British singer Adele has requested a fee of £ 100,000 per minute for a 25-minute recital at the wedding of the daughter of a multimillionaire in South Africa.
The artist has been contacted by the South African Vivian Imerman – whose fortune is estimated at £400 million – who asked her to play 25 minutes at the wedding of his daughter Megan at the luxurious Grosvenor House in London. South African the tycoon eventually gave up this idea after learning that the mini-concert of Adele would have cost him £2.5 million, informs contactmusic.com.
“Vivian will organize a spectacular wedding. He paid Amy Winehouse tens of thousands to sing at the wedding of his other daughter Bianca, three years ago. He Hoped to do the same with Adele,” said a source for the Daily Star newspaper.
“He was very surprised when he learned that it will cost him £2.5 million. Despite his impressive bank account, even for him this seemed too expensive and started to look for other artists,” added the same source.
Even though she lost the chance to make a lot of money if she played at the wedding, the British press said Adele – who has a five-month-old son, Angelo, with her fiance Simon Konecki – does not seem at all disappointed, especially since she is very close to signing a contract for £10 million to appear in an advertising campaign for a cosmetics company.
It is said that the British artist these days is considering offers received from Estée Lauder, L’Oreal and Dior to become the official image of them, but will accept such a project only if the idea of the advertising campaign will suit her tastes and the advertising campaign will include a song from her repertoire.
The British singer said she was worried in the past about the fact that such advertising contracts can “stain” her picture.
“It’s a shame when you sell yourself. It depends of course what kind of artist you want to be, but I do not want my name to be associated with a brand. I do not want to feel tainted or haunted by that image,” said Adele in an interview in 2011.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins known as Adele, is a singer and songwriter. She debuted at the age of 19 and has enjoyed big commercial success and is appreciated by music critics. Adele was the first artist who was awarded the Critics’ Choice at the BRIT Awards, and in 2012 won six Grammy Awards. So far, she launched two albums, “19” and “21”.
Adele, whose silhouette is far from being a standard in showbiz, has an exceptional voice. The artist was not afraid to speak about her love suffering in songs such as “Someone Like You” and “Rolling in the Deep”.
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