As a child Sinitta trained at the Russian Ballet School Legat and was with Charles Augins at The Pineapple Studios, Covent Garden when, during her school holidays, she on a part in the production of The Wizz in 1980, understudying for the role of Dorothy.

Choreographer Gillian Gregory immediately hired her to play Francine in the sequel to The Rocky Horror Show, Shock Treatment, the movie. During the next two years Sinitta, still not yet a teenager, won roles in several off-West End productions.

This led to an underground discovery of the young performer and a buzz began about her in the music, film and theatre industries. She signed her first record deal with Magnate Records and cut two singles Never Too Late and I Could Be. Once her vocal talents were known she began to work extensively with top producers as a backing vocalist. She also recorded commercial jingles with David Dundas and cut records with Marcia Hunt for Steve Roland, at Hansa. Sinitta also did the ghost vocals for Hot Gossip and Yazz (who she discovered) in the mid 80s before her own pop career took off.

Accompanying a friend to an audition for Cats landed Sinitta a role and after nine months in the production at the New London Theatre, the producers transferred her contract to work on their new big hit Little Shop Of Horrors at the Comedy Theatre.

An unforgettable experience was being selected in the final five acts to represent England in the Eurovision song contest in early 1986 and, in the same year she landed the coveted role of Maimiti in David Essex’s stage show, Mutiny, and received great critical acclaim.

Sinitta’s first pop hit, So Macho reached No2 in the charts and remained there for nine months, making it into the Guiness Book Of Records as the biggest selling single of the year! A real surprise for Sinitta and the young Simon Cowell, who was guiding the music career of the young starlet.

In 1987 she teamed up with pop Svengali Pete Waterman, recording a string of hits that spanned 10 years. After leaving Mutiny at the end of 1987 she toured the world and topped the charts in Japan, the US, Australia, all over Europe, and was a BPI nominee for 1987, a Gold Winner at the Tokyo Music Festival, and DMC best pop act award in Europe.

She stopped recording in 1995 and returned to the stage in Michael Bogdonovichs’ Hair at the Young Vic Theatre. In the years that followed Sinitta played Brenda in Smokey Joe’s Café and starred as herself in What A Feelin. More recently she has also worked behind the scenes helping to identify and develop new talent, including Daniel and Natasha Beddingfield, Mylene Klass, Ragiv and Jonas Mirin.

Most recently Sinitta has featured on The X Factor, as Simon Cowell’s Girl Friday, helping him chose and mentor his acts, such as last year’s winner Leona Lewis. And Sinitta was recently seen strutting her stuff on Sky One’s Cirque Du Celebrite.