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Topic: Rowetta


In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  Rowetta : interview
Rowetta is an avid viewer of the new series as she's writing a column about it for gossip mag, Reveal, and talks about it with as much enthusiasm as any regular fan.
Rowetta is always realistic about the nature of the X-Factor, referring to it often as a game: "Some people said that the judges' egos got in the way but you¹ve got to stand there and take it because it¹s a television programme." She has nothing but kind words for the panel, however: "I love them.
Rowetta garnered a reputation for being a bit of a nutter on the X-Factor and says that people still come up to her on the street, referring to her as that "mad bird off the TV".
www.musicomh.com /interviews/rowetta_0905.htm   (1234 words)

  
 thetalentspotter
Manchester born Rowetta began singing as a child, performing in talent competitions before progressing to singing in clubs professional as a teenager.
Rowetta has appeared on numerous other records as a backing vocalist, "far too many to mention, or remember", her favourites being Inner City, Billy Ocean, Rebel MC, Julia Fordham, Brooklyn's Poor and Needy and PJ Proby.
Rowetta pestered the Mondays' manager Nathan McGough, who was not convinced until he saw her performing with another band.
groups.msn.com /thetalentspotter/rowetta.msnw   (516 words)

  
 Rowetta's happy to have the X-factor - News - Manchester Evening News
Rowetta Satchell, 38, is a favourite to win through to the final in the over 25s category judged on the hit ITV1 show by Simon Cowell.
Rowetta was a young mother-of-two when she joined the Happy Mondays in 1990, at a time when the group had yet to break into the big time.
rowetta has my vote, she has the voice and personallity.i think she should have made it a long time ago,but this is her time now, i love her voice and she makes me laugh.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk /news/s/133/133777_rowettas_happy_to_have_the_xfactor.html   (531 words)

  
 The X Factor - Rowetta on This Morning | The Internet Forum
Rowetta appeared on This Morning on 29th November and was interviewed by Phillip Schofield and Lorraine Kelly.
Rowetta: So do I. Louis: You know what, she was great on Saturday, it her best performance yet, we were really, really sad to see her go, she’s the life and soul of the party.
Rowetta: Not on a bender, I went out with Kelly Osbourne for a couple of hours, then I went to a party, they were doing an X-Factor party for me, some of my friends.
www.theinternetforum.co.uk /xfactor/rowetta4.html   (1619 words)

  
 The Diary: Rowetta's drink anguish
Rowetta, formerly a backing singer with Manchester band The Happy Mondays, had been drinking whisky at the glittering ceremony, but she says the effects of the alcohol were compounded by the fact she is currently on the Atkin’s Diet.
Rowetta apologised on the night for her behaviour, but, through the M.E.N. she apologised again to Key 103’s breakfast co-host Chelsea Norris.
Rowetta tearfully said yesterday: “I am a bit of a punk, and whatever I did with Chelsea would only have been a joke.
blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk /bourne/2006/09/rowettas_drink_anguish.html   (564 words)

  
 The X Factor 1 - Rowetta - page 1 | The Internet Forum
In the show Rowetta has to live with a family for a week and then undertake a challenge to try to win them a valuable prize.
Rowetta was also on TV with Michael Portillo in March in a programme about domestic violence.
Rowetta told the Sun that she wants to date a string of toyboys - starting with some fellow contestants in The X Factor.
theinternetforum.co.uk /xfactor/rowetta1.html   (566 words)

  
 ROWETTA: I'M TELLING YOU I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE IN - The Daily Record
Rowetta explained: "Because of my voice it would be easier to just do a load of dance tunes but that's not my audience now.
Rowetta recorded 40 songs for the album and found it agonising to cull the numbers.
With a couple of albums worth of songs still in the vaults, Rowetta won't reveal the other songs she's covered, admitting she was stung by Simon during X Factor.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=15917418&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=rowetta--i-m-telling-you-i-m-not-going-to-give-in--name_page.html   (1407 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Rowetta: Music: Rowetta
the three songs rowetta wrote herself are stand out, but by far the best track of the three is fly, a ballad that wouldn't have sounded out of place on a celine dion album.
I was astounded when Rowetta was eliminated from the X Factor and it was a long time after its release that I discovered her album.
Rowetta was always destined to be a star, its just obvious from the sheer depth and emotion that comes from that silky smooth yet shockingly vibrant...
www.amazon.co.uk /Rowetta/dp/B000AO9O6W   (1023 words)

