‘Blacklisted’: Anastacia reveals the moment she realised she’d never achieve success in America

She’s got one of the most recognisable voices in the music industry, but there’s one country that never got the chance to hear it.

Anastacia has one of the most recognisable voices in the music industry, but heartbreakingly an entire continent never got the chance to experience it.

Breaking out in the early 2000s with iconic banger I’m Outta Love, Anastacia quickly became one of the biggest pop stars in the world and she’s enjoyed success ever since, and will soon be bringing her sell out NTK25 tour down under.

But one place the American’s tour won’t be visiting is North America, and it’s all because record label politics meant that one of the biggest music industry markets on earth never got the chance to get to know Anastacia’s vocal talents.

“I’m at that age where I’m fine with what I’ve got. My resume is beautiful and I’m proud of it,” the feisty singer told news.com.au.

“At the beginning, I felt like what’s wrong with me, because I didn’t know the reason why.”

Anastacia. Picture: Jason Edwards

As she prepared to go into the promotional tour for her second record, Anastacia finally realised the incredible success she was experiencing around the world was never going to happen in her home country.

“Then I kind of got an idea of what happened between the radio station and the record company, that it was like a power struggle thing,” she continued. “And the radio stations made you. The record company made the radio station upset and I was the black-listed name.”

“So it wasn’t that I was this rejected artist in America. It was like, they never actually knew me.”

She’ll be playing four shows later this year in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Picture: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images.

While she was never given the chance to show off her talents in the US, thankfully the rest of the world immediately embraced her powerhouse vocals and ear for a banger.

After performing to sell out crowds in Europe, Anastacia has announced that she’s bringing her latest tour to Australia later this year. She’ll be performing in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in September, with just a handful of tickets left remaining for fans to snap up ahead of the shows.

Anastacia’s Not That Kind 25 tour starts at The Forum in Melbourne on September 24, before heading to the Coliseum Theatre in Western Sydney on September 26, the Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on September 27, before a final show at Brisbane’s Eatons Hill Hotel on September 29.

Tickets are available here.

Originally published as ‘Blacklisted’: Anastacia reveals the moment she realised she’d never achieve success in America