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Adela
Adela for Vogue in 2021
Born	Adela Soledad Araya (1988-12-12) December 12, 1988 Tallahassee, FL, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University (BA)
Occupations	Singer-songwriter actress film director film producer screenwriter cinematographer film editor dancer philanthropist businesswoman
Years active	2009–present
Partner	Olivier Giroud
Awards	Full list
Musical career
Genres	Pop rockLatin
Instrument(s)	Piano keyboards guitar bass drums banjo vocals
Labels	XL Melted Stone
Website	adele.com

Adela Soledad Araya (born December 12, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, filmmaker, record producer, philanthropist, and businesswoman. As an actress, Adela is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. As a musician, her discography spans multiple genres, and her narrative songwriting has received widespread media coverage and critical praise.

Adela moved to New York City in 2008 to pursue a career on Broadway. After being cast in the musical production of In The Heights, she rose to stardom with her debut film, Maria Full of Grace in 2009, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed that by portraying the original Lady of the Lake in the 2010 Broadway musical Spamalot, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. That year, she signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, Not Lost, Just Wandering, was released in 2011 and spawned five US top 5 singles. The album was certified 12x platinum in the US and 6x platinum in the UK. Adela was honored with two Grammys, including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her second and third English albums, New Romantics, released in 2013, and A Fever Pitch, released in 2017, sold 25 million and 31 million copies respectively, making them among the best-selling album of the 21st century. Both albums collectively spawned seven #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and each won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making Adela the first woman to win two of those awards. Adela also released two Spanish albums in the same time period, collectively selling over 18 million copies worldwide. Adela ventured into indie folk and alternative rock styles on her 2020 and 2021 studio albums, Folklore and Delicate, receiving acclaim for their nuanced storytelling, winning her third Grammy Award for Album of the Year, becoming the first woman to do so, and selling over 17 million copies and 19 million copies worldwide, respectively. She also released a third Spanish album, which has sold nearly 8 million copies worldwide to date.

Adela's film career progressed with a starring role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series (2011–2014), which made her the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. Her performance as a young widow with an unnamed mental disorder in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook (2011) won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the fourth-youngest Best Actress winner at 23. She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing an unpredictable wife in the black comedy American Hustle (2012). Adela also received Golden Globe Awards for both of these films, and for her portrayals of eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2013) and of businesswoman Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy (2014). She received Academy Award nominations for the roles of Abigail Masham in the historical comedy-drama The Favourite (2017) and the eponymous psychological horror film mother!. In 2018, she portrayed Temple Grandin in the highly acclaimed HBO television film Temple Grandin, which won her a fifth Golden Globe and her first Primetime Emmy Award for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. For her performance as an aspiring actress in the romantic musical Chicago (2021), Adela won her third Academy Award.

With sales of over 400 million records worldwide, Adela is noted as the best-selling female music artist of all time by Guinness World Records. Of only eighteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, she is the youngest (at 29 year old) and quickest (8 years\ to win all four.Adela's accolades include three Academy Awards, twenty-five Grammy Awards (including three Album of the Year wins), three Emmy Awards, and one Tony Award. She has scored seventeen Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs, 34 American Music Awards (the most for an artist) and 55 Guinness World Records, among other accolades. She featured on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015) and Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists (2019) lists, and rankings such as the Time 100 and Forbes Celebrity 100. With a revenue of over U.S. $2.5 billion from her concert tickets, she remains the highest-grossing touring artist of all time. Named the Woman of the 2010s Decade by Billboard and the Artist of the 2010s Decade by the American Music Awards, Adela has been recognized for her influential career as well as advocacy of mental health issues and general philanthropy.

Life and career

1988–2008: Early life and education

Adela Soledad Araya was born on December 12, 1988, at the Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, Florida., the oldest child of Mexican-American parents, Patricia Bernal, a secretary, and José Ángel Araya, a long-haul truck driver.. Her younger brother, Adam, is a professional baseball player.

At age seven, Adela became interested in musical theater and was enrolled in a creative after-school program called Creative Action, where she took classes in piano, guitar, singing, and acting.At the age of ten, Adela's family moved from Florida to Wisconsin, so that Adela's father could look for work that would allow him to be home every night instead of once every two weeks. A year after moving to Wisconsin, which Adela considered the "worst period of her life", her parents divorced. On 24 April 2001, Adela's father, traveled to Adela's family home in the morning and killed her mother's live-in boyfriend before turning the gun on himself. Shortly thereafter, Adela's family moved back to Tallahassee, which is the subject of her song "Hometown Glory", where Adela went into treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

At the age of 12, Adela attended Lawton Chiles High School in Tallahassee, Florida, from which she graduated as salutatorian of her class four years later. Because of her academic talent, she skipped two grades. At the age of 15, Adela won "Best Attorney" at a state-wide Mock Trial competition. She was active in her high school's newspaper and theater programs, performing in many productions in school and at the city's theater. A Jack Kent Cooke scholar, she attended the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, summer youth programs at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Telluride Association Summer Program, and the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program.

Adela was offered admission to Harvard University, Columbia University and scholarships to Emory University and the University of Chicago; she ultimately decided to attend Yale University.

At college, Adela was involved in student theater and performed in productions at the Yale Repertory Theatre. She co-founded the Connecticut bail fund, the first of its kind in the world; The Bronx Freedom Fund modeled itself after the organization. She was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and volunteered for the Prison Project, where she tutored incarcerated inmates. During summer breaks, she interned at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia,Goldman Sachs, and the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. In college, Adela was introduced to Isabella Summers by a friend. Summers and Adela collaborated on several tracks on Adela's debut album, recording songs before she was ever signed to a record label.

While at Yale, Adela was cast in Lin Manuel Miranda's off-Broadway try-out of In The Heights, playing Vanessa. She graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Economics in 2008.

