Nicola Roberts

With her pale skin, striking red hair, and quiet personality, Nicola Roberts might have been the less tabloid-friendly person in Girls Aloud, but because of her songwriting skills, eclectic taste, and effortlessly cool demeanor, her solo career was a lot more interesting than bandmates Nadine Coyle and Cheryl Cole’s. Given birth to in Runcorn, Cheshire in 1985, Roberts started singing at age 11, went to her regional dance college, and created her own lady music group, the Five Musketeers, before auditioning for the ITV skill display Popstars: The Competitors in 2002. Although she originally didn’t make it to the live phases, she was drafted in as an alternative when fellow contestant Nicola Ward drawn out, eventually completing second and generating a location in the group that became Ladies Aloud. The five-piece obtained an extraordinary 20 consecutive TOP strikes (including three chart-toppers), six Best 20 albums (including Chemistry, where Roberts became the just member to get a sole composing credit, for “It’s Magic”), and a Brit Honor for Best English Single (“The Guarantee”) more than a seven-year period prior to the group people decided to go after various solo tasks. Roberts released a makeup range for women with fair epidermis known as Dainty Doll, shown the BBC3 documentary THE REALITY Approximately Tanning (approximately the hazards of tanning bedrooms), and became an outspoken advocate of legislation that could outlaw unmanned tanning bedrooms for minors. This year 2010, she became the group’s third member to start a solo profession when she agreed upon a cope with General and began focusing on materials with famous brands Metronomy’s Joseph Support, Dragonette, and Diplo. Her debut one, “Defeat of My Drum,” premiered a year afterwards and was accompanied by its parent record, Cinderella’s Eyes.