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Sinitta
12+ albums
80spopdancefemale vocalistsEuro Disco
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Sinitta Renet Malone (born 19 October 1963), known mononymously as Sinitta, is a British-American singer and actress. She achieved commercial success in the mid-to-late 1980s with the singles "So Macho", "Toy Boy", "GTO", and "Cross My Broken Heart" and had several other hits during that decade. In the 2000s, she appeared on television programmes including Loose Women, The Xtra Factor, and This Morning, and she participated in the ITV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2011. Sinitta was born in Seattle, Washington, to Miquel Brown, a Canadian disco-soul singer and cast member of Hair, and her father, Anthony. She was raised in Seattle and later Detroit but frequently travelled with her mother on tour. When her mother directed the London production of Hair, Sinitta attended boarding school in East Sussex and a ballet school in Tunbridge Wells from the age of nine. She began performing in musicals in London, appearing in The Wiz at age 12. In 1981, Sinitta appeared in the film Shock Treatment as Frankie, credited as Sinitta Renet, and she continued her career in West End productions, including the original production of Cats and later Little Shop of Horrors. In 1983, she appeared in the video for Forrest's version of "Rock the Boat". In 1986, Sinitta released "So Macho", which peaked at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and became a Top 20 hit in Sweden, Australia, and Austria. Her follow-up single "Feels Like the First Time" reached number 45. In 1987, after coll
