About Fleur East
An English singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, radio presenter is named for Fleur East. Moreover, she is also a fitness model. She competed on the second series of televised singing competition The X Factor in 2005 as a member of the girl group Addictiv Ladies. Fleur East is famous for being a singer and songwriter. She is best known for her appearance in The X Factor UK 2014 and becoming the runner-up. In 2015, Fleur signed up with Simon Cowell's record label and released an album. The single "Sax" from the album "Love, Sax, and Flashbacks" received a BPI Certificate of 'Gold'. Besides this, she is well known for performing Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk at the Live Semi-Finals of The X Factor in 2014. It was an instant hit on iTunes. In the year 2012, she then launched a solo career with the record label Strictly Rhythm and released songs with dance musicians including DJ Fresh and Drumsound & Bassline Smith. Fleur East was born on 19th October 1987 which makes her 32 years old as of 2019. Her birthplace is in London, England. Her nationality is English and her ethnicity is Mixed. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, East said she was the victim of racism in childhood, with one child asking her, "Are you black or white?". Her father, Malcolm East, is of Englis ancestry, and her mother, Irene Frimpong-Manso, is a Ghanian. Regarding her siblings, her twin sister, Keshia, is a make-up professional. As a child, she had been a victim of racism. She grew up amidst acute financial problems and racism. As per her education, East attended Holy Family Technology College and the Queen Mary University of London. She holds a university degree in journalism and contemporary history. She is Christian by religion and her Zodiac sign is Scorpio. He celebrated his birthday on 29th October. Her greatest influencers are Alicia Keys, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Mary J. Blige, among others and her fitness idols are Joe Wicks from Insanity workouts and Mel B. She considers Rihanna as her beauty icon. She has co-founded the W8 GYM, which is a home workout system that helps to perform over 200 exercises. Speaking in an exclusive interview the week Fleur East and Marcel Badiane-Robin celebrated their first wedding anniversary, the couple tells of the importance of Black Lives Matter and their experiences at the London protests. "The atmosphere was amazing. I could have cried. Everyone was there; all races, all ages. It's such a beautiful thing to see that. We don't care where you're from, we don't care the color of your skin, we don't care what social class you belong to. It's irrelevant. I've never seen anything like it before," says Fleur, who posted a rap song about the movement on Instagram, which has attracted 2.2m views. Scroll down to get more information about her full biography which includes the details about her career, songs, husband, height, net worth, facts, wiki, age, and many more.
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Fleur East's Singing Career
- Fleur East was in the girl group Addictiv Ladies who were on series 2 of "The X Factor" in 2005 which mentored by Simon Cowell but was eliminated in Week 1 after ending up in the bottom two with Chico Slimani.
- She was then introduced to drum-and-bass producer DJ Fresh through her manager in 2011 and Fresh subsequently hired her as a vocalist for a BBC "Radio 1 Live Lounge" session of his.
- In 2012, she featured on Fresh's song "Turn It Up" from his album Nextlevelism.
- She also toured extensively with him in the year 2012 including performances at T4 on the Beach, V Festival, and the iTunes Festival.
- Later, she signed to the record label Strictly Rhythm in January 2012 where she released two singles as the lead artist: "Broken Mirror" and "Turn the Lights On".
- In addition to this, she also featured on The One by Horx and P3000.
- She featured on Drumsound & Bassline Smith's "One in a Million" in the year 2013.
- In December 2013, she self-released her debut EP She for free download.
- One of the EP tracks, "Super Rich Royals", is a mashup cover of "Super Rich Kids" by Frank Ocean and "Royals" by Lorde.
- In June 2014, Fleur East auditioned for the eleventh series of "The X Factor" where she sang John Legend's "Ordinary People".
- In the semi-final of the live shows, she performed "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars.
- In the final, the show's final, East was announced as the runner-up in the competition, losing to fellow over-25 Ben Haenow with 34.3% of the votes to Haenow's 57.2%.
- After that, she announced that she had signed to Cowell's record label Syco Music in January 2015.
- She recorded her debut album with musicians including Wayne Hector, The Invisible Men, Jack Splash, and TMS.
- She announced in July 2015 that she had been working on her first fashion collection with women's fashion brand Lipsy London.
- "Sax", the lead single from her debut album, was released in November 2015 and reached number three in the UK. The lyrics of the single was brilliant.
- Her debut album, titled "Love, Sax, and Flashbacks", was released on 4th December.
- On 22nd January, she released the single "More and More".
- East performed the single at the National Television Awards.
- In the year 2016, she signed with Columbia Records to launch her international music career.
- In October 2017, it was revealed that East and Syco had parted ways after three years via mutual agreement.
- She was announced as participating in that year's series of "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" on 12th November 2018 where she finished in fourth place on 8 December 2018.
- She announced via Instagram that she would be releasing her first single in four years, "Favourite Thing" and the single was released on 4th January 2019.
- She also performed the song live for the first time on television on "This Morning".
- On 18th November 2019, East released her new single, "Size".
- The single was featured in the Debenhams Christmas ad campaign.
- She released her new single "Lucky" on 31st January 2020 along with its official music video. The video was shot over a period of six months and includes footage from East's travels around the world.
- Her second album "Fearless" was released on 20th March 2020.
- The album is scheduled to be supported by East's first headline tour 'The Fearless Experience'.
- She then appeared on the sixteenth series of "Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeway" where she would go to an area of the UK and give tickets for people for a place on the plane to Walt Disney World.
- She released the official NHS charity single "Not Alone" on 9th April 2020 with 100% of the profits going towards the COVID-19 NHS appeal.
- The single premiered on The One Show alongside its official music video.
Fleur East is MARRIED to Marcel Badiane-Robin (Fashion Designer)
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Fleur East's marital status is married. She is married to her French fashion designer husband, Marcel Badiane-Robin. Marcel is a French fashion designer and has a start-up fashion label business called Elevate London with a friend Alexandre Ruimy. They have so far managed to keep their personal relationship quiet and away from the media attention. Marcel and Fleur are supportive of each other's career goals and seem to be going strong. The pair got married on Saturday (June 9) in a secluded venue in Morocco, with many celebrity pals also in attendance. The couple recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary. The duo is living a happy life at present. Her sexual orientation is straight.
Fleur East's Net Worth 2020
Fleur East is an English singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and fitness model. Being a multi-talented, her major source of earning is from singing career whereas modeling, dancing, endorsements are her other source of wealth. She has endorsed Olympics 2012 in a video with Zim From ZimeZone on her YouTube channel. She has been featured in the commercial for PUMA's Olympics-inspired #crosstheline campaign. As of 2020, the net worth of Fleur East is estimated to have $6 Million. At present, she is satisfied with her earnings.