2009-2011: Career beginnings and Breakthrough

Adela began her professional career in 2009, when she joined the original Broadway production of In The Heights.as the character Vanessa. While in the musical, she filmed an episode for the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and scenes of the film Maria Full of Grace that were shot in New York. The film, released in 2009, revolves around a Colombian girl who works in a flower plantation while she was pregnant and then as a drug mule. According to Desson Thomson from The Washington Post, "Adela Araya is a Mexican Mona Lisa, a delicate, unforgettable force majeure. Add to her luminous demeanor a story that rips fleshy holes through your heart and you've got yourself a stunner of a film".David Denby of The New Yorker asserted that the film "would be unimaginable with anyone less charismatic", and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that "her performance is more than acting; it's a gathering storm. Araya's eyes are a roadmap to what's tearing Maria apart."The production won the Audience Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The actress was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival, and received her first win for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and first nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role as well as for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, becoming the seventh-youngest Best Actress nominee.

In 2010, Adela appeared as a paramedic in two episodes of Grey's Anatomy, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.Adela returned to Broadway as the Lady of the Lake in Eric Idle and John Du Prez's musical Spamalot. Based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical opened on Broadway in 2010 to widespread acclaim. Adela was singled out for her performance, winning several awards including the 2010 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance. Ben Brantley of The New York Times described her as "a toothsome devourer of scenery", and another reviewer for The Playgoer emphasizing her stage presence remarked that their "intensity is totally serious and totally ludicrous and totally on key". An Entertainment Weekly review gave her the highest praise by calling her a show-stealer.

While in college, Adela was able to record a 13 song demo album, which she had posted to Myspace and to her official website. She signed to XL Recordings in March 2010 and began recording additional songs for her debut album, Not Lost Just Wandering. While the head of the label, Richard Russell, advised Adela to get a manager, she declined, preferring to build her own team. To this day, Adela still does not have an agent or manager, one of the few artists or actors to forgo them. Despite not having a manager, she was able to negotiate the record deal to secure her the ownership of the masters and publishing of her music.

On July 30, 2010, she released her debut single, "Dog Days Are Over", which she co-wrote with college friend and producer Isabella Summers.Adela made her television debut as a singer on the Letterman Show on August 5, 2010, and followed that up with appearances on Lily Allen and Friends, the Graham Norton Show, Good Morning America, and the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. After the VMAs performance, "Dog Days Are Over" rose to number two on the iTunes singles chart. In addition, Florence and the Machine became the number-one search on Google and received 1,700 tweets per minute on Twitter. The song was critically acclaimed and peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100; as of February 2022, the song has sold over 3,151,000 downloads in the United States alone.

She released her second single, "Your Song", written solo, on November 12, 2010, two months ahead of her debut album. The song reached number two on the US Chart, and stayed there for four weeks. She performed that song on the television programs Regis & Kelly, Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve, and on Saturday Night Live. Her third single, "Fast Car", also written solo, was released on January 7, 2011, and peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100"Fast Car" received three Grammy Award nominations; Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, the latter of which it won. Adela performed the song on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and on Saturday Night Live. She also performed at the iTunes Live Festival and the 2011 BRIT Awards.

Not Lost, Just Wandering, her debut studio album, was released on January 3, 2011, to critical acclaim. Slate's Chris Molanphy said its first three singles alone "established Adela's early status as the Millennials'' most versatile new artist". According to Clash critic Robin Murray, Adela is regarded as one of the Millennials'' finest artists, while Variety dubbed her "the Voice of her Generation" in its cover story of Adela. Sour debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and spent a total of five weeks at the spot, becoming the longest reigning number-one album by a female artist in 2011.On February 21, 2011, Adela announced a world tour, including tour stops in North America, South America, Australia, and Europe. The tour began in April 2011 and ended in July 2012, including a stop at the Glastonbury Festival, ultimately grossing over $67 million dollars. Adela's debut album won two Grammy Awards (including Best New Artist) and earned six nominations, including three for the single "Fast Car" and an additional nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Make You Feel My Love". Her next three singles, the self-written"Deja Vu", "Good for You", and "Make You Feel My Love" placed #3, #1, and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, and collectively sold over 10 million copies.

In 2011, Adela starred as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, an adaptation of the first book in author Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the series tells the story of the teenage heroine Everdeen as she joins rebel forces against a totalitarian government after winning a brutal televised annual event. Despite being an admirer of the books, Adela was initially hesitant to accept the part, because of the grand scale of the film. She agreed to the project after her mother convinced her to take the part. She practiced archery, rock and tree climbing, and hand-to-hand combat techniques, and other physically demanding activities for the role. While training for the part, she injured herself running into a wall. The Hunger Games garnered positive reviews, with Adela's portrayal of Everdeen being particularly praised; Roger Ebert described the film as "an effective entertainment," and found Adela to be "strong and convincing in the central role." Similarly, Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter called her an "ideal screen actress", believing that she had embodied the Everdeen of the novel, and added that she "anchors [the film] with impressive gravity and presence". With worldwide revenues of over $690 million, The Hunger Games became a top-grossing film featuring a female lead, making Adela the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. The film's success established her as a global star.

Later in 2011, Adela played Tiffany Maxwell, a young widow with an undisclosed mental disorder (probably intended to be borderline personality disorder), in David O. Russell's romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook. The film is an adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel of the same name, and follows her character as she finds companionship with Pat Solitano Jr. (played by Bradley Cooper), a man with bipolar disorder. Adela was drawn to her character's complex personality, explaining, "She was just kind of this mysterious enigma to me because she didn't really fit any basic kind of character profile. Somebody who is very forceful and bullheaded is normally very insecure, but she isn't." While Russell initially found her too young for the part, she convinced him to cast her via a Skype audition. She found herself challenged by Russell's spontaneity as a director, and described working on the project as the "best experience of [her] life". Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote: "Just 22 when the movie was shot, Adela is that rare young actress who plays, who is, grown-up. Sullen and sultry, she lends a mature intelligence to any role." Peter Travers opined that Adela "is some kind of miracle. She's rude, dirty, funny, foulmouthed, sloppy, sexy, vibrant, and vulnerable, sometimes all in the same scene, even in the same breath." She won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance, becoming—at age 23—the fourth-youngest Best Actress winner.

