Biography

Set a record in the Guinness World of Records with brother Daniel as the only brother and sister to have separate solo no. 1 hits in the UK.

Married Matthew Robinson, a businessman and documentary filmmaker from California, in Malibu, California, on March 21, 2009.

She attended a year at the University of Greenwich, where she studied psychology, then left to concentrate on singing and songwriting. At first, she recorded demos in the garages of friends with recording studios and then presented the demos to record companies. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, she composed and recorded songs for the Hillsong London Church.

She is the daughter of two New Zealand-born social workers, John and Molly Bedingfield, who were married in 1978.

She has two brothers, Daniel Bedingfield and Joshua, and a sister, Nikola.

"I know I should keep this a secret, but Céline Dion is something of an icon to me".

On who she'd like to be stranded on a desert island with: "I'd say Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. They come across as lovely - so warm, so bright and so talented. I imagine that we'd have great chats. And, if we ever ran out of things to say to each other, I could sing and write songs with Chris Martin, and play charades with Gwyneth. I reckon that they would both be good at strategies and tips for survival as well, which could obviously come in handy if we got stuck there for a long time".

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

[on performing a tribute to Donna Summer at the 2012 Grammy Awards, just 3 days after Summer's death from cancer] I was very emotional out there because I knew Donna Summer and we didn't know she was ill. It was so precious to me. It felt so important to me that we should honour her. She was a very kind woman... and she brought love and light to people.