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OUR HEROES’ HEROES

I could easily choose one hundred heroes who have made a big impact on me – anyone from Judy Garland to Tina Turner to Kate Bush to Muriel Matters to my mum! But I think if I have to choose just one for this moment right now it will be the singer Sade.

in 1984! I was fourteen and I was completely beguiled by the sound, and the style and the look of Sade. I am a big

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