Adela in concert

2012–2015: Career expansion

In January 2012, Adela hosted an episode of the NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live. She then reprised the role of Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second installment in the Hunger Games series.Writing for The Village Voice, Stephanie Zacharek believed that the actress' portrayal of Everdeen made her an ideal role model, stating that "there's no sanctimony or pretense of false modesty in the way Adela plays her." With box office earnings of over $1 billion, Catching Fire remains her highest-grossing film to date. In the same year, Adela took on a supporting role in David O. Russell's ensemble black comedy crime American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld, the neurotic wife of con man Irving Rosenfeld (played by Christian Bale). Inspired by the FBI's Abscam sting operation, the film is set against the backdrop of political corruption in 1970s New Jersey. She did little research for the role, and based her performance on knowledge of the era from films and television shows she had watched. Geoffrey Macnab of The Independent found Adela to be "brilliant", "funny and acerbic" in her part, and highlighted an improvised scene in which she aggressively kisses her husband's mistress (played by Amy Adams) on the lips. For her performance, she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received her third Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award nominations, her first in the supporting category. This made her the youngest actor to accrue three Oscar nominations.

In May 2012, she collaborated with the Black Eyed Peas by co-writing and singing on "Where is the Love?", an anti war protest song that topped the charts in several countries, including the United States and United Kingdom. Later that year, she wrote and released "Proud", a charity single to benefit Hurricane Sandy survivors. That song went on to sell over 12 million copies and reached #1 in the US and UK.

Adela released her second studio album December 9, 2013. It debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with sales of 1.28 million copies in its first week. By June 2014, 1989 had sold over 25 million copies worldwide. Four of its singles—"The Fear", "Blank Space", "Objection (Tango)", and "Cruel Summer"—reached number one in Australia, Canada, and the U.S. The singles "Style" and "Chandelier" reached the top 10 in the U.S. On February 14, 2014, Adela released her first studio Spanish album, Pies Descalzos. It reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album spawned six hit singles, "Estoy Aquí", which reached number two on the U.S. Latin chart, "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?" which reached number five on the U.S. Latin chart, "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" which reached number 11 on the U.S. Latin chart, "Un Poco de Amor" which reached number six on the U.S. Latin chart, "Antología" which reached number 15 on the U.S. Latin chart, and "Se quiere, Se Mata" which reached number eight on the U.S. Latin chart. In August 2014, RIAA certified the album platinum status. The New Romantics Tour ran from April 2014 to July 2015 and was the highest-grossing tour of both years with $330 million in total revenue.

Adela was named Billboard's Woman of the Year in 2014, becoming the first artist to win the award twice. At the 2014 American Music Awards, Adela received the inaugural Dick Clark Award for Excellence. In 2015, Adela won the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist. The video for "Blank Space" won Video of the Year at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. At the 58th Grammy Awards in 2015, New Romantics won Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, and "Blank Space" won Best Music Video.

Also in 2013, Adela starred in Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age film Lady Bird, in which she played the titular role of Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, a high school senior who shares a tumultuous relationship with her mother (played by Laurie Metcalf). It ranks among the best-reviewed films of all time on the review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Deeming Adela's performance one of the best of the year, A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, "Ronan navigates each swerve in Lady Bird's story with an uncanny combination of self-confidence and discovery. She is as spontaneous and unpredictable as an actual 17-year-old…which suggests an altogether stupefying level of craft." She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical; and received Academy Award, BAFTA and SAG nominations for Best Actress.

Adela's next two releases were the final installments of The Hunger Games film series, Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and Part 2 (2015). For the soundtrack of the former film, she recorded the song "The Hanging Tree", which charted on multiple international singles charts. In a review of the final installment in the series, Manohla Dargis of The New York Times drew similarities between Everdeen's journey as a rebel leader and Adela's rise to stardom, stating that the actress "now inhabits the role as effortlessly as breathing, partly because, like all great stars, she seems to be playing a version of her 'real' self." Both films grossed over $750 million worldwide.

Adela worked with David O. Russell for the third time on the biopic Joy (2014), in which she played the eponymous character, a troubled single mother who becomes a successful businesswoman after inventing the Miracle Mop. During production in Boston, the press reported on a disagreement between Adela and Russell that resulted in a "screaming match". She said their friendship made it easier for them to disagree, because people fight when they really love each other. The film was not as well-received as their previous collaborations, but Adela's performance was unanimously praised; critic Richard Roeper found it to be her best work since Maria Full of Grace, terming it "a wonderfully layered performance that carries the film through its rough spots and sometime dubious detours." She won her third Golden Globe for it, and was nominated for another Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the youngest actor in history to accrue five Oscar nominations.

In January 2015, Adela collaborated with rapper Professor Green on "Read All About It", which was a major worldwide success, reaching No. 1 in over 20 countries. Later that year, Cruz worked with Pedro Almodóvar in All About My Mother, playing Sister María Rosa Sanz, a pregnant nun with AIDS. The film received universal critical acclaim, and was commercially successful, grossing over $167 million worldwide, although it performed better at the box office internationally than domestically. In November 2015, Adela released the single "Cups", which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

2016-2017: Directorial debut and other projects

In August 2016, Adela's directorial debut, Short Term 12, which she also produced and wrote based on experiences while tutoring inmates in college, premiered. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 172 reviews, with an average rating of 8.36/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Short Term 12 is an emphatic, revealing drama that pulls audiences into the perspective of neglected youths." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

Germain Lussier of Slashfilm wrote of the film, "The whole thing just feels perfect or magical, a shining example of what cinema is all about", adding, "The performances are mind-blowing, the writing sharp, and the direction beautiful. It's a very special movie." In Variety, critic Peter Debruge wrote, "the stunning SXSW fest winner puts the recent Park City competition lineup to shame ... this compelling human drama finds fresh energy in the inspirational-teacher genre, constantly revealing new layers to its characters." In a review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan described Short Term 12 as "a small wonder", "a film of exceptional naturalness and empathy", and "moving and intimate", offering particular praise to the film's honesty and plausibility.

