Adele Musical heritage paper

new town. This time they had moved up a little more. They were now in West Norwood, the south of London. Although Adele's mother and new husband were still struggling with employment and finances, Penny managed to put Adele in music lessons. Adele stayed in music class and while in secondary school, her and her friends would listening to and sing pop music like Destiny's Child and P. Diddy. Her mother still made sure she got her dose of jazz and blues though. While at home, Adele listened to her favorites: Celine Dion and the Spice Girls.

While visiting a local record shop, Adele wandered to the basement section where she spotted Etta James. She bought the album based on the cover. Etta James' eyes and hair caught her attention and Adele bought it with no intention of listening to it. When she finally listened to the album, she knew that this was who she wanted to be and how she wanted to sing.

Adele hated school so much and was really into music by the time she reached high school that she enrolled in The BRIT school, a Performing Arts and Technology school. It was still school though and some days Adele would put in more effort than other days. Being able to do what she loved to do among others with the same passion gave her a little more confidence and motivation.

After watching a Marvin Gaye documentary, Adele was inspired to write her own music. This also made her consider working to find and help develop talent rather than becoming a singer herself.

In 2005, when the time came to make a decision about which college to attend, Adele and her mother got into an argument. It was such a huge argument that Adele sat down and wrote “Hometown Glory” in ten minutes. This was the beginning of her emotional song writing.

Shortly after in 2006, Adele had fallen in love, but there were some struggles in the relationship.

One was that her boyfriend was bi-sexual. She wrote the song “Daydreamer” about this relationship.

Another song written in this same time period was “My Same”. Again in regards to love and what she lost.

Adele had three songs written now and a friend of hers decided to post them on MySpace.

Adele didn't think anything of the post. She knew she would always be in music. Maybe as a