Sade Adu
Sade Adu (born January 16, 1959, Ibadan, Nigeria), aged 67, is a British singer. Adu is best known for Your Love Is King, Smooth Operator and By Your Side. Adu's honours include Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Sade Adu’s zodiac sign is Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is Earth Dog, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Capricorn, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Dog, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Sade
Sade Adu’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Pioneer
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Sade in the U.S.?
#2058
US rank in 2025
~10,102
Americans share it since 1985
1986
its peak year
Sade is in US records from 1985, but 1959 is not one of the years it clears the SSA's five-birth reporting threshold. It was busiest in 1986.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Sade’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
1
Soul Urge · independence
9
Personality · generous, worldly
The name opens on S (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Sade’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 3 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia
Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta
The record
What sets Sade apart
What keeps Sade Adu in print: By Your Side, Smooth Operator and Your Love Is King.
The Stanway School and Saint Martin's School of Art shaped the training.
The working life starts in 1980, at 21.
Jennie (1996) and Aaliyah (1979) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Known for
- By Your Side, Smooth Operator and Your Love Is King
- Educated at
- The Stanway School, Saint Martin's School of Art and Colchester Institute
- Instruments
- voice
- Awards
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist (1986), Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2017) and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2001)
- Nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best New Artist
- Working from
- 1980
- Wikipedia editions
- 63
What the chart says
Sade, according to the stars
Core essence
Sade is playing a longer game than everyone else at the table. The core of Sade is quiet ambition and a dry, private sense of humour that only their people get to see. They are the one who actually does the thing, and then does not mention it. Underneath the composure is someone who wants very badly to be proud of what they built.
The vibe
Underneath, Sade runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Sade needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Sade wants to be loved
Sade wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Sade be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Sade creates
How Sade makes things happen: they are the ground everyone else stands on. A Yang Earth day master is the mountain, reliable, slow to move, immovable once it has. Sade creates by holding: the plan, the people, the standard. They are trusted before they have said a word, and the work is remembering that mountains are allowed to want things too.
Instinct
Instinct: Sade is loyal to the bone, a Dog year, and their gut reaction is to protect their people. Honest, fair, a little anxious about the world, and the most dependable friend in the room. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Sade is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Sade is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.
Computed from Sade's birth date. Working below.
Where Sade sits
Six lines
Sade’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Sade Adu
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ibadan on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Ibadan that night
Computed for 7.38°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Prima Hyadum stood nearest the zenith over Ibadan at 9 p.m. that evening, 80.5° above the horizon in Taurus.
Of the 95 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.
From 7.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The Moon was at first quarter, 50% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Ibadan, Nigeria
- Lives in
- London · Colchester
Wikidata records London and Colchester as Sade Adu's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Sade Adu: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Sade's chart is
Chart pattern score
28 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
3-planet stellium in Capricorn
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
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Capricorn Sun
Capricorn SunWorking while you were asleep.
Sade Adu's Sun was in Capricorn for the whole of January 16, 1959, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Capricorn means →Earth Dog
Earth DogThe first call when it's bad.
Sade Adu was born on January 16, 1959, which falls in a Earth Dog year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dog means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Can't sit still. Won't try.
Sade Adu's birth date, January 16, 1959, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Sade’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Sade Adu's date-only chart is Sun sextile Jupiter, with an orb of about 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Saturn, sit together in Capricorn, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Sade Adu combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Pioneer.
Sade’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 14° to 26° Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileJupiter0.6° to 1.5° orb
Sade’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
stableMercurysextileNeptune0.7° to 2.1° orb
Sade’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
stableSaturntrinePluto2.5° to 2.7° orb
Sade’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.0° to 4.3° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.0° orb
stableMercurytrinePluto3.6° to 5.1° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune4.0° to 5.2° orb
stableSuntrineMars4.4° to 5.1° orb
stableMarssquareUranus5.5° to 5.9° orb
stableMarsoppositionJupiter5.8° to 5.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn6.3° to 7.6° orb
possibleSunsquareMoonorb from 0.0° to 10.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth5 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Sade’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAquarius 20°46′ (moves 0.07° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 15°26′ (moves 0.33° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAries 15°09′ (moves 0.70° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Gemini 10°21′ (moves 0.08° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithTaurus 6°45′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Chiron square Mars 0.0°
- Eros trine Uranus 0.0°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Neptune 0.1°
- Ceres square Uranus 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.1°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Pluto 2.9°
Sade’s dominant planets
1. ♄ Saturn9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 3 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Sade’s chart
Stellium in Capricorn · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury biquintile Uranus 0.9°
- Saturn sesquiquadrate Uranus 1.1°
More people like Sade
Other composers
- Richie Sambora1959
- Randy Jackson1956
- Enya1961
- Annie Lennox1954
- Michael Abels1962
- Paul Moravec1957
Born in Nigeria
- Hugo WeavingEnglish actor (born 1960)
- Pete EdochieNigerian actor
- Jay-Jay OkochaNigerian footballer
- Genevieve NnajiNigerian actress, producer, and director
- Timini EgbusonNigerian actor
- Mike Adenuga
More charts like Sade’s
Fellow Capricorn suns
- Yukio MishimaJapanese author
- Jason BatemanAmerican actor
- Kevin CostnerAmerican actor
Born in Dog years
- Jamie DornanNorthern Irish actor
- Taraji P. HensonAmerican actress
- Ansel ElgortAmerican actor, singer, DJ and record producer
Also born on January 16
- Jennie1996
- Aaliyah1979
- Kate Moss1974
- FKA twigs1988
- René Angélil1942
- Meri Brown1971
Fellow Yang Earth day masters
- Måns ZelmerlöwSwedish singer and television presenter
- Taylor MomsenAmerican actress, singer and model
- John CornynAmerican politician and attorney (born 1952)
Other Capricorn Dog charts
- David EllisonAmerican film producer
- Shou Zi ChewSingaporean businessman, CEO of TikTok
- Abdoul Razak IssoufouNigerien taekwondo athlete
- Bianca CensoriAustralian architect and model
Other Steadfast Pioneers
- Liz LochheadScottish poet and essayist (born 1947)
- Simon ArmitageBritish poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963)
- Ian McDonaldBritish science fiction novelist (1960–)
- George Alec Effingernovelist, short story writer
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Alessandro SchöpfAustrian footballer (born 1994)
- Marko ArnautovićAustrian association football player (born 1989)
- Manuel AkanjiSwiss association football player
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Sade’s cards
Computed from January 16, 1959. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Steadfast PioneerWestern zodiac
CapricornChinese zodiac
Dog 戌Life Path
5 · Explorer♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Earth.
Year
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
roots & early life
Month
乙
yin Wood
丑
Ox
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
戊
yang Earth
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Sade’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q194187 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Thilo Parg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Sade Adu at Wikipedia, sade.com, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sade Adu.
Quick answers about Sade Adu’s chart
- How old is Sade Adu?
- Sade Adu is 67 years old, born January 16, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria.
- What zodiac sign is Sade Adu?
- Sade Adu is a Capricorn: born January 16, 1959, which puts the Sun in Capricorn for the whole of that day.
- What is Sade Adu's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dog, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 16, 1959 birth.
- What is Sade Adu's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Sade Adu's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aquarius at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Sade Adu's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Taurus at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Sade Adu's dominant planet?
- Saturn, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Capricorn; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