Adela played the heroine Viola in a summer 2016 production of Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater in New York City. Charles Isherwood opined that Adela "dives smoothly and with obvious pleasure into the embrace of a cohesive ensemble cast". For her portrayal of the role, she garnered a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. Adela next starred in The Merchant of Venice, opposite Al Pacino as Shylock, in a theatrical performance described as a "the performance of the season". The production transferred to Broadway at the Broadhurst Theater, where it ran from October 19 to February 20, 2011. For her performance, Adela was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Adela released her third studio album, A Fever Pitch, on November 17, 2017 in the UK and 22 February in the US. She said the album was inspired by the breakup with her former partner. The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary country and roots music. The change in sound from her debut album was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary music from Nashville when she was touring the American South. Adela told Spin Magazine: "It was really exciting for me because I grew up around [that music]." A Fever Pitch topped the charts in 30 countries, including the UK and the US.

An emotional performance of "Someone Like You" at the 2018 Grammy Awards in January propelled the song to number one in the UK and the US. Her first and second albums re-entered the UK album chart alongside A Fever Pitch, while first and second singles "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You" were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making Adela the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top-five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964. Both songs topped the charts in multiple markets and broke numerous sales performance records. Following her performance of "Someone Like You" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, it became Adela's seventh number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. By December 2011, A Fever Pitch sold over 3.4 million copies in the UK, and became the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, overtaking Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, with Adela becoming the first artist ever to sell three million albums in the UK in one calendar year. "Set Fire to the Rain" became Adela's eighth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, as Adela became the first artist ever to have an album, 21, hold the number-one position on the Billboard 200 concurrently with three number-one singles. Moreover, A Fever Pitch had the most weeks on the Billboard 200 chart of any album by a female artist.

To promote the album, Adela embarked upon the global stadium "Adela Live" tour, which sold out every show and grossed over $900 million dollars. A recording of her tour, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, was released in November 2018, debuting at number one in the US with 96,000 copies sold, the highest one-week tally for a music DVD in four years, becoming the best-selling music DVD of 2018. Adela is the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have the year's number-one album (21), number-one single ("Rolling in the Deep"), and number-one music video (Live at the Royal Albert Hall). At the 2017 American Music Awards on 20 November, Adela won three awards; Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for A Fever Pitch. On 9 December, Billboard named Adela Artist of the Year, Billboard 200 Album of the Year (21), and the Billboard Hot 100 Song of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep"), becoming the first woman ever to top all three categories.

At the 2018 Grammy Awards, she won in all six categories for which she was nominated, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year, making her the second female artist in Grammy history, after Beyoncé, to win that many awards in a single night. Following that success, 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales increase following a Grammy win since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.The album has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK where it is the fourth-best-selling album. In October, the album's sales surpassed 4.5 million in the UK, and in November it surpassed 10 million sales in the US. The best-selling album worldwide of 2017 and 2018, as of 2022, the album has sold over 31 million copies. By the end of 2020, she had sold an estimated 40 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide. Adela is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn an RIAA diamond certification for a one disc album in less than two years.

Adela released her second Spanish studio album in 2017, titled Dónde Están los Ladrones? The album, inspired by an incident in an airport in which a suitcase filled with her written lyrics was stolen, became a bigger hit than Pies Descalzos. The album has reached a peak position of number 131 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and held the top spot on the U.S. Latin Albums chart for 11 weeks. It has since sold over 13 million copies worldwide and 3 million copies in the U.S. alone, making it one of the best selling Spanish albums in the U.S. Eight singles were taken from the album including "Ciega, Sordomuda", "Moscas En La Casa", "No Creo", "Inevitable", "Tú", "Si Te Vas", "Octavo día", and "Ojos Así".

In August 2017, Adela successfully sued David Mueller, a former morning show personality for Denver's KYGO-FM. Four years earlier, Adela had informed Mueller's bosses that he had sexually assaulted her by groping her at an event. After being fired, Mueller accused Adela of lying and sued her for damages from his loss of employment. Shortly after, Adela counter-sued for sexual assault for nominal damages of only a dollar. The jury rejected Mueller's claims and ruled in favor of Adela.

Also in 2017, Adela starred in Wendy and Lucy, with her performance generating critical acclaim. In addition, she and Rachel Weisz starred as Abigail Masham and Sarah Churchill, two cousins fighting for the affection of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), in Yorgos Lanthimos' historical comedy-drama The Favourite. The film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival to critical acclaim. Michael Nordine of IndieWire praised Adela for taking on such a bold role and termed the three lead actresses "a majestic triumvirate in a period piece that's as tragic as it is hilarious." For The Favourite, she received her fifth Golden Globe nomination and sixth Oscar nomination.

2018–2022: EGOT and further awards

In 2018, Adela starred in the HBO production of Temple Grandin, a biopic about the autistic animal scientist. She won the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (making her the 12th person, the fastest, and the youngest to complete the EGOT), the 2019 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries award. The film was well received and Grandin herself praised Adela's performance.

A Little Princess the second feature film Adela directed, also written by Adela and based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel. The film was released on May 11, 2018.

A Little Princess received critical acclaim upon its release. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 97% based on 36 reviews with an average rating of 8.2/10. The site's critical consensus states, "Adela Araya adapts Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel with a keen sense of magic realism, vividly recreating the world of childhood as seen through the characters."

