Vanessa White
| Vanessa White | |
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White at the Royal Albert Hall in 2014
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Vanessa Karen White |
| Born |
30 October 1989 Yeovil, Somerset, England |
| Origin | London, England |
| Genres | R&B, pop, dance-pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, dancer, actress |
| Instruments | Vocals, keyboard, guitar, piano |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | Polydor, Interscope |
| Associated acts | The Saturdays, Olly Alexander, Vince Kidd |
| Website | The Saturdays |
Vanessa Karen White (born 30 October 1989) is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. She rose to fame in 2008 as a member of British-Irish girl group The Saturdays, signed to Fascination and Polydor Records. The group have achieved substantial success with numerous top-ten hits as well as a number one single. She is the youngest member of the group.
Vanessa White was attracted to performing from a young age and attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School on Saturdays before being offered a full-time place and moving to Stratford, London with her family when she was five. She applied for The Brit School, but was turned down. She appeared in several theatre productions, including the West End production of The Lion King as Young Nala and also played one of the King's daughters in The King And I from 2000–2002. She has a brother, Ryan and sister, Celine.
Members refer to her as "our Christina Aguilera" due to her extensive vocal range. Initially, White and band member Una Healy had the strongest relationship, as they discovered that they were very alike. However, she has grown to love the other members all the same. She has also received comparison to American singers Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and Mariah Carey.
During June and July 2009, White toured the UK with The Saturdays (The Work Tour). Before she was about to go on stage for the second show of the tour in Dundee, White tripped over a cable backstage and tore a ligament in her ankle and missed a large proportion of the show that night. Once paramedics had strapped up her foot, she was permitted to join the band on stage in a wheelchair. White spent the next few shows appearing on stage sitting on a bar stool and gradually began to stand for more and more songs as the tour progressed, before being able to perform her choreography again.
White is the only member of The Saturdays to have a solo in every song in their debut album, Chasing Lights.
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