Natasja Saad
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Natasja Saad also known as Dou T, Double T and Natasja, was a Danish
rapper and reggae
singer whose vocals on a popular reggae fusion
remix of "Calabria
" gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboard
s Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident.
and gained popularity in Jamaica. In 1998, while in training to become a professional jockey, she fell off her horse. This slowed her career.
, Saint Catherine, Jamaica
. Two other passengers were critically injured, but Saad's friend, Danish singer Karen Mukupa, was relatively unhurt. She and the other injured persons were rushed to the Spanish Town Hospital where the singer was pronounced dead.
The accident was perceived as a particularly big loss for Denmark's music and entertainment world, not only because of Natasja's sincere and exceptionally engaging personality, but also because she still stood before a career that despite earlier setbacks, appeared more than ever on the rise.
Natasja is buried at Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen
's cemetery for artistic and pioneering personalities, which, aside from hosting H.C. Andersen
, Søren Kierkegaard
and physicist Niels Bohr
, is also gradually becoming a resting place for more recent stars of the 21st century.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
rapper and reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
singer whose vocals on a popular reggae fusion
Reggae fusion
Reggae fusion is a fusion genre of reggae that mixes reggae or dancehall with other genres, such as pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, house, jazz & drum and bass....
remix of "Calabria
Calabria (song)
"Calabria" is a house music single by Danish producer Rune. It was co-produced by Rune's half-brother Johannes Torpe and originally released in 2003 by Credence, a sublabel of Parlophone Records....
" gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
s Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident.
Early life and career
Saad, the daughter of Danish photographer Kirstine Saad, and a Sudanese father, started singing and DJ'ing at the age of 13 in Copenhagen, where she performed live with Miss Mukupa and McEmzee in the band, No Name Requested. During that period, she also performed along with Queen LatifahQueen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American singer, rapper, and actress. Her work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy...
and gained popularity in Jamaica. In 1998, while in training to become a professional jockey, she fell off her horse. This slowed her career.
Death
Natasja died on June 24, 2007, in a car accident in Spanish TownSpanish Town
Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the former Spanish and English capital of Jamaica from the 16th to the 19th century...
, Saint Catherine, Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
. Two other passengers were critically injured, but Saad's friend, Danish singer Karen Mukupa, was relatively unhurt. She and the other injured persons were rushed to the Spanish Town Hospital where the singer was pronounced dead.
The accident was perceived as a particularly big loss for Denmark's music and entertainment world, not only because of Natasja's sincere and exceptionally engaging personality, but also because she still stood before a career that despite earlier setbacks, appeared more than ever on the rise.
Natasja is buried at Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
's cemetery for artistic and pioneering personalities, which, aside from hosting H.C. Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
, Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...
and physicist Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
, is also gradually becoming a resting place for more recent stars of the 21st century.
Albums
- 2005: Release Album (Playground Music)
- 2007: I Danmark er jeg Født (In Denmark I am Born) (Playground Music)
- 2008: Shooting Star (Playground Music) released after her death
Singles
- 2003: "Colors of My Mind" 12" (Mega Records)
- 2003: "Real Sponsor" 12" (Food Palace Music)
- 2004: "Summer Cute" 7" (Food Palace Music)
- 2004: "My Dogg /45 Questions" (Tuff Gong Distr.)
- 2005: "Op med Hovedet" CD single (Copenhagen Records)
- 2005: "Købmanden" (BMG)
- 2006: "Mon De Reggae"
- 2007: "Calabria 2007Calabria (song)"Calabria" is a house music single by Danish producer Rune. It was co-produced by Rune's half-brother Johannes Torpe and originally released in 2003 by Credence, a sublabel of Parlophone Records....
" (with EnurRune RKRune Reilly Kølsch , also known as Rune RK, Rune and Enur, is a record producer and DJ from Denmark. Together with his half-brother Johannes Torpe they make up the musical production team Artificial Funk.-Career:...
) - 2007: "Long Time" 7" (Sly & Robbie)
- 2007: "Gi' Mig Danmark Tilbage (Give Me Back Denmark)"
- 2008: "I Danmark er jeg født (In Denmark I was born)"
- 2008: "Better than dem (ft Beenie man)"
- 2008: "Fi Er Min"
- 2008: "Idle Y Braend"
Further reading
- Poulsen, Rasmus; Mukupa, Karen (2010) Natasja . PolitikenPolitikenPolitiken is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.The newspaper comes third among Danish newspapers in terms of both number of readers and circulated copies ....
. ISBN 978-87-567-8920-2.
External links
- Natasja at the Danish reggae community site dancehall.dk