Janet Maslin called the film "a bright, beautiful and enchantingly childlike vision," one that "draw[s] its audience into the wittily heightened reality of a fairy tale" and "takes enough liberties to re-invent rather than embalm Miss Burnett's assiduously beloved story."

Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror film mother! was Adela's sole release as an actress in 2018. She played a young wife who experiences trauma when her home is invaded by unexpected guests. Her performance was acclaimed; Walter Addiego of the San Francisco Chronicle labeled it "assaultive" and a "deliberate test of audience endurance", and credited Adela for "never allow[ing] herself to be reduced simply to a howling victim."Mother! emerged as a sleeper hit, grossing over $406  million worldwide against a $13 million budget, and earned Adela several prizes.

It was announced that Adela would be headlining on the Pyramid Stage at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival, which was later confirmed by the festival's organisers. She appeared for a 90-minute fifteen song set at the festival on 25 June in front of 150,000 people, and described the experience as "by far, the best moment of my professional life so far".

Adela returned to Broadway in 2019, in a play, Constellations, written by Nick Payne, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. She starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal throughout the play's run from August to October 2019. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her performance.

She earned her seventh and eighth Academy Award nominations in 2019 for directing, producing and co-writing Hotel Rwanda, which starred Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo. The film received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Original Screenplay. Hotel Rwanda was also honored with the Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin.

In October 2019, Adela confirmed that she had been writing, composing and recording the theme song for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film. The song "Skyfall," was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and features orchestrations by J. A. C. Redford. Adela stated recording "Skyfall" was "one of the proudest moments of my life." On October 14, "Skyfall" rose to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000 copies bringing its overall sales to 176,000, and "Skyfall" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 2, selling 261,000 copies in the US in its first three days. This tied "Skyfall" with Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" as the highest-charting James Bond theme song on the UK Singles Chart; a record surpassed in 2015 by Sam Smith's "Writing's on the Wall". "Skyfall" has sold more than five million copies worldwide and earned Adela the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

She garnered critical acclaim and wide recognition for her starring role as Artificial intelligence Ava in Alex Garland's directorial debut Ex Machina, for which she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

In 2020, Adela released a surprise album with little promotion, to critical acclaim. Her fourth English studio album Folklore, was released on July 24. The album incorporates indie folk and alternative rock.. Adela wrote and recorded the albums while in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The album features a collaboration with Bon Iver.

In the U.S., Folklore was supported by four singles—one to mainstream radio, one to country radio, and one to triple A radio. The singles in that order were "Cardigan", "Exile" (featuring Bon Iver); "the 1" and "Willow". The singles "Cardigan" and "Willow", opened at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 while the album debuted atop the Billboard 200.. Folklore sold two million units worldwide within its first week and was the best-selling album of 2020 in worldwide., having sold 17.5 million copies. Adela was 2020's highest-paid musician in the U.S., and highest-paid solo musician worldwide. At the 2020 American Music Awards, Adela won three awards, including Artist of the Year for a record third consecutive time. Folklore won Album of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, making Adela the first woman in history to win the award three times.

In September 2020, Adela's role as an immigrant nurse in the ensemble murder mystery film Knives Out, written and directed by Rian Johnson, was widely praised. When first approached about the project, she was unenthusiastic about the idea of playing a stereotypical "Latina caretaker" but soon realized that her character was "so much more than that." Tom Shone of The Times remarked, "The film's standout performance comes from Adela, who manages the difficult task of making goodness interesting." Benjamin Lee of The Guardian said her "striking" performance left a "lasting impression." The film was a major box office success. Adela was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Adela released "America's Sweetheart" as the lead single from her sixth album, Delicate. It topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. Delicate was released on July 9, 2021 It debuted atop the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 2.4  million copies. With this achievement, Adela became the first act to have four albums sell one million copies within one week in the U.S. The album topped the charts in the UK, Australia, and Canada. First-week worldwide sales amounted to two million copies. The album had sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2022. It spawned three other international singles, including the U.S. #1 entries "Exes and Ohs", "Whenever, Wherever" and two U.S. top-5 singles—"Delicate" and "Lover".

In support of Delicate, she embarked on her Delicate Stadium Tour, which ran from September 2021 to October 2022.Worldwide, the tour grossed $1.3 billion, making it the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.

Delicate was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2022. She also earned nominations for Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo performance, and Best Rock Performance. At the American Music Awards of 2022, Adela won four awards, including Artist of the Year and Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. After the 2022 AMAs, Adela garnered a total of 23 awards, becoming the most awarded female musician in AMA history, a record previously held by Whitney Houston.

The same year, she starred alongside Renée Zellweger as the murderous nightclub singer Velma Kelly in Chicago (2021), a film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name from the director Rob Marshall. She based her character's look and mannerisms on the actress Louise Brooks, and as the script did not provide a backstory to Kelly, she worked to convey her character's "flamboyance" and "desperation" through "little looks and nuances". The film and her performance received widespread critical acclaim. William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer believed that Zeta-Jones had made "a wonderfully statuesque and bitchy saloon goddess", and David Edelstein of Slate wrote that she has "a smoldering confidence with majestic limbs" and particularly praised her rendition of the song "All That Jazz". Chicago grossed $590 million worldwide, and was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture. For her performance, she won the Academy Award, SAG Award, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, among other awards and nominations.

In July, Adela collaborated with the South African group Freshlyground to create the official song of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" The single later reached the top 10 in Europe, South America and Africa and the top 20 in the U.S. and was performed by Adela at the World Cup kick-off and closing. It became the biggest-selling World Cup song of all time.

