Anastacia left fans stunned Wednesday as she revealed she was in a girl group with a famous reality star.
Though the I’m Outta Love hitmaker, 56, is known for her solo success, she was previously part of a girl band with non other than Michelle Visage.
Speaking to Vernon Kay on his Tracks Of My Years show on Radio 2, the singer spilled the beans on her musical past with the RuPaul’s Drag Race star, 56.
She explained: ‘Michelle Visage and I were in a girl group that was put together…
Spotting Vernon’s shocked expression, she exclaimed: ‘I know! I love that I’m giving all of you this content.’
After he expressed his love for Michelle, she continued: ‘Michelle and I have known each other forever! She was in Seduction and I was a background dancer for a Latin Group called Tony Moran [The Latin Rascals] and I was also a background dancer for Coro. And these were all freestyle.
Anastacia left fans stunned Wednesday as she revealed she was in a girl group with a famous reality star
Though the I’m Outta Love hitmaker, 56, is known for her solo success, she was previously part of a girl band with non other than Michelle Visage
Speaking to Vernon Kay on his Tracks Of My Years show on Radio 2, the singer spilled the beans on her musical past with the RuPaul ‘s Drag Race star, 56
‘Going on to explain their similarities, Anastacia said: ‘We are three days apart of birthdays and we are the same year. We are separated at birth!
‘In a weird way, we are, but her and I talk all the time. I’m like “you’re finishing my sentence, shut up!”. She’s like “you shut up!”‘ Yeah it’s really interesting.’
Though she didn’t go into detail about the name of the group or when they were formed, Michelle responded to a fan in the comments, writing: ‘We were going to be called BAZAAR’, suggesting that the group didn’t make it very far.
While fans know Michelle as a reality show judge, she started off her career in a girl group called Seduction before then going on to sing lead vocals for R&B group The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.
Meanwhile, Anastacia has enjoyed a huge career as a vocalist, achieving great chart success with singles including I’m Outta Love, Not That Kind, Paid My Dues and One Day In Your Life.
Taking to the comments on the video shared to Instagram, fans expressed their love for the ladies, noting their similarities while also calling for a collaboration.
They penned: ‘I always thought they have similar vibes’, ‘I love both of them!!!’
‘She’s the blonde Michelle visage twin sister! They have the same atтιтude, their speaking voices are similar too!’
‘Michelle Visage and I were in a girl group that was put together… Michelle and I have known each other forever!’ [pictured in 2016]
‘Going on to explain their similarities, Anastacia said: ‘We are three days apart of birthdays and we are the same year. We are separated at birth!’ [pictured in 2016]
In a weird way, we are, but her and I talk all the time. I’m like “you’re finishing my sentence, shut up!”. She’s like “you shut up!”‘ Yeah it’s really interesting’
Though she didn’t go into detail about the name of the group or when they were formed, Michelle responded to a fan in the comments, writing: ‘We were going to be called BAZAAR’
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Anastacia’s revelation comes after she opened up on some of the big moments in her personal life on Lulu’s Turning Points podcast last month – including her first phone call with Michael Jackson, who championed the star.
Lifting the lid on their first interaction, she explained: ‘I actually didn’t have to sing in front of Michael Jackson, he wanted me to sign to his label because he had his own label.
‘He was super kind, and he wanted just my number to my house. So he asked for the number, he wanted to call it.
‘He was super private that way, he’s like ‘I don’t want somebody to connect the call, I want to know that I am calling her house and she’s answering it so we can have a conversation like real people’.
Taking to the comments on the video shared to Instagram, fans expressed their love for the ladies, noting their similarities while also calling for a collaboration
‘And I was like – wow that’s so cool… I wish I would have taped it, I wish I had that knowledge to video tape that moment.’
She continued: ‘So I made no-one be there as if he would have known that anyone was listening to this phonically like a dork. So here I am alone in my house waiting for the phone to ring.
‘Too honest. The phone’s ringing do I pick up on the first ring – ‘Hello?’ ‘Hello, it’s Michael’ and I said ‘Hey Michael it’s Anastasia’ – he was so sweet, so kind.
‘Someone like me already freaking that people wanted to sign me, somebody like him with his legendary everything… to just be super talented and tell me that I am worthy and that I have what it takes.
‘And the phrase he used which I didn’t understand at the time because I had never travelled outside of two states, he said – ‘you’re the kind of artist the world would understand.’
Elsewhere, Anastacia candidly talked about how she’s battled cancer twice in her lifetime and undergone 16 surgeries.
The pop icon was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, aged 34, and then again a decade later.
It comes after Anastacia opened up on some of the big moments in her personal life on Lulu’s Turning Points podcast – including her first phone call with Michael Jackson
Lifting the lid on their first interaction, she explained: ‘I actually didn’t have to sing in front of Michael Jackson, he wanted me to sign to his label because he had his own label’
She admitted on the podcast: ‘I felt so betrayed by medicine. And when I say that I mean how doctors approach you as a woman is – do you have breast cancer in your family? And I go mum? No, we don’t. Ok great.
‘And they let it go. But when I hear the stats of women with breast cancer, 70% of those women with breast cancer is not genetic so why ask me and then toss it aside when the smaller amount of breast cancer is genetic, and the bigger amount is unknown.
‘Like, that’s the bigger number so shouldn’t we pay attention or give some knowledge. And they’re like – well it’s really hard as doctors because we can’t tell you what not to do.
‘We can’t tell you that it’s food, we can’t tell you that it’s air, we can’t tell you that it’s stress, we can’t tell you that it’s anything particular, it’s probably all of that, but it’s definitely happening at a wider range than it is genetic. So I’m like great, I’m going to talk about it.’