What is Adele?
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Adele | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|MBE}} | image = Adele Feb 24 23 (cropped).jpg | caption = Adele performing in [[Las Vegas]] in 2023 | birth_name = Adele Laurie Blue Adkins<ref name=nicole>{{cite magazine|author=Frehsée, Nicole|date=22 January 2009|title=Meet Adele, the U.K.'s Newest Soul Star|url=http://www.nicolefrehsee.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/R1070Adele.pdf|magazine=Rolling Stone|issue=1070|page=26|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=8 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108013416/http://www.nicolefrehsee.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/R1070Adele.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1988|5|5}} | birth_place = [[Tottenham]], London, England | alma_mater = [[BRIT School]] | occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter}} | years_active = 2006–present | spouse = {{marriage|Simon Konecki|2018|2021|reason=divorced}} | partner = Rich Paul (2021-present; engaged) | children = 1 | website = {{URL|adele.com}} | module = {{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes | genre = {{hlist|[[Contemporary R&B|R&B]]|[[Pop music|pop]]|[[Soul music|soul]]|[[blue-eyed soul]]<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616203103/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5597699.ece|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5597699.ece|title=Blue-eyed soul: Encyclopedia of Modern Music|date=1 February 2009|work=[[The Sunday Times]]|archive-date=16 June 2011|first=Dan|last=Cairns}}</ref>}} | background = solo_singer | instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}} | label = {{hlist|[[XL Recordings|XL]]|[[Columbia Records|Columbia]]}} }} }} '''Adele Laurie Blue Adkins''' (born 5 May 1988) is an [[England|English]] singer, [[songwriter]], musician and multi-instrumentalist. In 20