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Anastacia Lyn Newkirk (/ˌænəˈsteɪʒə/ AN-ə-STAY-zhə; born September 17, 1968), known by the mononym Anastacia, is an American singer-songwriter who has released eight albums and sold over 50 million records worldwide, and collecting a total of 227 gold and platinum certifications. Thanks to her distinctive tone she has been described as "the little lady with the big voice." Anastacia defines her musical style as "sprock", meaning a fusion of soul, pop, and rock.
Anastacia enjoys great success in Europe, Oceania, Asia, Africa, and South America, while in her home country, the United States, she is less famous.
Anastacia began her career in 1983 as a dancer. In 1990, she started her music career as a backing vocalist. In 2000, she released I’m Outta Love, her debut single, which quickly topped charts worldwide and paved the way for her first album, Not That Kind. The following year, she released her second album Freak of Nature. In 2004, she released her album Anastacia, preceded by the single Left Outside Alone, which remained number one across European charts for 15 weeks. After switching record labels, she returned in 2008 with Heavy Rotation and in 2012 she released It’s a Man’s World, an album of covers of male rock songs. In 2014, she released Resurrection. Its lead single was Stupid Little Things. In 2023, she released Our Songs, an album of English-language reinterpretations of German songs.
Anastacia has never hidden her personal struggles with serious illnesses that slowed down her career.
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1968. The second of three children, she grew up in a family of artists: her mother, Diane Hurley, was a Broadway actress of Irish descent, and her father, Robert Newkirk, of German descent, who suffered from bipolar disorder, was a singer who performed in East Coast clubs. Her mother’s passion for Russian literature led her to name her daughter Anastacia.
Her childhood had a difficult start: her father abandoned the family and divorced her mother when Anastacia was seven years old. At the age of 13, she discovered she had Crohn's disease. She later gave interviews about it: "My illness has changed me in many ways. It affects everything, from my health to my work to my relationships. What some see as a curse is a gift to me, because it helped me discover who I really am."
At the age of 15, together with her mother, her sister, and her autistic brother, she moved to New York, to the West Side of Manhattan, into a small one-bedroom apartment. Her mother was cast in a Broadway musical but shortly afterward had to abandon her career to care for her son.
At Manhattan’s Professional Children’s School, Anastacia was a classmate of River Phoenix, Christian Slater, Ricki Lake, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who invited her to the prom. She graduated with difficulty due to her dyslexia. Her vocal improvisations and extraordinary voice earned her the nickname "freak of nature," which came first from her mother.
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Anastacia
Anastacia Lyn Newkirk (/ˌænəˈsteɪʒə/ AN-ə-STAY-zhə; born September 17, 1968), known by the mononym Anastacia, is an American singer-songwriter who has released eight albums and sold over 50 million records worldwide, and collecting a total of 227 gold and platinum certifications. Thanks to her distinctive tone she has been described as "the little lady with the big voice." Anastacia defines her musical style as "sprock", meaning a fusion of soul, pop, and rock.
Anastacia enjoys great success in Europe, Oceania, Asia, Africa, and South America, while in her home country, the United States, she is less famous.
Anastacia began her career in 1983 as a dancer. In 1990, she started her music career as a backing vocalist. In 2000, she released I’m Outta Love, her debut single, which quickly topped charts worldwide and paved the way for her first album, Not That Kind. The following year, she released her second album Freak of Nature. In 2004, she released her album Anastacia, preceded by the single Left Outside Alone, which remained number one across European charts for 15 weeks. After switching record labels, she returned in 2008 with Heavy Rotation and in 2012 she released It’s a Man’s World, an album of covers of male rock songs. In 2014, she released Resurrection. Its lead single was Stupid Little Things. In 2023, she released Our Songs, an album of English-language reinterpretations of German songs.
Anastacia has never hidden her personal struggles with serious illnesses that slowed down her career.
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1968. The second of three children, she grew up in a family of artists: her mother, Diane Hurley, was a Broadway actress of Irish descent, and her father, Robert Newkirk, of German descent, who suffered from bipolar disorder, was a singer who performed in East Coast clubs. Her mother’s passion for Russian literature led her to name her daughter Anastacia.
Her childhood had a difficult start: her father abandoned the family and divorced her mother when Anastacia was seven years old. At the age of 13, she discovered she had Crohn's disease. She later gave interviews about it: "My illness has changed me in many ways. It affects everything, from my health to my work to my relationships. What some see as a curse is a gift to me, because it helped me discover who I really am."
At the age of 15, together with her mother, her sister, and her autistic brother, she moved to New York, to the West Side of Manhattan, into a small one-bedroom apartment. Her mother was cast in a Broadway musical but shortly afterward had to abandon her career to care for her son.
At Manhattan’s Professional Children’s School, Anastacia was a classmate of River Phoenix, Christian Slater, Ricki Lake, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who invited her to the prom. She graduated with difficulty due to her dyslexia. Her vocal improvisations and extraordinary voice earned her the nickname "freak of nature," which came first from her mother.
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