  
 Rowetta has the X Factor - icWales
Rowetta actually started singing when she was just 14 and spent her teenage years singing in working men's clubs.
It's been well-documented how his drug addiction and violent behaviour became the bane of Rowetta's life and it seems the only good things to come of the relationship are her two children - Georgina, 21, and 20-year-old Derek.
Rowetta has become quite tetchy about talking about her personal life since The X Factor flung her into the limelight.
icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /whats-on/tm_objectid=15162847&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=rowetta-has-the-x-factor-name_page.html   (1214 words)

  
 MySpace.com - ROWETTA - Manchester, UK - House / Disco House / Club - www.myspace.com/rowetta
ROWETTA will be singing live at the Hacienda Xmas Party at Sankeys
Laidback Luke with Rowetta's vocals at Latin Village, Amsterdam (2007)
Rowetta, I am a collaborator Alan Trax Didier Vanelli, I finished a remix for you, you can listen past on my page.
www.myspace.com /rowetta   (669 words)

  
 Xfm Uploaded
Rowetta has been writing and recording lots of new material, which has had a great response at her many gigs including performances at most of the Pride festivals and lots of performances for her chosen charities.
Rowetta has just presented her first show for BBC Radio Manchester and she co-hosted a show with Terry Longden, The Terry & Ro Show on Gaydio Fm.
Rowetta is recording a new version of the killer Ibiza track BE with Laidback Luke and performing it for the first time at the Amsterdam Dance Event.
www.xfmuploaded.co.uk /rowetta   (510 words)

  
 CD Times - Rowetta - Exclusive Audio Clips From Her Forthcoming Album
Rowetta (of The Happy Mondays and X-Factor fame) will be releasing her debut solo album this October.
Rowetta's three original songs Fly, Pure, Faithful & True and Thunder & Lightning display her passion for blues and northern soul.
Rowetta has appeared on numerous other records as a backing vocalist, "far too many to mention, or remember", her favourites being Inner City, Billy Ocean, Rebel MC, Julia Fordham, Brooklyn's Poor & Needy and PJ Proby.
www.cdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=2020   (1101 words)

  
 The X Factor - News - Rowetta to go 'Under Pressure' - Digital Spy
X Factor star Rowetta Satchell is to appear on the new series of Celebrities Under Pressure.
Satchell has been encouraged by Simon Cowell to star on the show for one episode, as part of a plan to keep her in the public eye before helping her to launch a solo career.
Rowetta will move in with a family for a week and try to perfect an unusual skill, in order to try and win amazing prizes for the family that she stays with.
www.digitalspy.co.uk /xfactor/a18220/rowetta-to-go-under-pressure.html   (184 words)

  
 Rowetta – Music at Last.fm
Rowetta is most noted for her appearance on series 1 of The X Factor in the UK, in which she came fourth after Tabby Callaghan, G4 and Steve Brookstein.
Rowetta's musical career began as a professional pub singer, before progressing to releasing two singles with the Vanilla Sound Corp in 1987, whilst appearing as a backing singer on numerous songs.
Rowetta continued to work as a backing singer during the late 1980s and 1990s, including providing backing vocals for Inner City and for Simply Red's Stars album.
www.last.fm /music/Rowetta   (862 words)

  
 Ananova - Rowetta: Simon is biased
X Factor reject Rowetta says the show was a "set-up" and believes Simon Cowell was biased towards Steve Brookstein.
Rowetta also lashed out at show judge Louis Walsh, who has accused her of using backing singers and smuggling whisky on to the set reports The Sun.
Rowetta hopes to sign a record deal by the end of the year.
www.ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_1194234.html?menu=entertainment.celebrities   (301 words)

