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Sade: Educating Sade

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 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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