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Natalie Powers
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Natalie Powers (July 26, 1977) is a British solo recording artist and lead vocalist of the pop group Scooch, who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Early Career Natalie Powers began acting at the age of seven when she played the youngest orphan in the first run of the hit musical Annie. Natalie was brought up with her two brothers in Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands. Natalie's parents, Peter and Gloria, recognised her talent and took her to audition for the lead role in Annie. Natalie toured around the country, and between the ages of seven and 14, she starred in many musicals and pantomimes, working with popular entertainers such as Michael Barrymore and Les Dawson amongst others. Natalie left school at 16 with heaps of theatre and television credits under her belt and moved to London to the legendary Arts Educational School of Performing Arts in Chiswick, where the likes of Will Young attended. Upon leaving college, Natalie moved into the West End to take a principal role in the all-singing, all roller-skating extravaganza Starlight Express at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. She later starred alongside Kim Wilde in Tommy at the Shaftsbury Theatre before returning to Starlight to play an even bigger role. Scooch It was during this period that Natalie spotted an advert in The Stage newspaper for a new pop act, in much the same way that the Popstars series began. Natalie was called for an audition and after singing and dancing in front of
