Anastacia Biography - Profile
Birth name: Anastacia Newkirk
Birthday: November 17, 1973
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nationality: USA
Raised in: Chicago - New York (14>)
Natural hair color: Blond
Eye color: Green - Brown
Height: 162 cm (5'3)
Nicknames: Stage, Stacy,
Education / Profession: Children's School, Singer
Labels: Sony (Epic)
Music Styles: Dance, Pop, Rock
First released record: 2000 - Outta Love
Claim to fame: 2000 - Outta Love
Awards:
> 2001 World Music Awards
> 2001 MTV Music Award
> Echo Deutscher Musikpreis: 2001, 2005
> MTV Europe Music Awards: 2001
How it all began:
Anastacia Lyn Newkirk was born
on September 17, 1973 to actress mother Diane Hurley and singer
father Robert Newkirk. After her parents separated when she was
14, she moved with her mother to New York City where she started
attending Professional Children’s School – being, according to
her own words, the only child there without a career in the
entertainment industry already.
Disregarding her diagnosis with Crohn’s disease of which she
learnt at 13, she pursued dancing opportunities vigorously,
becoming a regular at a Manhattan dance club, 1018. The club
manager noticed her dancing and finding out she can sing too,
took her under his wing. She appeared in two Salt N’ Pepa
videos, Club MTV show and most importantly in 1999 MTV’s talent
contest The Cut where she ended up second in the finals.
Though not a winner, her
performance in the show earned her interest of record labels and
she signed a contract with Daylight Records label under Sony
BMG’s Epic Records. The release of her debut album Not That Kind
in 2000 brought her international fame, though true success in
her home U.S. came only after the release of her second album,
Freak of Nature in 2001.
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2000 - Debut album "Not That Kind"
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