Jamelia
- Profession: Singer-songwriter
- Place/Date of Birth: Smethwick, 11 January 2021
"I think Lily’s wicked. She’s enjoying being young and it’s refreshing. It would be lovely if she didn’t change but there are some things on the album that aren’t suitable for young ears."
The singer’s oldest kid has apparently already been asking questions about drugs. "Teja was being crazy and someone asked her if she was on drugs. I did reprimand them. If you don’t have children you don’t understand," she said. "I told her some people do this but I don’t agree with it."
Jamelia performed live for the first time in two years - Aug 25, 2006
Stunning singer Jamelia performed live for the first time in two years - and it seems she got complete and utter stage-fright.
The R&B star was so nervous about singing in front of the cameras that she forgot the words to her songs nine times, according to The Sun. And at one point, she had to take ten minutes out of the show, reportedly to pull herself together.
Introducing her favourite song - Coldplay classic Clocks - she told the crowds at the AOL Sessions gig in
"I just kept forgetting the words," Jamelia later told the paper. "I wanted to cry. My boyfriend Darren was giving me grief, telling me to hurry up as he was missing the Arsenal game." The 24-year-old singer has recently been spending more time with her footballer partner and her two daughters Teja and Tiani.
She releases her new album Walk With Me on September 25.
Jamelia gave birth to baby girl - Oct 24, 2020
Jamelia gave birth to an 8lb 8oz baby girl last Friday - after enduring 21 hours of labour. The beautiful star and her footballer boyfriend announced the arrival of daughter Tiani a few hours later. The 24-year-old said: "It was like giving birth to a sumo wrestler." Tiani, who made her entrance at 4.27am, is Jamelia and
Jamelia has another daughter, four-year-old Teja, from a previous relationship. The "Superstar" singer said: "Darren, Teja and I are over the moon." The name Tiani comes from a Greek word meaning princess. It is also said to be short for Tatiana, which means fairy queen, graceful princess and rainbow. Jamelia had been hoping for a girl throughout her pregnancy.
Last month she revealed: "Every boy’s name I suggest, Darren can think of a footballer with the same name and he doesn’t want to name his child after a footballer. "So I’m just hoping for a sister for Teja. At least we can agree on girl’s names."
Jamelia pleads poverty - Jan 05
Jamelia was among the acts performing at Make Poverty History event. The Superstar was one of many performers at the huge
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Signed to Parlaphone aged just fifteen, Jamelia impressed record execs with a tape of self penned songs sung a-capella. Her first single, So High, was released in 1999 but it failed to chart while follow up, I Do, entered the charts but at a low position. Still just eighteen Jamelia released an album, Drama, which peaked at 39 in the charts and produced the single Money which went top five and earned the singer five MOBO nominations.
Taking time out to look after her baby daughter Teja, born in 2001, Jamelia returned to music in 2003, releasing Thank You, which stuck at number 65 in the album charts. However, despite this disappointment the accompanying single, Superstar, gave her a taste fo true pop stardom. Jamelia’s singles continued to chart well and before long she was also signed up to model for Pretty Polly and Reebok.
Three MOBO awards and three Brit nominations later Jamelia gave birth to a second daughter, Tiani, fathered by footballer Darren Byfield.
Her third album, Walk With Me, was released in 2006 and featured some quality collaborations and produced some reasonably successful singles, among them Something About You and Beware of the Dog.
Jamelia is a high profile campaigner for animal rights charity PETA and HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns with proceeds of her own fragrance donated to the cause.
December 2007