Natasha Anne Bedingfield (born 26 November 1981) is a British and New Zealand singer and songwriter. She released her debut studio album, Unwritten, in 2004, which contained primarily up-tempo pop songs and was influenced by R&B music. It enjoyed international success with more than 2.3 million copies sold worldwide. Bedingfield received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the title track "Unwritten", and at the 2005 and 2006 Brit Awards, she was nominated for Best British Female Artist. Unwritten also produced her only UK number one, "These Words".
Her second studio album, N.B. (2007), yielded the UK top 10 singles "I Wanna Have Your Babies" and "Soulmate". In North America, a heavily reworked reissue of the album was released in 2008 under the name Pocketful of Sunshine, which spawned the singles "Love Like This" and "Pocketful of Sunshine", the latter of which peaked at number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and became her best-selling single in the United States. In December 2010, Bedingfield released her third studio album in North America, Strip Me. Bedingfield has sold over 10 million albums and 10 million singles worldwide, totalling over 20 million records worldwide. In 2012, VH1 ranked Bedingfield number 66 on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music.
