Profile
Sinitta
British-based Singer and Musician
Female
Born
Oct 19, 1968
Age
44
Hometown
Seattle
Genres
Contemporary R&B ...
Record Label
Syco Music
Sinitta Renet Malone, known professionally as Sinitta, is a British-American singer who has lived in the United Kingdom for most of her life. She is best known for her hit records in the 1980s including "So Macho", "Toy Boy", "Cross My Broken Heart" and… Read More
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Andy WillnerMarried 2002
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
Indeed, 1963 seems most likely given that in 1982 she was dating 21-year-old Nick Cowell before dumping him for his 23-year-old brother Simon.
Sinitta is the daughter of Canadian actress and singer Miquel Brown, and Anthony Blackett. Although her official website cites her birth year as 1968, some press sources have said that she was born earlier, perhaps 1966 or even as early as 1963.
TEENAGE
1981
17 Years Old
Sinitta began in show business by appearing in the musical The Wiz and the movie Shock Treatment released on Hallowe'en 1981, followed by starring in the West End musicals Cats, Little Shop of Horrors, Masquerade and Mutiny!
1982
18 Years Old
On 24 December 1982, Sinitta appeared on the TV programme The Tube as a dancer with Imagination.
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1983
19 Years Old
Sinitta began recording in 1983, releasing her first single, "Break Me Into Little Pieces" with dance troupe, Hot Gossip.
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TWENTIES
She continued to release singles throughout 1984 and 1985, and also participated in 1984's A Song for Europe, the UK heat of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Imagination".
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1986
22 Years Old
Around this time, Cowell was desperate for Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) to write and produce for Sinitta. "Feels Like The First Time", Sinitta's subsequent single following "So Macho", had charted low (number 45 UK Oct 1986) and only spent five weeks on the chart, whereas, in contrast, "So Macho" had been on the UK chart for 30 weeks in 1986, where it had peaked at Number 2.
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1987
23 Years Old
Following the release of her debut album Sinitta! 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, Phil Harding and Ian Curnow.
1989
25 Years Old
Her second album Wicked, released in 1989, contained only one SAW track - "I Don't Believe In Miracles" - the others being produced by the aforementioned Hammond, Harding & Curnow in addition to Nigel Wright and German producer Ralf Rene Maue.
THIRTIES
She appeared on the cast recording album for What a Feeling, which was a live recording taken from the Apollo Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh in May 1997.
FORTIES
In 2006, Sinitta competed on Sky1's Cirque de Celebrité and appears on The X Factor, as part of Simon Cowell's mentoring team.
2007
43 Years Old
In spring 2007, she teamed, as a judge, with David Ian, David Gest and choreographer Brian Friedman on ITV's musical talent search series, Grease Is The Word.
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In March 2008, she appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap, swapping spouses with ex-Coronation Street actor Bruce Jones.
Sinitta appeared as a contestant on ITV's 2010 series of Dancing on Ice, partnered by series regular professional Andre Lipanov. She became the first person to be eliminated in week 1 of the competition.
In November 2011, she appeared as a contestant on the eleventh series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
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