Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Ferguson
Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström, known professionally as Rebecca Ferguson, is a British-Swedish actress. She is best known for her lead role as Elizabeth Woodville in The White Queen, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination, and her starring role as Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth21 July 1986
CityLiverpool, England
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I think there's definitely a dance album or at least single in me somewhere. I would want to work with a really cool Ibiza DJ, though.
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Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.
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I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.
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I'm able to provide for my family and the people that I love with things that I never used to be able to. I'm getting to make music and work with amazing people. I just feel really lucky.
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I think, even in society, people get so caught up in how they look. I think I let that go, and I've learnt to not care.
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I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.
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My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.
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When I first studied Billie Holiday's life story years ago, I admit that I was quite judgmental.
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We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.
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We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.
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Women's bodies are amazing; what our bodies can do is incredible, so it's sad that we get distracted - all this stuff about being skinny, be this, be that - they're all distractions.
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When I was on the X-Factor, I found that I grew a lot as a performer. I knew I could sing but I didn't believe in myself enough... I needed to hear that I was good.
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What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist.
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I've been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman - on their albums, they really tell it like it is.