Su-Elise Michelle Nash (born 22 May 1981) is an English singer who rose to fame in the now-defunct girl group

Mis-Teeq Mis-Teeq were a British girl group, consisting of Alesha Dixon, Su-Elise Nash and Sabrina Washington. They had two top-ten albums and seven consecutive top-ten singles, with chart-topping success on the UK Singles Chart as well as across Euro ...

Career

Nash was born in

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, London, and is of Jamaican and English descent, As a member of

with

Sabrina Washington Sabrina Fredrica Washington (born 27 October 1978) is a British singer who originally rose to fame as the lead singer of garage/ R&B girl group Mis-Teeq. Whilst in Mis-Teeq, the singer notched up seven UK top 10 hits and two top 10, double ...

and

Alesha Dixon Alesha Anjanette Dixon (born 7 October 1978) is an English singer, rapper, dancer, television personality, and author. She gained recognition in the early 2000s as a member of the R&B, garage and hip hop group Mis-Teeq. The group disbanded in ...

. Nash performed in various talents since she was a child, but had commenced a business degree at

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before becoming a member of Mis-Teeq. She has four sisters, Lisa, Chrystina, Helena and Savannah. After the departure of Mis-Teeq, Nash continued with her studies, earning teaching qualifications, and has opened her own performing arts school called the "Su-Elise Stage School" based in

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. In September 2009 it was confirmed that during an interview at the

MOBO Awards The MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin, also known as the MOBOs) are an annual British music award presentation honouring achievements in " music of black origin", including hip hop, grime, UK Drill, R&B, soul, reggae, jazz, gospel, and Af ...

that Nash was working on her solo debut album entitled ''Long Way Round'', due to be released in 2010. She described the album as a follow-up to Mis-Teeq's genre, which would be R&B. In 2008 she featured on the television casting show ''Britain's Next Urban Superstar!'' as a judge. In 2009, Nash provided vocals for

Lethal Bizzle Maxwell Owusu Ansah (born 14 September 1984), known by his stage name Lethal Bizzle, is a British rapper from Walthamstow, London, of Ghanaian origin. He emerged in 2002 as a grime MC as part of More Fire Crew, with their grime single "Oi!" ch ...

's "Going Out Tonight", which peaked at number 15 on the

UK Dance Chart The UK Dance Singles Chart and the UK Dance Albums Chart are music charts compiled in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from sales of songs in the dance music genre (e.g. house, trance, drum and bass, garage, synthpop) in record ...

. She appeared as a guest on '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' while former

bandmate

participated in the show, and has appeared on ''

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'' twice since 2003. She also appeared on ''

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'' twice between 2009 and 2010. She also appeared on

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's ''

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'' on 1 December 2009.

References

1981 births Living people People from Dulwich Rappers from London 21st-century Black British women singers British contemporary R&B singers UK garage singers Mis-Teeq members English people of Jamaican descent Alumni of Richmond upon Thames College Black British women rappers {{UK-singer-stub