Cheryl (singer) Cheryl (singer) Cheryl Ann Tweedy (born 30 June 1983) is an English singer, songwriter and television personality. Born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, she rose to fame in late 2002 upon winning a place in Girls Aloud, a girl group created through ITV's "". While still in the group, she began a solo career in April 2009, and between then and 2014, she released four studio albums – "3 Words" (2009), "Messy Little Raindrops" (2010), "A Million Lights" (2012) and "Only Human" (2014). Collectively, the albums included ten singles, five of which – "Fight for This Love, "Promise This",
3 Words (song) anything I've done [with Girls Aloud] or liked before". Some industry critics also noted that "3 Words" was "unlike many things currently [at that time] on radio or being released". Cheryl said that the song was inspired by her newly acquired love for dance music on the charts, especially David Guetta & Kelly Rowland's "When Love Takes Over". Cheryl described it as her favourite song on the album and music critics generally agreed. Tom Ewing of "The Guardian" called the song Cheryl's "showcase [...] built on dark loops of treated acoustic guitar and building into a claustrophobic dance track. It's