  sinitta (born sinitta renay malone in seattle, washington, united states) is an american-born singer who has lived in the united kingdom for most of her life. she is best known for her hit records in the 1980s including "so macho", "toy boy", "cross my broken heart" and "right back where we started from". altogether sinitta has 14 international hit singles and 3 albums. she has also acted in a number of west end shows and has been a mentor on the x factor and appeared as a contestant on the eleventh series of i'm a celebrity... get me out of here! and the first series of channel 4's the jump, which sees contestants train and then compete in winter olympic sports. ==early career== sinitta trained at the legat russian ballet school, and at lamda. sinitta began in show business by appearing in the musical the wiz and the movie shock treatment released on halloween 1981, and her west end credits include cats, little shop of horrors, smokey joe's cafe, hair, masquerade and mutiny! on 24 december 1982, sinitta appeared on the tv programme the tube as a dancer with imagination. in 1985, she captained one of the teams on an itv children's game show called the wall game, a programme teaching children how to act. ==music career== sinitta began recording in 1983, releasing her first sin
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