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Anastacia was born in Chicago, Illinois into a showbiz family: her father was a singer and her mother an actress in Broadway musical theatre. Her family relocated to New York City when she was a teenager and she enrolled at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.
Anastacia soon became interested in dance despite being diagnosed with the intestinal disease Crohn's Disease. During the early '90's, she appeared regularly on Club MTV and in a couple of videos for rappers Salt-N-Pepa. In 1999, she attracted the interest of record labels after making the finals of MTV talent show The Cut . Anastacia signed a contract with Daylight Records , a custom label of Sony Music's Epic Records in March 1999.
Her debut album Not That Kind was released in 2000 and was a huge success reaching the top ten in eight countries in EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se, AsiaThe continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and E, and OceaniaFor the fictional superstate in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four see Oceania (fiction . Oceania is a name used for varying groups of islands of the Pacific Ocean. In its narrow usage it refers to Polynesia (including New Zealand), Melanesia (inc. It went triple platinum in AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count spurred by the success of first single "I'm Outta Love" which was the most popular single of the year in that country for 2000. While "I'm Outta Love" was a top ten song on the US dance charts , Not That Kind only reached the lower parts of the Billboard 200Billboard 200 is a listing of the top 200 selling music albums of the week. It is often used as a tool to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a musical group will be remembered by the number of "number ones" achieved, or the nu, since the single never managed to cross over to the American pop charts .
Her second album, 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom's Freak Of Nature achieved respectable sales although not matching the level of international success of Not That Kind. However, her sophomore effort did beat its predecessor in her home country. Its debut single, "One Day In Your Life", though not a smash hit, just barely made the top 40 and was also a hit on the clubThis article is about clubs referring to a particular organization of people. For other article subjects named club see club (disambiguation). A club (in Greek usually: Mupia in Latin sodalitas consists of an association of people not united together by a charts and at rhythmic radio . Anastacia also joined Shakira, Cher and Mary J. Blige for VH1's Divas Live in 2002. Anastacia also contributed a song "Love Is A Crime" to the Chicago soundtrack.
In January 2003, Anastacia discovered she had breast cancer while preparing for breast reduction surgery due to orthopedic reasons. She immediately successfully completed a course of treatment. Anastacia subsequently established a fund through the Breast Cancer Research Fund to promote awareness of breast cancer amongst younger women. Anastacia entered record studios in September 2003 to record the Anastacia album with Glen Ballard, Dallas Austin , and Dave Stewart for release in 2004. The first single, released in March 2004, was "Left Outside Alone". On the album, Anastacia also went for a more rock sound with the track "I Do", which featured Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D..
Anastacia proved to be a smash hit reaching the top of the album charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Italy and number 2 in Spain. The "Left Outside Alone" single proved to be equally successfully reaching number 1 in Italy, Austria and Switzerland; and top 5 in the UK, Ausralia and on the composite European chart. Strong airplay throughout Europe caused the song to achieve a Top 40 Charts world airplay ranking as one of the top five songs played on top 40 radio stations throughout the world in April 2004. However, the Anastacia album and "Left Outside Alone" had not been released in the US as at the end of April 2004.