Sinitta
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Sinitta in 2012
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| Born |
Sinitta Renet Malone 19 October 1963 Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Residence | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | American–British |
| Occupation | Singer, television personality, dancer, actress |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Television |
The X Factor UK (mentor) Grease Is The Word |
| Spouse(s) | Andy Willner (m. 2002–10) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Miquel Brown |
| Relatives | Amii Stewart (aunt) |
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| Genres | |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Labels | |
| Website | sinitta |
Sinitta (born Sinitta Renay Malone) is an American-born singer who has lived in the United Kingdom for most of her life. She is best known as a TV personality and for her hit records in the 1980s including "So Macho", "Toy Boy", "Cross My Broken Heart" and "Right Back Where We Started From". Altogether Sinitta has 14 international hit singles and three albums. She also acted in a number of West End shows and was a mentor on The X Factor and appeared as a contestant on the eleventh series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and the first series of Channel 4's The Jump, which sees contestants train and then compete in winter Olympic sports.
Sinitta trained at the Legat Russian Ballet School, and at LAMDA.
Sinitta began in show business by appearing in the musical The Wiz and the movie Shock Treatment released on Halloween 1981, and her West End credits include Cats, Little Shop of Horrors, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Hair, Masquerade and Mutiny! On 24 December 1982, Sinitta appeared on the TV programme The Tube as a dancer with Imagination.
In 1985, she captained one of the teams on an ITV children's game show called The Wall Game, a programme teaching children how to act.
In 1983 Sinitta released the singles ‘Break Me Into Little Pieces’ and ‘Don’t Beat Around the Bush’ with dance troupe Hot Gossip. That same year, she also appeared in the video of "Rock the Boat" sung by Forrest. She continued to release singles throughout 1984 and 1985, and also participated in 1984's A Song for Europe, the UK competition to find an entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, with "Imagination".
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