What Is Sweetback and Is Sade Adu Part of the Group
Sweetback brought three Sade band members together with changing guest singers while Sade Adu remained outside the project.
By Leah Dawson
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Is Japanese Breakfast a Band or Michelle Zauner’s Solo Project
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