Natasha Bedingfield is a songwriter and pop singer that was born in London, England on November 26,1981. She has three siblings; brothers Daniel and Joshua, and younger sister Nikola. Her interest in music was encouraged by her parents and she took guitar and piano lessons when she was younger. When Natasha Bedingfield was a teenager, she and her siblings, Daniel and Nikola, formed the dance/electronic group, The DNA Algorithm. The DNA Algorithm performed at several Christian music festivals before disbanding. Natasha Bedingfield then attended a year at the University of Greenwich, where she studied psychology. After a year of studying psychology, she left the university to concentrate on singing and songwriting. She began to record demos in the garages of friends who had recording studios. She eventually took these demos to record companies. In 2003, she signed a recording contract with BMG UK & Ireland in 2003. Her debut album, Unwritten, was released in the UK on September 6, 2004, where it debuted at number one, and in the U.S. on August 2, 2005, where it debuted at number twenty-six. It spawned the singles, "Single", "These Words", "Unwritten", "I Bruise Easily" and "The One That Got Away". Natasha Bedingfield has since released two more albums, "N.B." in 2007 and "Pocketful of Sunshine " in 2008.
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