R&B singer Sade is releasing a new song after seven years of Hiatus, Paste Magazine has revealed. The track, titled Flower Of The Universe is taken from Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time soundtrack.
A Wrinkle In Time’s director Ava DuVernay expressed all of her excitement at the news of Sade accepting her invite to be a part of the soundtrack for the film. As revealed by Rolling Stone, she “never thought she’d say yes, but asked anyway”.
Sade has been absent from the music scene since 2012 when, with her last tour, she became the highest-earner British act in the US, not even Adele made such an accomplishment.
The soundtrack includes other artists such as Demi Lovato, Sia and Kehlani. The movie, moreover, is based on a fantasy novel written by Madeleine L’Engle, and stars many celebrities of the like of Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine and Zach Galifianakis.
Sade’s latest release was 2010 Soldier Of Love and since her debut in 1984 she sold over 50 million copies, after which she started to take her to release new material. Her fifth album Lovers Rock was in fact released 8 years after the previous and it took Sade 10 years to release her latest, said Rolling Stone.