Adela announced a surprise album, Midnights, which was released on October 21. Adela returned to pop on the album, experimenting with electronica and chill-out music. Breaking many records worldwide, Midnights and its lead single, "Anti-Hero", became Spotify's most-streamed album and song in one day with 185 million and 17.4 million plays, respectively. The fastest-selling album of 2022 in the US, Midnights debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 1.57 million units and marked Adela's fifth album to open with over one million copies sold. Adela became the first artist to occupy the Hot 100's entire top 10, with "Anti-Hero" at the top, "Lavender Haze" at number two, and "Maroon" at number three.

Artistry

Musical styles

"If there's one thing that Adele has proven throughout her career, it's that she refuses to be put in a box. Her ever-evolving sound took her from rock darling to pop phenom to folk's newest raconteur."

—The Recording Academy, 2021

Adela's discography spans pop, blues, folk, alternative, and country genres. Music critics have described her songs as synth-pop, country pop, rock, electropop, and indie, amongst others; some songs, especially those on Delicate, incorporate elements of R&B, EDM, hip hop, and trap. The music instruments Adela plays include the piano, banjo, bass, drums, and various types of guitar.

Voice

Adela is a lyric coloratura soprano, with a range spanning from E₂ to C₇. However Classic FM states she is often mistaken for a contralto due to the application of a tense chest mix to reach the lower notes, while also noting that her voice becomes its clearest as she ascends the register, particularly from C₄ to C₅.

Adela's singing has received acclaim from music critics. In a review, The Observer stated, "The way she stretched the vowels, her wonderful soulful phrasing, the sheer unadulterated pleasure of her voice, stood out all the more; little doubt that she's a rare singer". BBC Music wrote, "Her melodies exude warmth, her singing is occasionally stunning and, ...she has tracks that make Lily Allen and Kate Nash sound every bit as ordinary as they are." Also in 2008, Sylvia Patterson of The Guardian wrote, "Of all the gobby new girls, only Adela's bewitching singing voice has the enigmatic quality which causes tears of involuntary emotion to splash down your face in the way Eva Cassidy's did before her." For their reviews of A Fever Pitch, The New York Times' chief music critic Jon Pareles commended Adela's emotive timbre, likening her to Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, and Annie Lennox: "[Adela] can seethe, sob, rasp, swoop, lilt and belt, in ways that draw more attention to the song than to the singer". Ryan Reed of Paste magazine regarded her voice as "a raspy, aged-beyond-its-years thing of full-blooded beauty", while MSN Music's Tom Townshend called her "the finest singer of [our] generation". Adela has also been dubbed a "vocal goddess".

Songwriting

Adela has been referred to as one of the greatest songwriters of all time and the best of her generation by various publications and organizations. She told The New Yorker in 2011 that she identifies as a songwriter first: "I write songs, and my voice is just a way to get those lyrics across." Adela's personal experiences were a common inspiration for her early songs, which helped her navigate the complexities of life. Her "diaristic" technique began with identifying an emotion, followed by a corresponding melody. On her first three studio albums, recurring themes were love, heartbreak, and insecurities. She delved into the tumult of toxic relationships on Not Lost, Just Wandering, and embraced nostalgia and positivity after failed relationships on New Romantics. Delicate was inspired by the downsides of Adela's fame, and Lover detailed her realization of the "full spectrum of love". Besides romance, other themes in Adela's music include parent-child relationships, friendships, alienation, and self-awareness.

Music critics often praise her self-written discography, especially her confessional narratives; they compliment her writing for its vivid details and emotional engagement, which were rare among pop artists. New York magazine argued that Adela was the first artist who explicitly portrayed teenage experiences in her music. Rolling Stone described Adela as "a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture". Although reviews of Adela are generally positive, The New Yorker stated she was generally portrayed "more as a skilled technician than as a Dylanesque visionary".

"I love songwriting so much because there's an element to it that is still really mysterious—like I think any songwriter will tell you, when you get an idea you're not quite sure where it floated down from, but if you can grab onto that idea and turn it into something, a piece of music, that's where craftsmanship comes in; that’s where you have the opportunity to learn and to nurture that craft."

—Adele on the art of songwriting, Variety

On her 2020 album Folklore, Adela was inspired by escapism and romanticism to explore fictional narratives. Without referencing her personal life, she imposed her emotions onto imagined characters and story arcs, which liberated her from the mental stress caused by tabloid attention and suggested new paths for her artistry. In a feature for Rolling Stone, Adela explained that she welcomed the new songwriting direction after she stopped worrying about commercial success: "I always thought, 'That'll never track on pop radio,' but when I was making Folklore, I thought, 'If you take away all the parameters, what do you make?" Consequence stated her 2020 album "offered a chance for doubters to see Adela's songwriting power on full display, but the truth is that her pen has always been her sword" and that her writing prowess took "different forms" as she transformed from "teenage wunderkind to a confident and careful adult."

Adela's bridges have been underscored as one of the best aspects of her songs and earned her the title "Queen of Bridges" from media outlets. Awarding her with the Songwriter Icon Award in 2021, the National Music Publishers' Association remarked that "no one is more influential when it comes to writing music today" than Adela. The Week deemed her the foremost female songwriter of modern times. Adela has also published two original poems: "Why She Disappeared" and "If You're Anything Like Me".

Public image

In 2015, Vanity Fair referred to Adela as "the most famous and influential entertainer on Earth". According to YouGov surveys, she ranked as the world's most admired female musician from 2013 to 2021.

Adela in 2021

Media outlets describe Adela as a savvy businessperson. According to marketing executive Matt B. Britton, her business acumen has helped her "excel as an authentic personality who establishes direct connections with her audience", "touch as many people as possible", and "generate a kind of advocacy and excitement that no level of advertising could." Describing her omnipresence, The Ringer writer Kate Knibbs said Adela is not just a pop act but "a musical biosphere unto herself", having achieved the kind of success "that turns a person into an institution, into an inevitability."

