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}} Tula Paulinea "Tulisa" Contostavlos (born 13 July 1988), known mononymously as Tulisa, is an English singer-songwriter, actress, and television personality. She is known for being a member of the defunct Camden-based hip hop group N-Dubz, with her cousin Dappy and their friend Fazer. N-Dubz was formed in 2000 and released three studio albums before announcing an indefinite hiatus in 2011. During 2011 to 2012, Contostavlos participated as a judge on the ''The X Factor''. She mentored the "Groups" category in her first year, including Little Mix, the first ever group to win the competition. during a Twitter dispute with Dappy, Contostavlos announced that N-Dubz had split up, and were not taking a break as stated in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tulisa Confirms N-Dubz Split During Dappy Twitter Rant | MTV UK )〕 Contostavlos released her debut solo album, ''The Female Boss'', on 3 December 2012. It received unfavorable reviews from contemporary music critics and poor first-week sales.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=iTunes Music - The Female Boss )〕 However, its lead single "Young" managed to top the UK Singles Chart. ==Early life== Contostavlos was born in Camden Town, North London, to an Irish mother, Anne Byrne (who, with her three sisters, was a member of the 1980s band Jeep)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Three Programmes – Tulisa: My Mum and Me, 10 August 2010 )〕 and a Greek father, Plato Contostavlos (who was at one time a member of Mungo Jerry); Her paternal grandfather was once a UN diplomat, whose home in Greece was close to that of Aristotle Onassis.〔(Tulisa's pampered childhood: Her teenage days with a violent gang in the slum are fiction, says her father ) ''Daily Mail'', 6 June 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2014. 〕 There is controversy over how affluent the family was: "Just how “street” Tulisa’s childhood was is a matter of some dispute. In one interview her father claims that they were affluent, indeed that Tulisa was spoilt, since his own father, a UN diplomat, had a large Hampstead home and a sizeable villa in Greece. These Greek grandparents offered to pay for her to attend a private school, Plato claims, but he declined. Tulisa denies all of this."〔http://tulisasource.com/media/the-times-article/〕 When Tulisa was five, her mother, who has bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, was sectioned under the Mental Health Act.〔 She said that she was brought up in a three bedroom house and experienced a lot as a teenager: violence, depression, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, anorexia nervosa, mental health issues, financial difficulties and bullying. She revealed that she twice tried to kill herself as a teenager and also used to self-harm to try to help her cope with everything she was going through.〔 With support from her uncle, N-Dubz's former manager, Byron Contostavlos, at age 14 she enrolled at Haverstock Secondary School, later attending Quintin Kynaston School〔 in St John's Wood, but she didn't sit her GCSE examinations.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tulisa (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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