Jentina
Encyclopedia
Jentina Rose Chapman professionally known as Jentina, is a British
Hip hop
/R&B
singer, rapper, songwriter
and model
of Gypsy descent.
. She got her first recording contract
at the age of nineteen whilst working in a computer shop.
After an advertising campaign on television
and features in various UK
music magazines, (notably NME
), her debut single
"Bad Ass Strippa
" was released in the summer of 2004. The song was later parodied
by the grime MC Lady Sovereign
. Sampling
an The O'Jays
song, it topped the Box chart
for a week, but ultimately it reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart
. Jentina's second single, "French Kisses
" was written by Cathy Dennis
and Greg Wells
and was a more electro-hop/R&B-oriented record
. The single was released in the autumn of 2004, entering the UK chart at number 20. Jentina released another single after this in Italy
only, "Mysterious". It reached the Top 30 in Italy. Her debut album Jentina
was then released, again only in Italy.
In 2005, "Bad Ass Strippa
", "French Kisses
" and "Mysterious" gained worldwide exposure after featuring in episodes of CSI: NY
. In 2006, "Mysterious" underscored some of the audition stages of MTV
's DanceLife
.
During 2005, Jentina dated The Prodigy
member Keith Flint
. She also has a son called Ralph and a daughter called Annie.
Jentina is now a professional model. In November 2007, she represented lingerie brand Wonderbra
, following on from the likes of Eva Herzigová
and Caprice
. She featured in a spoof video of the Cadbury's popular Gorilla
television advertisement, in which a gorilla played the drum
s to the Phil Collins
single, "In The Air Tonight
".
1 - Released in the United Kingdom
only.
2 - Released in Italy
only.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
/R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...
singer, rapper, songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
and model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
of Gypsy descent.
Biography
Jentina was born to a Romani family that consisted of fourteen children. When she was one years old, her family moved to West Molesey, SurreySurrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
. She got her first recording contract
Recording contract
A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote...
at the age of nineteen whilst working in a computer shop.
After an advertising campaign on television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
and features in various UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
music magazines, (notably NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
), her debut single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
"Bad Ass Strippa
Bad Ass Strippa
"Bad Ass Strippa" is Jentina's debut single released in Italy, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It received an average success in Italy but not a good one in the UK, despite a heavy advertising campaign including adverts on prime time television...
" was released in the summer of 2004. The song was later parodied
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
by the grime MC Lady Sovereign
Lady Sovereign
Louise Amanda Harman , better known by the stage name Lady Sovereign, is an English rapper & grime artist. She is noted for her professional success in performing styles of music generally dominated by males...
. Sampling
Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
an The O'Jays
The O'Jays
The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1963 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert , Walter Williams , William Powell , Bobby Massey and Bill Isles. The O'Jays were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005...
song, it topped the Box chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
for a week, but ultimately it reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
. Jentina's second single, "French Kisses
French Kisses
"French Kisses" is Jentina's second single, only released in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It is written by Jentina and Cathy Dennis with an electro-hop/R&B vibe....
" was written by Cathy Dennis
Cathy Dennis
Cathy Dennis is a British dance-oriented pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress...
and Greg Wells
Greg Wells
Greg Wells is a multiple Grammy nominated musician, record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Wells has produced and written hits with Adele, Weezer, Pink, Theophilus London, Deftones, Katy Perry, Rufus Wainwright, The All American Rejects, OneRepublic, Mika, Aerosmith, Burt Bacharach,...
and was a more electro-hop/R&B-oriented record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
. The single was released in the autumn of 2004, entering the UK chart at number 20. Jentina released another single after this in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
only, "Mysterious". It reached the Top 30 in Italy. Her debut album Jentina
Jentina (album)
Jentina is the eponymous debut album by Jentina, which had a low-key release in September 2005 in Italy only. It contains eleven songs and one skit.Some confusion exists over its name...
was then released, again only in Italy.
