Anastacia is the stage name of American singer & songwriter Anastacia Lyn Newkirk. She was born on September 17, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois to Robert Newkirk and Diane Hurley. Anastacia soon became interested in dance despite being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when she was thirteen. She first gained prominence stealing the show from D. L. Hughley while he was hosting BET’s Comic View, singing Oleta Adams’ "Get Here" in 1992. During the early 1990s, she appeared regularly on Club MTV and in a couple of videos for the female hip hop group Salt-n-Pepa. In 1999, she attracted the interest of record labels after making the finals of MTV talent show The Cut. Anastacia signed a contract with Daylight Records, a custom label of Sony BMG’s Epic Records in March 1999. On March 27, 2001, she released her debut album, Not That Kind. While the album only reached number one hundred and sixty-eight on the U.S. Billboard 200, it entered the top five and the top ten on the majority of the charts in Europe. Anastacia has since released three more albums which include Freak of Nature in 2001, Anastacia in 2004 and her recent album, Heavy Rotation in 2008.
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