Adele has described herself as being someone who was "obsessed from as early as age 3. She performed mock concerts for her mother and Penny's friends as as growing up, modeling herself after The Spice Girls and Gabrielle. though her favorite artists ranged from Destiny's Child to The Cure, Adele was particularly taken by the music of Etta James. Her music brought Adele to the realization that people "might look back to my music in 50 years' time," just as Adele herself was listening to "music that had been made in the Forties.