Interviews/Actustar

*Main article: Actustar*

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 **Location** | France

### Description

Première partie de notre saga Future Star consacré à Natalia Kills. On y découvre un peu mieux le caractère de cette artiste complète, ses joies, ses peines, son style et ses aspirations.

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 **Location** | France

### Transcript

**All About Me & The Archers**

It says *All About Me* and *The Archers*, and when I was six years old, I started acting. I went to school at the Yorkshire College of Music and Drama. It's a school for theatre, music, and dramatic art, and I started acting. And by the time I was 13, I was on television, and these are two shows, radio and television, that I was one of the leading members of. It was quite my dream to be in the theatre or in film or television, but I actually learnt more about myself. I learnt that... well I was quite a naughty actress. I was the kind of actress that I wanted to change the lines. I would get the script [and] I'd be like, "Ugh, I would never say that! My character wouldn't say this. Director, I want to change the line!" you know? So bad. So I learnt that, really, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be the creator, not just, you know, acting out somebody else's creation.

**Verbalicious**

This one says "Verbalicious." When I was a kid, my mother gave me a nickname, "Verbal," and it means, in English, to talk a lot. I like to talk a lot... I don't like to talk a lot, I just do. It's not on purpose. When I first started writing, I had a manager and a record label involved, even though it was not exactly what I wanted, and they took this nickname and they said, "You need a name, you need name," and I made this name. It was what I wanted to do but not how I wanted to do it. I wanted to be in creative control of the visual as well as the music. It wasn't enough for me to just write the song and sing the song, I wanted to be able to say what I had to say. I wanted to be able to dress how I wanted to dress, and do a video how I imagined it. And the record label were very nice, but they didn't quite understand, so I just decided I would wait for the future. And I'd made a whole album, it was finished, it was ready to go, it had a name for it, the photos and everything, but I just didn't like the way it was going, so I quit and I decided to wait 'til later.

**Leeds, London, Los Angeles**

I was born in the north of England and, when I just turned a teenager, I moved to London to do acting and lived there for most of my adult life. Now I live in Los Angeles, I live in Hollywood for the last two years since I got signed. In 2008, I meet will.i.am in L.A., and the way I decided to go was I put a demo on MySpace and Perez Hilton, the journalist, blogged about me on his website and suddenly I had like 2 million plays and it was... it was crazy! And he was there in L.A. saying all these nice things about me, so I got on a plane and I went to see him in Hollywood, and I met a lot of producers and record labels, but I met will.i.am and then I decided to stay in L.A.

**will.i.am**

I was in a glasses shop, buying some sunglasses, and some man walked in... a very Hollywood thing to do... and he said, "Hey, you look special, like a star," ugh, they do that. It's very weird in Hollywood. It's very strange. So, an hour later, he had seen my website and he emailed me saying "I want to introduce you to a DJ and he could help you." So I saw the DJ and he listened to my music and he was like, "Wow, okay, this is great! My friend is going to love this. Let's go play it to him." And we drive and we drive up into the hills, and there's this big house, beautiful house, and we go inside. And there's will.i.am, just sat there at the table. And I said to the DJ, I was like, "[incomprehensible] This is will.i.am!" And he's like, "Yeah, I know, that was my friend. This is his house." I was like, "Waah, crazy!" That's how I met will.i.am. Will.i.am signed me. We worked together in the studio, and I suppose that is the reason I'm here.

### Description

Natalia Kills est née dans le Nord de l'Angleterre, a joué dans des séries télé dès son plus jeune âge, a fait une première incursion dans la musique sous le nom de Verbalicious et, pour sortir son premier album, c'est à Los Angeles qu'elle s'est exilée ! Retour sur le parcours d'une chanteuse qui a la bougeotte...

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 **Location** | France

### Description

Natalia Kills publie "Perfectionist", un premier album estampillé Dark Pop et emmené par les singles "Zombie" et "Mirrors". La belle Anglaise nous dit tout de ce premier opus tant attendu.

### Background

On June 28, 2011, Actustar uploaded a live performance of "Mirrors" that was recorded on the same day as the interview. Considering this, June 28, 2011 is a more accurate date as to when the interview took place.