Background
Saad, the daughter of Danish photographer Kirstine Saad, and a Sudanese father, started singing and DJ"ing at the age of 13 in Copenhagen, where she performed live with Mission Mukupa and McEmzee in the band, Number Name Requested.
Saad, the daughter of Danish photographer Kirstine Saad, and a Sudanese father, started singing and DJ"ing at the age of 13 in Copenhagen, where she performed live with Mission Mukupa and McEmzee in the band, Number Name Requested.
While already relatively successful in her native Denmark, her vocals on a popular reggae fusion remix of "Calabria" gained her worldwide fame and a number one spot on Billboard"s Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident. During that period, she also performed along with Queen Latifah and gained popularity in Jamaica. In 1998, while in training to become a professional jockey, she fell off her horse.
This slowed her career.
Natasja died on 24 June 2007 in a car accident in Spanish Town, Saint Catherine, Jamaica. She and the other injured persons were rushed to the Spanish Town Hospital where the singer was pronounced dead.
The accident was perceived as a particularly big loss for Denmark"s music and entertainment world, because she still stood before a career that despite earlier setbacks, appeared more than ever on the rise. Natasja is buried at Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen"s cemetery for artistic and pioneering personalities, which, aside from hosting hockey club Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard and physicist Niels Bohr, is also gradually becoming a resting place for more recent stars of the 21st century.