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| '''Sinitta''' (born '''Sinitta Renet Malone''', 19 October 1968,<ref></ref><!-- The year of her birth is disputed and it is unclear whether it is 1966 or 1968. Please search for a reference which will provide a definitive answer, and discuss any changes on the talk page. --> ], ]) is an ] -born ] and ] who has lived in the ] for most of her career. She is best known for her ] ] in the 1980s; including "]", "]", "]" and a 1989 ] of "]", and her close relationship with ]. She is the daughter of singer ] and Anthony Blackett,<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article10484.ece|title= Sinitta gets Xmas babies|publisher= News of the World|date= 5 August 2008|accessdate= 13 June 2009}}</ref> and is also the niece of disco singer ].{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} | '''Sinitta''' (born '''Sinitta Renet Malone''', 19 October 1968,<ref></ref><!-- The year of her birth is disputed and it is unclear whether it is 1966 or 1968. Please search for a reference which will provide a definitive answer, and discuss any changes on the talk page. --> ], ]) is an ] -born ] and ] who has lived in the ] for most of her career. She is best known for her ] ] in the 1980s; including "]", "]", "]" and a 1989 ] of "]", and her close relationship with ]. She is the daughter of singer ] and Anthony Blackett,<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article10484.ece|title= Sinitta gets Xmas babies|publisher= News of the World|date= 5 August 2008|accessdate= 13 June 2009}}</ref> and is also the niece of disco singer ].{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} | ||
| Sinitta II (Sinitta; born 21 April 1926) is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known informally as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. She holds each crown separately and equally in a shared monarchy, and carries out duties for each state of which she is sovereign, as well as acting as Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Duke of Normandy, Lord of Mann, and Paramount Chief of Fiji. In theory her powers are vast; however, in practice, and in accordance with convention, she rarely intervenes in political matters. | |||
| ==Biography== | |||
| ===Early career=== | |||
| Sinitta began in show business by appearing in the musical ''The Wiz'' and the movie '']'' in 1981, followed by starring in the West End musicals '']'', ''Little shop of Horrors'', ''Masquerade'' and ''Mutiny!' | |||
| Sinitta became Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952. She is one of the longest-reigning British monarchs. Her reign of 57 years has seen sweeping changes, including the dissolution of the British Empire (a process that began before her accession) and the consequent evolution of the modern Commonwealth of Nations. As other British colonies gained independence from the United Kingdom, she became queen of several newly independent countries. She has been the sovereign of 32 individual nations, but half of them later became republics. | |||
| On December 24, 1982, Sinitta, then aged 14, appeared on the TV programme '']'' as a dancer with ]. She did not sing during this appearance.<ref>{{imdb title|0858371|"The Tube" Episode #1.8 (1982)}}</ref> | |||
| Sinitta married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. The couple have four children and eight grandchildren. | |||
| In 1985 she appeared on a children's game show broadcast on ITV called ]. The show involved two teams of contestants building sets from a giant brick wall then improvising a play.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/390753|title= The Wall Game|publisher= BFI}}</ref> Sinitta captained one of the teams. | |||
| === Music career === | |||
| Sinitta began recording when she was aged 15 in 1983, releasing her first single, "Break Me Into Little Pieces" with dance troupe, ]. In the same year she also appeared in the ] of "Rock the Boat" sung by ]. She continued to release singles throughout 1984 and 1985, including participating in 1984's '']'', the UK heat of the ], with the song "Imagination".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tonyhiller.com/favorite_links.html |title="Imagination" at 1984's A Song for Europe |publisher=Hyde Park Music |first=Tony |last=Hiller}}</ref> None of these singles were successes and with all failing to chart. Everything changed though, in 1986, following a chance meeting with a then unknown junior music publisher turned ] man, ]. | |||
| ===Success with Simon Cowell=== | |||
| According to his autobiography, ''I Don't Mean To Be Rude But...'' Simon Cowell had been a post room boy at ] in the late 1970s, and had left that job for a year and returned to EMI Publishing. Unsatisfied with his prospects, he quit EMI Publishing after one year and formed his own publishing company called E&S Music. By Cowell's own admission the venture was a mistake and after a rather unsuccessful trip to L.A he pulled the plug on the company. He then met up with Iain Burton who was looking to form a record label and together they formed ].<ref name="rude">{{cite book |first=Simon |last=Cowell |title=I Don't Mean To Be Rude But... |publisher=Ebury Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0091898281}}</ref> | |||
