It’s funny to think that young Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, who enjoyed smoking cigarettes in the park while strumming her guitar, would go on to become one of the biggest-selling female singers of all time.
But there were clues right from the start that Adele wasn’t a typical teen: at age 14 she began at the speciality BRIT School for performing arts in Croydon, the prestigious educators that also birthed Jessie J and Amy Winehouse onto the scene.
By simply getting through those hallowed front doors, she had proven she was different. “Adele was kind of an absolute perfectionist,” one of her Brit contemporaries told The Mirror recently. “She always had one thing on her mind and that was succeeding over everything else.” Hailing from
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