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) at number seven in Ireland, the first being will.i.am's "Heartbreaker". Internationally the single peaked top five in Hungary, and Australia. In the latter it performed better than any song Cheryl released with Girls Aloud beating the previous best entry "Jump" by eighteen places. "3 Words" is the only song from Cheryl's debut album to peak within the top fifty of the Australian Singles Chart and was subsequently certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipping 70,000 units. Additionally it peaked at top-ten in Italy. The song debuted at 14 on the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand.