Natalia Kills is an English singer, songwriter, and actress who has a net worth of $1.5 Million. She rose to fame after releasing her debut album titled “Perfectionist” which became a huge hit in 2011. From there, she continued to receive offers to appear in reality TV shows.
Natalia has been making music since 1995 and garnered a handsome amount of wealth and fame throughout her career. In 2015, she wrote the song “Kiss It Better” for a high-profile singer Rihanna, and later received a Grammy Award for her hit single.
Kills has released two studio albums and worked as an opening act for various artists from 2010 to 2016. She appeared as a judge on the second season of X Factor New Zealand in 2015. Let’s take a look at the biography and net worth of Natalia Kills.
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Early Life
Natalia Noemi Keery-Fisher was born on August 15, 1986, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. She spent most of her childhood with her maternal grandmothers Fred Keery and Noemi Cappuccini Castilla.
Natalis has Uruguayan, Irish, and Italian descent ancestry on her mother’s side and African-Jamaican descent on her dad’s side. She went to Bradford Girls’ Grammar School and spent her early years as a child actress. Later, she enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Career Beginnings
In 1995, she was seen in an episode of the show “New Voices”. By the age of 14, Natalia ran from her home and decided to quit acting. She also signed a pretty shady record deal to quit which left her unemployed and homeless. This began a series of bad decisions made in a teen year that often got her in trouble with the law.
Natalia started her music career in 2003 when she had a significant breakthrough as a “Candy Rapper”, winning a BBC Radio 1 MC Battle in Leeds. Soon after that, she wrote the song “Next Big Me” which was featured in the 2004 film “Sleepover”.
Her music eventually caught the attention of UK record label Adventures in Music with whom she signed a deal. Natalia released her debut song “Don’t Play Nice” under the stage name (Verbalicious) for the first time in early 2005.
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Breakthrough
Natalia Kills had a big break in 2007 in the form of a breakthrough titled “Womannequin” on MySpace. It didn’t take long for the demo to go viral on social media. Under the name Natalia Cappuccini “Natalia Cappuccini” received over 2 million plays on MySpace.
During this time, she co-wrote and emerged on M. Pokora’s show “They Talk Shit About Me”. Later, she met Guillaume Doubet who helped her direct various music videos.
Unfortunately, Natalia stumbled into trouble yet again due to the unstable nature of her life. She spent almost every dollar she had and lived in cheap hotels in Hollywood for a year and a half.
Further Success
Soon, Natalia was introduced to an artist will.i.am who offered to sign with his record label. After signing a deal with will.i.am Music Group, she started making music under the stage name “Natalia Kills”.
In April 2011, Natalia released her first album “Perfectionist” in Germany which is her first deep dive into creating her music on a massive scale. The lead single from the album “Mirrors” went viral by hitting the German Top 10.
In 2012, Kills dropped a music video for her song “Controversy”. The following year, her second album “Trouble” came out. In 2013, she got a chance to perform a few songs from her second album at the MTV Music Awards Afterparty.
Further Success
In 2016, Kills and her husband Willy joined a new group called “Cruel Youth“. The band dropped their debut song “Mr. Watson” on SoundCloud but their second song “Diamond Days” was released on iTunes.
Natalia gained immense fame in 2015 when she co-wrote Rihanna’s single “Kiss It Better”. Next year, the song was nominated for a Grammy. Natalia Kills earned a net worth of 1.5 million US dollars.
Other Ventures
In 2010 and 2011, Natalia started opening for big artists like Kesha and Katy Perry. She was also featured in the LMFAO song “Champagne Showers” before appearing in “Lights Out (Go Crazy)” by Junior Caldera.
In 2014, it was announced that Natalia and her husband Willy would be featured as judges and mentors on the 2nd season of the “X Factor New Zealand“. They served as the mentors of the boy’s and groups categories respectively.
During the first live show, it seemed like both Natalia and Willy ended up ruining their careers as judges. The two made increasingly cruel remarks aimed at contestant Joe Irvine. Soon, the two were replaced by Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Shelton Woolright.
After being fired from the X Factor it was revealed that she was dropped out of her record label “Cherrytree Records” shortly before appearing on the show.
Natalia Kills Relationship
Natalia Kills found love in singer Willy Moon and the two married on May 23rd, 2014 in New York City. Willy is a musician, singer, songwriter, and producer from New Zealand.
In 2021, Natalia and her husband Moon suffered a horrifying tragedy. The two were victims of a house fire and lost almost every one of their belongings to the flames.
Natalia Kills Net Worth
Natalia Kills has a net worth of $1.5 Million as of 2024. She has collaborated on songs for multiple globally renowned artists like “Black Pink”. She even has written music for big-time shows like Apple Music’s TV Central Park.
Kills earns from releasing music on different platforms as well as appearing in reality TV shows. As of 2024, Natalia is the lead singer for the group “Cruel Youth”. Natalia Kills’s annual income is roughly $300k.
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