Soldier of Love

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Soldier of Love is the sixth studio album by English band Sade, released on 5 February 2010 by Epic Records. Following the release of Lovers Rock (2000) the band went into a ten-year hiatus, in 2008 the band re-grouped in order to begin work on their sixth album making it the first time each member had been together. The recording of the album primarily took place at the Real World Studios in Box, England with other sessions at El Cortijo in San Pedro de Alcántara, Spain. The album's recording began in 2009 and was completed in the summer of that year.

The first single "Soldier of Love" premiered on US radio on 8 December 2009,^[1][2] and was released digitally on 11 January 2010.^[3] Subsequent singles "Babyfather" and "The Moon and the Sky" were serviced to US urban AC radio on 13 April and 24 August 2010, respectively.^[4][5]

The album debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It also debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 502,000 copies in the United States, making it Sade's first number-one debut on the chart, and topped the charts in several other countries. Upon its release, Soldier of Love received generally positive reviews from most music critics and won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The band promoted the album with their first concert tour in ten years, Sade Live.^[6]