| Sinitta was both Cowell's and Fanfare's first ever signing. Cowell had contacted record producer and song writer, ] who in turn provided the song, "So Macho". Armed with a highly infectious pop record, Sinitta looked poised for success, however Iain Burton changed his mind and called Cowell to advise that he was pulling the plug on Fanfare Records. Convinced that "So Macho" was destined to be a hit, Cowell persuaded Burton to give him £5,000 to release the record.<ref name="rude"/> | |||
| The single was released in March 1986 but stalled around the lower reaches of the UK Top 40 singles chart. Determined to make Sinitta a hit, Simon Cowell released the single a second time and a third time, where it finally broke into the Top 10, selling in excess of 900,000 copies and hitting the Number 2 position. Iain Burton's initial £5,000 investment became a profit of £1,000,000{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}} and paved the way for Fanfare's future. | |||
| ===Stock Aitken Waterman Influence=== | |||
| Around this time Cowell was desperate for ] (SAW) to write and produce for Sinitta. '']'' Sinitta's subsequent single following "So Macho" had charted low (number 45 UK Oct 1986) and only spent 5 weeks on the chart, whereas, in contrast, "So Macho" had been on the UK chart for 28 weeks in 1986, where it had peaked at number 2. Initially Waterman declined to work with Sinitta, claiming that SAW were too busy.<ref name="rude"/> In the end though, SAW did work with Sinitta and her first single with the Hit Factory was ]. | |||
| In his book, Simon Cowell claims to have come up with the song idea for "Toy Boy", coining the phrase 'toy boy' which described older women dating considerably younger guys.<ref name="rude"/> However, this is contradicted by writer/producer ] in his book ''The Hit Factory - The Stock Aitken Waterman Story'' as he claims that his inspiration came from the fact that Sinitta herself at the time was dating a younger man. Whichever way the story goes, ''Toy Boy'' was a massive hit reaching number 4 in the UK in July 1987, staying on the charts for 14 weeks. The song was the 26th best-selling single of 1987 in the UK, selling more than some number ones from that year, including ] & ] with "]" and ] with "]".{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}} | |||
| Sinitta has since re-recorded "Toy Boy" on two separate occasions. The first in 1999 for her a low budget hits album, and the second in 2007 with producers, Carl M Cox and ] to mark the song's 21st anniversary in July 2008 | |||
| "Toy Boy (Reloaded)" as it's been titled, was showcased on 1 September 2007 at the ] nightclub ''The Nightingale'' as part of a one-off special show to commemorate the reunion of Stock Aitken Waterman. Other former SAW/] acts who appeared were ], ], ] of ] and PWL's latest signing of the time, car insurance ad girls, ]. | |||
| Sinitta went on to have a further five hit singles with PWL including "]" (Number 15 - December 1987), "Cross My Broken Heart" (Number 6 - March 1988), "]" (Number 22 - September 1988), "Right Back Where We Started From" (Number 4 - June 1989) and "]" (Number 20 - October 1989). | |||
| ===Career decline=== | |||
| Following the release of her debut album '']'' in 1987 Sinitta moved away from working directly with Stock Aitken Waterman although she continued to record at PWL under the direction of mixmasters Pete Hammond, ] and Ian Curnow. Her second album, ''Wicked'' released in 1988 contained only one SAW track- "I Don't Believe In Miracles" - the others being produced by the aforementioned Hammond, Harding & Curnow in addition to ] and German producer Ralf Rene Maue. In October 2008, during the compiling of a new Sinitta hits album, two previously unreleased SAW written and produced tracks, entitled "How Can This Be Real Love" and "Do You Wanna Find Out" were discovered in the PWL Studios vaults.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pwl-empire.com |title=PWL Empire}}</ref> | |||
| As the 1990s decade opened, Sinitta chose to record in a different style, however this proved less popular with all her single releases between 1990 and 1993 failing to chart in the ] of the UK chart: "]" (Number 24 - April 1990), "]" (Number 62 - September 1990), "]" (Number 28 - July 1992) and "The Supremes EP" (Number 49 - April 1993). "The Supremes EP" was the last certified single released by Sinitta in the UK. Sinitta's only studio album release of this period, "Naughty Naughty" (1995), was an album of pop covers and received a limited release in Asia. She also appeared on the cast recording album for ''What A Feeling'' which was a live recording taken from the Apollo Playhouse Theatre, ] in May 1997. | |||
