Tina Cousins

Tina Patricia Cousins (born 20 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and former model with emotive voice. She has had five singles in the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with others, including "Mysterious Times" with Sash, which reached number 2 in the UK. She has also achieved popularity in several other countries, including four top 30 hits in Sweden, six top 30 hits in Australia and seven top 20 hits in Finland and Spain. Tina has also achieved two gold albums and numerous gold and silver singles. Her other hit singles include "Pray" (1998), "Killing Time" (1999), "Forever" (1999), "Just Around the Hill" with Sash! (2000) and "Wonderful Life" (2005).

Tina Cousins' first big break was in the music industry, appearing on German DJ/producer team Sash single "Mysterious Times" in 1998. Before "Mysterious Times", Cousins had released "Killing Time" and "Angel" in March and June 1997, respectively.

Following the success of "Mysterious Times", she had two further UK top 20 hits with the follow-up "Pray", released in November 1998, which also achieved success in the U.S., and the 1999 re-release of "Killing Time". Follow-up singles "Forever" and the reissued "Angel".

Tina Cousins turned her attention to Australia where the song, "Forever" achieved gold sales. "Pray" was also a success in Australia, reaching the top 10 and becoming her second gold single in the ARIA charts where it remained for more than four months.

Whilst in Australia on a promotional tour, she re-recorded her track "Nothing to Fear" and had it remixed by the Groove Peddlers. This became her third Australian single, and the video was also shot there.

In November 2016, she toured Australia with the Vengaboys, Sonique, Whigfield and Joanne Accom.

She has to date still toured and had great success in Australia including playing shows in various states and the Mardi Gras.

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Additionally, Cousins joined Billie Piper, Cleopatra, B*Witched and Steps on the track "Thank ABBA for the Music", a medley of ABBA hits that they performed as a tribute at the Brit Awards. The single was released and reached the top 10 in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. In 2000, she again collaborated with Sash, on the UK top 10 hit "Just Around the Hill"

In 2005, Cousins released her first single in five years with "Wonderful Life", which had originally been released in Australia. In 2007, "Wonderful Life" was adopted by Hoyts as their primary pre-feature theme music. "Wonderful Life" reached No. 15 in Australia and spent four months in the Top 40, becoming her biggest radio hit.

The follow-up single was "Come to Me". Both singles were taken from her second album Mastermind. The third single to be taken from the album, "Pretty Young Thing", was released in two CD formats, one of which was limited to 1,000 pressings. The single reached the Australian Top 20.

In late 2006, dance format radio station WMPH became the first UK station to put any of Cousins's singles in regular rotation. In 2007, she co-wrote and performed vocals on two songs on the Main Line album by Dutch group 4 Strings. The track "Curious" became a Top 30 Hot Dance Airplay hit.

On 7 March 2009, Cousins announced on her website that a new track had been recorded along with a film clip for a new single called "Can't Hold Back". This song is with Bellatrax and was released in the U.S. and the UK on Michael Gray's Eye Industries label in late summer 2009. In April 2009, Cousins announced that she had recorded a cover version of "Sex is on Fire", originally by the Kings of Leon. The track was produced by Topham & Twigg and was released on iTunes UK on 2 September. She signed a worldwide deal with Sony Music International in September 2010, and "Sex on Fire" was released worldwide in autumn 2010.

From 2010 Tina also released new music with the singles "Everlong", " Love Comes Back", "Diamonds" and "When Tomorrow Comes".

In 2014 she also recorded and released a new track "Screams" with Kalsi and Applejack. In 2015 she also recorded a new track "Bullet in the Gun"— a remake of Planet Perfecto's late-1990s dance hit—with Probaker and Kalsi.

Cousins divides her time between Spain, Europe, Australia and the UK, performing regularly.

Tina is now revisiting the previous hit Wonderful Life with a new killer dance version in collaboration with the Sunset Bros released by Central Station.