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Anastacia's dad speaking about her I LISTENED TO ANASTACIA SINGING ON THE RADIO AND HAD NO IDEA SHE WAS MY LOST DAUGHTER. SHE might be only just over five feet tall but pop diva Anastacia has the biggest voice in the charts. She has already sold more than six million albums, dueted with Elton John and was chosen to open next month's World Cup in front of one billion people with her hit song Boom. However, behind the multi-platinum record success is the story of a bitter family rift. She hasn't seen her father for 13 years and once admitted that she didn't know if he was alive or dead. But today we can reveal that her dad Bob Newkirk is alive and well. And astonishingly, he had no idea that the soulful voice he had often heard on his car radio belonged to the daughter he knew as plain Stacey Newkirk. Last night, after he was tracked down to his home in St Louis, Missouri, Bob, 65, broke down in tears as her identity was revealed. Now he is desperate to heal their rift. Bob, who had a heart attack two years ago, said: "I had no idea Anastacia was my daughter. But she is still Stacey to me and I want her to come back before it is too late." Anastacia has admitted she inherited her voice from her father, a nightclub singer for 30 years. But while she wows sell-out crowds in New York and London with worldwide hits including Not that Kinda Girl and I'm Outta Love, Bob tours old people's homes with a portable karaoke machine and croons old Frank Sinatra numbers. Anastacia has told how she lost contact with her father after his divorce from her showgirl mother Diana. She said: "As to my father, I haven't seen him since I was 17. My choice. I didn't see the point. "It was more nerve-racking seeing him than not. Just a bad relationship. I felt like, 'I call you Dad, but why?' "I don't know anything about what he is doing or who he is. I don't want to search him out. I don't know if he has passed away, if I have half-brothers or sisters." But Bob, who is now married to second wife Suzi, was upset that falling out with Diana meant that his relationships with Anastacia, her elder sister Shawn, 36, and younger brother Brian, 31, were wrecked. "It is not true that Stacey doesn't know where I live," he says. "She knows my address and phone number. The last time I saw her was in New York and we met for lunch with my new wife. Everything seemed fine. "But the next thing I knew I rang her number and it had been changed. The children are adults now and should hear my side of the story." As well as changing her name to find fame, Anastacia has also altered her date of birth. She claims to be 29, but Bob recalls the day she was born as September 1968, making her 34 next birthday. Bob was once the resident singer on a hit national radio show and he sang the lead role in several musicals. He has also made a couple of records, but failed to make the bigtime. He says his favourite recording is a tape of Stacey, aged six, singing Everything is Beautiful on stage at one of his concerts. "Stacey would do a solo and sing Jesus Loves The Little Children," says Bob. "All my kids sang. They were so cute. On the tape you hear Stacey's voice and you know she had something going for her even at that age. She was a natural. "When I was making my living as a singer I used to take her to rehearsals and she just walked up on stage like she was born to do it. "She was the one with the talent - she always had the pizzazz. I didn't discourage her." Back<< -- |
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