Sade: Fashionably Late

Sade: Fashionably Late

Sade soldiers on leisurely to keep love alive: Aidin Vaziri | Sade doesn't like to rush things. She took a leisurely 10 years to release her most recent album, "Soldier of Love." Then she waited another year before taking it on tour. So it was little wonder that she recently missed our appointed interview time. After more than a decade of anticipation, what's another 20 minutes? "I'm always late," the 52-year-old vocalist apologized, calling from a tour stop Chicago, her speaking voice much huskier than the elegant croon that floats over her distinctive jazz-pop recordings. "We were late for a show the other night, and I said, 'I'm sorry we're late. But, really, we're 10 years late.' "
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