Anastacia (singer)

Anastacia has also promised all the procedes from her new single 'Heavy on my heart' will go towards her 'Anastacia fund' (Charitable organisation providing research funding for breast cancer). In March of 2003 he released Friends for Life, which featured more sharply political songs. However, the Anastacia album and "Left Outside Alone" had not been released in the US as at the end of April 2004. Inna Heights (1997) substantially increased Banton's international audience. Strong airplay throughout Europe caused the song to achieve a Top 40 Charts world airplay ranking as one of the top five songs played on top 40 radio stations throughout the world in April 2004. The song inspired several clubs to stop playing songs with excessively violent subject matter. The "Left Outside Alone" single proved to be equally successfully reaching number 1 in Italy, Austria and Switzerland; and number 3 in the UK, and reaching the top 5 in Ausralia and on the composite European chart. It also included a single called "Murderer" which condemned the violence in Jamaican dancehall music, inspired by the murders of dancehall musicians Panhead and Dirtsman.

Anastacia proved to be a smash hit reaching the top of the album charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Italy and number 2 in Spain. Till Shiloh (1995) was an influential album, using a studio band instead of synthesized music, and marked a shift away from dancehall towards roots reggae for Banton. On the album, Anastacia also went for a more rock sound with the track "I Do", which featured Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D.. He began supporting AIDS education and released a song called "Willy (Don't Be Silly)" (1993; The Voice of Jamaica), promoting the use of condoms. The first single, released in March 2004, was "Left Outside Alone". Since this time, Banton has become more socially conscious, leaving behind his old style of singing songs of violence and promiscuity. Anastacia subsequently established a fund through the Breast Cancer Research Fund to promote awareness of breast cancer amongst younger women. Anastacia entered record studios in September 2003 to record the Anastacia album with Glen Ballard, Dallas Austin, and Dave Stewart for release in 2004. Banton, who had just signed to Mercury Records, was forced by his label to issue a statement; he refused to apologize and cited his religion (Rastafarianism) as the basis for his beliefs.

She immediately successfully completed a course of treatment. He is one of the most popular musicians in Jamaican history, having hit the charts there suddenly in 1992, with "Bogle" and "Love Me Browning/Love Black Woman", both massive hits in Jamaica and less so abroad. Soon afterwards, Banton released "Boom Boom Bye Bye", a controversial song that advocated violence and murder towards Jamaican homosexuals (called "batty boys"). In January 2003, Anastacia discovered she had breast cancer while preparing for breast reduction surgery due to orthopedic reasons. "Banton" is a Jamaican word referring to someone with a superior attitude, but was also the name of a local artist (Burro Banton) that Buju watched as a child. Anastacia also contributed a song "Love Is A Crime" to the Chicago soundtrack. "Buju" is a common nickname for chubby children; it means "breadfruit". Anastacia also joined Shakira, Cher and Mary J. Blige for VH1's Divas Live in 2002. He was born in a slum near Kingston called Salt Lane.

Its debut single, "One Day In Your Life", though not a smash hit, just barely made the top 40 and was also a hit on the club charts and at rhythmic radio. Buju Banton (born Mark Myrie 1973) is a Jamaican dancehall and ragga singer. However, her sophomore effort did beat its predecessor in her home country. Her second album, 2002's Freak Of Nature achieved respectable sales although not matching the level of international success of Not That Kind. While "I'm Outta Love" was a top ten song on the US dance charts, Not That Kind only reached the lower parts of the Billboard 200, since the single never managed to cross over to the American pop charts.

It went triple platinum in Australia spurred by the success of her debut smash "I'm Outta Love" which was the most popular single of the year in that country for 2000. Her debut album Not That Kind was released in 2000 and was a huge success reaching the top ten in eight countries in Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Anastacia signed a contract with Daylight Records, a custom label of Sony Music's Epic Records in March 1999. In 1999, she attracted the interest of record labels after making the finals of MTV talent show The Cut.

During the early '90's, she appeared regularly on Club MTV and in a couple of videos for rappers Salt-N-Pepa. Anastacia soon became interested in dance despite being diagnosed with the intestinal disease Crohn's Disease. Her family relocated to New York City when she was a teenager and she enrolled at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan. Anastacia was born in Chicago, Illinois into a showbiz family: her father was a singer and her mother an actress in Broadway musical theatre.

Anastacia (born Anastacia Newkirk, September 17, 1973) is an American pop singer who has sold ten million records since the release of her first album Not That Kind in 2000. Heavy On My Heart (yet to be released) 2005. Welcome To My Truth #25UK 2004. Sick And Tired #4UK 2004.

Left Outside Alone #3UK 2004. You'll Never Be Alone #31UK 2002. Why'd You Lie To Me #25UK 2002. One Day In Your Life #11UK 2002.

Paid My Dues #14UK 2001. Made For Lovin' You #27UK 2001. Cowboys And Kisses #28UK 2001. Not That Kind #11UK 2001.

Im Outta Love #5UK 2000. Anastacia '#1UK' (2004) & (due for release by June 7, 2005 for American release date). Freak Of Nature '#4UK' (2001). Not That Kind #2UK (2000).