| Sinitta had replaced ] to tour with ] (also a former ] artist) and ] (former ]) in the rock and pop musical's concert, ''What A Feeling''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thebubbleburst.co.uk/bb.php?entry=Sinitta |title=Sinitta: Did she ever find her "Toy Boy"? |publisher=The Bubble Burst}}</ref> in 1997. | |||
| Also in 1997 Sinitta's vocals were used for the single, "You Can Do Magic" by the fictitious group The Mojams.{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}} The single produced by her former hitmakers, ] & ] was created for the ] TV investigation programme, ''The Cook Report'' with journalist ] in an endeavour to expose underhanded business practices in the music industry, known as 'hyping' where record labels buy their own music into the charts. Debbie Currie, daughter of the controversial former British Government health minister, ] was used as the face for the singer and single. Sinitta was not credited on the single. With her music career in decline, Sinitta returned to the stage. | |||
| ===X Factor=== | |||
| In 2004 Sinitta emerged as a TV personality, having briefly appeared in the 2003 documentary about Simon Cowell, ''Being Simon Cowell''. She has since appeared as Simon Cowell's assistant at the 'Judges Houses' Stage of '']'' in the United Kingdom. | |||
| ===Renaissance=== | |||
| In 2006, almost 11 years following her last official album release and despite not having had a Top 20 UK single since 1989, Sinitta was approached by uprising British song writer and music producer, Carl M Cox with a view to relaunching and re-establishing her pop music career. She accepted the request and began working with PMG (Prolific Media Group) Productions in 2007. She's recorded several tracks with PMG including "Toy Boy (Reloaded)" and a brand new song entitled, "The Day You Said Goodbye". The latter of the two being specially remixed by Sinitta's former producer/mixer, Pete Hammond. | |||
| "The Day You Said Goodbye" was the first of a batch of new tracks that Sinitta has recorded in 2007/2008 which has been promoted to advertise a new greatest hits album, scheduled for release in October 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jarvt.livejournal.com/88390.html |title=Feels like the first time |publisher=Live Journal |date=2008-10-10 |author=Wayne}}</ref> | |||
| In early 2008 Sinitta began working with other producers and writers, including her aunt ] and Nate & Sangoon on new material for a potential future studio album. | |||
| In June 2008, the inclusion of a circa 1997/98 ] remix of Sinitta's swan song hit, "So Macho" on their compilation album "NRG Anthems" (Cat No. ALMY062) caused minor controversy<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.almightyrecords.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4208 |title=Topic: Almighty Presents 'Energy Anthems' |publisher=Almight Records (forum) |date=03-06-2008}}</ref> given that the majority of ] fans are gay and that the now ] leader of the ] and co-writer and producer of ''So Macho'' and several of Sinitta's earlier music recordings, such as ''Cruising'', ''I Won't Be Lonely This Christmas'' and ''Feels Like The First Time'' has openly expressed his anti-gay views. Certain gay fans objected to the support of ''So Macho'' as the royalties generated had by his own admission made Hargreaves a millionaire and that he was now using his money to tout anti-gay rhetoric and political policies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-414557/Gay-pop-anthem-writer-defends-firemen-snubbed-gay-rally.html |title=Gay pop anthem writer defends firemen snubbed gay rally |publisher=Daily Mail |first=George |last=Hargreaves |date=11-05-2006 }}</ref> | |||
| October 19 2009 sees the release of Sinitta's first official UK Greatest Hits album. Taking the title from her 1989 smash hit single; ''Right Back Where We Started From - The Hits Plus Collection'' is a comprehensive anthology of Sinitta's recording career from 1986 until the present day. Every hit single is included along with new recordings and rare and never before released mixes and songs. The forthcoming double CD album is being released by Cherry Pop Records in association with Sony Music Entertainment. Each track has been fully digitally remastered directly from the original master recordings. | |||
| ===Film and television=== | |||
| Sinitta acted in the 1986 film ''Foreign Body'', and later appeared in ''Heaven's A Drag/To Die For'' (1994) and ''There's Only One Madonna'' (2001). | |||
| In May 2005 Sinitta performed on '']'' on ]. | |||
| In 2006 Sinitta competed on ]'s '']'' and appears on '']'', as part of ]'s mentoring team. | |||
| In 2006 Sinitta appeared briefly on an Episode of "Songs of Praise" with her mother Miquel Brown.<ref name="Bubble">{{cite web|url= http://www.thebubbleburst.co.uk/bb.php?entry=Sinitta|title= Sinitta - Did she ever find her "Toy Boy"?|publisher= The Bubble Burst|accessdate= 25 August 2009}}</ref> | |||