In 2005, "Bad Ass Strippa
Bad Ass Strippa
"Bad Ass Strippa" is Jentina's debut single released in Italy, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It received an average success in Italy but not a good one in the UK, despite a heavy advertising campaign including adverts on prime time television...
", "French Kisses
French Kisses
"French Kisses" is Jentina's second single, only released in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It is written by Jentina and Cathy Dennis with an electro-hop/R&B vibe....
" and "Mysterious" gained worldwide exposure after featuring in episodes of CSI: NY
CSI: NY
CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...
. In 2006, "Mysterious" underscored some of the audition stages of MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's DanceLife
DanceLife
DanceLife is a 2007 dance-oriented US TV reality show, featuring and produced by Jennifer Lopez. The series follows the lives of seven dancers trying to break into the world of professional dance and trying to "make it" in Hollywood...
.
During 2005, Jentina dated The Prodigy
The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...
member Keith Flint
Keith Flint
Keith Charles Flint is a dancer and vocalist of the British Electronica band The Prodigy.- Early life :Flint was born in Redbridge, London, England, to Clive & Yvonne Flint and initially raised in East London; in the mid-1970s his parents moved out to Springfield, Essex, but due to his parents'...
. She also has a son called Ralph and a daughter called Annie.
Jentina is now a professional model. In November 2007, she represented lingerie brand Wonderbra
Wonderbra
The Wonderbra is a type of push-up underwire brassiere that gained worldwide prominence in the 1990s. Although the Wonderbra name was first trademarked in the U.S. in 1935, the brand was developed in Canada. Moses Nadler, founder and majority owner of the Canadian Lady Corset Company, licensed the...
, following on from the likes of Eva Herzigová
Eva Herzigová
Eva Herzigová is a Czech model and actress.-Early life and career:Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czechoslovakia . She began her modeling career after winning a modeling beauty contest in Prague in 1989, at the age of sixteen. After arriving in Paris, her popularity increased...
and Caprice
Caprice Bourret
Caprice Bourret is an American supermodel, actress, television personality and businesswoman. She currently resides in the United Kingdom where she runs her company By Caprice Lingerie Ltd.- Early life :...
. She featured in a spoof video of the Cadbury's popular Gorilla
Gorilla (Cadbury)
Gorilla is a British advertising campaign launched by Cadbury Schweppes in 2007 to promote Cadbury Dairy Milk-brand chocolate. The 90-second television and cinema advertisement, which formed the centrepiece of the £6.2 million campaign, was created and directed by Juan Cabral and starred actor...
television advertisement, in which a gorilla played the drum
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s to the Phil Collins
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
single, "In The Air Tonight
In the Air Tonight
"In the Air Tonight" is a song by Phil Collins that first appeared on his 1981 album Face Value. It was recorded in 1979 and was the first single of Collins' solo career, and remains one of his best-known hits. The music video, directed by Stuart Orme, was released in 1981.-The song/recording:The...
".
Albums
| Album information | Jentina Jentina (album) Jentina is the eponymous debut album by Jentina, which had a low-key release in September 2005 in Italy only. It contains eleven songs and one skit.Some confusion exists over its name...
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Singles
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||||||
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| UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
IT | AUS ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
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| 2004 | "Bad Ass Strippa Bad Ass Strippa "Bad Ass Strippa" is Jentina's debut single released in Italy, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It received an average success in Italy but not a good one in the UK, despite a heavy advertising campaign including adverts on prime time television... " |
22 | 20 | 49 | Jentina Jentina (album) Jentina is the eponymous debut album by Jentina, which had a low-key release in September 2005 in Italy only. It contains eleven songs and one skit.Some confusion exists over its name... |
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| "French Kisses French Kisses "French Kisses" is Jentina's second single, only released in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It is written by Jentina and Cathy Dennis with an electro-hop/R&B vibe.... "1 |
20 | — | — | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | "Mysterious"2 | — | 30 | — | |||||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or was not released in that country or territory. | |||||||||||||||||||
1 - Released in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
only.
2 - Released in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
only.