, and I regret hanging out with him. None of it was right. None of it suited my record.”

What I found amazing about that record is that it is the recordMadonna wroteafter having her first child, and for me, it is her best. I was all over the place after having a child because my chemicals were hitting the roof and s--- like that,” Adele said.

She explains, “I was just drifting away, and I could not find many examples for myself where I was like, 'F---, they truly came back to themselves,' until someone said, 'Well, obviously,”Ray of Light.”

A lot of music fans used Twitter to call outAdele’s a song "Hello" on her album25for being a remake/ripoff of Tom Waits’s 1973 song “Martha.”for being a remake/ripoff of Tom Waits’s 1973 song “Martha.”

Producer Greg Kurstin admitted Adele got inspiration from Waits. "We talked about Tom Waits and different storytellers like that. I thought that was the idea: we wanted something honest about where she was. She wanted something real and believable."