UNWRITTEN SWOOSH 9 Cláudia Regina Abreu | Cidália Sousa | Vanessa Reis Esteves

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Cláudia Regina Abreu | Cidália Sousa | Vanessa Reis Esteves

Natasha Bedingfield

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• Bedingfield was born in

England on the 26th

November 1981. • She later moved to south

London. • Natasha has three siblings: 2

brothers- Daniel, Joshua and

a younger sister called Nikola.

Her interest in music

was encouraged by

her parents and she

took guitar and piano

lessons when she was

younger.

• When Bedingfield was a teenager,

she and her siblings formed the

dance/electronic group called The

DNA Algorithm.• The group provided Bedingfield

with the opportunity to explore

different musical genres and

expand her songwriting abilities.

She sang for the group which primarily

performed dance-pop music about

independence and empowerment.

These themes would be found in her

own solo compositions later.

Natasha released her

debut album, Unwritten,

in 2004. It was

internationally successful

with more than 2.3 million

copies sold worldwide.

Bedingfield received a Grammy

Award nomination for Best

Female Pop Vocal Performance

for the title track “Unwritten”, and

at the 2005 and 2006 Brit Awards

she was nominated for the Best

British Female Artist award.

Before opening the book… what words do you think will appear in the song?

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Now open your book on page

152 and check.

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