Fleur East Biography – Fleur East Wiki
Fleur East is an English singer-songwriter, rapper, and radio presenter. She competed in the second series of the televised singing competition The X Factor in 2005 as a member of the girl group Addictiv Ladies. In 2012, she then launched a solo career with the record label Strictly Rhythm and released songs with dance musicians including DJ Fresh and Drumsound & Bassline Smith. She returned to The X Factor as a solo artist in 2014 for its eleventh series, where she finished in second place behind Ben Haenow. Throughout the summer of 2022, East performed at Butlin’s. In August 2022, she was announced as a contestant on the twentieth series of Strictly Come Dancing.
She became The X Factor’s first contestant to reach number one on the UK iTunes Store chart during the competition with her performance of “Uptown Funk” (originally by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars). In 2015, she signed to Syco Music and released a full-length album, Love, Sax, and Flashbacks. Since then, she has competed in I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and Strictly Come Dancing, as well as presenting on Hits Radio. he describes her music as “urban-inspired with a few twists” and lists Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Sade, Emeli Sandé, Jessie Ware, and Florence Welch among her inspirations. Her early solo work was heavily influenced by drum and bass artists including Netsky and Matrix & Futurebound.
She was part of the girl group Addictiv Ladies, who were on series 2 of The X Factor in 2005, mentored by Simon Cowell, but were eliminated in week 1 after ending up in the bottom two with Chico Slimani. She was introduced to drum-and-bass producer DJ Fresh through her manager in 2011, and Fresh subsequently hired her as a vocalist for a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge session of his. In 2012, she featured on Fresh’s song “Turn It Up” from his album Nextlevelism and toured extensively with him in 2012, including performances at T4 on the Beach, V Festival, and the iTunes Festival.
She signed to the record label Strictly Rhythm in January 2012 and released two singles as the lead artist (credited as Fleur): “Broken Mirror” with Cutline and “Turn the Lights On” (produced by Culture Shock). She also featured on “The One” by Horx and P3000. In 2013, she featured on Drumsound & Bassline Smith’s “One in a Million”, which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 53, and headlined the Miss Face of Africa EU ceremony in London. In December 2013, she self-released her debut EP She for free download. One of the EP tracks, “Super Rich Royals”, is a mashup cover of “Super Rich Kids” by Frank Ocean and “Royals” by Lorde.
East worked as a waitress at the London nightclub Aura Mayfair to help support her music career, and was also a fitness model with the agency W Athletic, but struggled with her finances. She later said that by early 2014, she was “definitely depressed” and considered ending her music career, until her friends and relatives encouraged her to re-audition for The X Factor. In June 2014, she auditioned for the eleventh series of The X Factor. She sang John Legend’s “Ordinary People” in her room audition, where she received three “yes” votes and progressed through to the arena auditions. She sang Chris Brown’s “Fine China” at the arena and progressed to the boot camp stage with four “yes” votes. East made it past the six-chair challenge and through to the judges’ houses stage in the “Over 26s” category, mentored by Cowell once again, to whom she performed “Bang Bang” by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj. Cowell chose her for the live shows, alongside Jay James and eventual winner Ben Haenow.
In the semi-final of the live shows, she performed “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, a rendition The Guardian’s Stuart Heritage described as “truly astonishing […] She barged in and left the competition in ruins. It was two minutes and 53 seconds of all-out attack; possibly the biggest moment that any Cowell show has produced since we first met Susan Boyle, only this was even more surprising because we already knew Fleur, and this far she’d merely been adequate.” Popjustice declared it “the most exciting moment of the entire series. Fleur’s had now established herself as the one who deserves and will undoubtedly get The Full Ella (FKA The Full Leona) when it comes to career rollout.” Her version went to number one on the UK iTunes Store, which led the original song to be released five weeks earlier than planned; it subsequently reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. In the final, the show’s final, she was announced as the runner-up in the competition, losing to fellow category act, Ben Haenow with 34.3% of the votes to Haenow’s 57.2%.
In January 2015, she announced that she had signed to Cowell’s record label Syco Music. She recorded her debut album with musicians including Wayne Hector, The Invisible Men, Jack Splash, and TMS. She announced in July 2015 that she had been working on her first fashion collection with women’s fashion brand Lipsy London. “Sax”, the lead single from her debut album, was released in November 2015 and reached number three in the UK. Her debut album, titled Love, Sax, and Flashbacks, was released on December 4. On January 22, she released the single “More and More”. She performed the single at the National Television Awards. In 2016, East signed with Columbia Records to launch her international music career. In October 2017, it was revealed that she and Syco had parted ways after three years via mutual agreement.
On November 12, 2018, East was announced as participating in that year’s series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. She finished in fourth place on December 8, 2018. Later that month, East announced via Instagram that she would be releasing her first single in four years, “Favourite Thing”. The single was released on January 4, 2019, in addition to the music video released on YouTube. She also performed the song live for the first time on television on This Morning. In June 2019, Bauer Media announced that East would take over hosting the breakfast show on the national radio station, Hits Radio alongside co-hosts James Barr and Greg Burns. The first show aired on July 12, 2019. On September 7, 2019, she began hosting the Saturday Morning show 9 am-12noon across the Hits Radio Network.
On November 18, 2019, she released her new single, “Size”. The single was featured in the Debenhams Christmas ad campaign. She released her new single “Lucky” on January 31, 2020, along with its official music video. The video was shot over a period of six months and includes footage from East’s travels around the world. East’s second album Fearless was released on March 2020 2020. She featured on the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway where she would go to an area of the UK and give tickets to people for a ‘Takeaway Getaway’ holiday from TUI. She released the official NHS charity single “Not Alone” on April 9, 2020, with 100% of the profits going towards the COVID-19 NHS appeal. The single premiered on The One Show alongside its official music video. She attended Holy Family Technology College in Walthamstow and the Queen Mary University of London, where she studied journalism and contemporary history.
Fleur East Age
She was born on October 29, 1987, in Walthamstow, London, United Kingdom.
Fleur East Husband
She is married to her husband, Marcel Badiane-Robin. The pair had been in a relationship with French celebrity fashion designer Marcel Badiane-Robin since 2010. The couple initially met in a bar in 2009 where Marcel was working as a waiter but she was not single at the time and it was a year later, that they first began dating. They got married in Morocco in 2019.
Fleur East Family
She was born to an English father Malcolm East, and a Ghanaian mother, Irene Frimpong-Manso. She was brought up in Walthamstow, London. She has family living in Yorkshire. She is the elder sister of Keshia, a make-up professional. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, East said she was the victim of racism in childhood, with one child asking her, “Are you black or white?”
Fleur East Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 3 inches (1.61 meters) tall.
Fleur East Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @fleureast.
