Tuesday, January 29, 2008

New album that is here!!


Bedingfield has stated on TRL that the U.S. version of her second album will be Pocketful of Sunshine which will feature six songs from N.B. alongside with seven new songs. The lead single of this album is called "Love Like This," which features new singer Sean Kingston. According to her official website, it will be released on January 22, 2008. The title track is set to be the second single and was played on the season finale of MTV's The Hills.

18th January 2008 - the forthcoming UK Tour was cancelled for the second time one month before it was meant to start (an announcement on her official website). It has now been officially scrapped, so she can spend more time in the US promoting her album. Bedingfield will perform a number of free acoustic gigs in the spring to compensate for the cancellation.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Philantropic work of Natasha Bedingfield.

Bedingfield is a philanthropist who has donated time and money to organizations such as the Global Angels, an international children's charity founded by her mother, Molly Bedingfield. She became associated with the organization in 2006 because of her celebrity status which she could use to help "people around the world, particularly children, who live in conditions that would horrify us". Bedingfield is now an ambassador for Global Angels and in November 2006 she visited India for three weeks in support of the charity. She visited an orphanage in Calcutta and a refugee camp for former child prostitutes in Mumbai to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. Bedingfield later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed. Video diaries filmed during her trip were posted on her official website in early 2007. She is also an advocate for Stop the Traffik, a global coalition which works to end human trafficking and a member of the (RED) campaign.

In 2004, Bedingfield showed interest in acting and made her debut in the James Bond video game From Russia with Love in November 2005. She lent her voice to the character Elizabeth Stark, the British Prime Minister's daughter who is kidnapped in the opening sequence. Bedingfield commented that she would like to do more acting, but only if the film "was good enough, and it was a role that [would] fit me." Bedingfield is not set to appear in any forthcoming films in the near future.

She will make an appearance in the seventh season finale of the hit Canadian television series Degrassi: The Next Generation.