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Sade: Educating Sade

Richard Cook, NME, 25 August 1984

FOR THE way she sang words and music, the way she interposed herself in the lyric, the way she could swing a line and stay coolly, slyly aside from its note of theatre – for these and the translucent timbre of her voice, Chris Connor remains the greatest singer I've ever heard.

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