Nadine Coyle
- 15 on June 1985
- Singer, songwriter and model
- Her parents first noticed her talent for singing at the age of two, when she sang The Drifters’ “Saturday Night at the Movies”
- While attending Thornhill College in 2001, she auditioned for the Irish version of the reality television talent show Popstars, on which Louis Walsh was a judge.
- She won a place in the band Six, but it was later revealed that she had lied about her age. She was 16 years old, two years younger than the minimum age requirement.
- She said she was “exploited” and went back to college!
- Louis Walsh encouraged her to enter Popstars: The Rivals
- She won a place and joined Cheryl Tweedy, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh to comprise the new girl group Girls Aloud
- Their debut single “Sound of the Underground” peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the 2002 Christmas number one
- Girls Aloud had a string of 20 top ten singles (including four number ones), two UK number one albums, five consecutive platinum selling studio albums and received nominations for five BRIT Awards, winning Best Single in 2009 for “The Promise”.
- She released her debut solo album and single Insatiable in 2010
- In 2006 she moved from Ireland to Los Angeles where she opened an Irish pub restaurant in Sunset Beach
- She participated in the nineteenth series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and finished in fifth place.
- Girls Aloud have released five studio albums, two greatest hits albums, two live albums, one remix album and released twenty-one singles
- Her hits include:”Sound of the Underground”, “I’ll Stand by You”, “The Promise”, “Something Kinda Ooooh” and “Walk This Way” (with Sugababes)
