Sinitta

    Sinitta had spent many years appearing in musicals and low budget movies before enjoying her first hit single So Macho on Fanfare Records in 1986. The single is now legendary for having one of the worst music videos of all time featuring Sinitta and a mad doctor. It’s truly horrendous and a staple of those never-ending countdowns that VH1 frequently air. The b-side to Cruising is the hilarious hiNRG ‘Cruising’ in which Sinitta admits to her passion for picking up men. It’s a classic. Her second single was the brilliant Feels Like The First Time, a Latin Freestyle inspired number which threatened to be an early nail in her pop coffin when it flopped in late 1986.

 "H'es got a big! Red! G.T.O.!"

Never one to be deterred Sinitta took up with pop producers Stock Aitken Waterman. Singles like Toy Boy, GTO and Cross My Broken Heart were the stuff pop dreams are made of and were huge hits in 1987 making Sinitta one of the biggest singles acts of the year in the UK . The album did quite well too. Quite often it was Sinitta’s outrageous fashion sense that garnered her most attention. Sinitta brought tacky 80’s hooker chic to the masses and became a tabloid favourite.

 Wicked!

After five singles Sinitta began work on her second album, Wicked, with Stock Aitken Waterman but when the first single I Don’t Believe In Miracles failed to reach the Top 10 they lost interest and shunted her onto their underlings and a good thing too! The second single Right Back Where We Started From was one of Sinitta’s biggest hits and a big seller of 1988. Further singles didn’t do quite as well but Love On A Mountain Top reached the Top 20. Sadly the album flopped and singles like Hitchin’ A Ride and Lay Me Down Easy did little to attract buyers.

Pop Diva In Decline

A third album was in the pipeline in 1990 and a new single, a smooth cover of Joan Armatrading’s Love And Affection was released. It was even remixed by DNA who were big at the time. It was a massive flop and Sinitta was dropped.

Sinitta was signed to Arista Records UK by her old friend Simon Cowell in 1992. A fantastic pop remake of Shame Shame Shame was released. The single did okay but a follow up wasn’t released until 1994. Sadly it wasn’t really worth the wait; the Supremes EP featured four cover versions of Diana Ross and the Supremes hits. The lead track was Where Did Our Love Go. Nobody cared and Sinitta was once again without a record deal in the UK . She did however manage to release an album of covers in Japan entitled Naughty Naughty.

Sinitta Is The Word!

Today Sinitta is a born again Christian and can often be found selling stories about Simon Cowell and her alleged affair with Brad Pitt  to the Sunday papers. She has also made a name for herself in reality TV appearing as a coach on the X Factor and a judge on Grease Is The Word. She also credits herself with discovering Daniel and Natasha Beddingfield at her church, cheers Sinitta.

- Jamie

Shame Shame Shame (1992)