Helen Folasade Adu. The queen.
Sade is not only famously reclusive, but she's also, yes, a soldier of love. In the late 90s, the Nigerian-British songstress fell in love with a Jamaica-born Rasta and musician with whom she later had a daughter.
She moved to Montego Bay and lived in what the press there teasingly called a commune, but was according to her, just a very open environment for her man and his entourage of musician friends and local Dreads.
Regardless of where she lays her bags and effects, her sound is always spices and flavorful. And when I hear the pounding, aggressive, "Soldier of Love," it sounds like the music of right now.
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