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Natasha Hamilton - Biography
What can you say about Natasha Hamilton? As one third of the UK's most internationally successful girl group of the last ten years this world class singer, wife, mother and businesswoman is now preparing both for solo stardom and the arrival of her third child later in 2010. The future looks brighter than ever for one of the UK’s most talented singers.
Having recently returned from New York and Philadelphia where she completed the bulk of the recordings for her debut solo album with Jim Beanz and Toby Gad - two of the most successful producers in the world and the men behind Nelly Furtado, Fergie and Beyonce - Natasha's solo career is about to take off with the single “Ms Emotional” debuting in the nation's nightclubs at the time of writing...Natasha has also just completed her first lead stage role as Peter Pan in January 2010 alongside Les Dennis and none other than The Fonz himself Henry Winkler...35 sold out shows in 25 days...
Rewind 10 years to 1999 and Natasha had just joined the fledgling future global superstars Atomic Kitten...
2 months after she joined the Kittens’ signed their first deal with EMI/Innocent and she soon rose to fame with the band’s debut hit "Right Now" hitting the top ten in December 1999
It took another 13 months of hard work and globetrotting as well as new member Jenny Frost replacing Kerry Katona before the band released their anthem, the worldwide number 1 smash hit "Whole Again" which topped Now" hitting the top ten in December 1999.
the UK chart for 4 amazing weeks and was a global smash spending 6 weeks at number one in Germany and going to the top spot in 19 countries.the UK chart for 4 amazing weeks and was a global smash spending 6 weeks at number one in Germany and going to the top spot in 19 countries.
They followed this huge success with another number 1 “Eternal Flame” and the number 1 album “Right Now”.
The Kittens' 2nd album “Feels So Good” continued where Right Now left off delivering another worldwide number 1 with “The Tide Is High”. The band topped the singles, albums and dvd charts simultaneously, still the only girl group to ever achieve this feat.
The album went on to sell more than a million and a half copies spawning a further top 3 top 5 singles with “The Last Goodbye” and the dancefloor smash “Be With You”. The Kittens also became the face of MTV Asia for a full 12 months and began collecting the first of many international music awards and nominations. The band also had their own Corvette sportscar and UK touring car racing team. In 2002 Natasha was part of the biggest girl pop group in the world.
They released the first single from their 3rd album, the fantastic “If You Come to Me” in September 2003 which gave them yet another top 3 single and followed this with the triple platinum selling “Ladies Night” album with the title track (on which they duetted with none other than Kool and the Gang themselves) giving the band yet another top 5 single and yet another global smash.
Just ahead of the start of their arena tour in January 2004 the band announced they were taking an extended break and released their greatest hits package to coincide with the tour while the Wembley concert gave the band their first number 1 concert DVD.
Natasha took a year and a half out devoting herself to son Josh and delivering his brother Harry on New Year’s Eve 2005. In 2007 she prepared to return to her musical career and began writing and recording her first solo songs. Bringing to mind an early Tina Turner her enormous and impressive vocals are the bedrock of the enormously danceable songs which are rooted in pop but with a huge amount of soul which has become her trademark. Her live shows with her fabulous 7 piece band are memorable for the energy and sheer talent coming off the stage and she has gigged solidly globally for the last 12 months.
Her triumphs in TV have been many, from wowing audiences with her rendition of the classic hit ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ on ITV1s Movie Music Mania, to being the judges’ winner on the hit BBC1 show ‘Just the Two of Us’ in February and March 2006, she made the show her own and subsequently repeated her performance in early 2007.
In summer ’07 she returned to the arena stages after her singing prowess caught the eye (or should we say ear) of one Mr Lionel Richie, who was so impressed, he invited her to support him on his UK tour.
In November 2007 (one week before her wedding!) Tash added the string of entrepreneur to her bow as she and now husband Riad Erraji opened their first retail operation, the restaurant and bistro ‘Hamiltons’ in Liverpool’s exclusive Met Quarter and follwed a week later with a nightclub ‘H’ in the vibrant Victoria Street and have since added 5 more retail operations in Liverpool's airport and train stations.
January 2008 saw Tash reunited once again with her 2 fellow Atomic Kittens for “The Number One Project,” a charity that raised money for 6 local causes in and around the Liverpool area while celebrating the city's Capital of Culture year. The Kittens recorded and released their version of Cilla Black's huge number one ‘Anyone Who Had a Heart’ while Natasha also recorded a solo version of yet another Cilla classic, ‘You’re My World’ which is the powerful opening track on the Number One Project Album. The project culminated in the band selling out the new Liverpool Echo Arena being the first act to go on sale there.
Meanwhile Natasha's collaboration with Mischa Daniels (the Armada Records single “Round and Round”) broke into the US top 20 dance singles and hit number 1 in Brazil adding yet another fantastic string to her bow and breaking a territory as a solo singer which had always eluded the Kittens..
Natasha has subsequently entered the most exciting recording phase of her solo career to date signing her publishing deal with Crosstown songs and recording her debut solo album with two of the finest producers in the world in Toby Gad and Jim Beanz. Her new material is her best yet and promises big things. Ms Emotional is the lead off single and was debuted recently at her headline show at Gay Pride where it completely blew the crowd away...with her first solo video shoot in the bag and ready for TV and backing from industry giants in every corner her huge talent is poised to achieve the solo recognition it so deserves.
Management : Martin and Kate O'Shea @ Bold Management
44 151 709 1791 kate@bold-management.com
Live Bookings : Gary Howard at Marshall Arts
44 207 483 5740 gary@marshall-arts-talent.co.uk
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