Natalia Noemi "Teddy" Sinclair (
née
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Cappuccini; born 15 August 1986),
is an English singer, songwriter and actress.
She has recorded music under various aliases, most famously as Natalia Kills and Verbalicious. She is currently the lead vocalist of the band
Cruel Youth
Cruel Youth is a band fronted by Teddy Sinclair, who previously recorded two solo albums under the name Natalia Kills. In 2016, Sinclair started the band with her husband, Willy Moon. The band's first extended play (EP), '' +30mg'', was released o ...
, which also releases music under the name The Powder Room.
As Natalia Kills, Sinclair released the studio albums ''
Perfectionist'' (2011) and ''
Trouble
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Film and television
* ''Trouble'' (1922 film), an American silent comedy-drama film directed by Albert Austin
* ''Trouble'' (1933 film), a British comedy film
* ''Trouble'' (1977 film), a Soviet drama film
* ''Trouble'' ...
'' (2013). In 2014 she married fellow singer
Willy Moon
William George Sinclair (born 2 June 1989), better known by his stage name Willy Moon, is a New Zealand musician, singer, songwriter and producer. He is known for his 2012 single " Yeah Yeah" which appeared on the 2012 Apple iPod advert and peak ...
. Since July 2015 Sinclair has gone by and performed under her legal name Teddy Sinclair. In 2016 she started her own band,
Cruel Youth
Cruel Youth is a band fronted by Teddy Sinclair, who previously recorded two solo albums under the name Natalia Kills. In 2016, Sinclair started the band with her husband, Willy Moon. The band's first extended play (EP), '' +30mg'', was released o ...
, with whom she has released the EP, ''
+30mg'' (2016).
Her biggest commercial singles were the BVMI gold-certified singles "Mirrors" (2010), "Free" with
Will.i.am
William James Adams Jr. (born March 15, 1975), known professionally as will.i.am (pronounced "Will-I-am"), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the founding and lead member of the musical group Black Eyed Peas.
...
, and the UK-top 40 hit, "
Champagne Showers
"Champagne Showers" is a song performed by American EDM/electro hop recording duo LMFAO, featuring vocals from English singer-songwriter Natalia Kills. It was released as the second single from the album ''Sorry for Party Rocking'' (2011). This s ...
" with American pop duo
LMFAO
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. She has additionally written songs for
Angel Haze
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,
Madonna
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, and
Rihanna
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. She received a
Grammy Award
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nomination in 2017 for co-writing Rihanna's single "
Kiss It Better
"Kiss It Better" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, ''Anti'' (2016). It was written and produced by Jeff Bhasker and Glass John, with additional writing by Teddy Sinclair and Rihanna. The song was serviced to rad ...
".
In March 2015 Sinclair and her husband,
Willy Moon
William George Sinclair (born 2 June 1989), better known by his stage name Willy Moon, is a New Zealand musician, singer, songwriter and producer. He is known for his 2012 single " Yeah Yeah" which appeared on the 2012 Apple iPod advert and peak ...
, were fired as judges from
New Zealand ''X Factor'' for their harsh comments towards one of the contestants.
Life and career
1986–2010: Early life and career beginnings
Sinclair was born Natalia Noemi Cappuccini in
Bradford
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,
West Yorkshire
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, to a British father of
Afro-Jamaican
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The ethnogenesis of the Black Jamaican people st ...
heritage and a
Uruguayan
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mother, and attended
Bradford Girls' Grammar School. Her family left Bradford when she was a child and she spent her early years traveling between England, Jamaica and Spain.
She ran away from home when she was 14 and shifted her focus away from acting.
She has described her teenage years as "degenerate," stating that she tried to set her ex-boyfriend's house on fire while both were in it. She had frequent legal trouble and periodically experienced suicidal depression.
She was also briefly involved with a religious cult.
She began pursuing a music career and had a significant breakthrough as "Candy Rapper" in 2003, when she won a
BBC Radio 1
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MC Battle in
Leeds
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.