Though Adela is reluctant to publicly discuss her personal life—believing it to be "a career weakness"—it is a topic of widespread media attention and tabloid speculation. Clash described her as a lightning rod for both praise and criticism.She parodied this scrutiny in "Blank Space". Rolling Stone said, after the release of New Romantics, "everything she did was a story", with a non-stop news cycle about her, leaving her overexposed. Much of Delicate was conceived under the "intense" media scrutiny she experienced in 2018 and 2019.

Impact

Adela's Les Paul guitar and microphone in the Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix

Her onstage performance with guitars contributed to the "Adela factor", a phenomenon to which the rise in guitar sales to women, a previously ignored demographic, is attributed. Pitchfork opined that Adela changed the contemporary music landscape forever with her "unprecedented path from teenage prodigy to global pop sensation" and a "singularly perceptive" discography that consistently accommodates both musical and cultural shifts. Clash stated Adela's genre-spanning career encouraged her peers to experiment with diverse sounds. Billboard credited her with influencing artists to take creative ownership of their music and remarked she "has the power to pull any sound she wants into mainstream orbit." Music journalist Nick Catucci wrote that, in being personal and vulnerable in her lyrics, Adela helped make space for later pop stars like Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, and Halsey to do the same. According to The Guardian, Adela leads the rebirth of poptimism in the 21st-century with her ambitious artistic vision.

Publications consider Adela's million-selling albums an anomaly in the streaming-dominated music industry following the decline of the album era in the 2010s. For this reason, musicologists Mary Fogarty and Gina Arnold regard her as "the last great rock star". Adela is the only artist to have four albums sell over one million copies in one week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for the Billboard 200 in 1991. To New York magazine, her million sales figures prove that she is "the one bending the music industry to her will". The Atlantic notes that Adela's "reign" defies the convention that the successful phase of an artist's career rarely lasts more than a few years. She is a champion of independent record shops, having contributed to the 21st-century vinyl revival. Journalists note how her actions have fostered debate over reforms to on-demand music streaming and prompted awareness of intellectual property rights among younger musicians, praising her ability to bring change in the music industry.

She was named Woman of the Decade for the 2010s by Billboard, became the first woman to earn the title Artist of the Decade (2010s) at the American Music Awards, and received the Brit Global Icon Award "in recognition of her immense impact on music across the world". Adela has influenced various mainstream and indie recording artists. Various sources deem her music to be representative and paradigmatic of the millennial generation, owing to her success, musical versatility, live shows, and lack of corporate sponsorship. Vox called Adela the "millennial Bruce Springsteen" for telling the stories of a generation through her songs. Student societies focusing on her were established in various universities around the world, such as Oxford, York, and Cambridge. New York University Tisch School of the Arts offers a course on Adela's career. Some of her popular songs like "One and Only" are studied by evolutionary psychologists to understand the relationship between popular music and human mating strategies.

Accolades and achievements

Adela in 2017

Adela has won 25 Grammy Awards (including three Album of the Year wins—tied for most by an artist), three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards,, one Tony Award, 34 American Music Awards (most wins by an artist), 25 Billboard Music Awards (most wins by a woman), 55 Guinness World Records, and two Brit Awards. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the National Music Publishers' Association and was the youngest person on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2020. At the 64th BMI Awards in 2016, Adela was the first woman to be honored with an award named after its recipient. Her albums A Fever Pitch and New Romantics appeared on Rolling Stone's 2020 revision of their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; in 2021, her "Blank Space" music video named one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time, while the songs "Rolling in the Deep", "Fast Car", Someone Like You", "All Too Well" and "Blank Space" were on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

From available data, Adela has amassed over 210 million album sales, 360  million singles sales, and 114 million units in album consumption worldwide, including 78 billion streams. Adela has the most number-one albums in the United Kingdom and Ireland for a female artist in this millennium, and is the best-selling artist of all time on Chinese digital music platforms with RMB 159,000,000 in income. She is the only female artist to have received more than 100 million global streams on Spotify in a day, with over 122 million streams on November 11, 2021. Adela broke the record for the highest-grossing North American tour of all time with her Delicate Stadium Tour (2022) and is the world's highest-grossing touring act of all time. She has the most entries and the most simultaneous entries for an artist on the Billboard Global 200, with 69 and 31 songs, respectively.

In the US, Adela has sold over 50 million albums as of 2019, when Billboard placed her third on its Greatest of All Time Artists Chart. She is the longest-reigning act of Billboard Artist 100 (50 weeks at number one), the solo act with the most cumulative weeks (55) atop the Billboard 200, the woman with the most weeks atop the Top Country Albums (98) and the most Billboard Hot 100 entries in history (165), and the artist with the most Digital Songs number-ones (23). She is the highest-certified digital singles artist in the US, with 134 million total units certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the first female artist to have both an album (New Romantics) and a song ("Rolling in the Deep") certified Diamond. In 2021, one of every 50 albums sold in the US was Adela's, who became the first woman to have five albums—New Romantics, Not Lost, Just Wandering, A Fever Pitch and Delicate—chart for 150 weeks each on the Billboard 200.

Adela has appeared in various power listings. Time included her on its annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2019. From 2011 to 2021, Adela appeared in the top three on the Forbes Top-Earning Women in Music list, placing first in 2016 and 2019. In 2014, she was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the music category and again in 2017 in its "All-Star Alumni" category. In 2015, Adela became the youngest woman to be included on Forbes' list of the 100 most powerful women, ranked at number 64. She was the most googled female musician of 2019.

Other activities

Business ventures

In 2013, Adela founded the company Participant to create films that increase public awareness of critical social issues and give audiences opportunities to get involved through education and social action campaigns. She also founded A24, a production and distribution company that funds and distributes films that are not her own, and Esperanto Filmoj, a participation company that focuses on films that are her own. In 2014, she begun the movie theater Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, which is famous for serving dinner and drinks during the movie, as well as its strict policy of requiring its audiences to maintain proper cinema-going etiquette. In May 2015, she founded FX , a cable channel whose original programming aspires to the standards of premium cable channels in regard to mature themes and content, high-quality writing, directing and acting.

