1. Natalia Noemi "Teddy" Sinclair is a British singer-songwriter and actress.
27 Facts About Teddy Sinclair
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Teddy Sinclair has recorded music under various aliases, most famously as Natalia Kills and Verbalicious.
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Teddy Sinclair is currently the lead vocalist of the band Cruel Youth, which releases music under the name The Powder Room.
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Teddy Sinclair adopted the first name Teddy in 2015 and formed her own band Cruel Youth the following year, with whom she's released the extended play, +30mg.
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Outside of her own recordings, Teddy Sinclair has written songs for Angel Haze, Madonna, and Rihanna.
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Teddy Sinclair received a Grammy Award nomination in 2017 for co-writing Rihanna's single "Kiss It Better".
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Teddy Sinclair's family left Bradford when she was a child and she spent her early years traveling between England, Jamaica and Spain.
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Teddy Sinclair ran away from home when she was 14 and shifted her focus away from acting.
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Teddy Sinclair 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.
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Teddy Sinclair had frequent legal trouble and periodically experienced suicidal depression.
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Teddy Sinclair began pursuing a music career and had a significant breakthrough as "Candy Rapper" in 2003, when she won a BBC Radio 1 MC Battle in Leeds.
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Teddy Sinclair signed to the UK record company Adventures in Music and released her first single "Don't Play Nice" under the name Verbalicious in February 2005.
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Teddy Sinclair told W that her childhood nickname from her mother was "Verbal" because she talked and sang a lot.
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Teddy Sinclair adopted the name and variations of it as her stage name at some points during her career.
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The album was described as a concept album by Teddy Sinclair, claiming that everybody is a perfectionist.
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Teddy Sinclair was featured in LMFAO's single, "Champagne Showers," and in Junior Caldera's single "Lights Out ".
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On 14 September 2012 Teddy Sinclair unveiled the video for "Controversy" to start promotion of her second studio album, Trouble.
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Teddy Sinclair attended an after-party for the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, held on 25 August 2013 in Brooklyn, New York City, where she performed various songs from Trouble.
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Teddy Sinclair married singer Willy Moon on 23 May 2014 in New York City.
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Teddy Sinclair described Irvine as a doppelganger over his alleged copying of Moon's hairstyle and dress sense, deeming him "cheesy" and "disgusting".
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Teddy Sinclair was replaced by Natalie Bassingthwaighte, a former judge on the Australian version of the show, while Moon was replaced by Shelton Woolright.
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Teddy Sinclair confirmed to Billboard that while she was no longer signed to Cherrytree, she was still with Interscope Records at the time, though she later left them too.
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In early 2016, Teddy Sinclair started a band, Cruel Youth, with her husband Moon.
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In 2015 Teddy Sinclair co-wrote Rihanna's song "Kiss It Better", which went on to a Grammy nomination the following year.
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In 2020, Teddy Sinclair collaborated with Cyndi Lauper for the Apple+ TV show Central Park on a song called "Rats".
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In 2022, Teddy Sinclair and Moon received songwriting credits for "The Happiest Girl" on Blackpink's Born Pink album and released the single "Mr Badman" in 2022 as part of the soundtrack for The Invitation.
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Teddy 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, Marilyn Manson, and Eminem among her favorite artists and bands with whom she grew up.