[ 'Next Big Me,' released under the name Verbalicous, was in the movie Sleepover in 2004. She signed to the UK record company Adventures in Music and released her first single "]Don't Play Nice
"Don't Play Nice" is the debut single of English singer-songwriter Teddy Sinclair, who released the song under the name Verbalicious. The song was written by Sinclair, Mowgli, Hugo Lira, Thomas Gustafsson, and Tobias Lindell, with production ...
" under the name Verbalicious in February 2005. Sinclair told '' W'' that her childhood nickname from her mother was "Verbal" because she talked and sang a lot. She adopted the name and variations of it as her stage name at some points during her career.
In 2007, while writing music for films,[ she posted ''Womannequin,'' a demo she produced and wrote under the name Natalia Cappuccini, to MySpace. The EP received 2 million plays on the website, and she reached the top of the unsigned artists chart.][ During this time, using the name Verse, she also co-wrote and appeared on "]They Talk Shit About Me
"They talk sh#t about me" is a song by M. Pokora featuring british singer Verse, from this ''MP3'' album. It was released in june 2008 in Europe
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" by French recording artist M. Pokora
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Early life ...
and met Guillaume Doubet, who would go on to direct many of her videos, in Paris. Sinclair moved to Los Angeles in 2008. Arriving without money or a place to live, Sinclair "lived out of these motels, bumming around, trying to work with or make songs with anyone who would have me for a couple of hours in the studio". At the time she says she did awful things adding "I was just trying to survive and I was too young to know better." While in L.A., a DJ introduced her to will.i.am
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...
after hearing her demo and learning that she did not have a record deal. In January 2009 will.i.am signed her to his record label, will.i.am Music Group
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.[ "We had a really good creative chemistry," she said in a 2011 '']Billboard
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'' interview.
2010–2014: ''Perfectionist'', ''Trouble,'' and marriage
Sinclair adopted the stage name Natalia Kills from the interjection "you killed it!", after her record company advised her that her legal name, "Natalia Cappuccini", was "indescribable." Kills released her debut album '' Perfectionist'' in Germany in April 2011 following the release of her first single, "Mirrors
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", which hit the German Top 10. The album was described as a concept album by Sinclair, claiming that everybody is a perfectionist. The album was accompanied by four singles, "Mirrors", " Wonderland", "Free
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Concept
* Freedom, having the ability to do something, without having to obey anyone/anything
* Freethought, a position that beliefs should be formed only on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism
* Emancipate, to procur ...
" and "Kill My Boyfriend
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*Homicide, one human killing another
*cause death, to kill a living organism, to cause its death
Kill may also refer to:
Media
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*Kill (Cannibal Corpse album), ''Kill'' (Ca ...
". Through 2010 and 2011 Sinclair opened for Kelis
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, Robyn
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, Kesha
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, Katy Perry
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and the Black Eyed Peas
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over various tours.[ Sinclair was featured in ]LMFAO
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's single, "Champagne Showers
"Champagne Showers" is a song performed by American EDM/electro hop recording duo LMFAO, featuring vocals from English singer-songwriter Natalia Kills. It was released as the second single from the album ''Sorry for Party Rocking'' (2011). This s ...
," and in Junior Caldera
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's single " Lights Out (Go Crazy)".
On 14 September 2012 Sinclair unveiled the video for "Controversy" to start promotion of her second studio album, ''Trouble
Trouble may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Trouble'' (1922 film), an American silent comedy-drama film directed by Albert Austin
* ''Trouble'' (1933 film), a British comedy film
* ''Trouble'' (1977 film), a Soviet drama film
* ''Trouble'' ...
''. The album was centered on her troubled childhood. Sinclair attended an after-party for the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards
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, held on 25 August 2013 in Brooklyn, New York City
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, where she performed various songs from ''Trouble''. Two days later, " Outta Time" was released as the album's second promotional recording free of charge in a Polydor Records
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newsletter, coinciding with the US release of ''Trouble''. ''Trouble'' was officially released on 3 September 2013 as a digital download in the United States and Canada.
Sinclair married singer Willy Moon
William George Sinclair (born 2 June 1989), better known by his stage name Willy Moon, is a New Zealand musician, singer, songwriter and producer. He is known for his 2012 single " Yeah Yeah" which appeared on the 2012 Apple iPod advert and peak ...
on 23 May 2014 in New York City.
