Teddy Natalia Noemi Sinclair, better known by her stage name Natalia Kills or Teddy Sinclair, is an English singer, song-writer and producer.Far before the music and madness began, Teddy was born in northern England to a Jamaican-born father and a South American mother.
She spent most of her early childhood visiting her dad in Wormwood Scrubs prison in London, writing him letters and poetry in between visits. It was during this process that she discovered her affinity for words and the hope and pain something as simple as a pen could possess. Teddy Sinclair quit school at 14 and travel to other countries to seek work for a better life.
Before her 15th birthday, Teddy dropped out of school, left home, moved to London and scored a few small TV roles and song-writing gigs. “I wrote songs all day and all night, I had no money, no real friends and somehow, I got a few managers and record deals along the way, but nothing seemed to work out.
“I was 19 and writing songs with anyone that had free time and a guitar. I made some demos, put them on Myspace and less than a year later I had flown to LA and signed a record deal with Interscope.
The first person I recorded with was Jeff Bhasker and he made most of my first album and all of the 2nd one. It was heaven.”Teddy was a personality on X-Factor New Zealand, which lead to a publicity stunt resulting in a viral media storm.
She was subjected to a global witch-hunt she couldn’t defend herself against due to a wide-reaching legal gagging order. It was a regrettable situation for everyone involved, and Teddy and Willy flew back home to New York where she threw herself head-first into the songwriting world. Days later,
she would collaborate with Madonna on her #1 album Rebel Heart, co-writing the track “Holy Water.” Not long after, she was drafted onto Rihanna’s writing team, where she would spend months traveling the world and ultimately co-write “Kiss It Better” off of her world-wide #1 album ANTI.
Like a shot of The Supremes poured over a cool hard shake of Missy Elliott, her music is rich with the dreamy buzz of 1960’s love songs warped into layers of orchestral and cinematic trip-hop beats. Known for her sharp and intoxicating lyrics, she colors each song with a visual poetry swirling with impulse and intimacy in a storm of high emotions.
Teddy Sinclair has written 64 songs to date.
