Strutting her stuff to high energy, dance pop, Sinitta took the British charts
by storm in the 1980s with a succession of hits, but became more famous as Simon
Cowell's assistant on the X Factor. The daughter of Canadian actress and disco
singer Miquel Brown, Sinitta grew up in foster care in Seattle before moving to
London as a teenager to study at the Russian ballet school Legat and dance in
West End musicals such as Cats. She dated David Essex and a young Brad Pitt, and
became Simon Cowell's first signing to his label Fanfare Records, which launched
her into the charts with th...