2015: ''The X Factor New Zealand ''
It was announced in late 2014 that Sinclair and Moon would be featured as judges and mentors the following year on season 2 of the New Zealand version of ''The X Factor'', serving as the mentors of the Boys and Groups categories respectively. During the first live show, in a highly publicized scandal which Sinclair described as a "publicity stunt hecouldn't defend erselfagainst due to a wide-reaching legal gagging order", the two made scathing remarks towards contestant Joe Irvine. Sinclair described Irvine as a doppelganger over his alleged copying of Moon's hairstyle and dress sense, deeming him "cheesy" and "disgusting". The comments led to widespread condemnation on social media, including a petition to have Sinclair and Moon fired from the show, which reportedly received over 70,000 signatures within 24 hours. The show's sponsors, franchise owner and judges Melanie Blatt
Melanie Ruth Blatt (born 25 March 1975) is an English singer. She rose to fame in 1997 as a member of the girl group All Saints. The group have gained five number one singles, two multi-platinum albums, two BRIT Awards and have sold over 10 mil ...
and Stan Walker
Stan Walker (born 23 October 1990) is an Australian-born New Zealand singer, actor, and television personality. In 2009, Walker was the winner of the seventh and last season of '' Australian Idol''. He subsequently signed a recording contrac ...
also voiced disapproval of the incident, and Moon and Sinclair were both fired from the show the next day. Sinclair was replaced by Natalie Bassingthwaighte
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, a former judge on the Australian version of the show, while Moon was replaced by Shelton Woolright
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.
After she was fired from ''The X Factor'', it was revealed in the media that Sinclair had left her record label, Cherrytree Records
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, shortly before appearing on the show. Sinclair confirmed to ''Billboard
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'' that while she was no longer signed to Cherrytree, she was still with Interscope Records
Interscope Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M imprint. Founded in late 1990 by Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field as a $20 million joint venture with Atlantic Records of Warner Mus ...
at the time, though she later left them too.
2016–present: Cruel Youth and other ventures
In early 2016 Sinclair started a band, Cruel Youth
Cruel Youth is a band fronted by Teddy Sinclair, who previously recorded two solo albums under the name Natalia Kills. In 2016, Sinclair started the band with her husband, Willy Moon. The band's first extended play (EP), '' +30mg'', was released o ...
, with her husband Moon. The band's first song, "Mr. Watson", was released on Soundcloud in February, followed by "Diamond Days" in April, which was also released on iTunes
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. Their third single, "Hatefuck", was released in early September, along with the release of their debut EP, '' +30mg'', on 16 September 2016. In 2015 Sinclair also co-wrote Rihanna's song "Kiss It Better
"Kiss It Better" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, ''Anti'' (2016). It was written and produced by Jeff Bhasker and Glass John, with additional writing by Teddy Sinclair and Rihanna. The song was serviced to rad ...
", which went on to a Grammy nomination the following year.
In 2018 Cruel Youth released the singles "Devil in Paradise" and "Portrait of a Female".
In 2020 Teddy Sinclair collaborated with Cyndi Lauper for the Apple+ TV show Central Park on a song called "Rats".
They also released the single "Mr. Badman" in 2022, as part of the soundtrack for ''The Invitation''.
Style and influences
Sinclair has mentioned Kate Bush
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and Alanis Morissette
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as her most important musical influences, describing them as emotional artists "who write honestly about their opinions and experiences." The singer also stated she considered Gwen Stefani
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, who is a musical and stylistic inspiration, as her "hero", adding that Prince
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, Vanity 6
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, and Freddie Mercury
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have already inspired her during live performances.[ Sinclair explores music that is both confessional and bold when looking for inspiration, she reveals: "I don't listen to music to let go, I listen to dive in", listing ]Hole
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, Marilyn Manson
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, and Eminem
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among her favorite artists and bands with whom she grew up. According to Jon O'Brien of AllMusic
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, Sinclair gradually composed a musical tone incorporating "the theatrical dance-pop of Lady Gaga
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, 1940s film noir
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, and the electro-gloom of Depeche Mode
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Depeche ...
."