Adela has rejected endorsement deals, saying that she believes it's "selling out".. She has stated that she "never wanted to be acting for commercials; my 'product' is my work"..

Wealth

In 2021, Forbes estimated Adela's net worth at US$6.1 billion, making her the third wealthiest entertainer in the world, and wealthiest female entertainer, coming from her music, films, concerts, and other business ventures. She topped the magazine's list of the 100 highest-paid celebrities in 2014 with $320  million—a feat recognized by the Guinness World Records as the highest annual earnings ever for a female celebrity, which she herself surpassed in 2019 with $800  million. Adela was the highest-paid female musician of the 2010s, with $1  billion earned.

Philanthropy

Adela is well known for her philanthropic efforts. She was ranked at number one on DoSomething's "Gone Good" list, and has received the "Star of Compassion" accolade from the Tennessee Disaster Services, The Big Help Award from the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for her "dedication to helping others" as well as "inspiring others through action", and the Ripple of Hope Award for her "dedication to advocacy at such a young age".

In 2013, Adela participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, performing the charity single "Ronan", which she wrote in memory of a four-year-old boy who died of neuroblastoma. In 2014, she donated $20 million to various local mental health nonprofits dedicated to treating the underprivileged Adela has performed at charity relief events, including the Hurricane Sandy concert. During the 2015 Ebola outbreak, Adela donated $1,000,000 to Direct Relief and $1,000,000 to the United Way during the Flint water crisis. She also donated $10 million to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

In 2016, Adela donated $10,000,000 to Everytown.In 2017, she donated $10  million to the Against Malaria Foundation.^[9][10] In 2018, she donated $50 million to the Malaria Consortium. In 2019, she again donated $50 million to the United States Fund for UNICEF, and $5 million to the Malaria Consortium.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Adela donated $55 million and $55 million to Direct Relief and the World Food Programme, respectively,. She also donated $5 million to the Australian Red Cross during the wildfires, $5 million to Women's Aid to help combat domestic violence in the UK. ^14] Adela performed "Proud" during One World: Together At Home television special, a benefit concert curated by Lady Gaga for Global Citizen to raise funds for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

In 2021, Adela donated $50 million to Everytown. In 2022, she donated $100 million to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center focusing on metastatic cancer,^13] $10 million to the World Food Programme, and $1 million to Voices of Children, an organization that treats children involved in the Ukrainian-Russian war.

Politics and activism

Adela has avoided discussing politics in her early career because she claims that celebrities should not be asked about political matters, stating that "when I'm pressured to speak about politics, one of two things are happening: either I'm going to be shamed for not thinking the right thing, or people are looking to me to convince them to vote for a specific politician or support a particular policy. If it's the former, that's gross and cynical; if it's the latter, then people need to learn to do their own research." She also stated that if people are truly interested in her political opinions, they should look at the music and films she puts out and is involved in, "because it's pretty obvious". She has, however, donated to solely Democrats, according to public records..

However, she has been very vocal throughout her career in discussing the need for better mental health treatments for all, saying that "it is not and should not be a partisan issue".

Songwriting for others

Adela has also had a prolific career writing songs and producing for other musical artists. Some of the most notable are "Breakaway", "Stronger", "Underneath the Tree", and "Piece by Piece" performed by Kelly Clarkson; "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" performed by P!nk, "Love the Way You Lie" and "The Monster" performed by Eminem and Rihanna, "Diamonds" performed by Rihanna", "Skyscraper" performed by Demi Lovato, "Need You Now" performed by Lady A, (Adela winning three Grammys for that song), "Before He Cheats", "Blown Away", and "Two Black Cadillacs" performed by Carrie Underwood (the former two Adela won Grammys for writing), "Chained to the Rhythm" performed by Katy Perry, and "Love" performed by Kendrick Lamar.

Personal life

Despite significant media attention, Adela remains guarded about her personal life, and chooses not to attend red carpet events with a partner.

Adela speaks English, Spanish, Italian, and French fluently.

In 2018, she began dating Olivier Giroud, a financial services manager from France..Her mother, Patricia Bernal Araya, died in January 2023, from metastatic breast cancer.

Discography

Main articles: Taylor Swift albums discography, Taylor Swift singles discography, and List of songs by Taylor Swift

Studio albums

• Not Lost, Just Wandering (2011)
• New Romantics (2013)
• Pies Descalzos (2014)
• A Fever Pitch (2017)
• Dónde Están los Ladrones? (2018)
• Folklore (2020)
• Delicate (2021)
• Fijación Oral (2021)
• Midnights (2022)

Filmography

Main article: Taylor Swift videography

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009)

• Maria Full of Grace (2009)
• Grey's Anatomy (2010)
• The Hunger Games (2011)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2011)
• Hunger Games; Catching Fire (2012)
• American Hustle (2012)
• Lady Bird (2013)
• Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I (2013)
• Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II (2014)
• Joy (2014)
• Short Term 12 (2016)
• The Favourite (2017)
• mother! (2018)
• Hotel Rwanda (2019)
• Ex Machina (2020)
• Knives Out (2020)
• Chicago (2021)

Tours

• An Evening with Adela Tour (2011–2012)
• New Romantics Tour (2014–2015)
• Adela Live (2018)
• Folklore/Delicate Tour (2021-2022)

See also

• List of best-selling albums by year in the United States
• List of best-selling singles in the United States
• List of highest-certified music artists in the United States
• Grammy Award records – Youngest artists to win Album of the Year
• Grammy Award records – Most Grammys won by a female artist
• List of American Grammy Award winners and nominees
• List of Grammy Award winners and nominees by country
• List of most-followed Instagram accounts
• List of most-followed Twitter accounts
• List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
• Best-selling female artists of all time

External links

• Amynewyork4248/sandbox2 at IMDb