  
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The first time that a lot of people heard of Rowetta was probably on 2004’s X-Factor (she was the crazy one with the hair).
Part 1: In the first section Rowetta tells Jo all about her rather turbulent teenage years, why marrying young turned out to be a big mistake, and how her experiences of domestic violence have shaped who she is today.
Rowetta also chats openly about having her private life invaded by the tabloids and how she has coped with it.
www.chatshow.net /Interviews/interview.aspx?interviewID=163   (340 words)

  
  Rowetta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rowetta Satchell (born 5th January 1966 in Manchester, England) is an English Black Jewish singer.
Rowetta is most noted for her appearance on series 1 of The X Factor in the UK, in which she came fourth after Tabby Callaghan, G4 and Steve Brookstein.
Rowetta's musical career began as a professional pub singer, before progressing to releasing two singles with the Vanilla Sound Corp in 1987, whilst appearing as a backing singer on numerous songs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rowetta   (282 words)

  
 Emotional Rowetta pulls out of X Factor press conference - UK News Headlines
X Factor's Rowetta Satchell was too emotional to attend a scheduled press conference today after she was booted off the TV talent show last night.
Rowetta, who had sung River Deep Mountain High by Tina Turner and then Diana Ross's song When You Tell Me That You Love Me, had to be dragged back onto the stage by her friend and fellow contestant Tabby Callaghan.
Stunned Simon told Rowetta after the show she was the "heart and soul" of the contest.
www.lse.co.uk /ShowStory.asp?story=TR286761L&news_headline=emotional_rowetta_pulls_out_of_x_factor_press_conference   (432 words)

  
 Elysian Dreams :: View topic - Rowetta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rowetta does not put herself forward but is capable of great loyalty to any who will unquestioningly accept her, if ever she could first accept herself.
Rowetta's mother was a simple farm girl, caught up in the stranger's magical charm, drawn as a moth to the flame and like the moth, devored by the flame and incapable of life alone in the darkness that came once the flame had flickered and died.
Always fearful that she was an embarrassment to her grandparents Rowetta left home as soon as she was able and began her life as an itinerant worker drifting, as many of the youth of Xane did, from farm to farm throughout the Rainbow Valley.
www.elysian-dreams.co.uk /forum/viewtopic.php?t=212   (476 words)

  
 Rowetta - Rowetta - Music-News.com
The fourth runner-up, a young lady known only as 'Rowetta' wowed the X Factor judges and audience alike and here, at last, is her debut album.
Rowetta's range is mind-boggling as she leaps from the jazz infused 'Hello Detroit' to the slow, haunting 'The Look of Love' in one single, bounding step along the CD play list.
Rowetta intoxicates your senses in minutes and her debut release is a wild ride through awesome music sketched by a skilled performer finally breaking out of her shell.
www.music-news.com /ShowReview.asp?nReviewID=951&nType=1&bPrint=1   (424 words)

  
 Rowetta | album review | By Tom Knight
Eighteen years after first walking into a recording studio Rowetta is finally fulfilling her dream and releasing her debut solo album in October 2005.
Rowetta's three original songs Fly, Pure, Faithful & True and Thunder & Lightning display her passion for blues and northern soul.
Now to have the opportunity to record an album really is a dream come true for me and to be able to record some of my favourite songs and create a record that really represents me and of which I am so proud is such a fantastic feeling.
www.myvillage.com /pages/bars&music-review-rowetta-debut-album.htm   (450 words)

  
 BBC | Celebrity Scissorhands | Celebrities | Rowetta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rowetta is best known for appearing in the X Factor in 2004, but the Manchester lass has been singing all her life.
Rowetta wrote and recorded with artists including Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Mick Jones (The Clash), the KLF and the Stereo MCs, but got her biggest break when she joined the Happy Mondays.
When the band split up Rowetta took some time off to spend with her family, doing a bit of session work and starring as herself in the ‘Madchester’ film 24 Hour Party People.
www.celebrityscissorhands.co.uk /celeb_snippers/rowetta   (194 words)