She also reported that she has always been a pop music fan, especially in evoking contemporary "new age" artists as Adele
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, Lana Del Rey
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, Marina and the Diamonds
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, Ivy Levan
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and Lorde
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.
Sinclair claims to be influenced by her own experiences. She is also inspired by cinema when writing songs. In this regard, she said in an interview for ''MKR Magazine'': I'm a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick
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, Tarantino
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, Gaspar Noé
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In the early 1990s, Noé along with his wife Lucile Hadžihalilović were ...
. I love anything that's beautiful and disturbing and horrifying and gorgeous at the same time. I do get inspired, definitely. I don't listen to a lot of music except my own, but I definitely like music a lot.
Discography
* '' Perfectionist'' (2011)
* ''Trouble
Trouble may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Trouble'' (1922 film), an American silent comedy-drama film directed by Albert Austin
* ''Trouble'' (1933 film), a British comedy film
* ''Trouble'' (1977 film), a Soviet drama film
* ''Trouble'' ...
'' (2013)
Tours
Promotional concerts
* Perfectionist Promo Tour (2011)
* Effect Music Tour (2013)
* Trouble Promo Tour (2013)
Co-headlining tours
* The Cherrytree Pop Alternative Tour (2011–12)
Opening act
* Kelis
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, Robyn
Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, ''Robyn Is Here'', which produced two Billboard Hot 100, ''Bil ...
– All Hearts Tour
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(2010)
* Robyn – Body Talk Tour
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(2010–11)
* The Black Eyed Peas
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– The Beginning Massive Stadium Tour (2011)
* Kesha
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– Get Sleazy Tour
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(2011)
* Bruno Mars
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– The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour
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(2011)
* The Sounds
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Their debut album, '' Living in America'', was r ...
– Something to Die For
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Backgro ...
Tour (2011)
* Katy Perry
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– California Dreams Tour
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(2011)
* LMFAO
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– Sorry for Party Rocking Tour (2012)
* Kiiara
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– Low Kii Savage Tour (2016)
; Notes
:This 58 dates promotional tour started on 24 June 2011 in Paris, France and ended on 22 November 2011 in Vancouver, Canada.
:This promotional tour took place in Russia.
:This promotional tour took place in the United States.
:This tour was performed with other artists from the same record label.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
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, 2005
, Popjustice £20 Music Prize
The Popjustice £20 Music Prize, also known as the Popjustice Twenty Quid Prize, is an annual prize awarded by music website Popjustice to recognise the best British pop single of the previous year. The prize was conceived by Popjustice founder P ...
, "Don't Play Nice
"Don't Play Nice" is the debut single of English singer-songwriter Teddy Sinclair, who released the song under the name Verbalicious. The song was written by Sinclair, Mowgli, Hugo Lira, Thomas Gustafsson, and Tobias Lindell, with production ...
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, Best British Pop Single
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, 2011
, Eska Music Awards
, Herself
, International New Face
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, 2013
, rowspan=2, MP3 Music Awards
, " Saturday Night"
, The BFV Award
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, 2014
, "Trouble
Trouble may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Trouble'' (1922 film), an American silent comedy-drama film directed by Albert Austin
* ''Trouble'' (1933 film), a British comedy film
* ''Trouble'' (1977 film), a Soviet drama film
* ''Trouble'' ...
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, The MIC Award
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, -
, 2017
, Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pres ...
, "Kiss It Better
"Kiss It Better" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her eighth studio album, ''Anti'' (2016). It was written and produced by Jeff Bhasker and Glass John, with additional writing by Teddy Sinclair and Rihanna. The song was serviced to rad ...
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, Best R&B Song
The Grammy Award for Best R&B Song (sometimes known as the R&B Songwriter's Award) has been awarded since 1969. From 1969 to 2000, it was known as the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blues Song. Beyoncé has won it a record four times, while Bab ...
(as songwriter)
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Living people
1986 births
21st-century English actresses
21st-century Black British women singers
Actresses from Bradford
Black British actresses
British actors of Latin American descent
English people of Italian descent
English people of Jamaican descent
English people of Uruguayan descent
English songwriters
English television actresses
English women pop singers
Feminist musicians
Interscope Records artists
Musicians from Bradford
People educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School
Polydor Records artists