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In 2022, Brad Pitt confirmed that this singer’s band was first to record in the redesigned Miraval Studios. After beginning as a singer for the band Pride, this woman formed a new band with Stuart Matthewman. This singer appeared as a mermaid bride in the music video of a song that begins “I gave you all the love I got / I gave you more than I could give”. This first Nigerian-born Grammy winner sang (*) “No Ordinary Love” and describes a person (10[1])“laughing with another girl and playing with another heart” in the spoken-word intro of a single off Diamond Life. In that song, this artist sings about a title boy who “moves in space with minimum waste and maximum joy” and goes “Coast to Coast, LA to Chicago”. For 10 points, what mononymous (-5[1])English R&B artist sang (10[1])“Smooth (-5[1])Operator”? (10[1])■END■ (10[5])

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