  
 Rowetta voted off the X Factor | the Daily Mail
Manchester singer Rowetta missed out on a semi-final spot on The X Factor as she was voted off the show.
Rowetta kicked off the show under the watchful eye of her mentor Simon Cowell with an upbeat rendition of the Ike and Tina Turner classic, River Deep Mountain High.
Following judge Sharon Osbourne's adamant decision last week not to cast a vote between Tabby and Cassie in the sing-off, the destiny of the contestants was placed wholly in the hands of the viewing public as they voted for their favourite in the competition and the one with the lowest vote departed.
www.dailymail.co.uk /pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=328769   (368 words)

  
 Rowetta has wow factor in solo album - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: )
She was painfully honest and, whenever she felt emotional, the floodgates would open and tears would fall on her perfect skin.
Rowetta was happy being a backing singer (with The Happy Mondays and Inner City) and never wanted to pursue a solo career, as she was too busy looking after her family.
Rowetta is also a fan of the Beatles, Etta James and Stevie Wonder, and a few of their tracks are on the album, which is out on October 3.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/features/7019850.html   (347 words)

  
 Rowetta Satchell - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)
Simon Cowell compliments Rowetta on her singing but expresses concern that she has started smoking again and reminds her that she has got to be in tip-top condition.
Stylist Sinitta remarks that Rowetta is one of those lucky people who don’t have to sleep all night to be able to sing well the next day.
Rowetta: I am, but I just hope people vote for me because I was on first, it is really hard going on first and I hope you don’t forget me when it comes to voting...
www.xfactorwatch.co.uk /Article00176.aspx   (670 words)

  
 Ananova - Rowetta: Simon is biased
X Factor reject Rowetta says the show was a "set-up" and believes Simon Cowell was biased towards Steve Brookstein.
Rowetta also lashed out at show judge Louis Walsh, who has accused her of using backing singers and smuggling whisky on to the set reports The Sun.
Rowetta hopes to sign a record deal by the end of the year.
ananova.com /entertainment/story/sm_1194234.html?...   (301 words)

  
 Rainbow Network   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rowetta is probably best remembered as the woman with the huge personality and even bigger voice.
If there were any doubt at whom Rowetta is aiming this album, she stakes her gay credentials by finishing the album with ‘Over The Rainbow’.
The album Rowetta is an acceptable starting point but she needs the courage to make a leap away from her safe X-Factor zone.
www.rainbownetwork.com /music/detail.asp?iData=24314&iCat=65&iChannel=17&nChannel=Music   (664 words)

  
 Amazing Tunes - artist homepage
Rowetta Biog Manchester born Rowetta began singing as a child, performing in talent competitions before progressing to singing in clubs professional as a teenager.
In order to sing with the Mondays, Rowetta had given up any chance of having a solo career, despite the urging of record companies and managers.
In 2006, Rowetta has been writing and recording new material, which has had a great response at her many gigs.
www.amazing-tunes.com /Rowetta   (526 words)

  
 Rowetta reveals all about Jordan's wedding   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rowetta said that Jordan - real name Katie Price - looked like a princess as she entered the castle in a horse-drawn pink carriage, wearing a pink bejewelled gown and huge head-dress to meet Peter, who was dressed all in white.
Rowetta met up with pals, including Jordan's bridesmaids Kerry Katona, Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding and Liberty X singer Michelle Heaton, while football legend Paul Gascoigne congratulated her on her success in winning a recording contract since appearing in TV talent show The X Factor.
Rowetta took centre stage at the evening do, wearing a fl Dolce and Gabbana evening gown, singing a selection of Jordan and Peter's favourite songs - after the couple's first dance to their own pre-recorded version of Disney song A Whole New World.
www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/s/173/173742_rowetta_reveals_all_about_jordans_wedding.html   (684 words)

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