Natasha Bedingfield

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Natasha Bedingfield (2012)
Natasha Bedingfield at a concert in Toronto in October 2007
Natasha Bedingfield at a benefit event in San Diego in September 2008

Natasha Anne Bedingfield (born November 26, 1981 in Haywards Heath ) is a British singer and songwriter .

Life

Natasha Bedingfield is from Lewisham , London. Her parents immigrated to England from New Zealand . She has three siblings: sister Nikola and brothers Daniel and Joshua. As a teenager she founded the DNA Algorithm group with Daniel and Nikola . She experimented with many different types of music, including R&B and garage rock , and also played at church services. Natasha Bedingfield is a member of Hillsong Church in London, for which she wrote several songs. After graduating from school, she took up a degree in psychology , which she dropped out after two years to concentrate on her career as a singer.

Bedingfield has been married to US filmmaker Matt Robinson since March 21, 2009. She became the mother of a son on New Year's Eve 2017.

Career

In May 2004 Bedingfield's first single was released , which immediately reached number three in the British charts . With the follow- up single These Words she landed at number one in the British singles charts in August 2004 and held this position for two weeks. These Words reached number two in the German single charts for a week.

In 2005, she embodied the daughter of an ambassador as a 3D character in the video game With Love from Moscow .

In collaboration with producers Andy Frampton , Steve Kipner and Mark Stent , the album Unwritten was created , on which the rapper Bizarre from Eminem's band D12 can also be heard. In the first week after its release, the album reached number one on the UK album charts. In the German album charts it reached the top 20.

In May 2007 Bedingfield's second album Natasha Bedingfield was released , or NB for short. The album was able to place in the British top ten. In Germany it only came in at number 80. Even the preliminary single I Wanna Have Your Babies could not repeat the success of Bedingfield's first singles, it could only place in the German single charts in the top 40. In the UK, the single came to number seven. On July 1, 2007 Bedingfield took part in front of 63,000 spectators at the Concert for Diana in honor of the tenth anniversary of the death of Princess Diana at London's Wembley Stadium .

The second single Soulmate , released in August 2007, also reached number seven in the British singles chart. In Germany, the single rose to number twelve, making it Bedingfield's second most successful single in Germany. The single sold over 120,000 times in Germany alone.

In January 2008, Bedingfield's third album Pocketful of Sunshine was released in the USA. At the end of March 2008 her song Love Like This was released in Germany , a duet with the singer Sean Kingston . The single was able to place in the top 40 of the German single charts.

In 2011 Bedingfield recorded the single Jet Lag along with Simple Plan for their fourth studio album.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2004 Unwritten DE20 (16 weeks)
DE 		AT31 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH23 (23 weeks)
CH 		UK1
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(39 weeks)UK 		US26th
gold
gold

(47 weeks)US
First published: September 6, 2004
Sales: + 1,500,000
2007 NB / Pocketful of Sunshine DE80 (1 week)
DE 		- CH37 (20 weeks)
CH 		UK9
gold
gold

(14 weeks)UK 		US3
gold
gold

(61 weeks)US
First published: April 30, 2007
2010 Strip Me / Strip Me Away DE45 (3 weeks)
DE 		- CH42 (2 weeks)
CH 		- US103 (3 weeks)
US
First published: December 7, 2010
2019 Roll with Me - - - - -
First published: August 30, 2019

Awards

  • BT Digital Music Awards
    • 2007: in the category "Best Pop Artist"
  • Capital FM Awards
    • 2005: in the category "Best Single" (These Words)
    • 2005: in the "Best Newcomer" category
  • Glamor Awards
    • 2005: in the category "UK Solo Artist of the Year"
  • TMF Awards
    • 2005: in the category "Best International New Artist"

Web links

Commons : Natasha Bedingfield  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finally Mum! Natasha Bedingfield became a mom for the first time. vip.de, January 2, 2018, accessed on February 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
personal data
SURNAME Bedingfield, Natasha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bedingfield, Natasha Anne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Haywards Heath