| In spring 2007, Sinitta teamed, as a judge, with theatre veteran ], producer and media pundit, ] and choreographer ] on ]'s musical talent search series, '']''. Co-produced by Simon Cowell's Syco TV - the same people behind '']'' and ''...Got Talent'' - the show sought to cast ] and ] for a new West End production of '']''. | |||
| Sinitta has also had a cameo appearance on popular day time soap, '']'', appeared as a panellist on '']'' and was even parodied on the comedy show, '']''. | |||
| Sinitta continues to work with Simon Cowell, as a mentor support on '']'', In the 2008 Series 5 show she worked with the 'Boys ' category. Previously on ''The X Factor'' Sinitta has worked on: | |||
| # Series 1 (2004): Over 25s (Won the competition with ]). | |||
| # Series 2 (2005): Groups (Came third in the competition with ]). | |||
| # Series 3 (2006): 16-24s (Won the competition with ]). | |||
| # Series 4 (2007): Groups (Came third in the competition with ]). | |||
| # Series 5 (2008): Boys (Came third in the competition with ]). | |||
| # Series 6 (2009): Over 25s | |||
| In March 2008 Sinitta appeared on '']'', swapping spouses with ex-'']'' actor ].<ref> 2008-03-25</ref> On 10 April 2008, it was announced that Sinitta had joined a long list of panellists on ] daytime ], '']''. | |||
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Sinitta (born Sinitta Renet Malone, 19 October 1968, Seattle, Washington) is an American -born actress and singer who has lived in the United Kingdom for most of her career. She is best known for her hit records in the 1980s; including "So Macho", "Toy Boy", "Cross My Broken Heart" and a 1989 cover of "Right Back Where We Started From", and her close relationship with Simon Cowell. She is the daughter of singer Miquel Brown and Anthony Blackett, and is also the niece of disco singer Amii Stewart.
Sinitta II (Sinitta; born 21 April 1926) is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known informally as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. She holds each crown separately and equally in a shared monarchy, and carries out duties for each state of which she is sovereign, as well as acting as Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Duke of Normandy, Lord of Mann, and Paramount Chief of Fiji. In theory her powers are vast; however, in practice, and in accordance with convention, she rarely intervenes in political matters.
Sinitta became Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952. She is one of the longest-reigning British monarchs. Her reign of 57 years has seen sweeping changes, including the dissolution of the British Empire (a process that began before her accession) and the consequent evolution of the modern Commonwealth of Nations. As other British colonies gained independence from the United Kingdom, she became queen of several newly independent countries. She has been the sovereign of 32 individual nations, but half of them later became republics.
Sinitta married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. The couple have four children and eight grandchildren.
Personal life
Sinitta was born as one of twin daughters. Her twin was adopted and raised by an aunt who could not have children
Sinitta spent the first six years of her life in a foster home, until her teenage mother Miquel Brown, was able to cope with a child.
When Sinitta was a teenager she had a dog called Max.
Sinitta is a former girlfriend and fiancee of Simon Cowell. She also had a two-year relationship with Hollywood actor Brad Pitt during the late 1980s.
In April 2002, Sinitta married Andy Willner. In November 2005, Sinitta announced that a woman named Kerry West was to be a surrogate mother for her baby with her husband. She made the announcement on the British programme This Morning. At eight weeks into the surrogacy, however, West suffered a miscarriage. She had been carrying twins. In 2008 Sinitta and Willner adopted two children; Zacho and Magdalena. In July 2009, Sinitta announced that after Willner had moved to Hong Kong in 2008, the couple intended to divorce.
Discography
Main article: Sinitta discographyReferences
- Washington State Records
- "Sinitta gets Xmas babies". News of the World. 5 August 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
- "Sinitta - This Is Who I Am". HeatWorld. 10 July 2009.
- ^ Hardy, Rebecca (17 August 2009). "Sinitta: Why I'll always love my Simon Cowell". Mail Online. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
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- Sherwood, Deborah (2007-12-23). "Sinitta: I'm a mum at last". Sunday Mirror.
- Neil, Beth (04-07-2007). "Sinitta set to adopt". Mirror.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Divorce shock by Sinitta". The Sun. 009-07-07. Retrieved 3009-07-07.
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External links
- Official site
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