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Trivia
Birth name:
Anastacia Lyn Newkirk
Date of birth:
17 September 1973
Place of birh:
New York City, New York, USA
Nickname:
Stacey
Height:
5' 3" (1.60 m)
Former dancer on "Club MTV"
Graduated from the Professional Children's
School of Manhattan.
Her father was a singer and her mother an actress in Broadway musical theatre.
Her family relocated to New York City when she was a teenager and she enrolled at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.
Suffers from Crohn disease, a chronic
illness of the intestines, since she was 13 years old. A segment of her
small intestine had to be removed due to the damage made to it by the
disease. She still bears the scar of the operation on her lower abdomen.
She first gained prominence stealing the show from D.L. Hughley while he was hosting BET's Comic View, singing Oleta Adams' Get Here in 1992.
During the early 1990s, she appeared regularly on Club MTV and in a couple of videos for rappers
Salt-N-Pepa.
In 1999, she attracted the interest of record labels after making the finals of MTV talent show The Cut.
Anastacia signed a contract with Daylight Records, a custom label of Sony Music's Epic Records in March 1999. The Cut was hosted by Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of R&B group TLC. A then-unknown Anastacia finished in third place, but impressed Lopes and the show's three judges so much that she scored herself a record deal anyway.
Announced on 21 January 2003 that she was
diagnosed with breast cancer, after her doctor told her to go through a
mamography. Luckily for her, the cancer was diagnosed at an early stage
and is most probable that she will recover.
Was a classmate of the late River Phoenix.
Her debut album Not That Kind was released in 2000 and was a huge success reaching the top ten in eight countries in Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
Had a seven-year relationship with Shawn
Woods which ended in 2001.
Longtime companion is German MTV presenter
Patrice Bouédibéla.
Anastacia was selected to sing the theme from 2002 FIFA World Cup: Boom. From this album, she released singles as Paid My Dues, One Day In Your Life and Why'd You Lie To Me.
Her mother was a Broadway actress and father
was a singer on the East Coast.
The first single, released in March 2004, was Left Outside Alone, which saw a change in direction for Anastacia, embracing a rock element (she describes her sound as "sprock" - a combination of soul, pop and rock). On the album, Anastacia also collaborated with P.O.D. lead singer Sonny Sandoval on the socially-conscious track I Do.
1990 - Sung back-up
vocals on pop star Tiffany's "New Inside" album.
Anastacia also joined
Shakira, Cher and Mary J. Blige for VH1's Divas Live in 2002. Anastacia also contributed a song Love Is A Crime to the Chicago soundtrack.
In January 2003, Anastacia discovered she had breast cancer while preparing for breast reduction surgery due to orthopedic reasons. She immediately successfully completed a course of treatment. Anastacia subsequently established a fund through the "Breast Cancer Research Fund" to promote awareness of breast cancer amongst younger women.
In late 2005, she released her first greatest hits collection, entitled Pieces of a Dream: Best Of, named after a track of the same name, which she had written with former Evanescence star, Ben Moody. The album features all of the singles from her albums, including Everything Burns, which she recorded with Moody for the Fantastic Four film soundtrack, and two other new tracks, In Your Eyes, and a duet with Eros Ramazzotti, I Belong to You (Il Ritmo Della
Passione).
She is scheduled to release her first live DVD, Anastacia: Live At Last on 27th March 2006.
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