Louise (singer)
| Louise Redknapp | |
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Louise Redknapp attending the BAFTA Awards in 2009.
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| Born |
Louise Elizabeth Nurding 4 November 1974 Lewisham, London, England |
| Other names | Louise |
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| Home town |
Eltham, London, England Oxted, Surrey, England |
| Spouse(s) | Jamie Redknapp (m. 1998) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Harry Redknapp (father-in-law) |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | R&B, pop, dance-pop, Britpop |
| Instruments | Vocals, The Vine Flute |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | EMI, Positive Records |
| Associated acts | Eternal |
| Website | www |
Louise Elizabeth Redknapp (née Nurding, born 4 November 1974), professionally known as Louise, is an English singer and media personality. She was a member of Eternal, an R&B girl group which debuted in 1993 with their quadruple-platinum studio album Always & Forever. In 1995, Redknapp departed the group for a solo career, in which she released the platinum-selling albums Naked (1996), Woman In Me (1997) and Elbow Beach (2000). Redknapp has sold over 5 million records in the UK alone, and 15 Million records worldwide.
Aside from music, Redknapp is also a television presenter, and she has presented several television shows and was a judge on the UK version of So You Think You Can Dance. She is married to the English footballer and television pundit Jamie Redknapp.
In 2016, she reached the final in the fourteenth series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.
Redknapp was born in Lewisham, London. Her father was a builder and her mother worked at Gatwick Airport. Louise and her two younger brothers grew up in Eltham, London, and Oxted, Surrey.
At the age of 11, she joined the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, where she met her future Eternal colleague Kéllé Bryan on her first day.
While out clubbing at the age of 16, Louise met the music producer Denis Ingoldsby, who was forming an all-girl group. She subsequently introduced Denis to Kéllé Bryan. Kéllé and Louise, together with sisters Easther and Vernie Bennett, formed the band Eternal in 1992. The group performed R&B, and recorded a number of hits during the 1990s. Eternal's debut single "Stay" entered the UK charts at number four, and their debut album, Always and Forever became the first album by a female group to achieve over a million sales in the UK. Louise left the group in 1995 to pursue a solo career, amid unsubstantiated rumours that she was forced to leave because a radio station in the United States dedicated to black music would not promote the racially mixed group.
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