Jean Adebambo (1 July 1962 – 15 January 2009) was a British singer, best known for songs in the lovers rock genre. It is believed she died by suicide.

Biography
Jean Adebambo was born in Islington, London, to a Montserratian mother and a Nigerian father.  Her entry into the music business was by chance; she was invited to do a cover version of two records entitled "Again" and "Reunited" by Ital Records in the early 1980s, while she was studying to be a nurse.

She eventually met the Jamaican producer Leonard Chin, for whom she recorded the single "Paradise", and had a successful solo career, mainly recording for her own Ade J label.  A string of hits followed such as the singles "Reaching For A Goal", "Hardships of Life" and "Pipe Dreams".  Despite all the success, Adebambo quit the music industry and went back into the medical profession and became a health visitor in Bermondsey.

A successful lovers rock concert was held in 2008 at the Brixton Academy, where Adebambo was persuaded to perform and restart her music career; however, she was found dead at home in Leytonstone on 15 January 2009, aged 46.

A tribute concert was held on at Hackney Empire on Sunday 15 March 2009, with the aim of raising funds to help raise her two daughters.

Discography

Albums
Feelings (1983), Ade J
Off Key Loving (1985), Ade J

Singles
"Paradise" (1980), Santic
"Reaching for a Goal" (1981), Third World
"Say That You Love Me" (1981), Ade J
"Pipe Dreams" (1982), Ade J
"Hardships of Life" (1983), Ade J
"Tell Me" (1983), Ade J
"I Like It" (1984), Ade J
"Never Before" (1984), Ade J
"I've Made Up My Mind" (1986), Ade J
"All the Way" (1987), Ade J
"Pain" (1987), Now Generation
"Never Gonna Give You Up" (1987), Pioneer International

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1962 births
2009 suicides
2009 deaths
English people of Montserratian descent
English people of Nigerian descent
Musicians from Islington (district)
20th-century Black British women singers
Lovers rock musicians
Suicides in Greater London