KOKOnista Of The Day: Rebecca Ferguson Is The Soul Singer You Need To Add To Your Playlist

Rebecca Caroline Ferguson is a British singer and songwriter. Her albums in the United Kingdom appear on the Syco Music and Epic Records labels; in the United States they are released by Columbia Records.

Rebecca Ferguson was born on 21 July 1986, at Mill Road Hospital, Liverpool, to a father of Jamaican descent and white British mother. She spent the first two years of her life in Huyton. She has a younger brother, Sam. The family then moved to a house on an estate in Woolton Village when her parents separated. Ferguson received her primary education at Woolton Primary School and her secondary and sixth form college education at Gateacre Community Comprehensive School.
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As a teenager she later moved to Anfield. That was when she became pregnant with her first child Lillie May. Two years later she had her son, Karl. Ferguson has said her family supported her ambition to become a professional singer and helped her through two previous X Factor auditions. She also revealed that she was “bullied as a kid because my family was poor and I never had the right clothes or toys.” Despite having a difficult start in life, the hopeful insisted she wanted people to focus solely on her talent. Ferguson also revealed that as a child she always wanted to be a pop star. She revealed on Loose Women that she was abused in a care home when she was 8 years old.Ferguson is a qualified legal secretary, having studied at Hugh Baird College, Bootle. She later commented, “There is only so long you can chase the dream when you are a mum. I wanted the kids to see me do well and be a better role model. They were always seeing their mummy fail. That was why I started college.”Ferguson’s debut album, Heaven, was released in December 2011. The album sold 128k in its first week and peaked at No. 3 on the UK Official Charts making Ferguson the fastest-selling debut solo artist of the decade between the years of 2007 – 2017. Co-written by Ferguson, it was certified two times platinum in the UK and platinum in Ireland. The album yielded six singles including lead single “Nothing’s Real but Love”, which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 10. A later version of the album included the single “Backtrack” and entered the charts in October 2012 at number 15.

Ferguson’s second studio album, Freedom, was released in December 2013. It charted at number 6 and has since been certified Gold by the BPI. The album’s lead single, “I Hope”, peaked at number 15 in the UK. In 2012, she was nominated for two MOBO Awards and one MTV Europe Music Award.In 2015 Ferguson released her third studio album Lady Sings the Blues covering a number of jazz classics made famous by Billie Holiday. The lead single “Get Happy” was added to BBC Radio 2’s playlist and the album charted at number 7. The following year, her fourth studio album “Superwoman” reached number 7 on the UK charts.

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