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Natalie Appleton Profile |
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Birth Date: May 14, 1973
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Birth Place: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Birth Name: Natalie Jane Appleton
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Height: 5'5"
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Biography |
Natalie Jane Appleton was born on May 14, 1973, in
Mississauga, near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She grew up with
her elder sisters, Lori and Lee, and her younger sister,
Nicole, in Toronto and New York before moving to Camden in
London, England.
When she was 20, she was briefly married to male stripper
Karl Robinson, with whom she had a daughter, Rachel. To make
ends meet, Natalie sang in bars and worked as an aerobics
instructor.
While she was attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School,
Natalie met Melanie Blatt, who was forming a group, All
Saints, along with leader Shaznay Lewis. Blatt invited
Natalie to join, and Natalie, in turn, recruited her sister
Nicole as well.
However, the decision to join the band was not made lightly.
Natalie was concerned about her daughter. In the end, her
parents agreed to take care of Rachel while All Saints was
establishing itself and, along the way, they reconciled
their own troubled marriage.
In 1998, All Saints debuted with a self-titled album, which
introduced the group as a smarter alternative to rival band
the Spice Girls.
All Saints won Brit Awards that same year for their single
"Never Ever" and its accompanying video. However, a good
beginning quickly fizzled when Melanie Blatt became
pregnant, tour dates were canceled, and talk of the band
breaking up loomed.
Nevertheless, All Saints returned in 2000 with a follow-up
album called Saints and Sinners, after a few delays and
title changes, and contributed the song "Pure Shores" to the
movie The Beach (2000).
Natalie appeared with her sister Nicole and Melanie Blatt in
Honest, an All Saints vehicle, but the film was panned. The
group's days were numbered; by the spring of 2001, the group
had broken up, this time for good.
Still, a compilation album, All Hits, was later released. It
was at this time that Natalie decided to move on to other
projects.
Immediately after the demise of All Saints, Natalie teamed
up with her sister and bandmate Nicole. They formed a new
group, calling themselves Appleton. Appleton recorded a
single, "Fantasy" -- which peaked at No. 2 -- and was all
set to release its debut album, Everything's Eventual.
However, controversy struck again, this time with the
release of the Appleton sisters' tell-all autobiography, and
the public relations fallout forced Appleton's record
company, Polydor, to push back the album's release.
The aptly-named Everything's Eventual was finally released
in early 2003, and it appeared in North America even later.
On the personal side, Natalie has had fewer setbacks. In
June 2002, she remarried, this time to Prodigy's Liam
Howlett. Her second shot at family life seems to be more
successful, and in March 2004, Natalie gave birth to a
second child, a son named Ace. |
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Other
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Sister of Nicole Appleton.
Member of pop group All Saints.
Mother of Rachel Appleton.
Attended Sylvia Theatre School along where Nicole and her
met their future bandmate, Melanie Blatt.
Gave birth to son, Ace, by Caesarean section at London's St.
John and St. Elizabeth Hospital on the 2nd of March in 2004 |
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